Franklin And Red Jacket Analysis
In the readings by Franklin and Red Jacket the common argument that I found was that about the worshiping and practicing the two different religions. The Indians believed in their great spirit that had created all things like animals, crops. Just as the white man believed in their God. They both believed that all the things were given to they by their great spirit and God. To my belief I think that both these pieces were written because the white men people were trying to convert the Indians into believing what they believed. The Indians even made statements that some of the white people didn’t believe alike.
I do find that both the authors are reliable for the fact that I cannot stand here and say that Red Jacket or Franklin are wrong. Everyone
is entitled to their own belief. It would be wrong of me to push a certain type of religion on somebody, just as I would not want it pushed on me. Red Jacket felt a certain way about the great spirit and that is what he and his people were taught when they were growing up, just like Franklin was when he was a child and the rest of the people that came across the Atlantic to settle on the Indians land. To touch on that note, in my own opinion where does someone or a group of people have a right to go to another country and try to change the way a type of people has been doing things all their lives.
For the second writing assignment, we will be discussing “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine. I think that the main points that he is making, is the fact that the people needed to be break away from the king of England, and then they should form a democratic republic government. Mr. Paine structured his argument by telling the people how being ruled by the king of England is not in the best interest of the people. He describes that the England has tried to rule many people and all the bad things that the king has done to his own people to get what he wants. That being ruled by a country so far away cannot protect them like they could if they were a republic. They could also flourish monetarily by selling goods themselves then giving it to the king and still paying taxes. The people of America read this and began to feel what Mr. Paine was talking about and that began the uprising for the American Revolution.
I do find that both the authors are reliable for the fact that I cannot stand here and say that Red Jacket or Franklin are wrong. Everyone
is entitled to their own belief. It would be wrong of me to push a certain type of religion on somebody, just as I would not want it pushed on me. Red Jacket felt a certain way about the great spirit and that is what he and his people were taught when they were growing up, just like Franklin was when he was a child and the rest of the people that came across the Atlantic to settle on the Indians land. To touch on that note, in my own opinion where does someone or a group of people have a right to go to another country and try to change the way a type of people has been doing things all their lives.
For the second writing assignment, we will be discussing “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine. I think that the main points that he is making, is the fact that the people needed to be break away from the king of England, and then they should form a democratic republic government. Mr. Paine structured his argument by telling the people how being ruled by the king of England is not in the best interest of the people. He describes that the England has tried to rule many people and all the bad things that the king has done to his own people to get what he wants. That being ruled by a country so far away cannot protect them like they could if they were a republic. They could also flourish monetarily by selling goods themselves then giving it to the king and still paying taxes. The people of America read this and began to feel what Mr. Paine was talking about and that began the uprising for the American Revolution.