Composing America (Kevin)

Once I looked over the reading I was dreading actually reading it but once I started getting into it I saw it was very interesting. We went over it a little bit in my government class in high school and the only thing I remember was that Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness in the declaration are different front John Locke's Life Liberty and Property and the Bill of Rights. Other than that I don't really remember anything else from that class. I did learn that we we celebrate when the first draft was created on the 4th of July and not when the official version was finished. The official version which used calligraphy was signed on August second and this is the version we go by today. But why do we celebrate on July 4th instead of August 2nd?

As for the Gettysburg address I thought Norvig's powerpoint was really boring and I got almost no information about it. It was too short and very vague. Listening to Johnny Cash's version of the Gettysburg address was interesting. It was cool how he played the guitar while he said it but I also found it really depressing and sad. He used a very deep voice and used passion in his voice to show the importance of what he was saying.