My future husband | | | | |Along the road from cradle to grave many of us get married. This in itself can cause more emotional disturbance than all the | |other events of our lives combined. Many factors make the difference between marital bliss and having "an old ball-and-chain" | |but the most important factor is probably whom we choose to marry. That is why I
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Fabiola Lopez Mrs. Szczudlak English III‚ Period 6 26 September 2012 God: Loving or Hateful? Ann Bradstreet’s conception of a loving and giving God is not consistent with Jonathan Eduwards’‚ who views Him as evil and punishing. Even in the worst situation‚ such as the burning of her house and all of her possessions‚ she praises the Lord‚ and has enough faith to “bless His grace that gave and took” (Bradstreet 14). Bradstreet’s use of euphonious diction with soft s‚ c‚ v‚ and g sounds in phrases
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“Upon the burning of our house‚ July 10th‚ 1666”‚ a poem by Anne Bradstreet. This poem describes her reaction of waking up‚ running around the house‚ and a fearful sound of “Fire!” and “Fire!”‚ because her house was broken down. She struggles a lot with her materialism. But after all‚ she wasn’t discouraged and she didn’t lose hope even in the helpless situation because‚ Christ is the one who said “Fear not for I am with thee”. She woke up by hearing the sound of loud noises‚ and screaming on fire
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1. The first poem‚ "Upon the Burning of Our House" is written by Anne Bradstreet. She explains how God has the right to take away any of her belongings such as her house. The quote "It was his own:it was not mine;" emphasizes the fact that God owns everything a human posseses and that she owes everything to God. Later in the poem she describes how a better life exists in heaven for her made by the mighty Architect. 3. This quote is from Johnathon Edwards’s sermon "from Sinners in the Hands of an
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In the poem “My Ex-Husband” by Gabriel Spera the main character displays hate for her husband‚ which in time reveals her love for him. The hateful tone in the poem contributes to the fact that she dislikes her husband‚ but at the same time she is stuck in the past‚ which keeps her from moving on. The first two lines of the poem introduce us to the a picture of her ex husband: “Thats my ex-husband pictured on the self‚ smiling as if in love”. We begin to suspect that main character is no longer with
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after "To My Dear and Loving Husband"‚ by puritan poet Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)‚ was published in 1678. While comparing these two poems‚ one can see many similarities and differences ascribed to the different time periods they were written. "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "Love is not all" are different in their content and meaning. Although both of the poets are exploring the relationship between love and death‚ they come to different results at the end of their work. Bradstreet finds her
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Part 1: Short Answer 1. Identify and explain an emotion that Bradstreet expresses in her poem that any mother might have. She is sad that her children are growing up and leaving home. 2. Read Bradstreet’s biography. List two hardships she endured throughout her life. Then‚ in at least two sentences‚ explain how these hardships might have influenced her poem "In Reference to Her Children." All colonists were fighting for survival due to lack of food‚ the climate‚ ect. She was afflicted
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Anne Bradstreet - Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th‚ 1666 Anne Bradstreet was the first woman in America who became a writer. She received an excellent education and wrote about politics‚ history‚ medicine and theology. This poem has caught my attention. In this poem‚ Anne Bradstreet tells the readers that her house was burnt. There is only material loss and she accepts losing everything with quite calm. She justifies herself using the figure of God. Only God is
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John Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity‚” Anne Bradstreet’s The Tenth Muse‚ and Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World connect and juxtapose world events during the 1600s. Winthrop supposedly presented his “Model of Christian Charity” sermon on the Arabella en route from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. While the Mayflower Compact was not a sermon‚ it connects to Winthrop’s sermon in two ways. First‚ both are significant to the ships they were presented on‚ the Mayflower and Arabella
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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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