...Jonathan Edwards began to implement the ideals of the “Great Awakening” in his sermons as a response to the Enlightenment, solidifying his place as a “fire and brimstone” preacher. Jonathan Edwards’ intellect, exceptional writing abilities, and masterful use of persuasive, sentiment-driven rhetoric have allowed his works the blessing of endurance, yet his words leave a disturbing impact. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” demonstrates Edwards’ inability to preach in an innocuous manner; his intensity furthers an individual into religious precarity and a state of detriment. Edwards’ sensationalist works are an effective mechanism for fear mongering; however, they prove ineffectual long-term as it diminishes the value of Christianity. With his utilization of persuasive diction, harsh...
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...Previously on The Asylum: Abigail: (Sitting by herself humming, drawing a photo, of her and john proctor and her holding hands) and a dead woman in the background (John proctors wife). Boo: Staring outside (Jonathan Edwards walks in) Yellow: (yells at Jonathan) “I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" Johnathan: “O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide bottomless pit of fire that you are held over in the hand of that God” Yellow: “There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will” Starting of the next episode: (Blanche is being escorted in by Jonathan Edward’s and Atticus) Blanche: “I don't know you--I don't know you. I want to be--left alone--please!” I was supposed to meet Shep Huntleigh! “Didn't I get a call?” Jonathan Edward’s (to Atticus and looking at the patients): “They deserve to be cast into hell” Atticus: how can you say that about them, these people are just different. “You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them” Atticus: Honey we will try are best to find this Shep character you are speaking of ,and you’ll have your call. Blanche: Thank you… Johnathan Edwards: sit here and wait for the owner he will show you around. (Showing back of Gatsby’s head while he talks to the other Patients Gatsby: I’m glad you feel better old sport (patting boo on the back) Blanche: (asking R.W.E walking by, while sobbing)...
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...The Great Awakening was a movement in colonial times influenced by leaders such as George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards. One of Jonathan edwards’ most influencial sermon was “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. In this sermon, he demonstrates how God’s wrath is unstoppable and only Christ can save you from an eternity of misery. In his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’, Jonathan Edwards impacts religious beliefs of colonial American people through rhetoric and persuasion during the Great Awakening. Edwards’ sermon revolutionizes the religious beliefs during the Great Awakening. Edwards uses the simile: “ The God holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like a fire… you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the worst venomous serpent is in ours” (Edwards 89). This new idea of God being a God of fury and relentless wrath revolutionized the belief of colonial Americans. William Farley states in his article on the Great Awakening that “Overnight, the town was transformed. The citizens sang hymns in the streets, the tavern closed, young people pursued God in bands, and it...
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...Eternity is an inexplicable subject that lies beyond the human’s knowledge and power, which gradually diminish as faith and belief are the only remnant forces that guide human to the afterlife. Jonathan Edwards, the author of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, and Anne Bradstreet, the author of Verses upon Burning of our House, both exemplify Puritan literature that reflects contemporary ideals and beliefs in the extraterrestrial life, embracing God as the ultimate deity who is responsible for salvation. Even though Edwards and Bradstreet share a veneration of God, their perceptions of God are contrasting, resulting in varying religious perspectives and literature voices that can be easily distinguished. The sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God was written by Jonathan Edwards, a minister at a church in Northampton, to enlighten the congregation on its members’ behaviors. As he employs a logical...
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...Jonathan Edwards was a hellfire and brimstone preacher, but was very soft spoken and did not like to yell during his sermons. Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God is a very intense sermon meant to scare and persuade his congregation into seeing his views. “ The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them.” In this quote Edwards is using imagery to scare his audience into seeing themselves as a measley person falling into hell with the flames and fire gathering around them. “ your damnation does not slumber” this quote by edwards is very emotional, because again he is trying to scare his audience into believing they are going to hell. “ but here you are in the land of the living and in the house of god, and have the opportunity to obtain salvation.” This Statement on pg. 48 of Elements of Literature is persuasive, because he is trying to convince his audience to become better people and keep themselves from going to...
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...Literature I July 22, 2013 In the sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Jonathan Edwards, with a contemptuous attitude, attempts to provoke a religious battle in the Puritan communities of colonial America using the very powerful motivator of fear. He installs the fear of God within the hearts of unconverted people within the church. Edwards reach out to his audience emotionally unstable with the terrifying body of his sermon it allows his conclusion of salvation to be the solution of the entire unconverted congregation. Early on in the sermon, Edwards reveals his target audience all unconverted men but never directly refer to them using words like, “they” and “them”. Those types of people would know that Edwards was referring to them but they maybe wouldn’t feel like the guilty party in the situation. After building up to the point of a threat against those who have not been transformed suddenly Edwards changes the “they” and “them” for the words “you” and “your” He is now directly targeting his audience, exposing them to a direct blame throwing them up in the air, making sure that they feel guilty for living another day. After breaking his audience, throwing them into emotionally by destroying all hope of escaping eternal damnation then opens an escape hatch allowing the emotional distorted people to walk directly into what he wanted. Throughout the sermon, while Edwards is delivering a description of hell, pain, suffering, anything that is unpleasant and...
