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Ichabod Crane is the schoolteacher in Sleepy Hollow, a town where not much ever happens. Oh, except for ghost stories. The people in this town are obsessed with ghosts—and so is Ichabod. This is pretty much all we need to know before the story gets going.
Ichabod is addicted to eating. When he realizes that he can gain access to unlimited refills by marrying Katrina, the hunt is on. The only problem is that another guy already had his eye on this lady, and now he wants to kill Ichabod. Oops. This is the oldest conflict of all time: romantic rivals. It can't get more classic. Consider the action risen.
Ichabod is characterized as a weak and greedy man. His most important goal, by all appearances, is to pass through life as comfortably as possible. This goal drives his desire to marry the beautiful Katrina, an heiress. Bram Bones is his opposite in many ways, strong and fun-loving, and he too has decided to marry Katrina. Ichabod, however, refuses to fight Bram for Katrina, so Bram is left frustrated as Ichabod rises in Katrina's esteem.
Bram, however, is not stupid. He uses Ichabod's fear of the supernatural against him by masquerading as the legendary Headless Horseman and frightening Ichabod into fleeing the community. In this section, Washington Irving's intent becomes clear; he is contrasting the rationality in Bram's character with the romantic silliness of Ichabod's belief in ghosts. Irving wrote at a time when the Romantic movement, filled with gothic stories of the supernatural and magic, was overtaking the Enlightenment, a time of scientific thought and rationalism. With this underlying plot conflict, Irving illustrates the power of the Enlightenment over its new rival Romanticism.
In drafting the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson (along with Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and other members of a committee assigned to prepare this seminal document) knew that he had to present a solid legal and moral foundation upon which to build support for secession from the British Crown. Independence from Great Britain was not universally supported, and Jefferson recognized the importance of presenting the case for independence in a cogent, persuasive manner. While many Americans are familiar with the opening passages of the final draft of the Declaration of Independence, many are less familiar with the lengthy list of grievances to which Jefferson refers in arguing for the revolutionary movement taking shape among the colonies.
Jefferson prefaces his list of grievances against the British Crown by addressing the issue of independence in universal terms. It is this eloquent preface in which one finds the immortal words that most Americans remember:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
Having set forth these universal rights, Jefferson next address the issue of what should follow any government’s failure to protect such rights while emphasizing that the rationale for secession had to be grounded in serious grievances and not merely in slights or insults:
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. . . Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
<span>In this excerpt from President Kennedy's 1963 Civil Rights Address the phrase "rising tide of discontent" most likely refers to <u>difficulties over segregation and discrimination.
</u>He states in his speech that these are the things that people need to unite over and rectify, so as to prevent any turmoil or troubles that may happen in the state as a result of them.<u>
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