No man acted as an island after the American Revolution. Once the Americans won back their land in America, they had to stick together to show Britain they were fully capable of maintaining their own form of government. Even when it came to the fact of creating a new form of government, the colonists still stuck together in helping make the deciding factors. Each group of people had an effect on the fin

al decision of the official American government. There was not one person making all of the decisions for the colonists. If everyone had just gone off and done their own thing, then there would not have been any order within the states and nothing would have functioned properly. Going back to Donne’s quote, if each of the colonists had acted as an island, we would not have the ordered government we have today.

Donne gets his point across by stating the quote, “No man is an island, entire of it self. Everyman is a piece of the continent, part of the main.” Our country has functioned as well as it has because of the men not acting “as an island.” Our county is strong from everyone acting as “pieces of the continent, and a part of the main.”

Business owners today show how they cannot function as a smooth running business without adding more pieces to complete the puzzle. During the

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