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...literary elements and rhetorical devices. Students also review the SOAPSTONE (subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, tone, organization, narrative style and evidence) strategy for use in analyzing prose and visual texts along with three of the five cannons of rhetoric: invention, arrangement and style. ▪ Students learn the format of the AP test, essay rubric and essay structure. ▪ Students take a full-length AP test for comparison purposes in the spring. Reading: The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Writing: Answer the following question in one paragraph. Use quotes from the novel as evidence. Some readers believe that the elaborate decoration that Hester embroiders on the scarlet letter indicates her rejection of the community’s view of her act. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position using evidence from the text. (test grade) Writing: Write a well-developed essay addressing the following prompt. Document all sources using MLA citation. Compare Hester to a modern day person who has been shunned. Provide at least two research sources for the other person. (project grade) Reading: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Jonathan Edwards Analyzing: SOAPSTONE and cannons of rhetoric Reading: Teacher Introduction Essay Writing: Students and teacher evaluate where each student’s writing is and where it needs to be by analyzing students’ introductory...
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...ambivalence at the turn of the century created fears and anxieties concerning the decline of the British race. A crucial influence on British anxieties of decline was underpinned by scientific and medical knowledge known as Theories of Degeneration. Ledger and Luckhurst (2000) state, at this time, that ‘…degeneration was one defining structure which can be traced across many disciplines…’[3] These theories of degeneration impacted over many discourses within Victorian culture including race, class, sexuality and morality, and envisaged ‘…a “primitive” lost world or degenerate “after world”.’[4] In other words, the threat of decline and degeneration to the upper middle class white race of Britain that held power both nationally and globally. Edward Tylor’s work, Primitive Culture asserted scientific naturalism and development along evolutionary lines ‘…races could...
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...poetry, and rhetoric. 8. Drinking wine in ancient Rome was a symbol of social differentiation, a mark of the wealth and rank of the consumer because the wealthy family would consume the fines wine while others would be drinking the less desirable ones. 9. Convivium is a Roman banquet, it reflected the social status in Roman because wine would be serving depending on the individual’s position in society and it was an opportunity to emphasize social divisions in ancient Rome. 10. The central Christian ritual is that bread and wine symbolize Christ’s body and blood based on the Last Suppler also in Christianity wine drinking is a form of sacred communion. However, in the Muslim belief under Muhammad wine is the abominations devised by Satan and keeps followers from remembrance of Allah and from their prayers. Spirits 11. Europeans got the science of making spirits from Cordoba, the capital of Arab Andalusia, which is now southern Spain. 12. Dating back to the fourth millennium BCE in northern Mesopotamia, distillation already existed mainly to make perfumes. Knowledge of distillation was ancient wisdom that was preserved by Arab scholars and, has been translated from Arabic to Latin, to help rekindle the spirit of learning in Europe. 13. Alcohol like rum and brandy, were used as an essential currency to exchange goods in Africa. Trader used brandy as money to pay the slaves and guards for their work. 14. Britain had a more superior navy than France is due to Admiral Edward Vernon’s...
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...SAMPLE BIBLIOGRAPHY KEY POINTS TO NOTE WHEN COMPILING YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHY • Choose a topic on which you will not have to struggle to find enough material • Put a title on your bibliography, so that it is clear what subject you are writing about • Include your search strategy - how you selected your references. • Count your references and make sure that the number is within the limit of 40-50 • Arrange your references in alphabetical order • Cite them properly according to the MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) guidelines for referencing your work. These are laid out in Section 10 of the MHRA Style Guide. At http://www.library.soton.ac.uk/infoskills/referencing.shtml#MHRA you will find a link to the Style Guide. There you will also find links to documents containing MHRA-format examples from the Guide, and from the New College Humanities Programme Handbook. • Check and double-check for inaccuracies and inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation and spacing • Include as wide a range of types of information sources on your topic as you can find. The main ones are books, journal articles, electronic journal articles, conferences, theses, websites, and newspaper articles, reports and government publications (though the last two types are unlikely for the subject of this sample bibliography) • Choose references that are up to date, unless your topic has a historical slant, in which case older material will be appropriate ...
