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    members and others interested in the helping professions. Of these the following five will be compared and contrasted with various biblical ethics identified by Clinton & Oblschalager (2002) as being seven virtues (pp. 248-249): autonomy‚ nonmaleficence‚ beneficence‚ justice‚ and fidelity. The seven virtues are composed of the following: accountability and truth-telling‚ responsibility to love one another‚ fidelity to integrity‚ trustworthiness in keeping confidentiality‚ competent beneficence‚ humility

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    SAMUEL RICHARDSON  (1689 – 1761) [pic] Samuel Richardson (1689 – 1761) was a self-educated tradesman who had little formal literary training‚ yet he made an impact on English literature which is nothing the less remarkable. He expanded the dramatic possibilities of the novel through an inventive use of the letter form (thus contributing to the emergence of the so-called “epistolary novel”) and was the promoter of sentimentalism[1]. Together with Daniel Defoe and Henry Fielding‚ he is credited

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    Deena Matthews Final Paper Outline Review the Final Paper instructions in Week Five of the online course or in the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide. Then‚ visit the Ashford Writing Center‚ within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar‚ and review the Outline Form page. Format your outline for the Final Paper according to the Outline Form page. The outline must contain: Introduction with thesis statement At least five body paragraphs Conclusion

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    and Samuel Richardson’s Pamela. As each author works to depict the relationships of the time‚ they illustrate the role played by economics and capitalism as well as individual characters. In the time of Defoe‚ marriage was based upon social and economic standing‚ and all involved worked to marry well financially. This emphasis on money and economic advantage is replaced by a desire for complementarianism and a focus on internal qualities as Richardson begins his novel‚ Pamela. With this change‚ the

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    eighteenth-century representations of marriage tend to exclude happiness and focus on infidelity‚ inequality and immorality? Your answer should refer to any two or more of the following: The Country Wife‚ The School for Scandal‚ Marriage A-la-Mode‚ Pamela. The secret of a successful marriage was one of the most hotly debated topics in the public houses and coffee shops of 18th-century England‚ and the outcome of this fascination with finding the perfect formula set the tone for our modern-day Western

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    Fielding Joseph Andrews is Fielding’s first novel. It is a classical example of a literary work which started as a parody and ended as an excellent work of art in its own right. The work Fielding intended to parody was Richardson’s first novel Pamela‚ or Virtue Rewarded which had taken England by storm in the years following 1740 when it was first published. In his novel Fielding intended in the beginning to show how Lady Booby (aunt of "Lord B." in Richardson’s novel) attempts the virginity of Joseph

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    complained to his mother (Harris 68). The result was‚ as he explains‚ that "my mother chides me for the freedom taken by such a boy with a woman of her years" but also "commended my principles‚ though she censured the liberty taken (Brophy 245).” Pamela was immediately and extremely popular with the reading public. Richardson initially also enjoyed critical acclaim and was considered one of the most important English novelists. His contemporaries focused almost exclusively on his moral teachings

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    if‚ instead of being allowed to starve‚ these unfortunate Irish babies were fattened up and eaten. Yet‚ astonishingly‚ a book of 1726 by Swift‚ almost equally savage in its satirical intentions‚ becomes one of the world’s best loved stories - by virtue simply of its imaginative brilliance. It tells the story of a ship’s surgeon‚ Lemuel Gulliver. Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels: AD 1719-1726 Daniel Defoe‚ the author of Robinson Crusoe‚ has a genius for journalism in an age before

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    Novels of Jane Austen. Ed. R.W. Chapman. Vol. 5. London: Oxford UP. 1933. Print. Barker-Benfield‚ G. J. The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth- Century Britain.1992. Chicago: U of Chicago P‚ 1996. Print. Brissenden‚ R.F. Virtue in Distress: Studies in the Novel of Sentiment from Richardson to Sade. 1st ed. London: Macmillan‚ 1974. Print. Brophy‚ Elizabeth Bergen. Women’s Lives and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel. Tampa: U of South Florida P‚ 1991. Print. Burney

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    eventually published his own journal when he formed his own print shop. His publications included the Daily Journal and Daily Gazette. Later‚ he transitioned from publishing journals to publishing his own novels. One of his early novels‚ Pamela: or‚ Virtue Rewarded is often regarded as the first “English” novel. This was an epistolary novel‚ as it was released through several documents and clippings as opposed to one large book. The novel was a best seller‚ as it incorporated perennial themes such

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