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All men are NOT created equal
C.S.I Katirina Rivera
English 111 December 9, 2013 ANALYTICAL RESEARCH ESSAY

On July 4, 1776 our founding fathers signed their names on the Declaration Of Independence envisioning a country that would guarantee freedom to all its citizens, however events in American history have not always supported these principals. In certain situations lines have been drawn between "us" and "them". Prejudice, discrimination often arose from fear , suspicion and anger. My intro is about this countries lack of perception on the command requiring equal protection of its entire people and how critical it has been over the years. "All men are NOT created equal" as the deceleration of independence has put it. The topic of this paragraph is to address and goes into further detail on the sentence "ALL men are Created Equal" and how it is a contradiction and how this sentence alone has many errors. Whether you’re rich or poor black or white us as human beings have the right to treated equally. "In mathematics what is to the left of the equal sign is the same as what is to the right of the equal sign, in many ways equal means the same. But we aren’t built like that. This is simply common sense, Look at one the easiest things to evaluate the difference between man and women. How are they equal and how can they be treated equal with their differences? You can’t, Thomas Jefferson said all men are created equal but were really not. The two groups are different and for some to believe that they should be treated the same and feels they are equal has never dealt with either. The topic of this paragraph is on the case of TrayVon martin and its unjust decision against his murderer. Because of a law in Florida called "Stand Your Grown" a self-defense law that gives individuals the right to use deadly force to defend themselves without any requirement to evade or retreat from a dangerous situation. Has left a 17 year old boy by the

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