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For my poem  i wanted to show the idea of breaking bonds the damage us. People sometimes hold on to theses damaging bonds because of a sense of safety or tradition.

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For my poem  i wanted to show the idea of breaking bonds the damage us. People sometimes hold on to theses damaging bonds because of a sense of safety or tradition.

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For my blackout poem I decided to try to represent how even in todays age people still have very different experiances in america, Some still do not have the freedom that america represents. I used contrasting worfds to do this such as equal and superior. I drew two pairs on handcuffs one being broken and one not, to show that some people are still being held back and confined for who they are.

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my poem reads, "in the government it is utterly uncomfortable in times of peace". this message isn't specific to anything about the declaration of independence but it has a nice ring to it. my drawing is the crying emoji which is representative of KG3 at the time of the writing of the declaration, America prior to their independence, throughout much of our history and most days as of late.

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For my poem, I have 15 words, which reads, "It becomes necessary  that all men are created equal of all ages, sexes and conditions." This means.. pretty much what it reads. My image is the national symbol of the United States for about 235 years.

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For my blackout poem, I decided to depict the disconnection of the government and its people. The government now is an institution that keeps its secret, and it doesn't seem like its for the people anymore. A disconnection with the people ruins the whole thought of government.

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For my blackout poem, I chose the topic of gun control. The topic of how guns can be regulated, sold, etc. is very hot right now, and I feel it is important to take inti account both the 2nd Amendment and public safety.

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For my blackout poem I chose to topic of everyone is created equal. I drew George Washington to signify the freedom from the King and protection of rights.

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For my Blackout Poem I chose the topic of freedom and independence. The Statue of liberty shows the justice and encapsulates what America stands for. 

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For my Blackout Poem I chose the topic of freedom and independence. The Statue of liberty shows the justice and encapsulates what America stands for. 

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For my blackout poem, I chose the topic of equality. The word "equality" and the heart with rainbow colors represents pride and how all people have rights and freedom.

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For my blackout poem I chose the topic of freedom and liberty by depicting the statue of liberty. I think this is a very relevant topic because a lot of people in this world still don't have the freedom most people in the United States have.

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For my blackout poem I chose to do gun control. I chose this topic because I feel it is a pressing issue in today's society and that we need to find a way to regulated and bring to the table of the public's safety.

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For my blackout poem, I chose to talk about revolutions. My poem reads "Tyrants will be destroyed by their people." The message is that if people are upset with the way they're being treated, they're going to revolt and kick the person out of power whether they like it or not. The image is the iconic fist which represents rebellion.

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I chose to focus on rights, specifically equality as shown in the picture, because I think it is one of the main topics in the Declaration.

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For my blackout poem I wrote
“Mankind has exposed us, the world.
Ravaged our coasts, destroyed the lives of our people. We have warned them.” I had done so to highlight the crisis of climate change and ongoing strife between nations over action against the environmental crisis. The bird holding an olive branch is meant to represent peace and I had colored it black to symbolize how peace has not yet shown itself in this situation. We are still awaiting for its presence, patiently, as the earth deteriorates.

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My poem reads, "All men are created equal. Tyranny has dissolved justice for cutting a neighboring province and destroyed the lives of people." It represents how Trump wanted to build the wall and,under his regulation, had illegal immigrants separated and placed into cages. His tyranny destroyed and ended the lives of many. The border wall would divide our country and Mexico negatively.

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My found poem is abstract. Not many people will find the deeper meaning of it. Only the top one percent of intellectuals would understand. My drawing however is pretty easy to grasp. In essence, the Declaration of Independence is America telling the king that they are done with him. The King isn’t welcomed to put his troops all up in their business. The King is especially unwelcome to tax America. My picture represents all of those unwelcomes. America doesn’t want to hear about England  anymore because we’re doing just fine on our own.

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My blackout poem reads: Evils are sufferable; such has been necessity. Dangers from within encourage a world war against frontiers. Define settlement and peace." My image depicts the globe in its current state, specifically focusing on America and the Atlantic ocean between us and Europe. The four stars above represent founding fathers, and the crown represents the King of England. Overall, it is both a piece about climate change and the effect we are having on our planet as well as the transfer of power within our one section of the world. "Define settlement and peace" goes to ask: is there a way in which settlement can exist in America where there is environmental and social peace?

