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Native American/Creation
The World on the Turtle's Back - 2 kids were born and their mother became the mother earth, and the boys became day and night.
This Newly Created World
I Have Killed the Deer -
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
By: Jonathan Edwards
God was angry with everyone and nobody knew why. He was just angry all the time. -
Poor Richard's Almanack
Ben Franklin: used aphorisms -
Speech in the Virginia Convention
Patrick Henry
He tries to convince them to go to war -
The Crisis
Thomas Paine
They said to stand up against the British during the war -
Olaudah Equiano
From the interesting Narrative of the Life Of Olaudah Equiano - he was a slave and he was sent across seas and tortured. He was sold and separated from his sister. -
The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin: About the life of Ben Franklin -
Emerson
Self-Reliance (1888) - that people deal with society and how we have society figure things out for us.
Nature (1836) - people are naturally bad and -
Thoreau
Walden (1854) - the guy wanted to live simply in the woods and then left.
Civil Disobedience (1849) - dealing with following the laws and not disobeying them. -
The Crucible
By: Arthur Miller
There were witch trials in Salem and many people died because they were hanged and were a "witch". Many people were innocent and didn't confess to being a witch. John Proctor was hanged becasue of interacting with the devil and being a witch.