Seventeenth-century sermon techniques in Benjamin Franklin’s "Way to Wealth" communicate his secular eighteenth-century principles. First‚ Franklin’s structure contains a text‚ a doctrine section‚ and an application section as a Puritan sermon would. Franklin addresses a question concerning the financial problems of the day‚ and he takes his text from “Poor Richard’s Almanac.” Based on the issue raised concerning finances‚ Franklin formulates the thesis that the tax commissioners are unable to ease
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1. To whom is the sermon addressed? The Congregation that he is preaching to. 2. According to Edwards‚ why is God wrathful? People are sinners‚ wicked‚ and his wrath is infinite and inevitable. 3. Reread the sixth paragraph. What people‚ according to Edwards‚ are not in the hands of this angry God? How is this state achieved? We are all sinners no matter what we believe or practice. It is God who keeps us from destruction and that has nothing to do with anything that we think prevents it. 4.
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In the essay "Polite but Thirsty‚" Yaping Tang describes her experience as well as the Chinese students’s experience when they first arrive in The United States. The purpose of her writing this essay is to give the ESL teachers who work with Chinese students a comprehensive and more judicious look about the differences between Chinese and American cultures. She explains cultural adjustment process and culture shock in terms of five different customs between the Chinese and American cultures: name
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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 uses in the passage is “Hell.”
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This essay is a sermon delivered by John Winthrop to the Puritans aboard the ship Arbella as it sailed to America in 1630. Winthrop was an early Puritan leader and the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop writes that God has purposely made some people to be rich and others poor in order to manifest his work in the areas of mercy‚ love‚ gentleness‚ temperance‚ faith‚ patience and obedience. He also speaks of the moral gospel’ that requires man to help one another in every want
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In this short story by Mary –Louise Buxton‚ 2005‚ we get to look at the world through a little girl‚ called Elizabeth’s eyes which brings our minds back to the time when we were little and afraid of ghost and the dark. The short story is about this little girl’s everyday-life and that’s what makes it interesting‚ it brings some memories to the reader. Elizabeth is the main character‚ a 6-7 year old girl who has an imaginary fantasy just like every other child at that age. (Elizabeth mentions
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be the Samaritans‚ a group of people that lived during the time of the Old Testament. They were both Jewish and not Jewish and had a very unique religion‚ which caused them to be hated by the Jews. The Samaritans were also used in one of Jesus’ parables along with the Jews to teach a lesson on who is your neighbor and how you should love and be kind to them. When thinking of the Samaritans it is hard to not also think of the Jews; the two groups were often talked about together‚ mostly about
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"Good example is the best sermon." -Benjamin Franklin Too often we hear of people telling us the right thing to do‚ yet they do not abide by the sermons that they tell us. However‚ there are those few special people in our life that we look up to. We look up to them because they not only teach us the right way to live our lives‚ but they also provide us with a good example. Supplying a fine example teaches people more than someone just telling them what is
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Mount Kilimanjaro is located in Tanzania which is in Eastern Africa (see figure 1) and is situated within 756 square kilometers of the Kilimanjaro National Park. It is the highest mountain in Africa and is the fourth highest mountain in the world‚ standing at 5‚895m above sea level. Kilimanjaro is said to be a stratovolcano and consists of three volcanic cones‚ named Kibo (dormant volcano‚ last major eruption has been said to be 150‚000 and 200‚000 years ago (Wikipedia‚ 2015). Shira and Mawenzi are
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In this essay I will tell you about the main parts of a volcano and it’s origin. The first main part I will tell you about is the magma chamber. A magma chamber is a large pool of molten rock‚ also called magma‚ sitting underneath the Earth’s crust. The magma chamber can be more than three miles below the Earth’s surface and the magma waits there for the pressure and gases to become too much to stay stable. The magma in the magma chamber is less tense than the mantle surrounding it‚ so it moves toward
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