... home to Monticello in 1781, and buried himself in writing about Virginia. The pages of text turned into a manuscript later known as the Notes of Virginia. This book went into great detail about the beauty of external nature as in its clarification of moral, political, and social issues ... traveled throughout Europe and every place he went, he was not only an American diplomat, but also a student of the useful sciences. He took notes on making wine, cheese, planting and harvesting crops, and raising livestock. He sent home to America information on the different cultures, the actual seed...

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Compare/Contrast Essay Thomas Jefferson/William Apess What do you think when you see someone who isn't like you? Are you quick to judge and think that you are better than them just because they are different? Well the early Americans thought that they were better than the American Indians, from religion, ... impressed by the Indian's use of words to make a noble display of his humanity, to move others. (Burnstein, 43). Jefferson further expounded on the Indians' ability to speak in his Notes on the State of Virginia: I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of many m...

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