CLASSICAL PARALLELS (Abigail Adams to John Adams)

SUMMARY:

     In this letter from Abigail Adams to her husband John Adams, Abigail mentions that she misses her husband and that makes the days passing seem longer. Her anxiety is also becoming unpleasant. Afterwards she brings up her thoughts on peace being more wanted when found or obtain through justice and honor rather than getting it through " bad measures, and purchased at the price of liberty." (Adams 676) Mrs. Warren sent a letter to them wishing John the best of luck and telling him her hopes related to John not destabilizing the noble order of American Amphyctions by choosing King Philip as their leader because it was him (King Philip) who destroyed their happiness. She finally finishes of wishing all blessing to him especially now that he has been chosen to form part of the Continental Congress as part of the 5 Massachusets delegates.

RHETORICAL DEVICES:
- "...you will beware that no future Annals may say you chose an ambitious Philip for your Leader, who subverted the noble order of the American Amphyctions..." (Adams 676)
     Appeal to Emotion
     This quote is important to the letter, because this describes what a part of his job is and what is expected from the citizens. It is important to this letter because of another reason as well, this is, that when you read this quote, the reader than realizes what John´s goal is and how much load he has on him. It is also important because in the following letters, there are occations were he has agreed to some things the British have done and this might make him wonder if being a govenor for so long is affecting him and it worries him when he agrees to some ideas.

-" I wish you every Publick as well, as private blessing, and that wisdom which is profitable both for instruction and edification to conduct you in this difficult day." (Adams 677)
     Appeal to Emotion
     This quote is important to this letter in particular, because it adds to all the previous statements and helps Abigail conclude with what was the main point of her letter, which is to mention the fact that she truly misses John, that she loves him and supports him.It is also important, because as you can see, she wishes her blessing on everything he does, and everything he does might determine whether people become satisfied or not. This connects to the section of the letter where Abigail mentions the letter from Mrs. Warren and her desires.

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Blog 4

     It is of great satisfaction to see how various colonists have shown the greatest amount of patriotism I believe possible. As you can see, this has led many to speak up and express what they feel about the situation between the British and colonists as it goes on. This being said, there has been one person who has fully expressed clearly what he feels what should be done about the awful situation going on; this is Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry expresses the fact that based on what the British have done in the past years, it is fair to say that the colonists cannot take more of this and that we are ready for war. But, expressing what he feels has not been enough. What is enough is for him to express what he feels, but before that, analize what he expresses, due to the fact that if he does not do this, he blames it all on the British instead of admitting that we have partial fault and also lets his ambition towards going to war lead all his thoughts. 

     I would like to begin, mentioning Sir Patrick Henry´s thought about all of the colonists petitions leading the English to prepare for war and this leading to his question that says the following, "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?" (Henry). Many might not see the problem with this statement and question, but if you analize it, you will eventually notice that what has led the English to make warlike preparations instead of reconciling in an amiable manner, is the fact that various colonists have made revolts against the English soldiers for desitions made by the English rulers, and this might lead the English to think if you could do something possibly worse the next time, and like any other they want to protect themselves from any hazards. What might solve this problem, is for the colonists to send a letter to someone important expressing their thoughts, and that important person should preferably be one that can communicate this to the authorities and ruling family and make sure they receive the notice. To make sure the authorities do something about the problem, you should send some kind of threat you know will lead the ruling people to pay attention and this will eventually make them respect you and the colonists.

    The second thought that is of great importance for all of the colonists to have addressed to them is Patrick Henry´s ambition to war. He expresses the fact that they are ready for war because they have the ambition, because they can use what they have around them in their favor and because he believes that three million people armed might help us succeed. I would like to express the fact that ambition is one thing that might help you succeed, but if the ambition of the opponent is bigger, you might loose and that ambition might focus many of our soldiers on the outcome if they win the war, instead of consentrating on what is going on and how to get the wanted outcome. Another thing, is the fact that he thinks that using our territory to our benfit might help, but if you look back, we have had British soldiers in our territory for an extensive amount of time so many know our territory and use this to their advantage as well. Lastly, his idea on having three million men armed is not enough, because the British might surprise us with more, the British army will possibly be composed of experienced soldiers instead of any colonist and also, the British have more war experience. If we want to have a war, we should not let the idea of the English taking all of what we have freak us out, instead we should focus on pretending like we are in complete agreement of what they tell us to do so that we can avoid them taking our belonging besides our money. This will let a secret group of people get more guns, gather more people like the Native Americans left and on our side, analyzing moves that can be preformed to our benefit at war and coming up with effective ways to win the war without having an army fully formed of experienced soldiers. This will take time, but it will help us win the war that will let us win our independence. After we become independent, we will have more years being free than the time we were practically under slavery. 

    To conclude, we should accept that we have had fault in the situation between the British and colonists and to not let thoughts lead us to out of the blue want to preform things we have never done before and win. We should take one step at a time and this will help us come up with effective ways that will assure us a great outcome. This will help colonists be better people moraly and finally, will make your upcoming days at least a little bit less miserable than they are now.

Blog 3

     If I were to create something similar to what Alexander Hamilton and James Madison did, this is what I would propose be done. To begin with, I truly believe that there should be state representatives or in Honduras´ case, department representatives just like Alexander Hamilton proposed, which will inform the main body, what is going on with their state, etc. For example, any problems they are going through or achievements. They can also share ideas on how to solve problems the country is going through if it was. 

     To mantain all the ruling powers informed, and to avoid problems involving economic issues, agricultural issues, exportation and importation issues, etc. I propose including people specialized and FULLY informed on these topics to be part of the senate and government. This will help a country avoid and solve more problems eficiently. For example, the "senator" or representative in charge of the economical area, can say the economy is lowering, and in a certain amount of time the situation can become uncontrolable, then the government conformed of the state representatives and ruling powers can start solving the problem at its early stages. If a problem were to be presented, it is of great importance that each state and each representative conforming the senate to give ideas that could potencially solve the problem being presented, and the person who informed everyone about the problem, must give two solutions minimum if possible, due to the fact that this person knew about the problem before anyone and had more time to analyze and come up with ideas. As you can see, we need bright and fast thinkers. I would also enforce security in those places with extreme violence, like Honduras.For this, we can first stabilize the economy so that employing people will not be a problem. Another thing that could help is to have a yearly charity day, so that in this day each person, group of people or company can propose ways to help solve problems and as the year goes by, they have to reach that proposal. For example, a architect can propose making an apartment building to give the homeless a place to stay, and some bed company owner can donate beds, etc.  

    The proposals I just gave, are for all the people living in the countries following these ideas. It is also for the government. If any of these people play by these ideas and decide to commit something incorrect and offensive against this, should be sent to court and if they are honest about their offense they will still be punished but less than the person who lies about their situation. Not will these people only go to jail, they will also have to do their food, do charity work 24/7 and finally, their tax payments will increase each time they commit fraud. The amount that is going to be increased to what they formally pay depends on how severe the offense was. 

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