Abigail Adams

education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. (Oxford Dictionary pg. 1) God limits the knowledge of his doings a great amount in the Hebrew Bible, but specifically in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, many stories, such as Adam and Eve or Job, reveals how God limits knowledge from his people. The question is, why does God limits knowledge from his people? God is said to know everything and the world and loves his people; so why keep them in the dark from certain…

Shortly after the ratification of the Constitution, George Washington unanimously won the presidential election of 1789. Striving towards a nation of unity, Washington set up a cabinet of four strong individuals in order to inaugurate a system of both balance and credibility. Although Washington was strongly against political parties, it wasn’t long until they began to emerge. Filling the cabinet with tension, Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of Treasury, and Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State,…

Why We’re All Poor When man first walked out of Africa, it marked both a cultural and technological revolution. From 10,000 BCE onwards, man learned to harness the power of fire, bone, stone, and even animal hides and natural dyes. In this time, however, arose what some people claim to be the greatest of human achievements: Capitalism. In fact, the earliest records of trade for profit come from the Indus River Valley civilization, which formed in what is now eastern India more than a thousand…

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine both were visionaries in their day, understanding that the world around us was more than just dirt and rock but that there was a divine infinite universe in front of us to explore and all you had to do was look up. While both of these men could be found laying the bricks for the age of enlightenment in the colonies and paving the way for a new country, free of British rule, they were also vastly different in individual temperament. Benjamin Franklin and…

Free will is an extremely important concept in John Milton’s Paradise Lost that greatly impacts the fateful decision made by Adam and Eve. Many questions are raised in the face of a notion such as free will, which prompt the reader and Milton to understand God’s logic and Adam and Eve’s reasoning for turning their backs on it. God makes his new creations “just and right / sufficient to have stood, though free to fall,” and, therefore, obtain the explicitly stated ability to turn against…

Smith analyzeDiscussion Essay 2: Adam Smith During his time as a moral philosopher Adam Smith coined the phrase “mercantile system”. He used the term to describe the new economic system based on the merchant trade using gold and silver. Trudy Mercadal describes mercantile as a “term to refer to an economic policy designed to enrich a nation by increasing exports and decreasing imports...” which “...sought to create a beneficial balance of trade with two purposes: attracting commodities like…

portray his beliefs concerning this question of justifying the ways of God to men. The answer to this question, at least for John Milton, revolves around the events in the Garden of Eden, concerning the two infamous and yet highly regarded individuals, Adam and Eve. In answering the question many atheists and skeptics pose to Christians, why do evil things happen if there is a God who loves us unconditionally and is capable of making things right, Milton takes his readers back to the Tree of…

Shakespeare’s King Lear and Milton’s Paradise Lost are similar, but very different. They have many of the same elements within each story, though the stories are very different. King Lear and Paradise Lost bring deception and betrayal to the table with Adam and Eve eating forbidden fruit and King Lear going through hell just to be treated poorly by who he thought were his best daughters. The first story to be recognized is King Lear. King Lear is king of Britain and he is getting older.…

"Historical Background for the Passage" The story takes place in Genesis 4:1-15, after Adam and Eve had been kicked out of the garden for eating the forbidden fruit. Approximately four thousand years before Jesus Christ was born. Adam and Eve 's first son was Able then they had his brother Cain. Adam and Eve were no longer provided for by the Lord like they were in the Garden of Eden. They had to raise sheep and food to survive. The story is being told for the benefit of the reader as a warning…

drawn into the conversation about darkness in Paradise Lost. Eden has day and night, which is consistent with the three creation stories. Many of the negative events foreshadowing the Fall occur in darkness or during the night. Satan plots to trick Adam and Eve into sinning in the darkness. In Book 2, during the important discussion in Hell as to whether the fall angels will attempt to fight God, despite having lost the first battle that caused their exile from Heaven. Beelzebub, one of the…