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Paradise Lost

all, all part of the threat that Adam and Eve are intricately involved in but yet know nothing about. It is a very interesting and...

Christianity, Social Tolerance & Homosexuality

society, actually many shifts, that led to the current attitudes held by Christians today. For example, there was a time when peop...

Mobsters

into position one author notes how "Mr. Gotti assumed command of the family when it had 23 active crews, about 300 made (inducted)...

STANLEY TOOLS

on product leadership. Stanley is in very good shape, in many ways. Stanley is a brand that many people recognize. Weve been aroun...

Mill and Utilitarianism

films, good meals-it doesnt really matter in the context of the doctrine. His point is that things can only be considered "better"...

Winthrop D. Jordan's 'The White Man's Burden'

This essay of 5 pages discusses both the work itself and the author. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliography....

King John's Character in King John by William Shakespeare

In ten pages a character analysis of King John as featured in Shakespeare's play of the same name is presented. Six sources are c...

Anne Bradsreet/In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659

have learned to "fly" and to "sing," that is, that they have become responsible adults, capable of living and contributing to soci...

Anne Bradstreet/Rhetoric, Themes & Style

Secondly, as to themes, Bradstreet grounded her religious inspiration not only in Puritan orthodoxy but also in the wonders and be...

Theme of Slavery in 3 Literary Eras

slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...

Puritan Beliefs and Their Impact on Society

2000, p. 40). This small number would of course have included those who believed as he did. Calvinism encouraged its adherents to ...

Puritan Beliefs, Attitudes and Behaviors

such a doctrine demands its adherents to examine themselves closely and constantly correct any "imperfections" so that they will b...

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

In five pages the arguement is presented that the future depicted in Offred's narrative is a combination reenactment of the Bible ...

Depiction of Indians and Puritans in Captivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

In seven pages this paper examines how Puritans and Indian captors are portrayed by Mary Rowlandson in her early colonial memoir o...

Trial of Anne Hutchinson

he refers t the bible study meetings that Hutchinson has been conducting in her home to be a "thing not tolerable nor comely in th...

Puritanism after Emigration

to escape persecution and established colonies in North America. This paper considers a different aspect of the story: what happen...

Puritanism in America

to reform the church in England; the story of the Puritans efforts and their emigration to North America is well known. This paper...

Bradstreet and Taylor: The Poetical Expression of Puritanical Values

the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...

"The Scarlet Letter" and the Subversion of Puritanism

the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...

The Puritan Revolution and Literature

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Puritan Revolution and its impact on literature. Shakespeare's Prospero and Milt...

Puritanism and the Formation of the American Character

and that the Puritans did not come to America to seek their freedom, but to "improve their economic well-being."3 At least that wa...

Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

Scarlet Letter/Sin of A Guilty Heart

its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

Christian Charity as Perceived in 1630 Aboard the Arbella

"this great king will have many stewards, counting himself more honored in dispensing his gifts to man by man, than if he did it b...

Puritan Themes in Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and Restoration

Rowlandsons tale is subdivided into twenty removes, which are a combination of her own harrowing experiences as an Indian captive,...

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Post Sin Lack of Mortal Salvation in 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

New England Puritans

Company (Einwechter, 1999). This agreement stated the purpose for traveling to the New World, which was basically an affirmation t...

Religious Influences on Emily Dickinson

of God resides in all people, thus resulting in fundamental human goodness (Wohlpart, 2004). However, it is important to note tha...

Colonialism and the New Testament

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...