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For my blackout poem I wanted to focus on Trumps Impeachment because he is actively going against the DoI

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The Declaration of Independence is at it’s core a declaration of peace. Or at the very least, a declaration of hope for peace. I attempted to make this the prominent idea within my blackout poem through my drawing, and by maintaining words like “happiness” and phrases like “enemies in war, friends in peace” within the document itself.

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For my blackout poem I chose the topic of mass shootings. Its a big issue going on in the United States. In my blackout poem you see a picture of a graveyard and the poem says, "People murder people. Our fellow citizens bear arms against their country."

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I decided to make my blackout poetry about money in politics. How many candidates take money from SuperPacs, which influences their future policies and can repress the opinion of the general population.

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For this assignment,I tried to focus on the reasoning for the Declaration itself.I wanted to discuss the society at the time and how they viewed their leader. My picture represents the view of the population where they wanted changes,"NO MORE"

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I focused on equality and how though it states that all are created equal, that doesn't reflect reality and together those who can speak out fight against the issues of inequality, shown with the multi-colored signs and people fight in protest together.

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For my topic I chose that everyone has equal rights and an equal oppurtunity. My words were "humans have equal rights, liberty and are created equal therefore we hold the rest of mankind".Its a strong poem meaning that with these given rights it makes our world a better place.

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My poem is about women rights and the lack there is in the declaration. When they state the rights of the people it is only said to be men. My words were "Men with unalienable rights not abolishing abuse. Future security is neglected. Uncomfortable, destroyed people of cruelty and sexes." It was a different time back then and women were held to there stereotypical life and didn't have the right to vote, and the declaration shows what a different time it was back then.

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I decided to focus on problems with immigration. My picture shows two men, one climbing the wall that separates America. He looks through the opening into America where he wants to be. The wall is striped like the flag and the window created the blue of the flag and the fireworks symbolize the stars. His friend looks up as if he is tired and hopeless of ever being able to come to America.

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I highlighted the words I think embodies what America should be about like happiness and being equal I drew pictures of the happy things that America should be about

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My blackout poem reads’ “Humans are equal they are endowed with safety and happiness it is their right” it means exactly how it sounds. Humans are all equal and they have a right to safety and happiness. For my drawing I made signs Luke they would use at a protest and they say “equal”, “safety”, and “kill” with a slash through it. I did this because equality, safety, and violence have always been a problem in our country.

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My poem is about the rise in activism, specifically about climate change. It focuses on the new generation having to raise their voices to fix what previous generations have caused. The Declaration of Independence relates to today because it advocates for change. The image shows signs promoting saving the earth.

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For my blackout poetry, I decided to focus my topic on climate change. This is a big issue of today because of how we are treating our planet poorly and how the earth is being polluted. The words I chose relate to this because I feel we need to do a better job at protecting nature and giving it more of our attention.

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For my blackout poem, I focused on immigration. This has been an ongoing issue, families are being separated and treated inhumanely.  The Decleration of Independence is about equality, but right now people aren't being treated equally and fairly.

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For my poem, my highlighted words are, "The United Colonies are of right to be absolved from the British crown." My image show chains breaking and a united colonies flag on one side, with the British flag and a crown for monarchy on the other. It's to represent the united colonies breaking free from what they felt to be an unfair rule and relationship. They are calling for independence.

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My poem reads, "Human life, created equal. Should not be changed and their happiness is their right." My image shows people holding up the word "ENOUGH" to show that they are tired of being held underneath the power of the king and they want to be free. No one wants to be considered less than another person and America as a union was able to step away from that idea of a monarchy and create equal rights for citizens.

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I did my poem about how all people have the right to have life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, even the babies that are not yet born. In the declaration of independence of the United States this is very clear that the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are rights that cannot be taken away from anyone. So in my blackout poem, I decided to draw a lady that is holding a poster that is stating that she is against abortion and then I have Thomas Jefferson stating that one of the reasons why we broke away from the King is the fact that he put people to death sometimes even without a fair trial. Today and in the past, we could see that these rights are being protected for all people(if they are accused of something, they can have a trial). The poem that I created goes like this," All men are endowed with certain unalienable rights. Life Liberty and Happiness. Right to design their future. Prevent destroyed lives." In this poem I am trying to say that even unborn babies have a right to make their future, you cannot take their lives away.

