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Thomas Paine: The Crisis

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Thomas Paine wrote a series of articles known collectively as "The Crisis" to support his argument for independence from England during the Revolutionary War. Thomas Paine 's reasoning for writing this collection of articles is rather sound. The call to arms in this document calls “tens of thousands” to arms to battle Great Britain and their unfair rule over their country. Paine was justified in his writing, the unfair rule of the British government did need to be “called out” sort of speak.
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In Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, “The Crisis, No 1” (1776), Paine propounds that the colonists establish a sovereign American nation free of British tyranny. Paine fortifies this declaration using pathos: giving this idea of living in a joyous America without a ruthless tyrant promotes the emotion of hope, and supplying people a vision for a brighter future. Paine’s purpose is to reveal how uplifting living in a free country would be like in order to motivate the colonists into uniting and fighting for their independence. Paine is aiming his work at both soldiers and colonists who are struggling with the outset of war against

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Before the pamphlet was published, nobody was brave enough to denounce loyalism and publicly announce that colonists should be engaged in revolutionary battles. Not even John Adams spoke a word that proclaimed independence until “Common Sense” was published. The “Declaration of Independence” that’s written by Thomas Jefferson was highly influenced by “Common Sense” that Thomas Paine wrote. The second continental congress voted and agreed on signing the declaration of independence on July 2, 1776, and was officially recognized on July 4, 1776. If Thomas Paine didn’t propose “Common Sense”, most likely the declaration of independence wouldn’t be signed, which may lead to America not having their own freedom.

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In the eighteenth century there was a mix of opposition of independence, and a hope that the new nation would become a home of freedom. Thomas Paine’s argument was that America needs to gain independence from England. Some of the reasons Paine wrote Common Sense is because of unnecessary wars, monarchial government, and the way Britain treated America. Regardless of Paine’s popularity with Common Sense, Jonathan Boucher was a minister who explained his opposition of the revolutionary movement in his sermons. He believed if God wanted America to be independent it would have happened, and it is our duty as citizens to obey the laws because we will be disobedient to God.

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The Age of Reason v.s today. How are the events and values today connect to events and values of the Age of Reason. The age of reason is when people finally can tell a difference between right and wrong or in other word the Age of Reason was based on facts and science .Thomas Paine thought that the Government should not be involved with religion. The Government should be about the people,not about their religious beliefs.

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“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind” (Paine 1). With the Revolutionary War beginning in 1775, and the publication of Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, only a year later, this statement was widely recognized and addressed the issue at hand: the fight for independence. According to Paine’s assertion, America’s desire for peace and freedom is a basic necessity of life; it is what all men desire. Despite this innate thirst for liberty, many residents of America’s thirteen colonies were fearful of Great Britain, and because of this fear, complied with Great Britain’s every whim. Consequently, most colonists were hesitant to fight against the mother country for independence.

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Before this many Colonists did not know of the harsh injustices done by the British. They also did not believe that the cause for revolution was urgent. Thomas Paine showed them that the cause was urgent by explaining the wrongs the British had committed and why King George was a tyrant. He also showed them that America did not need the British Empire 's protection. This quote shows his reasoning “Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”

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accept problems, and work tirelessly to complete the issue. Paine was aboard the plans he made, and through his writing style readers can tell he wasn't joking around. Next, after getting his fair share of helping the Revolutionary cause, Thomas Paine moved to new ventures, and returned to Europe to work on building a bridge that he mentioned in his earlier pamphlets. Due to the criticism in the French Revolution, Paine knew he needed to write his heart out once again.

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Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested (Paine, 1776)”. Thomas Paine disagrees with the British government and the way they handling business he encouraged Americas to declare their independence. The Declaration of independence was a documented created by Thomas Jefferson that announced the split from the colonies and Great Britain, it. The Declaration of Independence states “we hold these…all men are created equal...with certain unalienable rights...that when any form of government becomes destructive... It is the right of the people to alter or abolish it (Jefferson, 1776)”.

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In the winter of 1776, during American Revolution, the still young America faced three major dilemmas: their seemingly imminent defeat, the moral debate between the Whigs and the British loyalists, and the panic and confusion of the American public. In efforts to settle the three American dilemmas, Thomas Paine wrote The Crisis No. 1 in December of 1776. In his work, Paine aimed to calm the American public and convince them to stand up to the British, and turn the war into an American victory. Paine was very successful in this, and his paper was proclaimed as one of the most persuasive works of the American Revolution. Paine’s

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This article, like most, was written to inform a reader of Paine's life story and success and failure as an author. The authors of this website explain the history of Thomas Paine through a biography. This biography is useful because it displays direct links to his most famous work Common Sense and a few other of his popular works. The problem with this article is that it is too short; it only took me two minutes to read. Although the article gives great links to his works, the main point of the article should be focused on his life because it's a biography.

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Thomas Paine was an original American Revolutionist author who wrote several works of literature. Thomas Paine lived much of his first thirty-seven years of life in obscurity in England. Numerous politicians of different political parties have found inspiration in the writings of Thomas Paine even if they did not agree with everything that he stood for. During the French Revolution, Thomas Paine was imprisoned in France for a period of one to two years; during this time, Paine wrote a letter (that was published) to George Washington where he condemns him for not doing enough to evoke his release. Two notable statues of Thomas Paine exist today; the first was erected in the 1950’s in his birthplace, the second (created by the

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In his document, The Crisis, Number 1, Thomas Paine argues that the American colonists should go and fight for the freedom that they want. Thomas Paine supports this cause by explaining to the colonists that they should have that same mind set no matter what it is. Paine’s purpose is to persuade with emotion in order to get the colonists to feel the need to go and fight for the freedom of the developing country against the British. Thomas Paine uses a formal tone to engage with the emotions of the colonists using rhetorical devices. Paine in his writing likes to use a lot of charged words throughout his writing.

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Thomas Paine was a political philosopher and writer who was deeply immersed in the creation of 19th century radicalism. He spent much of his younger life failing; he dropped from school at 12, failed as an apprentice corseter, and was subpar at best at being an England tax officer. But, he met Ben Franklin in 1774 who helped him move to Philadelphia. He became an extremely prominent journalist there, writing about independence and the army. But after moving back to England, he released the anti-monarchist piece ‘The Rights of Man’, was later imprisoned for not endorsing Louis XVI’s execution, and wrote the anti-church piece ‘The Age of Reason’.

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Would there be an America if people were not able to persuade others? During a time when America is in a war against the British fighting for its independence and had lost every battle except for one during the first year of the war, fearing that the idea of America may fail. Thomas Paine then publishes a pamphlet called The Crisis, No. 1. Regarding this, pathos was the most persuasive technique used to persuade Americans to continue on with the war in Thomas Paine’s The Crisis, No. 1.

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Throughout Thomas Paine's "The Crisis: number one" he uses rhetorical devices, which properly justify his claim that Britain has wronged them and they should revolt. In the first paragraph of the excerpt, Paine he uses a metaphor to show how bad British rule truly is. In the excerpt, it says "Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right not only to tax but to bind us in all cases whatsoever, and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth". In using this metaphor the British tyranny being compared to slavery.

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