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    05 Jonathan Edwards 1. Explain the mood of this passage. The mood of the passage is persuasive angry admonitory. 2. Using specific examples‚ give one example of a metaphor‚ one example of a simile‚ and one example of an allusion that Edwards uses in this passage from the sermon to elicit this particular mood. An example of a metaphor is “fire of wrath.” An example of a simile would be “and you would be like the chaff on the summer threshing floor.” The allusion that Jonathan Edward

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    Patrika Anderson 9/7/11 African Diaspora/Edwards Critical Issue Report The Issue: Is America becoming more unequal? Significance of the Issue: I ask how America is becoming more unequal‚ if she wasn’t equal to begin with. The great Karl Max said “America has always been unequal to and that it’s based off of the philosophy of “Capitalism”‚ which is an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production‚ distribution‚ and exchange for wealth is made and

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    Jonathan Edward’s and the Puritans have unequally different spiritual beliefs. Jonathan Edwards’s beliefs focused on seeking salvation to avoid hell. Jonathan Edward’s spiritual attitude differs greatly from those of Puritan works‚ such as from writers Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson‚ who believe one must be elected by God to go to Heaven. Their different beliefs are what lead them to have different spiritual attitudes. Puritan works are all didactic; they are all meant to teach a lesson

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    of the river or a barrel with rocks attached to your body‚ then you were not a witch. But‚ if you floated‚ then you were officially a witch and you were to be hung as soon as possible. During the same time as the witch trials‚ a man by the name of Jonathan Edwards delivers a sermon that last for hours in a church that is locked up where people can’t leave. Before technology and social media‚ no one really knew the right way of doing things‚ so they came up with crazy ways of dealing with situations

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    01.05 Jonathan Edwards

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    1. Explain the mood of this passage. • The mood of this passage is serious and persuasive. 2. Using specific examples‚ give one example of a metaphor‚ one example of a simile‚ and one example of an allusion that Edwards uses in this passage from the sermon to elicit this particular mood. • Metaphor: In the sermon the metaphor of ‘flames of wrath’ describes Hell in the italicized passage. • Simile: "Consider the fearful danger you are in; it is a great furnace of wrath‚ a wide and bottomless

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    Assignment Read the following passage from "Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God." Questions 1-4 are based on your analysis of this passage. "Consider the fearful danger you are in; it is a great furnace of wrath‚ a wide and bottomless pit‚ full of the fire of wrath‚ that you are held over in the hand of that God‚ whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you‚ as against many of the damned in Hell. You hang by a slender thread‚ with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it‚ and

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    College‚ Jonathan Malesic argues‚ is not just a time for preparation‚ but for exploration and expansion. In his publication to the New York Times‚ Malesic offers a down-to-earth approach to a problem that faces many Americans today: the value of a liberal education and its implications for careers. With his digestible‚ colloquial language and anecdotal evidence from students‚ Malesic creates a tone that is as understanding and humble as it is persuasive and resonating for his readers. Malesic does

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    made up of seventy percent Catholics. The country was run by a Protestant ruler and was against the Irish. The ruler of Ireland at the time made any penalizations he could at the Catholic people of Ireland which‚ in turn‚ made them extremely poor. Jonathan Swift’s article‚ A Modest Proposal‚ gives perspective on just how strapped these people are by describing the women begging and the several amounts of children they have at their heels. Instead of taking the predicament and eliminating it all together

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    Do all Americans have equal rights and privileges? As years pass‚ sufficient education is becoming a more and more important necessity. Does the amount of education a person have determined the rights and privileges they get? Should this happen? How is someone determined to be uneducated or uneducated? The word “uneducated” can have a different meaning depending on the situation. “Uneducated” in most cases refers to adults who are illiterate‚ or adults who have not completed high school. “Susan B

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    Jonathan Swift’s Ideal Society Gulliver’s Travels‚ written by Jonathan Swift‚ is a literary satire written in the 1700’s. Swift separates the story into four parts where he critiques different parts of society and its abuse of wealth and power. In part four the main character‚ Gulliver‚ takes a voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms where he finds a creature that he believes lives peacefully and without any flaws. It is during this voyage that Swift lays out what he believes to be his “ideal

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