My response to “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards.

Jonathan Edwards was born in 1703 to a family of great thinkers, preachers, and also doers. John was always smart since growing up, he made it into Yale at age thirteen which was really impressive back in the day. He graduated from Yale from Yale at age seventeen and by the age of twenty-one he already had his masters. Jonathan always believed in his religion, and he wanted to become a pastor, which he succeeded by being in the church for around twenty-four years.

First off, I myself am a big fan of how he starts off his book, he is saying that even the you may be dropping down in life, you will never fully go all the way down unless God looses his grip or chooses to let go. That is really inspiring to me, makes me feel like no matter how low in life I will get, I could always be brought back up. I also enjoy the part were Jonathan talks about how you shouldn’t dig yourself a deeper hole then what you are already in. He is saying that if you are in trouble, or you did something wrong that you should just take the blame right then and now. Don’t make it worse then it had to be. Overall I am really impressed with the life of Jonathan Edwards, he changed the world of how we see it today.

My response to “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”

The story “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” describes the hardships that the slaves went through traveling to their new workplace. Olaudah shares what he went through and what he saw. When I read the story was completely shocked by what he was put through on the ship. Equiano talked about how we was chained to other people and was put under the ship and how he barely got fresh air. Many people were getting sick from the bacteria and bad conditions on the ship. The slaves would witness the person next them die for the sickness. Some of the slaves tried to jump off the boat but they were caught or drowned. Most of the slaves would have rather drownded than to be caught. Reading this story and knowing what all they went makes me feel nauseated. The countrymen as Equiano calls them mistreated the slaves so poor. This story makes me feel bad for all the people who were forced to go through this. I’m glad that we decided to end slavery and put a stop mistreatment of people.

Edward Taylor vs. Natalie Portman

Edward Taylor was born in 1642 in England. He had to move to the new world because of his religion. He attended Harvard and graduated within three years. He was a preacher for fifty years in Westfield, MA. He wrote poems before his sermons but never intended them to be published. He passed away in 1729. Over two hundred years later, his work was discovered and was published and is now a respected man of history that is studied around the world.

Natalie Portman was born June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem. When she was three years old her family moved to the United States because her father was receiving medical training. She is well known for her acting career, but in 2003 she graduated from Harvard University with a bachelors degree in psychology. In 2011, her son Aleph Portman-Millepeid was born. She has publicly noted that she would like her son to have the Jewish religion that she has, but most importantly wants to keep a strong relationship with her and her husband.

Natalie Portman and Ed Taylor both have important similarities. They both graduated from Harvard University which had an impact on their careers. Religion is also an important factor. Natalie Portman along with her family is Jewish. Ed Taylor did not want to be apart of the English church and be Anglican, so he moved to the new world to become a preacher.

Edward Taylor vs. Natalie Portman

Anne Bradstreet vs. Kate Gosselin

Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 and died in 1672. When Anne was only eighteen she arrived in America with her husband, Simon in 1630. They settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Anne came to America to have a new beginning, so she left her hometown and traveled to her new home. Her and her husband had eight children, and faced many hardships. Anne was a writer in her spare time. In 1650, a few of her poems were published in England. Anne’s later poems told about the hardships and joys of everyday Puritan life.

Kate Gosselin was born March 28, 1975. She is the second child of five, and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father was a pastor. Kate got married to Jon Gosselin in 1999. Kate and Jon had trouble getting pregnant at first so Kate was put on fertility medication. This medicine successfully gave them twins. Later Kate and Jon wanted to get pregnant again, so with the fertility medication they had sextuplets. Kate stared in a reality television show called “Jon and Kate plus 8.” After her divorce with Jon Gosselin the show was called “Kate plus 8.” Later in life Kate began to write non-fiction books, her three books became very popular to the public.

There were multiple reasons I chose to compare Kate Gosselin to Anne Bradstreet. They were both very powerful and strong willed women. One major similarity between these women is both of these women have given birth to eight children. Both women also faced hardships. Kate faced hardships with her divorce between her and her husband. Anne faced hardships by living the everyday Puritan life. Anne and Kate were both writers. Both women wrote about their life and their experiences that they have gone through. One small similarity is that Kate’s dad was a pastor, which gave her a religious background. Anne had a religious background and believed that anything that happened to them was intended by the will of god.

