composing america- week 8

As I began reading this weeks assignment my first thought was that this is going to be super boring and put this off as much as I could. When I started the read the part about the Real Declaration I began to become a little more interested because I thought maybe I would learn something I did not already learn about the Declaration. I definitely think most people only think of the Declaration as "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Unless I totally missed this part of the reading, I do not understand why our Independence Day is July fourth if the document was not completely signed until the second of August. I found it interesting how people back in the day used capitalization and grammar properly. When I had thought I might learn something based on the title of the article I was right in what I was thinking once I reached Going to Press. I thought it was interesting how the article explained step by step on how the Declaration was put in public. I think what we have already discussed about how some ideas can be stated changes their meanings comes into play with the Declaration. Since Jefferson was happy with the way he had stated what he had written, but when others wanted to edit his ideas he was not very happy. Just the way they changed a sentence from "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America;" to "A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA in GENERAL CONGRESS ASSEMBLED." I think this change makes the reader think that the rest of the information is very important and the title also really grabs the readers attention instead of the previous title.