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My poem just shows how King George was incompetent and is a metaphor/comparison. My words chosen are the main themes and I wanted to include who received the letter.

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My poem focuses on the unalienable rights given to all humans. These rights are being violated by the government. For example, immigrant families are taken their liberty because they are locked in cages. There has also been situations where people are denied medical attention because of their race or their skin color. The Declaration of Independence states that these rights are unalienable, but they are being violated.

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"Human events hold that all are endowed the Right to relinquish the Powers of their superior Acts."

My poem focuses on the power of the people and their protests against unjust government laws and regulations. The power of their voices and how they can change the conversation and taking a stand for what they believe in. In my poem, I wrote "posters" of different issues that have been protested against by the people. I couldn't fit a LGBTQIA+ flag into one of my posters so I made all of the buildings in "the city" rainbow to symbolize gay rights as well. My image is supposed to symbolize the power of protests in the quiet night of a city.

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"People assume the powers of the earth, establishing themselves in all cases and waging war against fellow citizens."
In my poem I wanted to focus the attention on how rulers power over the people and sometimes do unjust actions on their own people. To symbolize this in my drawing I drew the first thing that popped into my head when I said certain words. For example, when I said earth I thought of the earth and drew it.

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for my poem i decided to make the people be above the government because i feel like that statement of people being above the government could be taken in a variety of ways and its up to you to choose how to view it.

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For my blackout poem, I choose the words "People, declare, liberty, happiness, public good and rights of the people encourage free independent lives". I drew the statue of liberty to represent the liberty and freedom we all want and work hard to keep.

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My poem deals with the idea that America is a country meant to bring people with different cultures together, yet there are so many disconnects between our communities. However, I feel as a whole most Americans say they're cool with their lives.

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My poem deals with the depiction of oppression by the British in the colonies and this is symbolized with the colonial flag burning.

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My poem is about African Americans who've been facing, all throughout history, prejudice and hate, which doesn't correspond to the DOI's (every man is created equal).

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My poem is about African Americans who've been facing, all throughout history, prejudice and hate, which doesn't correspond to the DOI's (every man is created equal).

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The significance of my blackout poem is impeachment of people under presidency that are considered destructive. My poem states, “people connected to respect mankind; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive, abolish it for wholesome and public good.” This signifies that people should come together as a whole to decide what is best for the United States. Everyone is considered equal and everyone has an equal opportunity for life, liberty, and happiness. The illustration is an elephant ramming itself into the white house where Trump is currently staying. When the elephant rams into the white house, he strikes trump, making him fly out of the white house roof. I also made the white roof open up to the words of the poem to signify the voice of the citizens and their consideration for impeachment.

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For my poem I decided to go with the theme of equal rights and that everyone was created equal. I highlighted words that I felt resembled how I feel about equal rights. I also drew a picture showing different people and different ethnicity united as one.

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For my poem I decided to go with the theme of equal rights and that everyone was created equal. I highlighted words that I felt resembled how I feel about equal rights. I also drew a picture showing different people and different ethnicity united as one.

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For my blackout poetry I chose to highlight several words and phrases that I felt connected to today’s problems. Those being climate change, immigration, social issues, and the threat of nuclear war..

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For my blackout poem, I decided to highlight words that correlate with equality. I wanted to emphasize that everyone was equal and I drew a scale to represent that.

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For my blackout poem I've decided to isolate and highlight words that revolved around the idea of forming a government to resolve the evils in the world and formulate peace. The puzzle pieced together congress was meant to symbolize a formation of government while the man in the middle holds the government and world together. I had the man holding up the world on top of a cage containing the evils in the world to show how its dictating the evil.

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"Truths and principles established while despotism constrains good people are sacred." It's kind of a mouthful to say but I like to think it means that if you always put faith in what you believe is right, it will keep people together and guide you through times of hardship. The image is supposed to be a metaphor of evil's despotism attempting to constrain a man, but he breaks free by his noble ideals.