<span>Benjamin Franklin wrote a document “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” that was in complete contradiction to the document “The Sovereignty and Goodness of God” written by Mary Rowlandson. Rowlandson's document viewed Native Americans as barbarous black creatures of the night and savages, this view was through her own eyes along with what she thought colonists viewed them as. This is accurate considering the time period, because white people did not accept people of different backgrounds or skin colors. Franklin disagreed with what Rowlandson said by simply saying that he thought Native Americans “when young are Hunters and Warriors; when old, Counselors”(Franklin 1), and thought that those were respectable traits. This was a big step for him to take because it was breaking the mold that people had set in place, and he was being accepting towards other types of people. </span>
A. Is the spiritual answer
Thanks for posting. I hadn't thought of it before.
The quick answer to this is that they gather leaves to make boats. As a science major, I'm a little doubtful this would work. Those ants covered acres and acres and their size though relatively small, were huge compared to other ants. The surface tension of water with a leaf might be enough to accommodate 20 ants, but that was a spit in the bucket.
Further, this implies that the ants were discriminating enough to stop eating the vegetation (which is the central conflict of the story) and decide that they had to forestall their appetite so they had leaves to cross. Even if they were capable of such higher lever mental abilities, there likely were not enough leaves around to accomplish the crossing.
All of that just so I could answer A
By creating a permanent water supply
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