Paul Revere's Ride

In Paul Revere’s Ride, by David Hackett Fischer, Mr. Fischer describes the challenges of the early American Revolution from both sides. Thomas Gage, a British General, was trying to resist the colonies, but was unsuccessful. Gage was not able to succeed because the British were lacking numbers, and Gage was lacking the mental strength needed to fight. The colonies, led mainly by Paul Revere, were not only strong in numbers and leaders, but were also united in the fact that they were determined to gain their freedom and a democracy.

During certain times of history, communities have been swallowed up by times of darkness seeming hopeless. Events in history help to illustrate this fact. In the book Lynchings in Duluth, this fact is evident through people unwilling to go against the crowd. When describing the scene of the lynching, the author states, “from the streets and sidewalks, other men grabbed onto the rope and marched behind, encouraging others to join. The procession grew rapidly. Young men barely out of high school were urging older men to come with them” (Fedo 47). Although some men were very passionate about the cause, others were only participating as a result of peer pressure. Not enough people were willing to stand up against the majority, so they let it happen.

Paul Revere's Ride is a collection of historical accounts centering around Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the countryside of the battles that occurred. The novel is made up of narrative accounts that tell the whole story of the midnight ride. David Hackett Fischer goes to great lengths to cover every possible angle in telling the story. "Fischer illuminates the figure of Paul Revere, a man far more complex than a simple artisan and messenger"(3). By adding different perspectives he allows the reader to see not only the American idealistic point of view, but we get a chance to hear British accounts of these particular events. In this way Hackett Fischer paints an accurate and unbiased picture not only of Paul

In 1860, less than one hundred years after the event in which it is based on, the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere was immortalized in a children’s poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem became an instant classic and is mostly remembered by the opening line, “Listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” Written at a time when the United States was on the brink of a Civil War, it made some accurate accounts of what happened that night however, it was a children’s poem therefore a lot of the events were distorted and dramatized. The most important being, Paul Revere was not alone on his “Midnight Ride” as the poem says. William Dawes Jr. and Dr. Samuel Prescott also rode with him that night. Whatever

The interesting poem of Paul Revere and the real life story of Paul Revere both play a big part of comparing and contrasting each others events. Talking and writing about Paul Revere brought minds of people to come and say what actually happened and what didn't. It's true that Paul Revere is a person who lived through the revolutionary war of April 1775 helping to send a message through towns , warning people that the British were coming. What confuses people about the poem of Paul Revere's ride is Why did the author of Paul Revere's Ride change real occurrences of the true story on his poem? Paul Revere's Ride and Rewriting the Legend of Paul Revere might bring a closer why the

By committing a bold action in public, you can influence others to do daring things beyond their comfort zone. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the main protagonist, Ponyboy, and his friend Johnny rescued several children from a burning church in Windrixville. Ponyboy was actually the one who got Johnny to come in and save them, Pony charged in and Johnny was soon to follow. When they rushed in it surprised many people because Ponyboy and Johnny were “greasers” who were notoriously known for being drunks and no good criminals. Everyone was astonished by their valiant actions and didn’t even think about them being greasers . Even a Soc (who are supposed to be better than greasers) named Randy, who previously despised greasers talked to Pony, saying that he was shocked that they had saved the children because he wasn’t sure he would have done it

The theme of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, Paul Revere's Ride sends a message that was meant to appeal to all Americans of his time. That is: the power of an individual to become a hero because of their actions. This means he warned everyone when the British were coming while many others stayed home or went about their business. It takes one step to become a hero or change people’s lives. The story of Paul Revere truly shows this. His actions made him a better person and set an example for others. He is in the history of the United States for his brave actions. If Revere did not warn the people, some people would have died.

According to renowned psychologist René Girard, human nature revolves around mimicry of others. This imitation allows large groups of people to be united in pursuit of certain goals. Such unity is combatted when there are conflicting interests among groups. More often than not, the opinion of the largest party would overrule any minority, pressuring every individual to agree with the masses. However, strife and conflict remain within the collective hearts of groups.

