As history changes, and people/nations evolve, it becomes necessary for them to be independent of any other country/power on which they relied. They feel the need to break those connections that bound them, and to finally emerge as a country of its own, a country which doesn't need to count on others in order to thrive and prosper. God has given everyone equal rights, and thus no country has more rights than any other. This newly founded country will become respectable through its own effort, and not through the help/or the dominion of another country. The Americans felt impelled to separate from their mother country, Britain, and eventually create a dream of their own. All men are equal - God has given them those unalienable rights. The people are those who make decisions - there is a Government, but if it becomes destructive, it is the people who decide how to organize the country. Jefferson talks about the downsides of being a British colony, and thus creates a chance for the Americans to create a country in which these rules needn't be followed so blindly. They are free to do what they wish, because it is their God-given right.
The poem Tattoo by Greg Shapiro is about being a survivor. It was written about his father living through the holocaust.
The tattoo represents this experienced lived by his father in the Holocaust where any individual detained in the inhumane imprisonments was given a tattoo of a number.
She learns how to be a good friend to Sal and others. She learns how to be compassionate. She also learns about time. All of this gives Miranda a brand new perspective – or way of seeing the world.
