Mary also bought a huge amount of

Mary also bought a huge amount of

Mary Rowlandson’s short works displayed the puritanical ways of accepting their fates, andany obstacles in their ways were tests from God. This way of thinking and living ispersonified in her (basically) short narrative tale of herself being captured by Indians, andher daughter being killed by the savages by the way.

Jonathan Edwards, a exceptionally intelligent man, able to manipulate people. A slight stepup from Puritanism, the religion that he professed was one in which a person could only besaved if they were elected by God above. Hey, some saved was better than nosaved…right? This form of believing didn’t hold under scrutiny either, as the evolution ofreligion shows, for example look at today.

You could be saved only if you were elected,and once you were elected you could do no wrong, you were just short of divinity here onearth. What followed this election, was usually prosperity, power and the like, and thosewho had these things were assumed to be elect…almost a way to make yourself elect..

.? This didn’t last long as people continued to become more open minded…

for America wasgiving them the freedom to do this, along with many other freedoms.Thomas Jefferson, America’s 3rd president, and an accomplished one at that. Jeffersonhelped bring into exhistance the Declaration of Independence.

He also bought a huge amount of land from Napolean, known as the Lousiana Purchasefor 15 Million dollars, what a deal! Napolean definately needed money to finance his littlewar, tsk tsk.A real thinker in the enlightenment also.Washington Irving, named after George Washington was a famous writer who verypossibly invented the short story.

Irving created such characters as Ichabod Crane and RipVan Winkle.James Fenimore Cooper possibly the first American author that used fiction.Category: English