declaration

The Declaration of Independence has four main parts:
* a preamble, or foreword, that announces the reason for the document
* a declaration of people's natural rights and relationship to government
* a long list of complaints against George III, the British king
* a conclusion that formally states America's independence


Helpful definitions:
unalienable: that may not be taken away
despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny
transient: passing away with time
usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else
conjured: appealed to
consanguinity: blood relationship
acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand
parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance
insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government

List of complaints begins with "He..."
Why do they repeat it? to emphasize that it is the king who is doing it
Why do they make it personal? to put blame on the king


How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
they show people what they are doing wrong and hope that this will help them change

How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
by using he. It helps show all that is going wrong

parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.

What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

necessary to protect ourselves

Malcom x
he doesn't think they should start fights but they need to protect themselves since the cops wont

he refures to the decleration of independence when mlk refures to shakespear

stride toward freedom

MLK jr.
acquiescence- to just accept and get used to being on the bottom. ou will never get the respect you desirve from the whites
violence- it doesn't get you anywhere
nonviolent resistance- the best way

Ballad of Birmingham

the mom sends her kid to church
they blow it up
she finds the kids shoe

Coming of age n Mississippi

anne moody
wanted to graduate-would go hungry if she had to because she wanted an education
was a member of the NAACP
they picheted at JC Penney to distract people
they got Woolworth's at 11
at 11:15 THEY ALL sit down
the waitress tells them to go to the back
people got up and left- news people came
white high school kids come
they chant and make a noose
they beat up Memphis- the attacker and him arrested
pearlena and anne get back up
joan trumpauer sits down
anne and joan are dragged off
lois chaffee sits down
they get back up
people pour stuff on them
john salter sits down and they hit him with brass knukles
thy put salt in the wound
George raymond sits down
black high school student sits down
they get spray painted
after 3 hours the owner tried to close but nobody leaves
Dr beittel leads them out
she gets her hair done
all the sit inners are heros
they get introduced by Medgor evens
she got a letter from her family with ten dollars
her mom tells her not to do the sitin

the Gettysburg address

Abraham Lincoln giving a speach in Gettysburg about what has happened there.
3. I think that he is a nice person and he cares about what happened becaseu it is the future of America. He thinks that the fight was pointless but he knows that we need to honour them
His speach was to lift the people up becaseu somany of them have died. He tells the people that they need to react so the others didn't die for no reason. He tries to lift everyone up

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

objective- "i left master thomas's house and went to live with mr. Covey, on the 1st of january, 1833" p 563
elaborate- i found myself even more akward than a countr boy appeared n a big city
concise- he gave me a team of unbroken oxen
controversial- my akwardness was almost always his excuse for whipping me.
emotional- i escaed death by the merest chance