Loving God and Loving our Country - Vincent Bacote Vincent is a professor at Wheaton College who came to speak for chapel as one of our keynote speakers. He had five main points regarding “America the Beautiful?” and some aspects of loving God and loving our country. His first point was that we can we can recover or discover. Vincent drew from a passage in Psalms and Genesis to support his point of the “first” great commission. That is‚ that we are called as sons and daughters of Adam and Eve to
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#Puritan#firstfeminist#sarcasm#wecannotallsucceedwhenhalfofusareheldback Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan woman who could possibly be the first feminist. “The Prologue” was written to introduce her other works but she also used this opportunity to express her feelings of oppression by men and the Puritan beliefs. She uses sarcasm and a critical tone to make her points. Though many have supposed that this poem was a confession that Bradstreet felt the same way about her poetry‚ in reality it was a slap in the
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Lauren DeSimone Family Ethics 5 November 2014 Extra Credit – Loving Lampposts “Loving Lampposts” is a story about the struggle to find ways to cope and deal with autism. There are many obstacles that come with finding out your child has autism‚ and there is only so many things you can do to make them fit into a normal society. Sam‚ a toddler who has just been diagnosed with having autism‚ is the son of the director who is trying to find ways to cope with this problem. There are many people in
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Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery” and Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” both are written in Puritan plain style‚ however Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery” displays a more puritanical message. These poets use apostrophe and metaphors to thoroughly describe the subject in which they were writing. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is a poem that portrays Anne Bradstreet’s thoughts on her marriage. While Bradstreet writes about her love for her husband‚ Edward Taylor writes indirectly about his love for
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“The Loving Story” directed by Nancy Buirski‚ aired on HBO as a documentary on Valentine’s Day 2012. It is unique in its style as a documentary as it neither endeavors to change its viewers opinion on the matter of miscegenation‚ nor does it attempt to elicit a response for further change. “The Loving Story” has only two objectives‚ the first is to preserve history‚ and the second is to educate viewers on another element of the long struggle for integration and equality for African American’s in
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Husband Today is the day. It is December 20 1776. Today I’m headed off to go join the war. I’m going Delaware to meet up with General washington and his troops. They are planning to attack the British while they are celebrating Christmas. Many people have died and they needed more soldiers so I volunteered. Wife Today is the day. My husband is going off to war. He kissed me goodbye and told me that he was going to go meet up with General Washington. It has been said that the General has lost many
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1. Summarize the position Anne Bradstreet has come to hold as an American writer. Anne Bradstreet was the first true American poet her poems show the inner workings of a good Puritan heart. She read widely in history‚ science‚ literature and studied the works of Guillame du Bartas this gave her the power‚ control‚ and influence to have a confident poetic voice. Bradstreet’s was known to be a free thinker and some consider her an early feminist‚ with her feminist views‚ as in the poem about Queen
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Anne Bradstreet’s Poetry Anne Bradstreet was the Danica Patrick of poetry in the mid 1600’s‚ except she went unknown. She drove into the male-dominant field of poetry. In her time it was frowned upon for women to race in such an intellectual track. Bradstreet does not let the wall between the drivers and the spectators stop her‚ she pulls right up to the starting line with them. In fact‚ she uses this barrier of sexes to fuel her ideas. Anne Bradstreet writes using many different forms of figurative
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Both "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild" by Anne Bradstreet and "Meditaion 8" by Philip Pain express two contrasting point of views in relation to death. Bradstreet’s diction and use of literary elements‚ such as metaphors and alliteration‚ are skillfully arranged throughout the poem which aid in making the theme of dying seem inevitable. Pain uses two different tones to create a turning point in his thoughts about halfway through his poem which gives the reader a better idea of his stages of feelings
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as the poem itself taught Bradstreet and the readers just as myself the same message as the poem‚ In Memory of My Dear Grandchild. The message was to continue to believe in their faith of religion and to feel human emotions such as sorrow. In the poem started with the lines‚ “In silent night when rest I took/For sorrow near I did not look/ I wakened was with thundering noise/ And piteous shrieks of dreadful noise” (Bradstreet‚ 105. Lines 1-4). In these lines‚ Bradstreet went to bed and was not expecting
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