In the book A Lesson before dying, Why does grant want to help Jefferson?
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Grant wants to help Jefferson learn how to use capital letters correctly. Let's hope Grant succeeded. If he did, learn a lesson from Grant.\n\nChow!!
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because he would know what he was sending our sons and daughters into. he would know how awful it is to see a friend die in front of you. he would even be able to plan the war according to strategic knowledge gained from experience. he would understand that no matter the justification for the war, it is a terrible experience for anyone to go through. he would have insight as to the nature of cruelty and injustice. he would realize that torture is abominable. if he was ever wounded, he would know how a bullet tearing through flesh feels. if he had firsthand knowledge of these things, he would be more careful about starting wars and signing the orders to send young people to die, become wounded, or to kill. this would also be important. if he knew what it was like to end another person's life, a person he has never met, to look a person in the face and shoot them, then he might consider this before sending a young person to perform such a serious task.
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Thomas Jefferson is my political hero so it's not surprising that I agree wholeheartedly. Interestingly, one of Jefferson's contemporaries in Great Britain made a similar quotation which happens to be a personal favourite of mine. His name was Edmund Burke and this is what he said:\n\n"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."\n\nSee the similarity? Basically, the message is the same and it's particularly relevant today. If good men and women of conscience are unwilling to stand up and be counted, to speak out or to take action when necessary, then the villains win. Of course it's easier and safer to remain silent like sheep in the fold, but is the easy and safe way always best? I hardly think so. Sometimes you have to make a stand, take up a cause or vote with your feet. And some causes are quite literally worth fighting and dying for. If others who came before us hadn't thought so and demonstrated that belief at the cost of their own lives, where would we be now?
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Why not ask for his help?
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Thomas Jefferson wrote extensively on this issue. In one writing he stated the following:\n\n"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" (Letter to von Humboldt, 1813)\n\nBasically he was reminding that people have been persecuted before when governments, monarchies or even a specific religion controls what a person believes is his/her true religion or god. \n\nRemember the reason for the Mayflower? Those people wanted to practice their religion without the persecution of King James. \n\nSome people in this country forget the reason this country exists.
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He grew up in an Anglican Church.  So, Christian, but he did have different beliefs that most other people in his time.  For more details, see the website.  He was very concerned with reason and morals.\n\n"Jefferson's earliest writings on religion exhibit a natural theology, a heavy reliance on reason, and the belief that morality comes not from special revelation but from careful attention to the inward moral sense."
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Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823\n\nAnd it means that people should not try to find every loophole available in the original meaning behind the Consititution. They should just remember what the principles it was based on represented and conform to that.
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He was taught at the school of the learned James Maury, a reverend, from 1758 to 1760. The school was in Fredericksburg parish, twelve miles from Shadwell, and Jefferson boarded with Maury's family. There he received a classical education and studied history and natural science. At the age of nine, Jefferson began studying the classical languages of Latin and Greek as well as French.\n\nJefferson entered the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg at the age of 16 and spent two years there, from 1760 to 1762. There Jefferson studied mathematics, metaphysics, and philosophy under professor William Small, who introduced the enthusiastic Jefferson to the writings of British Empiricists, including John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Sir Issac Newton. At William and Mary, he reportedly studied 15 hours a day, perfected French, carried his Greek grammar book wherever he went, practiced the violin, and favored Tacitus and Homer.\n\nIn college, Jefferson was a member of the secret Flat Hat Club, now the namesake of the William and Mary's daily student newspaper. After graduating in 1762 with highest honors, Jefferson studied law with his friend and mentor, George Wythe, and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1767.
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I have a dream.  My dream is that one day Thomas Jefferson will rise up out of his grave and p!mpslap GW Bush.  Then he shall spit in the president's face and say, "Listen up, moron.  The end does not justify the means.  Your day-to-day actions add up and affect the big picture.  Sacrifice small liberties today and you're closer to killing freedom tomorrow.  Now go get yourself the complete works of Aristotle and don't come out of your room till you've finished reading them cover to cover."
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Your teacher is very smart in not answering because of the very ugly feelings about politics and our national future right now. There is a very good chance that, whatever you tell your parents the answer was, they would try to get the teacher fired.\n\nMy short answer is this:\n\nRepublicans feel they can help people by teaching them to help themselves over a long period of time. This is often called "tough love," where you force someone to be (smarter, richer, happier, whatever) or be miserable because he will not.\n\nDemocrats feel people who need help, need that help right now. By helping someone become a better citizen through direct help, that person can become a better tax payer and those additional taxes will help others.
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it's been awhile since i've read it, but i believe he loves julia.  they go for clandestine meetings out in a field, but for some reason they can't let on that they care for each other.  i know he ends up getting caught, and he ends up betraying her, but again, i can't remember the why. i'll have to re-read it.
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Just to get back to the principles on which our country is founded, here are a few quotes from Thomas Jefferson:\n\n"No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination." --Thomas Jefferson: Elementary School Act, 1817. ME 17:425 \n\nJefferson strongly believed in freedom of religion, the right of every American to worship as he saw fit, and in keeping religion out of government and government out of religion. Here's another quote in which he says that ministers should not visit elementary schools:\n\n"Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions." --Thomas Jefferson: Note to Elementary School Act, 1817. ME 17:419 \n\nPeople who think this country was founded as a "Christian country" should go back and read the founding fathers. They were revolutionaries who were trying to found a country that was different from the European countries and where there was no official religion.\n\nSay nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.\n-Thomas Jefferson
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He is considered by many to be an enigma because of his characteristics that are difficult to understand or make sense of. He was a strong proponent of human rights, and yet a slave owner. He spoke out against race-mixing, and yet had a long-time liaison with the slave Sally Hemings, and fathered several children by her (recently proven with DNA evidence).\n\nYet some think it is possible that he is misunderstood. Perhaps he was pressured by the times, perhaps his debts prevented him from freeing his slaves. Maybe things weren't so simple in his day. Maybe he began his affair with Sally Hemings long after speaking out against interracial relationships. We currently have no information to satisfy these questions.\n\nNo one completely understands these things about Thomas Jefferson, which is why he is viewed as an enigma today.
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Thomas Jefferson wasn't very religious and was very in favor of the Separation of Church and State.  He felt that that is why there were people there they wanted to be free to worship as they pleased, and that for that to be possible the State shouldn't be in favor of one particular religion.
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Can you be more specific? What question are you asking? If it is about a son who is 23, but is living on welfare and food stamps, while many young men are fighting for their country, remember he learned from the people who raised him, his values, his morals and his actions were taught.... \nNo where in any piece of literature does it say that life is fair. We all have to make choices. Instead of judging other peoples choices, perhaps we need to judge our own in order to better understand someone else's choice.
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I was in a letter from Thomas Jefferson that he wrote to a group of Baptists that were worried that another church would become the Official Church of the US.\n\nThe statement was used to reassure the Baptists it couldn't happen
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I'm not familiar with the quote, but he is right in the sense that Christianity (at least in its current form) is not the same religion founded by Jesus.  Jesus was truly a wise man.  Personally, I think Thomas Jefferson was truly a wise man and very much doubt he is in hell (though I don't believe in hell anyway).