Monday, September 22, 2014
Ms. Adams was Strong
We have learned about the liberties that certain colonialists had to encounter and wished that they could encounter while in the early United States. Ms. Adams talked of how she thought of liberties so that she could just sustain herself and her children. Ms Adams also mentioned in a letter to her husband of the importance of women's rights. I think Ms. Adams was a strong women for having the tenacity to stand up to men and ask for her own rights and the rights of her gender. She was obviously a very caring person if she risked the chance of infection of her children while giving them inoculation. My essay is now basically formed on the same principals that I originally hoped it would be. Now, however, I am building my road map on judging too quickly, savagery, and conformity. This meaning that Rowlandson and Equiano thought that their captors were savages, they judged them too quickly and the only way for Rowlandson of the white men to accept anyone was for those people to conform to their way of life. This essay then suggests the American ideal that if someone does something American does not like their whole civilization is shunned. This is basically true for all human nature in my opinion but that does not mean it cannot be an American ideal.
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i enjoyed reading your blog, because my blog was quite similar to yours which made it easy to connect. i liked how you found a way to tie Equiano and Mary Rowlandson together because most people would say they are the opposites since Rowlandson is white and Equiano is colored. But once you mentioned that they shared the same feelings when they were in the same situation it basically proved that even though they are different on the outside, they are alike on the inside.
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