Prayers at the Congress

The title of this letter tells everything what the letter talks about. First of all John tells Abigail that in the Congress, Mr. Cushing told the Congress and made a motion, that in every assembly they would start with a prayer. He tells her that they voted for Mr. Duche to tell the prayer. He tells her that Mr. Duche tells very good prayers, that he talks with emotion, good pronunciation, and that he orated the Psalms and that Abigail should read it.

Rhetorical Devices:

Appeal to Reason: “It was opposed by Mr. Jay of N. York and Mr. Ruthledge of South Carolina, because we were so divided in religious Sentiments, some Episcopalians, some Quakers, some Anabaptists, some Presbyterians, and some Congregationalists,” (John Adams 677). This rhetorical device is really important to the letter because without this quote, John Adams could not tell Abigail what is happening and what the problem in the assembly is.  

Appeal to Emotion: “I must confess I never heard a better Prayer or one, so well pronounced. Episcopalian as he is, Dr. Cooper himself never prayed with such fervor, such ardor, such Earnestness and Pathos, and in language so elegant” (John Adams 678). This is a very important quote in the letter because this quote tells what John thought about the idea of the prayer, it tells Abigail what were the results of starting the assembly with a prayer, without this quote, Abigail would have never known how John felt about the prayer.

-Rodrigo Estevez

Blog #4, Patrick......

Speech directed to Patrick Henry and every follower.




Mr. Patrick Henry and followers: I speak to you by this form of speech, because as you can see your very persuasive and inspiriting speech came all the way to Britain, and I would like you to know that you are not the only one that can speak on this issue we are having right now. I am a loyalist; I love my country, Britain. If it wouldn’t be for us the British, United States would have not been discovered, maybe later, but not now, I find your words interesting because they are useless and nonsense words. I would like you to know that I highly oppose your ideas because we have the right to tax you, and to rule you. We do not want the colonists to be slaves, we want them to respect us and respect the taxes, we would like them to accept our government as theirs, and we would like them to proudly say that the British are with them and that they are part of the British. We would love to give you your freedom, but we would hate to give you death, but believe me, if you want death, and you keep bragging around for that independence and that “freedom” you want, because we already gave it to you, we will give you death. Mr. Henry, we know that you say that all man should see hope, we may give you hope, but not the way you are addressing it to us. We are sending our troops and forces to your homeland because we know that the Americans are very desperate for that freedom you are calling for, and we as a civilized and very advances country we are taking precautions for any attempt to try and get freedom and justice. Because the only thing you would get out of that attempt is war and darkness, and we, supporting your country’s safety and peace we are taking precautions, I repeat, for that not to happen. So, Mr. Patrick Henry, we the British beg for you not to inspire more citizens of the colonies to make nonsense actions and to make a horrible mistake. Because we have already took action and precautions. We ask you kindly not to blame us for your resentful feelings that the Americans have, because of your independence. We are sorry, but we cant surrender such a land only for that people are happy, we can make the colonists happy under our reign. We are proud of everything we have had done, and we are not proud for some events that took place in America. But we can assure you safety, a good life, and everything you need, only by giving us a working life, and total devoutness to us, you can have all of that under our reign. We can make many other discussion about the issue and come up in better solutions, that the one that you proposed, that takes lunacy, and war. We can make many more agreements. So, I repeat citizens of America, and Patrick Henry, we would love to give you liberty, but not independence, and we would hate to give you death, but if you want death, we will give you death.

-British Loyalist

Uniting Central America and changing the World.

September 2, 2010

People of Central America, and the World. Here in this words I propose you an opportunity to change the world and Central America. This is an idea to change the world, and to change America, it’s an idea to make every little country in Central America, strong. It is important to mention that this idea will unite many countries, and get them out of their problems, poverty, and low class development. If we unite Central America, we will not be seen as one of the poorest places in the world. We have the right as every other country on the world to have good investments, to have great tourism places, to be advances, and have the top-class technologies, to have the best streets, if Central America unites, everything would be easier, the beautiful places in Central America will be known by everyone, importing and exporting is going to be easier, because it will no longer be Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, or Mexico, we can and must be one, our profits will grow and Central America is going to be able to solve every problem, delinquency is growing every day, but we can stop this, by uniting, because delinquency comes from poor people and poor education, if Central America unites we will be able to solve this, the growth and over population is going to be solved by itself. But for us to be able of doing this great goal, we need leaders, and we need people with the right intentions, to unite Central America, to solve every problem, to spend all of our money with the right intentions, to spend money in poor people first, to help them with health, and education, and to give them all of the resources they need and they are not able to reach them. If we, the Latinos, the Central Americans achieve this, no one is going to be able to stop us. We are going to be wealthy, strong, and respected. If we unite Central America, everything is going to be at our reach, we are not going to look at the United States or Europe up, they are going to look up and we will look down, we can be better and we must be better than these advanced countries. Latin America will change the world, the World Economy will rise up, and all of the profits will rise and we have the advantage of having great beaches, of being in a tourist location in the world, and tourism will rise, this are advantages we can’t waste, and all the profits all the Central American people will have are going to be greater than all of this reasons, we will have better lives, our children will have better lives, and the children of our children will have better lives, we have the opportunity to live in a better place and have a high-class life, and top-class businesses. If you like how you are living I can’t obligate you to follow my same idea, and can’t make you do something you don’t want to, but if you don’t follow this great goal, you are not going to be able to be in a better place, and if you want your children to live in a better place, please follow us, and make a change, because every person of Central America can make a change, please do not blow this opportunity, we have the chance we were looking for, the solution to all of our problems, is here let’s make the best of it. So I tell you, Central Americans, we can be big, we can be strong, and we can get to be respected by the World. Even if you do not live in America or Central America, if you live in any other part of the World, you can help, maybe you don't live here, but maybe your children or your grandchildren will, please collaborate. So, I propose all of you, to unite, and be the best and give the best, so we can make a change in America and in the World.