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=COMMON SENSE=

=INTODUCTION TO COMMON SENSE= Common sense was a pamphlet written by the Anglo-American writer and periodical editor Thomas Paine. Common sense pushed the colonists towards wanting to seperate from britian. People say that because of him, the colonists declared independence. Although the Declaration of Independence recieved more acclaim and praise, he was the true aggressor for freedom. Common sense talked about the kings acts of tyranny, why the idea of divine right is incorrect, and why the colonies with a span of 1500 miles should not be ruled by a little island of 300 miles. Common sense was the true Declaration of Independence. ȫ

THOMAS PAINE IN HIS EARLY YEARS :BY RYAN

INTRODUCTION Thomas Paine was the author of common sense, a famous revolutionary pamphlet published in 1776. Common sense persuaded the colonists to push for a declaration of independence. Thomas Pained lived with the goal to be a revolutionary, but died a social outcast, his spotlight taken by Thomas Jefferson because he wrote the Declaration of Independence.

1.EARLY LIFE  Thomas Paine was born in 1737 on the 29th of January in Thetford, England to as poor family. He was the apprentice to his father to learn the trade of corset-making from the ages 13 to 19. He had little to no schooling as a child, as his family could not afford it. After he turned 19, he took to the seas, and then moved to London to serve as a customs collector until he was discharged. His 1st wife died, and his marriage was annulled with his second wife. He lived a depressing life, surrounded by the scum of some London slum. He took to reading to pass the time during this unhappy grey area of his life. 1774 crept in, and he was poor, and with no job. He made friends with Ben Franklin during his ambassador days. Franklin was swayed by this independent young man. Franklin began to like Thomas Paine, and they became friends. With his good social connections, he was able to get a ticket to the colonies from London. He has not published a single word before he came to the colonies, but after he arrived, he caught on with the local outrage against the British. He said that his cause was America, and that made him an author. He moved to Philadelphia, and became the editor in chief of a new periodical, the Pennsylvania Magazine, in which miscellaneous poems and essays were published. He worked there for six months before getting involved in the revolution.

LATTER YEARS After his efforts during the French Revolution, Paine left the newly founded French Republic, and retired to the United States in 1802. He wrote some newspaper articles defending the Jefferson administration, and became a mediator between France, and Haiti. Thomas Jefferson won the spotlight for urging the Colonists to declare independence, though his pamphlet, Common Sense was the true aggressor. Forgotten by everyone, he lived a quiet life in New York. On June 8, 1809, he died in New York City, and was buried in New Rochelle, New York. His body was taken away to be reburied in England, and to this day, his final resting place is unknown.

2.VOCABULARY Ben Franklin -An American inventor and thinker who was an English ambassador turned revolutionary. Common Sense -A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to urge the colonists to declare independence. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thomas Jefferson <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-The author of the Declaration of independence, and the 3rd president of the US. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thomas Paine <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-An Anglo-American writer who wrote common sense. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Declaration of Independence <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-The document in which declared American Independence from Britain by Thomas Jefferson. This document was said to be inspired by common sense, although the Declaration is more famed.

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Thomas Paine's Original Place of Resting old thomas paine <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">4. DIFFERENTIATED <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">﻿[] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">5.PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENT <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Introduction to the Third Edition <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his OWN RIGHT, to support the Parliament in what he calls THEIRS, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpation of either. In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious, or unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains are bestowed upon their conversion. The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, 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. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">TRANSLATION- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">What Thomas Paine is saying is that if you take something, saying it is not wrong, it gives people the false sense that it is in its own name right. He claims that the king treats the parliament as his own way of giving the people a false sense of democracy, making the people feel that there are representatives, advocating for the people, but really, they do the king’s bidding. He feels that the cause of freedom, the cause of liberty is greater than any form of mankind. He feels that the cause of freeing the people from a tyrant king would bring them their unalienable rights. He is claiming that the king is a phony, giving the people a false sense of democracy, and also a false sense of right and wrong, fair and just. He also thinks that thwe king, and his idea of divine right is completely a stupid idea. Also, a tiny island one fifth the size of the colonies should not pe telling them what to do, and pushing them around. He wants to get the colonists to see that the king is a phony, and that America is a greater cause than anything in the world, along with the freedoms of the colonists.

