What kinds of assumptions does crevecoeur make in his essay? What contradicts does the essay contain?
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In his essay "The American," Thomas Paine argues that America is a place of opportunity for all, but not for slaves. In this essay, he uses the belief that America is a place of opportunity to explain why he believes slavery is wrong. He says that slavery is morally wrong because it denies people the opportunity to be free, and this idea has been repeated throughout history by many philosophers and thinkers including Aristotle, Socrates, Confucius, and Kant.
Crevecoeur also makes assumptions about Americans in his essay. For example, he believes that Americans are hardworking and patriotic citizens who want to make their country great again. These assumptions are contradictory to each other because they are contradictory to what we know about America today. For example, there are many Americans who don't want to work for their country and would rather sit at home with Netflix than work on public infrastructure projects like building roads or schools.
There are also contradictions in how Crevecoeur describes how America came into being as an independent nation (declaration of independence). He describes it as a time when people united together against tyranny by overthrowing kings who ruled over them unfairly by oppressing them with taxes and unjust laws which