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    Anne Bradstreet Allusions

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    Anne Bradstreet and her family to the Massachusetts Company. Anne Bradstreet is a famous writer in the 17th century, and she writes many poems about the importance of family, loss and acceptance. For instance, in "To my Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild", Bradstreet uses anaphora to emphasize her love for her husband the importance of family. The author also employs in "the Author to Her Book", an extended metaphor to explain her creative process. Also, Bradstreet…

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    Bradstreet’s beliefs are mostly found in her own works and writings, which is why hey poems are greatly analyzed for her thoughts on Puritanism and feminism. Anne Bradstreet was the author of many works, including poems and essays. In “Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10. 1666”, Anne Bradstreet adheres to her Puritan conventions by stating that God is always justified in his actions because he has created a divine plan in which everyone and everything has its place.…

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    Anne Bradstreet Beliefs

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    Like most writers Anne Bradstreet wrote about what she knew or what was important to her, and what was important to her were her strong beliefs in her puritan values and concerns she had as a puritan. Bradstreet’s poetry conveys the puritan values of not attaching yourself to worldly possessions. She also writes on seeking God and doing Gods will, and her concern of the brevity of life and the certainty of death is a “traditional” concern she had as a puritan, that she expressed in her poetry.…

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    Anne Bradstreet was a female Puritan who wrote poetry most of her life. She was one of the first well known female poets of her time because of the idea that poetry was unladylike and uncommon for women to write. She was able to accomplish writing extraordinary poetry because she ignored the gender bias and valued knowledge and intellect. She paved the way for future poets in both the New World and England. She was born in 1612 in Northampton, England. She was the daughter of Thomas Dudley…

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    We humans doubt our actions when we fight our own battles. The author of The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal, went through a sentimental battle. He was a Jew in the Holocaust, while working one day he was taken by a nurse to meet a SS Nazi soldier who was close to death. This SS Nazi soldier surprisingly told Wiesenthal, a Jew in the Holocaust, about all the crimes and death he has done and then he asked for forgiveness for all the people he has killed or potentially hurt. The author Wiesenthal…

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    Maria Vasquez is first grader in Mrs. Casper’s classroom in Happyville Elementary. She has a specific learning disability and a speech and is language impaired. Her first language is Spanish and is struggling with learning English. Parent collaboration is needed in order to help Maria to learn English better and to be able succeed in school. Parents are important with collaborating with because parents are student’s main support system. Parents know their children have knowledge of their family,…

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    Edgar Wright is a really great director who knows how to make people laugh. He is known for his Comedic Cornetto Trilogy, and the movies I will be talking about are “Shaun of the Dead”, and “Hot Fuzz” are the two of them. The scenes display the kind of style he uses in the films, and by using film techniques it helps show the style by how effective it is. Techniques such as music, sound effects, camera work e.g close ups, mid shots, and characters. Wright uses these techniques to grab people’s…

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    Benjamin Braddock is a successful young man who graduates college from the East Coast and is now back home in Los Angeles with no idea what his future holds for him. In the film The Graduate, Ben is back home with a college degree and no clue where to go next. Ben seems to be bothered by something in his life. When questioned about it by his dad, he says that he is worried about his future. This is typical for a young man who is fresh out of college. In my research I found that the sequence when…

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    Anna Sokolow was born February 9, 1910 in Hartford Connecticut. Sadly she passed away not too long ago on March 29, 2000. In New York City. Anyways, Anna was an American choreographer and professional dancer. Ever since Anna was a young girl she's always desired dancing. When she saw like a dance magazine or someone else dancing, it made her happy and inspired her to become a dancer. She wasn't expecting to become famous out of it. Anna found her majority of inspiration to dance in Jewish…

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    Connecting the “Power of Faith” Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson This paper presents the relationship with faith between to two female Puritan American writers in the late eighteenth century. Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson. Both Puritan women with great hardships within their lives. It is clear that Mary Rowlandson and Anne Bradstreet shared many different roles, sharing a universal willpower providing literature and poetry to readers in the 20th Century. From this we see that both…

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