Therefore, I am... A Declaration

     For the first unit of our Winter term Humanities course, A Nation’s Argument, we took a focus on the 1770’s of colonial America. During the course we analyzed the Declaration of Independence for deductive and inductive reasoning along with finding the Founding Fathers’s premises for writing their declaration. As a part of our investigation we read chapter 3 of Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” the chapter being “Persons of Mean and Vile Condition” which touches on Bacon’s Rebellion and how differences between the elite and colonists. We also talked about the Seven Years’ War and how the consequences of the English winning that war led to the English trying to take over French territory. To also help understand the time period better, we watched a lecture given by Professor Joanne Freeman of Yale University where she talked about the Found Fathers’s intentions when writing the Declaration of Independence. For our Action Project we had to make our own declaration for an independent study course. I chose to make my declaration to learn about the history of discrimination and prejudice towards Asians and Asian-Americans in America and how that has changed overtime.