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Essay consists of a discussion regarding the movie musical "1776."
The 1972 film 1776 is a cute whimsical musical. Yet, although it is entertaining and fun, it is not a very good source of historical information. It has a lot of the events and people, but they are extremely exaggeration to be comical and are very vague and brief with events. It exists with the sole purpose of being a light amusing historical lesson.
There were many of historical events that did occur during that time that were portrayed in the film. A lot of them were an exaggeration, but truth-based. The most obvious event was the actual writing and signing of the Declaration of Independence. It was depicted accurately in that it was written by Thomas Jefferson and redrafted by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. Regarding the signing, it was not signed by the entire Congress.....
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