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 22pt; text-align: center;">6.WORKS CITED <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. Schlereth, Eric R. "Paine, Thomas." //World Book Student.// World Book, 2011. Web. 3 Jan. 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">2. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Aldridge, A. Owen. "Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)." //Encyclopedia Americana.// Grolier Online, 2011. Web. 3 Jan. 2011

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=Works of Thomas Paine= =By: Matt= <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Article: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Some people are born good writers. Others receive great education. Then there is Thomas Paine, whose literary career started with talking to the right people at the right time. It all began in November of 1774, when Paine had just moved to Philadelphia Paine had caught the eye of Benjamin Franklin, who at the time was an agent for the colonies in England, and was written a letter of recommendation. Soon after, Paine was employed for sixth months as the managing editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine, in which he published several of his poems and essays. Paine’s big breakthrough though, happened during the American Revolution. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At first, Paine was an advocate of forgiving the British, but when the Battles of Lexington and Concord occurred, Paine took on the doctrine of separation from England. Then, in January of 1776, Paine introduced his pamphlet titled Common Sense, to try to persuade people to break away from Britain. It was so popular, it sold 100,000 copies in three months. The months that followed included Washington’s forced retreat across New Jersey, but Paine was again able to revive the spirit and the flag by writing the first of a series of propaganda pieces entitled //the American Crisis//. One quote from the book is “These are the times that try men’s souls,” which is credited for inspiring many people. After that, Paine was elected secretary of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, but was soon fired for releasing information concerning negotiations with France. Then, in 1791, he published the first Part of //Rights of Man,// and released the second part a year later. Several months later, Paine was arrested for voting against the majority in the execution of Louis XVI. But while in prison (1793-1794), Paine worked on a statement of his religious beliefs, //The Age of Reason.// Two years later, Paine released one of his last known works, //Letter to George Washington//, telling his <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">disillusionment <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> with Washington’s failure. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Like most writers, Thomas Paine went through some highs and lows as a writer. Through the years, he published many works, most about the government. With this, and the fact that he helped the US declare independence, it is safe to say Paine was one of the greatest authors of all time. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Vocabulary: <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Disillusionment <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- Disappointment caused by a frustrated ideal or belief <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Doctrine <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- a rule or principle that forms the basis of a belief, theory, or policy <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Battles of Lexington and Concord <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-The turning point of the Revolutionary war <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pennsylvania Magazine <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">- One of the most popular magazines in the late 1700’s <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Propaganda <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">P ictures <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Link to another site: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Primary Source: <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be well rated. 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. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> This is a short part taken out of // The American Crisis //. It is saying that even though tyranny is hard to overthrow, the harder something is to do, the more pride that results from it when overcome. What is bought cheap is regarded carelessly. Freedom is one of the things that should be treated well, and rated greatly. The reason Britain is taxing and blaming us for everything is because they have an army to do so. Even the gaze of Britain is sinful, for only infinite power can belong to God. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">                 <span style="height: 21.75pt; margin-left: 88.75pt; margin-top: 323.65pt; position: absolute; width: 19.4pt; z-index: -1;">  <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">            <span style="flip: x; height: 82pt; margin-left: 51.15pt; margin-top: 270.05pt; position: absolute; width: 82.9pt; z-index: 5;">                    <span style="height: 131.45pt; margin-left: 227.8pt; margin-top: 262.5pt; position: absolute; width: 135.55pt; z-index: 7;">        <span style="height: 69.5pt; margin-left: 149.95pt; margin-top: 282.55pt; position: absolute; width: 56.95pt; z-index: 6;"> <span style="height: 25.95pt; margin-left: 170.85pt; margin-top: 303.55pt; position: absolute; width: 14.25pt; z-index: -2;">   <span style="height: 51.05pt; margin-left: 62.75pt; margin-top: 322.8pt; position: absolute; width: 24.3pt; z-index: -6;">  <span style="height: 93.8pt; margin-left: 45.25pt; margin-top: 48.15pt; position: absolute; width: 96.25pt; z-index: 1;"> <span style="height: 51.05pt; margin-left: 149.95pt; margin-top: 181.35pt; position: absolute; width: 100.45pt; z-index: -7;">  <span style="height: 16.75pt; margin-left: 149.95pt; margin-top: 85.05pt; position: absolute; width: 20.9pt; z-index: -8;">

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