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as they pleased. They decided that America, in all the world, was the one place that offered them such opportunities" (Marck, 2001...

This essay pertains to William Bradford's "From Of Plymouth Plantation," John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity," and Mary ...

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, sassafras, furs, or love...when they departed, there remained ...

The writer compares and contrasts the early American poets Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet. The paper is five pages long and the...

Puritans have a dour, unsympathetic reputation, so the idea of Puritan poets may seem rather odd. However, that faith tradition pr...

A great deal of insight about equality emerges, and later, this would be the basis for the creation of the United States of Americ...

My Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Reference To Her Children 23 June, 1659" as well as Taylors "My Spouse" and "Upon Wedlock, and...

than with the individual. England regarded the Puritans as near-heretics in their abandonment of tradition as they sought to live...

is considered to be especially significant in regards to the documentation of American history and despite having been written in ...

God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...

that their greater goal on this earth was to remain dedicated to God in everything they did. Winthrop instructs his listeners to ...

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

In nine pages the religious messages of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of...

officials such as bishops and archbishops" (Carroll and Noble, 30). Nor was there just one group of dissenters. The Presbyterians...

to tell its readers of the new lands and enterprises they had acquired and fought for (Bassett: Smith, 2002). The first historian...

presents the understanding of how she will write what she knows, what is particular to her and her experiences and perceptions, st...

with subjects such as science, as well as religion and morality (Bradstreet, Anne Dudley (1612?-1672)). "However, her best poems d...

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

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

In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...

consists of parts, and that which knits these parts together, gives the body its perfection, is love.... From hence we may frame t...

In 6 pages this paper examines how self determination is thematically portrayed in 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos William...

them and speaking in broken English (Cline). Samost carried an empty quiver and two arrows, one with a tip and without, which is a...

a savage and hostile environment." "Now, now," said the other man in the room, Robert Beverly. "We have forgotten ourselves. This...

There is no question that Bradford was a Puritan, and as such, offers his religious views and interpretations throughout his writi...

been misrecognized for so long that they often feel that they are unworthy. "They have internalized a picture of their own inferio...

him that the sight of the cross should thus ease him of his burden" (Bunyan Third Stage). He learned, however, that his own burden...

down. This was a time when the divine right of kings was undisputed, yet here was a group of individuals openly defying their mona...