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Fifteen years ago, a man named Lord Montagu lived with his six daughters and his wife. When he found out his wife was expecting another baby, he hoped that his seventh child would be a boy. Unfortunately, it turned out that his wife had another girl with pearl blue eyes. The lord told his wife that he did not want to see the newborn child and ordered her to throw the child away. Though the wife felt lugubrious, she ran to a nearby farm and left the child with a letter with the story of why the child had to be abandoned. Just then, there was a monk who was passing by the farm. The monk thought, ‘Oh my… Why is a child abandoned here on the ground? What a poor child.’ The monk read the letter that was next to the child, and due to an overwhelming …show more content…

She visited the lord’s house and her biological mother cried in joy. Then, she walked past the entrance door to the city and entered the forbidden forest. There were warning signs to not go near the mountains by oneself because it is easy to get lost and meet wild creatures. Emma, however, ignored the signs and walked over five mountains and found out that the road over the sixth mountain was closed. She found a man washing his clothes next to a well. She carefully went up to him and asked, “Can you tell me the way to go over this mountain to reach the famous doctor’s …show more content…

Once the man was satisfied with the color of his clothes, he pointed to a direction and Emma continued walking in that direction. After she courageously walked through the seventh mountain and the eighth mountain, she saw the lake. Because she thought that she would be unable to cross the lake, she sat down and cried thinking about her helpless father. Suddenly, a dragon from the water came out and asked why she as here. Then, Emma told the dragon her story and the reason why she is at the lake all by herself. Once the dragon heard her story, he decided to help Emma out to accomplish her mission. While she was riding on his back, he pleaded, “If it is possible, please ask the doctor how I can fly up into the sky like how I use to in the past.” “I will do my best to find the doctor and ask how you can regain your ability to fly,” replied Emma. After Emma crossed the lake, she saw a ginormous, well-build house on a valley. She wondered where the medicine and the doctor was located. She could only see fields of flowers in front of the house. Then, she suddenly heard one of the white daisy said, “I am the medicine used to mend the skin.” Another blood red rose said, “I am a medicine, too. I help retain a person’s blood clean and

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In his book, Garry Wills attempt to tell the story, or stories of the American Declaration of Independence. He begins by talking about the Continental Congress and how they would arrive at a document that would be the base for their revolution. While Jefferson is accredited to writing the final draft, politics prevailed, important things were left out, and the political ideologies of the delegates was considered. Wills then begins to discuss in more detail, Thomas Jefferson’s original intent concerning the Declaration. He discusses how the ideas are rooted in scientific inquiry and then routed through the moral ideas in order to apply them politically.

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Thomas Jefferson was a politician, a lawyer, an author, and a person that encouraged freedom. He was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. He lived near the western edge of Great Britain’s American Empire. He was the third born of ten siblings. He liked to play in the woods, practice the violin, and read.

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