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” We Hold These Truths to Be Self-evident.”

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There are five articles that relative to declaration. These declarations proof that people realize their enlightenments. They see what to want to change and what kind of life they want. We are reading these articles because it links to enlightenment. Declaration articles show what make people realize they problem, how they are not bear their lives, and what they want to change. Because of the different culture, the language of these articles are hard to understand. However, I can understand the main points that author what to express. The similar of these five articles are they all link to liberty man right, and woman right.

I am going to analyze one sentence in Declaration of Sentiments,” We hold these truths b to be self-evident.” WE is plural pronoun and nominative plural of I. WE means you and me. In this article, WE means women. HOLD, “to have or keep in the hand”. What we can hold in our hand? We hold our property and rights. THESE is plural of this, It includes some, not just one. THESE uses as subject, like people, things, ideas, events, time. TRUTHS is the truth, “conformity with fact or reality, and a verified of proposition and principle”. In this article, What the woman truths are? TRUTHS are natural resource of woman, like getting equal rights with men. That is what woman can own and control. SEFL-EVIDENT, is “evident without proof or argument”. Is woman right self-evident? God gives man rights, also woman can own her rights. People are equal.

“WHEN”, “He”s

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This week there were five articles for the assignments and they were all talking in a similar way, about declaring for independence and liberty, claiming for equal rights and fair treatment. However, the language the authors used in the writing were really hard for me. The language styles were hard for me to understand the truth meaning of the articles.  In this way, I took the article “Declaration of Sentiments” for discussing. Basically, the article was written by women for claiming about the equal rights and opportunities as men. They believed all humans were created equally and should be treated equally. They should get the equal rights and opportunities as men.

The article was written in a very special ways. In the beginning of the article, it started with all capital letter word “WHEN”, and then use a comma to separate the next part of the sentence. Usually, “when” refers a particular time or moment. As “WHEN” was capital in all letter, the author regarded it as a very important and serious time and moment. There should be some important events happened or some serious things to tell next in the article. Also, most of its paragraphs were written very short with only one to two sentences.  For those paragraphs, they all started with “He”. All those paragraphs were listing about how men treated women in a very unequal and unfair way. Men prevented women from doing anything included in politics and in life. Men took everything from women and limited their activities. Women believed that if men did not do such things to women, if they could get the equal opportunities as men, women might be done as well as men or even better than men. Women believed men and women should be treated equally and nobody should take away the rights from them. Writing about these, women hoped all people included men could be enlightened.

After reading the article, I was someway loved the author’s writing style even though I might not understand the author wholly.

I would PREFER not to

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Bartleby  

^^^watch this.

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pre·fer  (pr-fûr)tr.v. pre·ferred, pre·fer·ring, pre·fers

1. To choose or be in the habit of choosing as more desirable or as having more value: prefers coffee to tea.
I feel that there is an integral statement in the reading Bartleby The Scrivener, that statement is, I would Prefer not to; this statement isolates an  action that humans can do and that would be their god given right to think for themselves. The definition of prefer is: to choose or be in the habit of choosing as more desirable or as having move value ex) prefers coffee or tea.  This statement that is used in Bartleby encompasses many of the readings that I’ve done in this class thus far, a common ethos in a majority of the readings are the ability or the benefit of the main character making choices for themselves, or learning to make their own choices; this is recently seen in the Declaration of Independence where the founding fathers have the right to think for themselves and the decide that they would prefer not to be a colony under British rule. I feel that Bartleby is enlightened the same way how the founding fathers were enlightened and the same way how an individual like Candide became enlightened. It’s not that Bartleby isn’t doing his job, he is, just what he signed up for, Bartleby does nothing more and nothing less.

-Fabian Varcianna