Life Application Questions
Please answer one of the following: Please consider strong word choice, conventions, and fluency. Make sure your response is reflective and thorough and you answer all parts of the question.
1)What does the word EQUAL mean? Do you beleive it means the same thing that it did when Jefferson used it in the Declaration of Independence-"all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights"? Does this idea still hold true today?
2)As Americans, what do we have the right to expect for ourselves from other citizens and our government? Do immigrants to this country have the right to the same expectations? Why or why not?
1)What does the word EQUAL mean? Do you beleive it means the same thing that it did when Jefferson used it in the Declaration of Independence-"all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights"? Does this idea still hold true today?
2)As Americans, what do we have the right to expect for ourselves from other citizens and our government? Do immigrants to this country have the right to the same expectations? Why or why not?
posted by Jessie C. at 3:09 PM
3 Comments:
Equal is a very strong word, expecially in the English Language. Jefferson used it in the Decloration of Independence and people use it everyday to explain something. Equal to me means that something or someone is the same as something else. Jefferson used it to tell the people that everybody, man and woman are created equal. Today that statement is not true. Everything and everyone are different and they all don't have the same rights. Poor people are still poor and rich people are richer. The government does not make rich people give half of their hard earned money to the poor and Im sure they wouldn't want to.
Even if the word equal does stand for something, it doen't stand for America. We are a country of opportunity but people do not hold the weak's hand. Everybody is on their own, making it trough day to day with money or with out. Being equal or not being equal.
Equal is a comparison of two things saying that they both have most things in common. Obviously when T.J. said that every man was created equal, he didn't mean exactly alike. Some are black while others are black, some are sick, and some are totally healthy. The exact same thing still holds true today.
I think that equal means that everything should be fair. I do believe that it means the same thing
that it did when Jefferson used it and I don't. When I hear the line "all men are created equal and
endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights" I think of racism. But when I hear the
word "equal" I think that no one should be left out or excluded. I believe that this idea is true in
some ways but not the other. There are people that judge people because of their race or the way
they look.
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