American Exceptionalism

Title: American Exceptionalism
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1950 | Pages: 8.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

American Exceptionalism

When America's founders declared independence on July 4, 1776, they pledged to each other: "our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour" – and expressed their "firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence." In the zenith of an unfinished pyramid is an eye in a triangle surrounded with a golden glory. Over the eye are the words ANNUIT COEPTIS. On the base of the pyramid the numerical letters MDCCLXXVI, and underneath, the motto NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM. This …showed first 75 words of 1950 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1950 total…Yet somehow, amid all the destruction and devastation, St. Paul's Chapel still stands . . . without so much as a broken window” This can be seen as a clear example of how America believes it is united under the eye of providence. As John L. O’Sullivan wrote, “Providence is with us… and we proclaim to the millions of other lands, that "the gates of hell" -- the powers of aristocracy and monarchy -- "shall not prevail against it."

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