Write a study guide for students who are reading the Declaration of Independence for the first time.Assume they are reading this document in English class and already know the basic historical context.The study guide will have two parts: an introduction that explains how language is used in the text, and 6to 12 annotations that help your reader to understand and begin to analyze the document as they read.A word of warning: Don't try to imitate the content of the annotations in the reading guide. That readingguide contains many historical context annotations and explanations that are outside the scope of yourassignment. Your job is to focus on language specifically and to share your own thoughts on theDeclaration of Independence.Your assignment should include the following elements:)An introduction that gives an overview of how language is used in the declaration)Annotations that define difficult words or phrases and point out how language is used topersuadeDeclaration of IndependenceDeclaration of IndependenceWhen in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bandswhich have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separateand equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to theopinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.iWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by theirCreator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from theconsent of the governed,--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, itis the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,iilaying its foundationon such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect theirSafety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not bechanged for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind aremore disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms towhich they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses andusurpations,iiipursuing invariably thesame Object evinces a design to reduce them under absoluteDespotism,ivit is their right, it is their duty,to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the
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