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    Jonathan Edward’s and the Puritans have unequally different spiritual beliefs. Jonathan Edwards’s beliefs focused on seeking salvation to avoid hell. Jonathan Edward’s spiritual attitude differs greatly from those of Puritan works‚ such as from writers Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson‚ who believe one must be elected by God to go to Heaven. Their different beliefs are what lead them to have different spiritual attitudes. Puritan works are all didactic; they are all meant to teach a lesson

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    go to hell. Jonathan Edwards uses imagery because he believes showing his audience what awaits them in hell will make them be pure. He knows this will work on his audience because he knows they are all very afraid of going to hell when they die‚ so he tells them that is where they are going to go if they do not listen to him. He uses pathos as another scare tactic to convince them they if they continue putting off what they are supposed to do they will definitely go to hell. Jonathan tells them that

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    Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal Analysis In the year of 1729‚ an Irish satirist named Jonathan Swift wrote a political and satirical pamphlet called A Modest proposal. This pamphlet was written to promote Swift’s ideas about how they should improve the economy of Ireland and solve the problem of poverty in their country. In this pamphlet‚ Swift suggests that the children of the poor should continue raising as many children as they can so that they can be sold for clothing and food which is a

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    made up of seventy percent Catholics. The country was run by a Protestant ruler and was against the Irish. The ruler of Ireland at the time made any penalizations he could at the Catholic people of Ireland which‚ in turn‚ made them extremely poor. Jonathan Swift’s article‚ A Modest Proposal‚ gives perspective on just how strapped these people are by describing the women begging and the several amounts of children they have at their heels. Instead of taking the predicament and eliminating it all together

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    Jonathan Edwards: A student of Aristotle In order to spread religious revitalization in Enfield‚ Connecticut a colonial American preacher‚ Jonathan Edwards‚ gives a sermon entitled Sinners in the hands of an angry God. This would become Edward’s most recognizable sermon and draw its reverence from the reaction it produces in the congregation at Enfield. Edwards provokes cries for salvation and repentance with his words using Aristotle’s three modes of persuasion ethos‚ land pathos. Jonathan Edwards

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    an act in the first place. However many of these modern satirists do have points that they wish to make‚ as well as inspirations for doing so. Arguably one of the biggest influences on satire as we see it today was none other than the Irish author Jonathan Swift. Swift’s style of writing was iconic and very often ageless‚ as he frequently merged the general and specific in order to create cutting commentaries on the issues of the world. In particular he was known for his use of irony‚ parody‚ and personas

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    find solutions to the problems we will face throughout our lives. Gotschall concludes with we are attracted to fiction because it is good for us. In Chapter 3: Hell Is Story Friendly of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human American Literary scholar Jonathan Gottschall analyzes that we read stories to escape life‚ understand different types of feelings‚ learn how better approach a situation‚ and how we can use storytelling to learn lessons that we then use to better solve our own

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    To emphasize the importance of being saved Jonathan Edwards uses literary devices to appeal to the people that were still not converted‚ to go do so now. In the beginning of Edward’s sermon‚ he compares creatures to humans; you’re a nasty dirty thing in the eyes of God if you are a sinner. A tone of fear is already being set‚ you should be afraid because God “hates you.” In this part of the sermon Edwards is talking to everyone in the church when he’s preaching but he’s actually speaking to a group

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    Sermon in the Style of Jonathan Edwards Those with the audacity to do the unforgivable crime of consuming edible items in the middle of an educational session shall surely be punished by the professors. God forbid‚ shall the patience of these professors‚ these masters of instruction‚ these scholastic gods‚ be tested‚ one shall face the hell‚ the fire‚ and the damnation that is called detention. There is no speculation that these lords of erudition are amicable‚ benevolent‚ impartial‚ and sensible

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    What is a modest proposal you may ask.Well A Modest Proposal is a “proposal for preventing children of poor people from being a burthen to their family. Jonathan Swift’s thinks this proposal would lower the poverty in Ireland. In the “Modest Proposal “ Jonathan swift uses irony and satire understatement to convey his message. The message that Swift was trying to convey is that the Irish people need help. He is trying to get rid of the property by getting rid of the children by feeding them to the

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