I chose the topic because.....

The reason I chose the topic over the others was for my interest in the power that the pen had in the period from 1763 to 1776. The fact was that the early settlers of this country were only able to really believe what others had told them. Everything was based on word of mouth. We have to remember that this is a time when there wasn't any of the luxuries we have today. There were no TV's, radios, phones and definitely no computers. The thing that amazes me is the way a writer is able to write something and have it distributed to people to read with the notion that it is true. So we look back at a beginning of our history when a man named Samuel Adams shared his beliefs and the power behind his words developed to help people start the fight against the British to form America. “The land of the free”. It took many years from when he published the "Journal of Occurrences" to the time when we gained our independence. There is no doubt that the power that the men used with their published accounts made us the country we are today.