Before ending this lesson, take a moment to review an informative research essay you have written. You’ve probably already written a conclusion to the essay. But is it the best conclusion it can be? Does it properly summarize the main subtopics of your essay? Does it state in one or two sentences the “so what” of your topic. If your topic was Abraham Lincoln, your essay shouldn’t be just about Abraham Lincoln. It should answer, “So what about Abraham Lincoln?” Take five or ten minutes, and looking only at that single paragraph, revise your conclusion.

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read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war