Signers of The Declaration of Independence 

 New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton 

Massachusetts:

John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry 

Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery 

Connecticut:

Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott 

New York:

William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris 

 
New Jersey:

Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark 
 
Pennsylvania:

Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross 

Delaware:

Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean 

Maryland:

Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton 

Virginia:

 

North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

 

South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

 

Georgia:

 

Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, July 8, 1776

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

 ~John Ruskin

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

 ~Helen Keller

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,

but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

 ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good Note Taking Skills

¨       If your instructor writes items on the chalkboard or uses an overhead projector and transparencies, these are probably important points to get in your notes

 

¨       Notice what your instructor spends more time on and emphasizes-these are probably more important bits of information

 

Read the Textbook Effectively -Use the SQ3R Method

 

¨       Survey

·         The title, headings, and subheadings

·         Captions under pictures, charts, graphs or maps

·         Review questions or teacher-made study guides

 

¨       Questioning

·         Turn the title, headings, and/or subheadings into questions

·         Read questions at the end of the chapters or after each subheading

·         Ask yourself, "What did my instructor say about this chapter or subject when it was assigned?"

 

¨       Read

·         Look for answers to the questions you first raised

·         Answer questions at the beginning or end of chapters or study guides

·         Reread captions under pictures, graphs, etc.

·         Note all the underlined, italicized, bold printed words or phrases

 

¨       Recite

·         Orally ask yourself questions about what you have just read, or summarize, in your own words, what you read

·         Take notes from the text but write the information in your own words

·         Underline or highlight important points you've just read

 

¨       Review

·         After you have read and recited the entire chapter, write questions in the margins for those points you have highlighted or underlined.

·         If you took notes while reciting, write questions for the notes you have taken in the left hand margins of your notebook.

 

Use Good Time Management

¨       Establish a schedule and have regular times for review

 

¨       Studying at your most optimal times (ie. Are you a day or night person? When are you most alert?)

 

¨       Register for a reasonable class loadthis depends on the hours committed to your recovery, your work and other responsibilities

 

Maintain Good Class Attendance

¨       Studies show you remember more if you heard it and wrote it down rather than just get a copy of someone else's notes for a missed class;

 

¨       Good attendance often affects your grade in borderline grades cases

 

Get Help When Having Difficulty In Course

¨       Get a Tutor

 

¨       Visit your instructor during office hours

 

¨       Ask questions in class

 

¨       Get help from other students in the class

 

Read Syllabus Thoroughly

¨       Know the assignments

¨       Know due dates

¨       Know grading policy

¨       Know make-up policy

¨       Know attendance policy

 

Use and Believe in a Strong Work Ethic

¨       Believe that effort, studying time, and self-discipline will help you to academic success - IT DOES!

 

Be an Active Learner

¨       You will remember more

 

Maintain a Positive Attitude

¨     Decide you WILL enjoy a course and you CAN do well

¨     Decide you are going to get the maximum benefit for your time and money

¨       If you start a course dreading it and thinking you will fail it, you probably will hate it and do poorly

 

Final Suggestions

¨       TRIPLE STRENGTH LEARNING:
Seeing, saying, hearing

¨       QUADRUPLE STRENGTH LEARNING:
Seeing , saying , hearing, writing!!!

*Excerpted from The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator 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 the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it 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 patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

 

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

 

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

 

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

When you're looking for a healthy chicken salad, stay abreast of this recipe. Prepared with grapes, nuts, celery and other goodies, this is the perfect reason for you to chicken out.

 

Ingredients

2 cups cooked chicken breast, shredded
1/2 cup celery, chopped
1/4 cup grapes, halved
2 tbsp. pistachios, chopped
2 tsp. sea salt
2 tsp. black pepper
2 tbsp. fresh tarragon
2 tbsp. Dijon mustard
1 cup mayonnaise nouvelle - Low Fat

 

Methods/steps

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and blend well.

 

Additional Tips

I do not add the pistachios, but it is a personal preference.

Ready in 15 min