Prompt: Were the Founding Fathers (Sons of Liberty) patriots or traitors? Patriotism has always been a truly ambiguous term. The media portrays it with glory‚ while others describe it as “rebel” or “red-neck.” In addition‚ the fine line between patriot and traitor has always existed‚ as decisions and acts that have been made for the sake of so-called “patriotism” are called into question. The case of the Founding Fathers is also controversial. Before the Revolutionary War‚ the Sons of Liberty were
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of the great sacrifice and bloodshed from common men and families that paid the price for independence. Several men and their families were captured‚ tortured or killed as traitors. Many lost their lives or sons’ lives in fighting the war. The Patriot is a well acted and gripping revisitation of the Revolutionary War with painfully realistic‚ bloody battle reenactments that compromise dramatic integrity. It has captured the brutal
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the authority struggle when patriots were trying to fight for liberty while simultaneously trying to gain authority to put themselves in a position to abolish it. So to speak‚ they were fighting a battle on two fronts. One against Britain and one amongst themselves. Early established power among the colonies‚ independence from Britain‚ reduced barbary into a more civilized society as well as the abolishment of slavery are all movements that started during the American
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During the American Revolution‚ not only did men have to face the struggles of war time atmosphere‚ but women had to as well. The country during the war was divided into three different groups of people; the loyalists‚ the patriots and the remaining people who did not care. Catherine Van Cortlandt‚ a loyalist had to endure different struggles then the patriot women Eliza Pinckney and Abigail Adams. However‚ parts of their stories are similar when it came to their family struggles. Catherine
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As exciting as the sound of bugle calls us to arms‚ the Patriot‚ directed by Roland Emmerich‚ earns people’s hearts by its attractive and enthralling plot of the epic of a South Carolinian planter and widower Benjamin Martin(played by Mel Gibson) fighting the ruthless and brutal British dragoon captain called William Tavington(played by Jason Isaacs). A father of seven children‚ Martin is one of the British army during the French-Indian War‚ but with the tension evoked between America and Britain
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In this film there are shown two sides of the American Revolution. The Americans and the Britishers had equally contributed to the American Revolution. My understanding of the American Revolution was limited to the disturbance created by the British troops‚ but after viewing this film my understanding has extended to believe that colonists had triggered these reactions from British Parliament. The Stamp Act‚ a decision made by British Parliament‚ was to impose taxes on the colonies in order to gain
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On Pamphleteering and the revolution The purpose of this paper will be to prove that the flow of information between individuals and the masses through the form of pamphlets helped create the ideological ground necessary for the war. I will prove this by showing how the American colonies were uniquely suited for pamphlets to be effective‚ with a long history of both education and opinion I will prove how influential writers used the pamphlet to disseminate ideas‚ and how this was not possible
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Animal Farm and Russian Revolution There have been many books that have criticized politics. One of those books is George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm. This book criticizes the dictatorships of the 1930s and 40s like Stalin‚ Hitler‚ and Mussolini. Many people feel‚ including me‚ that it mainly targets Russia’s totalitarian state. Animal Farm plays out the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s rule. In the book a group of overworked and nearly starved animals revolt against a cruel farmer and establish
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The American revolution happened 200+ years ago‚and still reflects on modern day sentiments; to a certain extent. After breaking away from a Britain‚ America rethought how they wanted to govern themselves‚ at first choosing a “weak” central government with strong state governments‚ and then moved into a strong centralized government with lesser powerful state governments. Women‚ slaves‚ and those loyal to Great Britain (Loyalists) experienced a lovely amount of change in the society at that time
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democracy. This made the bourgeoisie of Europe reconsider their own government and monarchic systems. How did the American Revolution influence the French Revolution? The culmination of all these factors was seen in the French Revolution‚ where the revolutionaries formed their own slogan‚ “Liberty‚ Equality‚ Fraternity”. Europeans obtained information about the American Revolution from soldiers returning from America. French soldiers returned to France with ideas of individual liberty‚ popular
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