Treaty of Paris: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
Treaty of Paris: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
Invocation to the Divine
If you go all the way back to the ancient Greeks, you'll see that they liked to start poems with something called the Invocation to the Muse. Homer (the original one, not the guy who coined "D'oh!"...
Border Matters
You might be wondering why Article 2, when it goes through an exhaustive list of borders and boundaries, doesn't actually mention the southern one. Didn't people want to know how far down the coast...
Looking After the Loyalists
There's a tendency for modern people to assume that the American Revolution was pretty much a unanimous thing; that all American colonists wanted Britain kicked to the curb. In our popular imaginat...