about the influential people who shaped America‚ many people instantly think about our Founding Fathers and all the other individuals who have passed and created laws in order to make our nation what it is today. However‚ what about the writers this great land has seen? With their brilliant minds and their talent to document and create stories‚ why don’t these authors get the same recognition as the Founding Fathers do when they have just as much significance? Writers have the power to transform texts
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America was established the founding fathers wrote a document that contained their view of how government should be run. It was written with the intention that the nation would enforce its contents for all ages; however‚ some men‚ known as the Progressive’s‚ believed that these old ideas were not concrete and should progress over time just as man progresses. One of the main areas where the Progressives disagreed with the framers was with their systematic approach to how governmental power was to
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The founding father of Philosophy was known as Socrates‚ he was born on 469 BCE and was later executed on 399 BCE while Athens was dealing with the Peloponnesian war against Sparta (Ancient). The decision to execute Socrates during the war may had been the fragile state that Athens was dealing with while in war. If there wasn’t a war the outcome of his death could had been a different. Socrates official formal accusation was in 399 BCE‚ he was brought in to the jury by Meletus a man that was
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Karl Marx is one of the founding fathers of Communism. He believed more in the right of the people and thought they should escape from a capitalist society. Marx believed that economics is more important to politics than freedom and was bothered by the lack of equality and freedom to citizens. His vision and approach proved to be successful and revolutionary. Marx’s conception of a ‘species being’ is the biological and evolutionary characteristics of mankind. He believes that as biological beings
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John Wesley: The Founding Father of Methodists At the tender age of 5‚ it seemed John Wesley was predestined to preach; when he was saved from a house fire in which he was left behind accidentally in his crib‚ sleeping. He came from a strong background of Puritan ministers‚ both on his mother’s side and his fathers‚ so it was imperative that he should follow in the right footsteps and attend Oxford just as his father and brothers did. His years at Christ Church Oxford proved to be a major turning
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There are many people across the world that have impacted their community in a variety of ways. In the United States of America there have been people who have shaped America into the free country it is today. The Founding Fathers of the United States of America are great examples of people who transformed the United States into what it is today. Benjamin Franklin was the most influential developer of America. After America encountered Benjamin Franklin as a printer‚ a publisher‚ and an inventor
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stated his beliefs. Hes kind of like a founding father‚ but what is a founding father? A founding father is a member of the convention that drew up the united states constitution in 1787‚ which was 4 years after the american revolution‚ a political upheaval that took place between 1765 to 1783 when the 13 colonists rejected the british monarchy and founded the united states of america. After the American revolution Thomas Jefferson(one of the many founding fathers and the third presedent) wrote the declaration
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similar pronunciation to the word humans‚ and the Yahoos‚ who are the evil beasts of this particular island that Gulliver has washed up upon. Throughout the story as Gulliver describes the people of his home to the Houyhnhnms the reader begins to see how Swift shines a light on all the faults that humans have; compared to a divine‚ simple and perfect creature as the Houyhnhnms. Gulliver tries to distinct himself from the Yahoos of this land‚ who he absolutely abhors‚ by explaining his people’s ways
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How did a country that was founded on the idea of freedom become a place where people’s freedom was rejected and where a person was not even thought of as a whole person? Slavery‚ although it is a terrible part of the history of the United States that we cannot get rid of‚ was justified by some Founding Fathers and philosophical thinkers. It is seen in some readings that the thinkers who had such a great influence on the forming of our country‚ actually thought of slavery as something that was okay
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Why did our Founding Fathers create the Constitution and how is it relevant to our country today? To begin‚ prior to the creation of the Constitution‚ the Articles of Confederation was the main document that the people of the United States abided by. The Articles of Confederation was not a well-liked document and therefore‚ it is not well-known today. This document posed many ongoing issues and challenges for the growing United States. First of all‚ it granted the states an overarching amount of
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