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Star Spangled Banner

1) The video shows freedom at its best. It is National Anthem of the United States of America being played by an African American on stage in front of hundreds of people. This shows freedom of speech, human rights, equality of all, and the National Anthem of a country which is known to give freedom to all.


 * "O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!"**

Benjamin Franklin

1) We continue to read his autobiography because it was the first work to document the fulfillment of the American Dream. In addition, the autobiography is the first autobiography to be written in secular form. The autobiography is a great reference to life in the 18th century told from the perspective of one person.

2) They are moral virtues in which we all regard and practice everyday, even if we do not realize it. They are things that are internally placed in our hearts and mind.

Thomas Jefferson

1)See: Philosophical Movements

2)They are reffering to England as a nation.

3) They felt disrespected because a country 3,000 miles away was attempting to control a new nation on the rise. Americans felt they deserved rights and freedom.

Thomas Paine

1) Persuasion

2) Thomas Paine's [|The Crisis "Number 1"] is written in an unformal way of persauding the people to fight for a cause and that cause being their independence and Thomas Jefferson's

Colonial Newspapers

1) Yes, because this made is possible for information to be sent across the U.S. Editors and publishers united in support of the revolution. Newspapers would work in a way to persuade colonist to support the revolution to fight for their independence. Newspapers was a big factor to influence the colonist.

Phillis Wheatley

2) The significance of this is because Phillis Wheatley was once an enslave African-American and she was writing to the powerful George Washinton. This poem was not published at first due to Wheatley being black. When it did become published it was one of the first poems written by an African-American ex-slave to be published.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

1) He is a prophet becuase he is spreading the word of racial freedom.

2) All the pieces are dealing with freedom of some type and each express personal devotion to a certain feeling (i.e Martin Luther King Jr. and equal rights for African-Americans).

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