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In five pages this paper examines the personal accounts of life during the California gold rush penned by a young woman with the p...

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...

18). The words of Buddha were not written down until several centuries after his death and the first divisions within Buddhist b...

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

people into the faith was unsurpassed. But the Puritans had come to the New World to escape religion (Catholic) persecution and to...

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

face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...

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

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...

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

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

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...

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

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

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

This paper seeks to drill home the message that strep throat and scarlet fever are serious illnesses and need to be treated by phy...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

sue and be sued, as well as testify in court only in cases involving other black people (Anonymous, 1865). These provisions were ...

who were practicing at the time, found that they could no less follow the "popish trapping" brought about by the King and the Chur...

was execution day for eight people in Salem Village, Massachusetts. Their crime: allegedly practicing witchcraft and worshipping ...

political and social ideals integrated into Melvilles stories and pushed the author to reconsider his religious dedication and his...

a red rash about the face and body, another telltale symptom of scarlet fever to help confirm the diagnosis includes sore throat, ...

writes in Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, "The Puritans loved robustly and gave mar...

and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...

world over. Emphasizing the omnipotence and strength of God and contrasting it with the weakness of men, Calvin set out t...