KaCee J wrote:

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This is really lame but I figured somebody here has to know.. I'm pretty sure I'm right but this instuctor won't grade a paper with grammar or spelling errors at all, so I'm just double checking..

Freedom, peace, democracy; all ideas of what is "American" that our forefathers hoped to instill in the minds of many generations of Americans to come.

Did I use the semicolon correctly?
..I know.. I'm lame.

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More importantly, I think that your argument is fundamentally flawed.   Most of the forefathers were concerned with freedom, but peace and democracy are ways they conceived to of achieve freedom, thus they are the means, not the ends.   To say that our forefathers wanted to promote democracy and peace for generations to come is simply not true.   Most of the forefathers wanted Americans to have a rugged sense of self that would promote freedom, but not necessarily foster peace.   Thomas Jefferson even went so far as to say that there should be a revolution every 20 years, as lethargy is the natural enemy of life and freedom.   Essentially, Jefferson was in opposition to a modern sense of peace, as frequent war or upheaval can serve to keep America free. In addition, democracy (In other words, the American democratic republic) was not necessarily something that the forefathers wanted Americans to believe in for generations to come, but was what they thought would be best at the time.  Even then, they didn't really believe in democracy.  The government of the time was a cross between republicanism and virtual democracy, where the elite's view would vaguely shadow those of the non-voters.   If anything, the founding fathers opposed hegemony, and did not necessarily support democracy, especially pure democracy, for its own sake.

Miaow wrote:

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This thread demonstrates the ways in which Slash is so very excellent.

It also underlines my puzzlement as to the reason for KaCee's title.

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 Don't you have a board with month old topics on the front page to get back to?

DEATHPIGGIE wrote:

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Miaow wrote:

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This thread demonstrates the ways in which Slash is so very excellent.

It also underlines my puzzlement as to the reason for KaCee's title.

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 Don't you have a board with month old topics on the front page to get back to?

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SlashXLA wrote:

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No, that is incorrect.  A semicolon should come between two closely related complete sentences

 

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and i really did not plan on the pun