John Winthrop Reflection

When enrolled in college, some classes are required, and this was one of them for me. I had already taken the first-year basic English classes, and as a sophomore, I needed to have higher-level credit. I will say that this class has been a challenge for me, but I am grateful for the way you have made the discussion modules enjoyable by giving us the opportunity to explore our personal interpretations of the poets and their literary works. We learned about an abundance of writers and poets; it is just a shame we could not go into depth with them. This semester has given me the opportunity to appreciate how difficult it can be to be skilled in literature, and how beautiful language is.
This course gave me the opportunity to be skillful in my
I, of course, was getting the chance to explore the conditions of these early settlers in my History class, but in English, I got to see how these changes in lifestyle lead to the author's emotions and the effect they had in their writing. When I studied the beginnings of America and how John Winthrop led the Massachusetts Bay Colony, I could experience his thoughts about how he envisioned life in America through the teachings of his literary works. In his writing, Winthrop wanted their colony to be the "City Upon a Hill," to be the example for the rest of the world. In his work, we can see strong convictions of wanting to do God's will, and throughout history, God is the staple reason for the settlement of America. History and literature go hand in hand because we must find a way to document what has happened throughout the past, and we can see how life was through the viewpoints. Differentiating arguments from these writers, such as John Winthrop or Jonathan Edwards, who believe what the colonists are doing are for the grace of God and war was necessary, while other writers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, believed that Nature was the divine