Journal # 2

Journal # 2

"The Pen is Mightier than the Sword"

Writers have an extraordinary potential to change people's minds and to create revolutions. Reflect upon some of the radical changes that have been wrought by such texts as The Declaration of Independence, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and The Communist Manifesto. What issues or topics are you interested in exploring in your writing? What changes do you feel are worth making?

It is so true that the pen is mightier than the sword. All through out history, there have been the people who fight with actual wepons, and then the people who fight with the weapon of writing. Clearly they have been the winner considering it is their side of the story that we know today. There are many different types of writing that has helped us, and have become very important documents to our society.Some of these would be The Declaration of Independence, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and The communist Manifesto.

In all three of these pieces of writing, there are many things we have learned, and they have all helped us in different ways. The Declaration of Independence, is an American document teaching them the rights they have and do not have, and how to behave properly( everyone has the right to pursue happiness). Uncle Tom's Cabin, is a book about slavery. It talks about how people lived back in those times, and it helps us understand that slavery is wrong. The Communist Manifesto was Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles. It was a political piece of writing to help out a particular political party they were working towards. All of these pieces of writing are famous for different reasons, but they are all similar in the way that, without them, the world would be a different place entirely.

I am interested in exploring tons of different types of topics in my writing, and I really look forward to doing that. I believe that writing is something that everyone should be very open with, and people should always try their best to write different styles of writing. When more people do that, then more people will read different types of writing than they normally would.