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...IR 3034: The Political theory of Peace and War. [pic] FIRST ESSAY: « For Machiavelli, the art of war is the supreme test of any polity, whether principality or republic ». Discuss Introduction: Quentin Skinner once argued that even if “Machiavelli died nearly 500 years ago, (…) his name lives on as a byword for cunning, duplicity, and the exercise of bad faith in political affairs”1. Indeed, there is no denying that Machiavelli stands probably as one of the most controversial thinker in the history of political theory. In fact, Skinner even argued that “the charge of being a Machiavellian remains a serious accusation in the political debate”2. As his biographers tell us, Machiavelli came from an Italian family which had been relatively important in the political life of Florence for a long time before his birth, in 1469. At 29 years old, he became second chancellor of the republic, without previous experience, a charge he will keep for more than fourteen years till the return of the Medici’s family. This experience as top official of the Florentine Republic had obviously a huge impact on the development of both his later life, characterized by a succession of disgraces and stroked of bad luck, and his thought. Indeed, as Maurizio Viroli asserts, “Machiavelli considered himself to be an expert on a special art which we call statecraft and he called “arte dello stato”3. There is no denying that, if we look at most of his writings, we will realize...
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...Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction ‘Jonathan Culler has always been about the best person around at explaining literary theory without oversimplifying it or treating it with polemical bias. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction is an exemplary work in this genre.’ J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine ‘An impressive and engaging feat of condensation . . . the avoidance of the usual plod through schools and approaches allows the reader to get straight to the heart of the crucial issue for many students, which is: why are they studying literary theory in the first place? . . . an engaging and lively book.’ Patricia Waugh, University of Durham Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in 15 languages worldwide. Very Short Introductions available from Oxford Paperbacks: ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes Augustine Henry Chadwick THE BIBLE John Riches Buddha Michael Carrithers BUDDHISM Damien Keown CLASSICS Mary Beard and John Henderson Continental Philosophy Simon Critchley Darwin Jonathan Howard DESCARTES Tom Sorell EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Paul Langford The European Union John Pinder Freud Anthony Storr Galileo Stillman Drake Gandhi Bhikhu Parekh HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood HINDUISM Kim Knott HISTORY John H. Arnold HUME A. J...
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...Theory: A Very Short Introduction ‘Jonathan Culler has always been about the best person around at explaining literary theory without oversimplifying it or treating it with polemical bias. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction is an exemplary work in this genre.’ J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine ‘An impressive and engaging feat of condensation . . . the avoidance of the usual plod through schools and approaches allows the reader to get straight to the heart of the crucial issue for many students, which is: why are they studying literary theory in the first place? . . . an engaging and lively book.’ Patricia Waugh, University of Durham Jonathan Culler LITERARY THEORY A Very Short Introduction 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford o x2 6 d p Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogotá Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris São Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw with associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Jonathan Culler 1997 The moral rights of the author...
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...Rhetorical Terms/Devices Figurative language is the generic term for any artful deviation from the ordinary mode of speaking or writing. It is what makes up a writer’s style – how he or she uses language. The general thinking is that we are more likely to be persuaded by rhetoric that is interesting, even artful, rather than mundane. When John F. Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” (an example of anastrophe), it was more interesting – and more persuasive – than the simpler, “Don’t be selfish.” Indeed, politicians and pundits use these devices to achieve their desired effect on the reader or listener nearly every time they speak. The stylistic elements in a piece of writing work to produce a desired effect related to the text’s (and author’s) purpose, and thus reveals the rhetorical situation. In classical rhetoric, figures of speech are divided into two main groups: Schemes — Deviation from the ordinary pattern or arrangement of words (transference of order). Tropes — Deviation from the ordinary and principal meaning of a word (transference of meaning). *Important Note: Words marked with an asterisk* are words for which it would be impossible for you to write 3 examples for your weekly vocabulary assignment. In those cases, please write only the definition, in your own words, and the rhetorical uses/effect of that device, or do what you are instructed to do under those words. Please mark these words that deviate...
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...This growth suggests that we can now look to science for some partial answers to the question of limits. Until recently, the social sciences and the biological sciences have mainly developed separate and disconnected accounts of human behavior. In the “nature/nurture controversy,” for example, anthropology has tended to emphasize cultural influences on human nature whereas behavioral biology has tended to emphasize genetic influences. The journalist Matthew Ridley (Nature via Nurture) provides an accessible account of the intellectual history and rhetoric of these two fields. Yet an increasing number of scholars in both areas are now realizing that behavioral biology and anthropology are studying the same human phenomena from different viewpoints. This overlap means there should be an underlying reality that is consistent across the different disciplines regardless of any disagreements in terminology. The behavioral biologist Edward O. Wilson calls this type of interdisciplinary commonality consilience, a term coined earlier by the nineteenth-century philosopher William Whewell from the Latin for “jumping together.” Wilson’s version of consilience, however, is mainly a one-way street. He tends to advocate restructuring the social sciences by breaking social entities down into biological components studied by principles established in the biological sciences: this is an example of what philosophers call reductionism. By contrast, the interdisciplinary social...
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