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- 221: Nathanial Hawthorne
- ... 19th century. But did you know that he hated portraits, and it is now thought that he was a mild manic-depressive? Born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. A decendant of a long puritan line of Hathorne's. His ancestry included his great-great grandfather, John Hathorne who was a judge at the Salem witch trials 112 years before Nathanial was born. Judge John Hathorne charged many with the ... aristocratic puritans) and the Maules ( humbler paupers). The story of these two families begins with Matthew Maule, who owned a certain amount of land and built himself a hut to live in, in this new puritan settlement. Maule was a hard working but obscure man, who was stubborn and protected what was his. His rival arrived at the settlement about 30 to 40 years after Maule had been there. Colonel Pyncheon ...
- 222: Jonathan Edwards
- ... first major philosopher in the American colonies, Jonathan Edwards is remembered today principally as the author of many great sermons. Born in 1703, eighty years after the Puritans landed in New England, Edwards stood between Puritan America and modern America. He was said to be a brilliant, thoughtful, and complicated man. Edwards succeeded his grandfather Solomon Stoddard. He was the pastor of the congregational Church in Northampton, Massachusetts. Stoddard was so ... This Great Awakening spread from "congregation to congregation". It was so intensely discussed that some conversations would end in mass hysteria. During this period there was a drastic decline in the enthusiasm for the old Puritan religion. Churches began accepting "unsaved" Christians. These were people that accepted the church doctrine and lived appropriately but had not confessed to being "born again" in God's grace. In Edwards's sermons, his goal ...
- 223: Similarities of Bradstreet and Wheatly
- ... tutored by natives of England. This and her access to a library helped her become the accomplished writer of many poems. However , the greatest influence on her writing was religion. Being brought up as a puritan, she had puritan religious beliefs, which were exposed in her poems. In her poems, Bradstreet used a literary device called inversion. These poems were discovered by her brother-in-law, John Woodbridge, who published them without her knowing ...
- 224: Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Greatest Anti-Transcendentalist Writer
- ... The Greatest Anti-Transcendentalist Writer Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest Anti-Transcendentalist writers of all time. He utilized his writings to express his dark, gloomy outlook on life. Hawthorne, a descendant of a puritan family, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. Some of his ancestors included a judge known for the harsh persecution of Quakers, and another judge who played an important role in the Salem witchcraft trials. Hawthorne's ... on the limitations and potential destructiveness of the human spirit, rather than on it's possibilities. The major reason that Hawthorne was an Anti-Transcendentalist was that, haunted by the cruelty and intolerance of his Puritan ancestors, Hawthorne viewed evil as one of the dominant forces in the world. Some of that evil is portrayed in his stories by his use of allegories -- characters, settings, and events that have a symbolic ...
- 225: Hate Crimes
- ... in 1866, just after the war, claiming "superiority of the southern white man." (Lang)20 Basically the KKK is a group of extremist individuals stalking, intimidating, hanging, and hurting anyone that was not a straight puritan white male. Many of nowadays extremists stemmed form these "Knights" of white terror. (Lang)32. Hate Crimes are not only against Races (Blacks, Whites, Hispanic, Chinese...) they are also against religious beliefs, sexual preferences, and ... Luther King Jr. who was a minister that spoke out for the equal right of African Americans. Far left extremists want to rid the country of anything that is not "Pure" (the white Anglo/Saxon Puritan Male. [Lang]24) Here are a few of the many examples of hate crimes. In 1980 a man shouted that he hated "fagots" and sprayed gunfire at a gay bar, killing two patrons (Out Now ...
- 226: Society's Restraint to Social Reform
- ... should be engaged in some combination of working, learning and child rearing; and secondly, that both parents should assume all applicable responsibilities of raising their children.(5) In combination of the two previous views, the Puritan View basically involves the idea that within a society which has the ability to sufficiently support all of it's individuals, all participants in the society should have the legal right to Government supplied welfare ... to work. The right to acquire welfare funds is highly conditional on how an individual accounts for his failure in working toward his life's progression by his own efforts. Two strong beliefs of the Puritan Position are; Firstly, those on welfare should definitely not receive a higher income than the working poor, and secondly, incentives for welfare recipients to work must be evident. The distinction between the "deserving" and "non ...
- 227: Episcopalianism / Anglicanism
- ... suffer all the penalties of the law rather than make a compromise with their consciences. But none ever thought of leaving the church and to be a sect within the nation was not what either Puritan or Anglican wished to be. The problem of religious division presented itself for the first time (Wakeman, 334). So began the long war between the Church of England and Puritanism. On the side of the ... the true English Reformation, and it is from its struggle against the old order than an England which is unmistakably modern emerges (Ahlstrom 97). Tawney also believed that "the growth, triumph and transformation of the Puritan spirit was the most fundamental movement of the seventeenth century" (Ahlstrom 97). The Anglican Church grew over the next 150 years, and after the Revolutionary War, the Protestant Episcopal Church was formed in Connecticut. This ...
- 228: The Rise and Down Fall of Major Beliefs
- ... believe that man starts off bad and by practicing the ideas of the bible they can be good enough to go to heaven. This belief of the Puritans can be seen through one of the Puritan literature pieces by Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. In this piece of literature man is shown to be very bad. The writing also gives detailed pictures on how God holds ... is only one god. They both believe that the clergy is bad and is no use. Both of the beliefs were effected by the enlightenment. The enlightenment was the cause of the decline of the Puritan religion and for the Deists the enlightenment the rise of its beliefs. This was because the enlightenment brought forth the increase of education and science and through science and education mysteries that were thought to ...
- 229: Contrasting Poets Lawrence and Shapiro in Their Views of Nature
- ... Conrad, Dylan Thomas, and H.G. Wells. D.H. Lawrence views on nature are more humanistic, rather than natural. He loves individuality and "inner self" (Magill, 1686). His writing were pure because of his adolescent puritan environment (Becker, 5). D.H. Lawrence, although in the twentieth century, is a die-hard romantic (Albright, 1). To Lawrence, nature was an item of beauty and creativity. He respects nature. In Lawrence's poem ... A. Views of Nature 1. Loved inner self (Magill, 1686) 2. He was known to fill the heart with peace (Magill 1686). 3. Viewed nature as humanistic. 4. His writings were pure because of his puritan adolescent environment (Becker, 5). 5. He was thought to be homosexual (Becker, 5). B. Examples 1. "You are celebrate and single..." a. human imagery b. passion 2. "Sea, only you are free, sophisticated." a. human ...
- 230: What Is Witchcraft
- ... for cursing them and putting them in trouble (DiLorenzo). At that time, claiming others as Witches was the easiest way to get rid of an undesired enemy. Those accused were typically vulnerable members of the Puritan community- quarrelsome, gossipy old women or some non-puritan. The Massachusetts legislature resolved that those hang due to the accusation of Witchcraft "may have been illegally tried, convicted and sentenced" in 1957 (Glover). That recognition has come 300 years late. Only after that trial ...
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