Simon Bradstreet

Bradstreet poems have demonstrated the Puritanical ideal of what a puritan should be. The author Bradstreet has created a sequence of written piece to exemplify the essence of puritan ideology. The poetries characterizes other Puritanical literature by discussing the same laws or rules that the religion follows. The poet utilizes diction and allusion to connect with past biblical reference. Bradstreet uses diction to symbolize what she is saying about puritans and what is expected of them…

1) This is from The Burning of My House by Anne Bradstreet, a piece of religious poetry written in plain-style and using inversions. In this poem, Bradstreet recollects her epxperience of only being able to watch as her house and everything inside burned down, and how she knows it happened for a reason. During the time of religious revival and Puritan faith takeover in New England, Anne Bradstreet wrote this religon/faith-based poem to inform other on the dangers of materialism as depicted by…

Simon Wiesenthal’s memoir, The Sunflower, told the story of Simon when he was trapped in a concentration camp. During his time in the camp, he was told to make a decision of forgiving a SS officer. An officer who Wiesenthal was contributing to his daily torture. Instead of verbally saying he forgave Karl, Simon implied his forgiveness by staying silent. I agree with Wiesenthal’s actions because I have relatable instances from my life that make it understandable. Such as, my parent’s divorce and…

The poem “Her Kind,” written by Anne Sexton, is like a walk down the speaker’s memory lane; a dark and twisted memory lane. Anne Sexton, an American poet, was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1938 and at a point in her life she suffered from a mental breakdown; and eventually committed suicide (815). Sexton’s poem is written about the speaker’s past self and experiences; we could assume that the speaker of the poem is actually her. The speaker is reminiscing on many of the things that she has…

After reading the chapter “Project Classroom Makeover”, readers may have spotted that expert knowledge and collective knowledge, as well as crowd sourcing, were mentioned in the story, and more importantly, were being labeled as two completely different forms of knowledge acquisition that are in constant battle with each other. In fact, Cathy Davidson, the author of the story, stated how “crowd sourcing is suspicious of expertise, because the more expert we are, the more likely we are to be…

The Graduate is a film centered around Benjamin during his first summer after earning his degree at college. He spends his time lounging in his parents pool, unsure of who he is and what he wants to do, much like Neil in Goodbye, Columbus. Both characters feel isolated, lonely, and trapped, eventually falling for women who feel their lives are dull and boring. Goodbye, Columbus and The Graduate are similar stories with similar themes; the difference is in how they are presented. While the former…

Simon Bolivar was faced with numerous difficulties during his liberation of Venezuela and installment of Enlightened ideology throughout the South American world politically. Among these struggles include considering pros and cons of areas, having his ethics evaluated, inquiries upon the potentiality of uniting the countries of South America, along with looking towards leading countries as role models. Bolivar took into account the assets and liabilities of democracy as well as of republican…

Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was the greatest leader of Latin America's independence movement from Spain. An excellent general and an interesting and well-liked politician, he not only drove the Spanish from northern South America but also was of great help in the early childhood of the republics that sprang up once the Spanish had gone. His later years are marked by the collapse of his grand dream of a united South America. He is remembered as "The Liberator," the man who freed his home from…

God as a mentor trying to keep Christians on the right track and in her case burning down her house prevented her from being too proud of her possesions. In short words, God burnt her house down to teach Bradstreet that she needs to be happy about her life not about her prizes possessions, Bradstreet obtains the message and praises God for it. 3. This quote is from the sermon "Sinners in the hand of an…

express her feelings of betrayal after discovering the publication of her poems without her consent or knowledge. Throughout the poem, the speaker chides her unkempt children and even attempts to fix them up, before sending them out into the world. Bradstreet and her poems are much like the mother and her children, which is supported by the text. She writes, “Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain/ Who after birth dids’t by my side remain/ Till snatched from thence by my friends…/…