| 19th December 2006 05:37 PM |
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| iluvmickjagger07 |
hello to all.
i have to write a damn essay and my brain is in dead mode right now, so i was wondering if u all can help me out a little bit.
topic- What civic value(s) do you believe are the most essential to being an American, and how can you personally put those values into practice? You must support your response with references to a Founding document (from the years 1760-1800) as well as a figure from American history exemplifying the civic values you describe. |
| 19th December 2006 05:38 PM |
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| glencar |
Go with Lincoln. |
| 19th December 2006 05:46 PM |
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| mrhipfl |
She said 1760 to 1800, Glencar. Lincoln wasn't around. 
That's a tough essay. Maybe include something about the first amendment and freedom of speech? Say that people should always use it and have their voices heard. Or maybe you could include that people should make sure that freedom remains the highest priority in the US:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and *secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity*, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (That's from the preamble.)
Look on the bright side. At least you don't have to write it French like will tomorrow. 
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| 19th December 2006 05:47 PM |
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| Joey |
" topic- What civic value(s) do you believe are the most essential to being an American, and how can you personally put those values into practice? You must support your response with references to a Founding document (from the years 1760-1800) as well as a figure from American history exemplifying the civic values you describe."
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| 19th December 2006 05:56 PM |
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| glencar |
quote:
mrhipfl wrote:
She said 1760 to 1800, Glencar. Lincoln wasn't around.
Oops! I guess the part I was going to add about "diversity" wouldn't fit well either. Tom Paine? |
| 19th December 2006 06:15 PM |
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| iluvmickjagger07 |
great ideas!
keep them coming.
if i come up with a original idea, my teacher will put my essay for a scholarship opportunity which im hoping for.
ill be sure to put the picture of joey's cat at the end of my essay. |
| 19th December 2006 08:04 PM |
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| Mel Belli |
quote:
iluvmickjagger07 wrote:
hello to all.
i have to write a damn essay and my brain is in dead mode right now, so i was wondering if u all can help me out a little bit.
topic- What civic value(s) do you believe are the most essential to being an American, and how can you personally put those values into practice? You must support your response with references to a Founding document (from the years 1760-1800) as well as a figure from American history exemplifying the civic values you describe.
The document has to be from that period, not the examplar. Go with Glencar: Go with Lincoln. |
| 19th December 2006 08:31 PM |
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| pdog |
I beleive in three civic values, voting, jury duty and serving in the military.
these were important then and important today...
does this help? |
| 19th December 2006 08:39 PM |
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| WJ |
quote:
pdog wrote:
I beleive in three civic values, voting, jury duty and serving in the military.
these were important then and important today...
does this help?
Would you support a draft? If so, would you still support it if your sons were 18? |
| 19th December 2006 08:56 PM |
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| Fiji Joe |
It sounds to me like your teacher is fishing for some free speech horseshit and the right and value of peaceful protest..which if course, is linked to the most basic of founding documents...give him or her what she wants...don't kid yourself...original thought is not appreciated unless it jives with your educator's world view..if you have an insight as to how your teacher thinks, you're one up
Or write an essay on the right to keep and bear arms and explain that that right is single-handedly responsible for the absence of any "plans of occupation" by our enenmies abroad...be sure to point out the counter...which would be, our total destruction by those who know the occupation of our homeland is impossible...not really a problem durng the days of mutually assured destruction, but, with this new breed of enemy, occupation of our land and the capture of our resources is not the goal anyway...a bottle of booze with your paper doesn't hurt either...good luck |
| 19th December 2006 10:07 PM |
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| Scottfree |
Tom Paine... Gov't is best that governs the least...Gov't is always oppressive.... |
| 20th December 2006 02:43 AM |
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| tumbled |
you could really go a long way with the ...all men are created equal. .. bit or the pursuit of happiness bit.
Declaration of Independence.
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands 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.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. — The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislature, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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John Hancock
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
Geo. Walton
Wm. Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
Edward Rutledge
Thos. Heyward, Junr.
Thomas Lynch, Junr.
Arthur Middleton
Samuel Chase
Wm. Paca
Thos. Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Th. Jefferson
Benja. Harrison
Thos. Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Robt. Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benja. Franklin
John Morton
Geo. Clymer
Jas. Smith
Geo. Taylor
James Wilson
Geo. Ross
Caesar Rodney
Geo. Read
Tho. Mckean
Wm. Floyd
Phil. Livingston
Frans. Lewis
Lewis Morris
Richd. Stockton
Jno. Witherspoon
Fras. Hopkinson
John Hart
Abra. Clark
Josiah Bartlett
Wm. Whipple
Saml. Adams
John Adams
Robt. Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Step. Hopkins
William Ellery
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
Wm. Williams
Oliver Wolcott
Matthew Thornton
Constitution
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| 20th December 2006 09:46 AM |
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| Joey |
quote:
iluvmickjagger07 wrote:
ill be sure to put the picture of joey's cat at the end of my essay.
You are much loved by Joey . |
| 20th December 2006 10:18 AM |
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| Voodoo Scrounge |
Just when I thought Rock and Roll was dead! This thread comes along and.............confirms that it is!
How Boring! |
| 20th December 2006 02:45 PM |
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| iluvmickjagger07 |
quote:
Voodoo Scrounge wrote:
Just when I thought Rock and Roll was dead! This thread comes along and.............confirms that it is!
How Boring!
yeah sorry.
wrong place to post this.
but thanks everyone. you all were very helpful if i ever do write that essay.
and dont worry.. i wont ask for help on my hw unless it's related to the stones. |
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