Being an individual and standing up is one thing but a group is another. The antisemitism that happened was so bad during the Holocaust. It was hard to change people's mind and actually change things. A group can make a video, all do or not do something, and even start a protest. The ways groups can help do not have to involve hurting other anymore or arguing. In my opinion a group can sometimes make a bigger change than someone alone. People have more of an influence to an act then you would

The story shows this by giving the town all the same idea even though it was wrong. Group thinking can be a plus in some cases, but in prejudice it is very destructive. It is destructive because once everyone thinks something, no one will want to share a new opinion. Group thinking also takes away or hides individual opinions. An example of this in “The Emperor's New Clothes” would be the old minister who first passed on the message to the emperor that it was the finest cloth he had ever seen. The lie of the old minister progressed the idea of the cloth and from then on it was nearly impossible to

Paul Revere was famous for the warning of british troops on April 18, 1775. Sadly, this is just a poem. “Paul Revere’s Ride,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a poem incorrectly depicting the events of the fateful night.We’ll look at the Belknap Letter, a letter written by Paul Revere himself depicting what happened that night. We’ll look at the similarities and differences to see how different these two tellings of the night are and how Paul Revere was not a unique hero of the battle of Lexington.

On the eve of the Revolutionary war, April 18th, 1775, a well-known man, Paul Revere, rode through every Middlesex village and farm to warn the colonists of a rumoured British march towards Concord, in which they were going to seize ammunition. This warning resulted in militia waking up and grabbing weapons to fend off the British and help lead to a famous victory. Many people refer this heroic action as the midnight ride of Paul Revere, but Revere was not the only heroic man on that historical night according to “The Other Riders.” There were two other riders: Samuel Prescott and William Dawes. They both played very important roles in alerting Boston of the impending attacks that were about to take place.

Throughout history there has been friction between minorities and majorities. The “superior” group has advantages while the “inferior” group experiences disadvantages. The trouble with literature on majority-minority is the variation in definitions. In reference to this paper, the term minority will be a measure of numerical underrepresented ethnic population (Jones Dovidio, 2014). Now looking at previous literature covering this topic many illuminate on persuasion, minority influence, group development, Social Identity Theory, and conformity (Prislin et al, 2000; Legrenzi et al., 1991; Kelly, 1990). Prislin et al. provide a particularly useful study examining the effects of the loss and gain of majority status position within a group. Prislin et al. (2000) study results confirmed that there were greater effects of losing rather than gaining a majority position using 181 undergraduate students. Of those students 86 identified as White, 38

Without these different people to influence others into unconventional thinking, society would be like clones, everyone being alive just to pay taxes and die. Sometimes, they believe that they are a powerless minority, however what they really are is a minority with a unrecognized influence of society. Deep thinking has an impact on people, and some like it, but some don't. The way you perceive these feelings are comparable to the head of an ax, splitting people into different social divisions. Some people don't even get the chance to feel these feelings in their lifetime, these people being considered normal. But who knows? In 20 years, these subcultures could completely become the social norm, leaving today's social norms to become the

Actions of an assembly are often inspired by the beliefs and values of a significant individual. As an individual’s ideas are spread to common knowledge, many commence to voice opinions, often in support, of his or her values. As followers of the ideas increase, actions of the majority opinion become a common, everyday occurrence, and the beliefs of those against the majority start to diminish. As time passes, this one belief from a significant individual shapes the mindset of large populations, altering contemporary societies into those that only push for the one action of the majority, no matter how unearthly. However, when certain individuals that have the minority’s opinion make known the unethical actions of the majority, true change starts to occur. The lives of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Elie Wiesel affected the speeches that they wrote as both of their experiences, reflected in each speech, brought acknowledgement to the unjustified actions of their respective contemporary societies and therefore brought about change in both the actions and values of individuals in each society.