A master’s student from Nigeria in the Department of Animal Sciences in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences , Samuel Oluwayemi shares his “Your America in 250 Words” essay.
From the perspective of 2026, a time of deep pessimism in America, what is most striking about 1776 is how optimistic the patriots sound. With the stroke of a feather, their self-anointed Congress simply declared that the “United Colonies” had assumed “a separate and equal station” with other nations and were thus entitled to do “all Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.”
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