Mary Rowlandson vs. Angelina Jolie

Mary Rowlandson was born in England 1637, she was the fifth of eight children. Her family moved with the COMBINE (The colony of Massachusetts bay in New England) where they settled down in Salem, Massachusetts. Later in her life she married Rev. Joseph Rowlandson, they had four children, and they lived in Lancaster. Mary and her children were captured by Native Americans in the King Phillips War. After the war was over her and her family moved to Wethersfield, Connecticut where her husband passed away. She then began writing and when she did her book was published in America and London, and also became bestsellers. She died January 5, 1711.

Angelina Jolie was born June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. She is a Humanitarian, filmmaker, and actress where she has received Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. She has six children three of which she has actually given birth to. She is a woman of many things one of which is that she is fighting for women’s rights, child immigration and education, and conservation and community development. She had a long process with breast cancer treatments and went threw many surgeries to prevent her chances of having it. She is still working hard to be an amazing mother, actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian.

The reason I picked Angelina to go with Mary is because I saw them as two strong and powerful women. They both have done so much in their lives and have also changed many as well. These two women have done great things, Mary had come back from being captive for eleven weeks and five days and had written a captive narrative and Angelina had gone on and received awards for movies and taken on the public to fight for rights of others. When I read about Mary Rowlandson Angelina Jolie was the first to come to mind because of the powerful role both of them have.

John Winthrop & Arun Govil

John Winthrop, born on January 1588- past away on March of 1649. John was a wealthy man who worked his whole life to get to where he ended up. John was a cambrige graduate, who pursued to become a lawyer, and lord of the manor. Soon in Johns life he became a part of the COMBINE, (The colony of Massachusetts bay in New England). This led to John Winthrop becoming governor , where he would remain for a good chunk of his life.

Arun Govil was born in Ramnager neer Meerut where his father pushed him and pushed him to do something good with his life. By the age of nineteen he was accepted the University of meerut, where he graduated five years later, going to run for governor. Arun stared in the movie called
Ramanand Sagar, this is how his name really came about.

I choose Arun because both John and Arun became Governors, and trhey were both really wealthy men. John graduated from cambrige, and Arun graduated from meerut both really hard colleges to get in to. That’s my actor that is choose for John winthrop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun_Govil

William Bradford & Kate Beckinsale

William Bradford was born in 1580 in Yorkshire, England. He was a farmer and a pilgrim. By the age of 12 he had lost his father and grandfather. After his losses he joined the Scooby Puritans a church group. When the king wouldn’t let them practice their religion they set off to make their own. Bradford is known for taking the Mayflower to America and forming his own colony. He was such a great leader that he got reelected thirty times.

Kate Beckinsale was born in 1973 in London, England. She is an actress and model. At the age of 6 she lost her father to a heart attack but that didn’t stop her from her dream of acting. She started out as an actress in England. While in England she made films such as Emma and The Golden Bowl. Kate moved to New York in 1989 to audition for American films and her boyfriend was on broadway. She starred in movies such as Pearl Harbor, Underworld, and The Aviator.

William Bradford and Kate Beckinsale are very different but they share some similarities. William and Kate both went through the tragedy of losing their fathers at a young age. They both were born in England and moved to America for a fresh start. William Bradford moved to start his own colony and Kate Beckinsale moved to start her own career and family with her boyfriend.

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John Smith vs. Paris Hilton

John Smith was a poet, English soldier, mapmaker and adventurer born in January of 1580. He is best known as one of England’s explorers that helped guide the first English colony in America. He was president of the the colony in Jamestown, Virgina and helped discipline and settle agreements with the Native Americans. He is known for writing many stories of his adventures to give his audience descriptions of the things he expierienced.

Paris Hilton is an author, DJ, business woman, actress, model, and singer born on February 17, 1981. She is best know for being apart of The Simple Life, and movies like The Bling Ring and House of Wax. Her modeling career began in her teen years when she signed with Trump Model Management. She realeased her book, Confessions of an Heriess, in 2004 and her album, Paris, debuted in 2006. She was born in New York City, New York, and was raised in Beverly Hills, California.

John Smith and Paris Hilton have many differences and similarties. Both John Smith and Paris Hilton were authors and wrote factual pieces of literature like her Confessions of an Heriess and John Smith’s The General History of Virgina. Another common event that John Smith and Paris Hilton can relate to is facing jail time. John Smith was captured by the Native Americans, according to his writing. ( pg. 68- ” following him with three hundred bowmen, conducted by the King of Pumunkee”) John Smith was also known to be involved in Piracy and was accounted as a slave. Paris Hilton was arrested on numerous counts of driving under the influence and driving under a suspension of license which prompted a bond and jail time.

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