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that no person differs from others. All are born with the same rights and opportunities no matter what bloodline and race they came from. This set of words originated from the mind of a brilliant writer, inventor, philosopher, and hypocrite named Thomas Jefferson, a master to two hundred slaves. He wrote the phrase “all men are created equal” (“Declaration,” 1) that will soon inspire many Americans that everyone should be treated with respect. It also states that everyone are equal in the eyes…

Early America was neither an easy place to live, nor an easy task: making a country out of nothing. A new land presented new opportunity; and with opportunity, came new challenges and surprises. With no manuscript to guide them, the early settlers took pen to pad and wrote what became history. What these writers, or rather Early American authors, wrote is what history of the modern US goes off of. And, in addition to a different terrain the newcomers had faced, the authors displayed differences…

Thomas Hobbes believes humans are born evil, their natural instinct is to be envious, violent, and narcissistic, however, by fear and reason, they are capable of preserving peace. On the other hand, John Locke believes humans are mostly peaceful, good, and…

to achieve social and political unity. Natural rights are heavily based on the entitlement of rights, whereas utilitarianism emphasises the notion of self-interest and consequentialism. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, John Locke and Thomas Jefferson both had an influential impact on the development of liberal ideology. Due to this, the term ‘rights’ is commonly prevalent in politics.…

Marcel Mauss’s essay titled “The Gift” published in 1925, focused on the way exchange of objects between groups, builds relationships between them. He argued that giving an object creates an inherent obligation on the receiver to reciprocate the gift, thus resulting in a series of exchanges between groups, therefore providing us with one of the earliest forms of social solidarity used by humans. Mauss describes Melanesian and Polynesian peoples, gift economy as one of material and moral life, it…

The contextualisation for the expansion of America was the main reason Frederick Jackson Turner undertook his hugely influential text ‘The Significance of the Frontier in American History’. It described it as a monumental event in American history as America sought to find and establish its exact culture in the modern world. They were distinctly different from their colonial past but where exactly along the way did they morph into their present day state. Turner stated that it was the press…

Shobha De has been a dynamic personality of nearly three decades; she has been the reigning deity of the written world. For years she has defined what society has been about and focused on the world of man and matters. De was born in Maharashtra on January 7, 1948; 7:21:00; 5:30 (E of GMT); 72E50; 18N58. According to Phyllis Chubb her fiery ascendant Sagittarius, as an odd numbered sign, sets the stage for an independent, open-minded, frank, generous, sympathetic, and truthful and just one…

The author Thomas Paine wrote a book that put America on the road to revolution. It was so memorable, the morals and topics discussed in the book, were included in the Constitution. Thomas Paine lived in New York from 1737 to 1809. At this time America was still a British colony and Paine wrote a book called Common Sense which discussed Representative Government and Republicanism, which was a show of open rebellion against the king. It one of the first books to openly suggest breaking free from…

As Enlightenment ideas emerged during the age of enlightenment right after the scientific revolution, new ideas were spreading around society that made the people of society truly question what reality was and wasn’t. This new age of enlightenment also came along with the age of reason where people were looking for ways to prove what was true and discredit what wasn’t through scientific or logical reasoning. In the end, as David Hume would see it, the French revolution would have betrayed the…

“The Radicalism of the American Revolution” By Gordon S. Wood is a book that examines the origin and ideas that had led up to the American Revolution. He writes about the radical democratizing effects of the Revolution. Though many people had considered the American Revolution as conservative and had no major impact on the American society, Wood sees it in a different light, being more socially radical. Rather than having to reestablish the society, it changed how people made relationships with…