In the essay Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1784 about Native Americans, titled “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America”, he stated that the Native Americans were called savages “because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.” The theme of empathy is seen in Franklin’s essay, as he encouraged seeing the other person’s point of view in dealing with the Native Americans. In highlighting the similarity of how Native Americans conduct their public councils to how order is maintained in the British House of Commons, he promoted the value of respect for diversity.
In one essay on Indians, Benjamin Franklin spoke of how the men when young could do the hunting for example but when older could become counselor's and develop oratory skills as their life style allowed for time for contemplation and the development of wisdom. Also, he spoke of how the government in Virginia offered to pay for the university education of some of the young natives and they replied, after some consideration that those that had engaged in this education in the past became useless in the skills of dealing with nature and daily life with their people living on the land so declined the offer but offered instead to educate some white people in their own valuable life skills of living life like a true native American.
It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York—and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.
The correct answer to the question above is the (c.) anyone's completes the sentence. Miranda says that the outcome of the race is anyone's guess. Since Miranda is referring to anyone that is involve (not particularly in it) in the race, it means should refer anyone to anyone's.
