Connections Between Tecumseh’s Quote and I Through the many years of the American Revolutionary War and as the leader of the Shawnee native tribe, Chief Tecumseh’s has acquired much wisdom and offers this to others in the poem Act of Valor (University, 2000). This insightful quote by Tecumseh tells its readers not to have any regrets when death awaits them. This passage speaks to me as it talks about being guiltless, grateful, and acceptance to the forthcoming events in our lives. To begin with, Tecumseh has nothing to feel guilty for with the choices he has made in his life. He emphasizes the importance of not discriminating against any religion nor having any prejudices so that one would not regret their decisions and actions afterwards. As stated, “trouble no one about their religion” and “respect others in their view”, overall acknowledging that everyone is treated just and fairly. Furthermore, Tecumseh speaks about death as though another stage in his life as he says that it will “come your time to die” and how one should have nothing to fear when this happens. This is relatable to me as it conveys that if one has done …show more content…
Multiple times he is thankful for the simplest things that life has to offer such as to “arise in the morning”, and the “joy of living”. He emphasizes the aspect of cherishing everything that life has given even if they are ordinary and do not impact us. This connects to me as it conveys the message that one’s life has been granted many privileges, whether tangible or intangible, and one should treasure them deeply before their presences are gone. As it will then be too late and we will regret not truly valuing them. In conclusion, Tecumseh tells the readers of his quote to not regret their choices in life when death comes to part them. This is proven by the three themes of not being guilty, acceptance of death, and being grateful for the privileges one has in their
The book The Bite of the Mango is congested with inspirational quotes to live your life by, but there was one in particular that stood out to me. When someone in Sierra Leone would die, nobody would work during that time, instead, they would all sit around and moan the loss. One day shortly after someone in the community deceased, Mohamed, who was about 17, tried to comfort everyone by saying, “If the dead hear you making such a scene they'll come marching back here as ghosts and take over your bodies. The dead die because it was their time. They wouldn't want you spending your remaining days here on earth crying about them”(Kamara, McClelland, p.15).
I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me” (Weisel 86-87). This quote portrays Elizers pain and brings the reader into his view and moves the reader. Elizer is about to touch death but just seeing his father's pain makes him put aside his and keep pushing
Such as growing together as a family and they should not euthanize themselves because of worrying about being a burden to loved ones. Next, he goes over the objections to a duty to die. The objections are “there is a higher duty that always takes precedence over a duty to die,
At a very early stage in his life, Tecumseh took part in numerous attacks and fights against the American government and the whites. Just like other Native Americans, Tecumseh didn't like the U.S policies in regards to Indian terrains. By 1800 Tecumseh had developed leadership skills and became a war chief. He led more youthful warriors and their families on the White River in east-focal Indiana. In 1805, one of Tecumseh's younger siblings, Tenskwatawa which means "The Open Door," encountered a progression of dreams that changed him into a conspicuous religious pioneer.
While the Indians have had to endure a lot from the white people, Tecumseh’s “Speech to the Osages” suggests that pain and hardship can also produce solidarity between two nations. Through the
Since the beginning of time Native Americans were never fully appreciated. Christopher Columbus voyaged to the New World and diminished what was left of the Native Americans along with their land. Tecumseh recognized the whites’ expansion westward as a threat to his people. In an effort to save Native American lands, Tecumseh ruled to organize a Native Confederacy that would fight the whites for land. When the U.S. opened up three million acres of land to whites the Native Americans could not stand by and wait to be moved or pushed further westward.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner “She would tell me what I owed to my children and to Anse and to God. I gave Anse the children. I did not ask for them. I did not even ask him for what he could have given me: not-Anse. That was my duty to him, to not ask that, and that duty I fulfilled.
This is also reflected in contrast “ We’ll be growing things not killing them, we’ll move with seasons, we’ll be free”. This also delineates the way he feels the desire of freedom and
Imagine being in a situation where there are a limited number of options and your life can only go in one direction. Has this ever happened to you? Either way, this is the predicament that the character of Jefferson faces in A Lesson Before Dying, who is sentenced to death for crimes that he did not commit. Although Jefferson has only thirty days left to live, he learns three valuable lessons that he carries with him into his final hours. This includes learning to open up to the people closest to him, showing kindness and love to those who have shown kindness to him, and finding self-worth in the age of Jim-Crow.
After watching Tecumseh’s Vision, I became more knowledgeable about the struggles Natives had to experience as western civilization occurred. Tecumseh was a trailblazer to his people and was a visionary. He was in favor of a strong Indian confederacy and was a strong Indian leader. As a result of rising tensions between the Shawnees and the Americans, it lead to a costly culmination of battles in order to claim Ohio land and westward expansion. Tecumseh’s legacy lives on and he is remembered for his leadership and courage to take on the Americans.
Andrew Gendel Professor Coburn History 17A 22 October 2015 Response Paper Chapter eight in the book, Voices Of Freedom, we read into the years of 1790 through 1815. In the coming chapters we learn about the French Revolution (1792-93), but also skim past Judith Murray and the equality of sexes, George Washington’s farewell address, George Tucker on Gabriel’s rebellion, Mercy Otis Warren on religion and Virtue (1805), Tecumseh on Indians and lands (1810), Felix Grundy, and Battle Cry of the War Hawks (1811). Although chapter eight follows the process of the republic and securing it I find that through this chapter an argument that is most presented in chapter eight is that of Indian rights in the New America, the rise of colonization and the amelioration of Native ways. Tecumseh was a chief who refused to sign the Treaty of Greenville
Imagine: It’s winter 1778 at Valley Forge. (Valley Forge was the military camp 18 miles northwest of Philadelphia, where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–78 during the American Revolutionary War) you walk into the camp and the men huddle around different campfires trying to get warm. Tonight on the menu is more meat, while the men are handed their portions they’re crying in agony to eat something else. You’ve been talking to the men and they tell you stories about the meals their wives made and how their children would have grown by now. But somewhere in both the happy and sad stories there is a certain cheerfulness peering out behind the clouds.
“There is an amazing democracy about death. It is not aristocracy for some of the people, but a democracy for all of the people. Kings die and beggars die; rich men and poor men die; old people die and young people die. Death comes to the innocent and it comes to the guilty. Death is the irreducible common denominator of all men.”
While it is important that one cherishes certain moments frozen in time, it is as equally important that one focuses on the present. The poem, as a whole,
People should be brave and courage to deal any kind of situation in our life. The novella also conveyed to the readers about not to accept defeat without