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    understanding. By beginning with that line it only opens the readers mind to the narrator’s thoughts of uncertainty making it easier for us as readers to understand. As a reader I enjoyed the story because it was simple and to the point‚ unlike William Carlos Williams “The Red Wheelbarrow” or Edger Allan Poe’s stories. There isn’t particularly a metaphorical meaning to it‚ and it can be read over and over again and I can still feel the same simplistic beauty I did the first time. I believe the rhyming and

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    Roger Williams helped America start in a good direction with his ideas‚ beliefs‚ and use of power. With the work of Roger we would not have many of the laws and bills put into place as we have today. America as we know it could have been altered to a Jesus-loving nation. I don’t know about you but no birth control and significantly less progression as a society doesn’t sound like a good country to live in. Along with this nation we could of been‚ we would of had many more wars with other major countries

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    from Puritan society for my religious beliefs and moved to Rhode Island. * William Bradford- the governor of the Pilgrims in Plymouth for over 30 years. * Squanto-helped the Pilgrims plant corn and served as an interpreter. * Roger Williams- founded Providence‚ Rhode Island after I was driven from Massachusetts Bay. * John Winthrop- a Puritan leader and governor in the Massachusetts Bay colony. * William Penn- was a Quaker who believed in religious tolerance and welcomed people of

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    that he was doing good in enforcing all these rules and laws. In A Model of Christian Charity‚ Winthrop expresses his beliefs by stating‚ “...first upon the wicked in moderating and restraining them…”. Roger Williams‚ a Puritan preacher‚ had a little bit of trouble with the Puritan law. Williams strongly believed in separation of church and state. In his “A Plea for Religious Liberty”‚ he states that “an enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civilized state‚ confounds the civil

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    to the church of England‚ so in 1628‚ a group of Puritans came to Massachusetts for freedom of religion. Everyone that lived in Massachusetts had to pray in Puritan churches‚ and they didn’t want their people to have freedom of religion either. Roger Williams lived with the Puritans. He told them that everyone should have the right to choose their religion‚ and then he left Massachusetts and traveled through the forests‚ and met Native Americans who helped him‚ and sold him land. He started the Rhode

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    seen as a Catholic sympathizer. Although they did get to practice their religion‚ not every ones idea of religion was they same. Just like the Spanish the British tried to squash any one that didn’t follow their religion and or their beliefs. Roger Williams as an example believed in the separation of Church and State. He was then thrown out and he started his own colony. Then Anne Hutchinson who again did not fit the mold perfectly was thrown out as well. Secondly to talk about the Spanish imperial

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    Religious freedom is being allowed to believe in anything you like‚ and not be victimized by the people around you. Prior to 1700‚ the British North American colonies had conflicting outlooks on the extent of religious freedom in the new world based on the different acts of the British Empire and by the English origin of most of the settlers. New England was mostly comprised of Puritans‚ the Middle Colonies consisted of Quakers‚ and the South was more concerned about using the land to make money

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    Q. 2. Discuss the ways in which Sheppard introduces himself in the opening chapters. A. Most novels by Agatha Christie either have omniscient narrators or Hastings as the narrator‚ but we see a change in “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” as one of the characters in the country setting takes on the role of the narrator. In many ways‚ this novel differs from other Christie classics‚ primarily the narrative. When one first reads it‚ the narrator comes off as a reticent‚ logical person. The way he talks

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    Written in 1926‚ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is Agatha Christie’s top selling novel due to its surprising and controversial ending. Like most of Christie’s novels‚ it was quite difficult for the majority of readers to detect who the murderer was‚ and most readers were perplexed to discover that it was the narrator‚ Dr. Sheppard. While some readers were pleasantly surprised by this plot twist‚ many disagreed with Christie’s choice to frame Dr. Sheppard as Roger Ackroyd’s murderer. Pierre Bayard‚ a

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    Anne Hutchinson and Puritan Leadership Anne Hutchinson was a strong willed and intelligent woman that lived in 1637 in the Massachusetts Bay colony. She opposed both John Winthrop‚ governor of the colony‚ as well as the Puritan church leaders who had a different set of beliefs from her‚ and made up the court of elected officials that assisted the governor. She was banished from the colony in 1638 on charges of blasphemy‚ because she claimed to have direct and divine inspiration from the Holy Spirit

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