Anne Bradstreet

1. Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in Northampton, England, 1612. She was the daughter of Thomas Dudley, a steward of the Earl of Lincoln, and Dorothy Yorke. Due to her family's position in the society she grew up in cultured circumstances and was a well-educated woman since she was at a very young age, and being tutored in history, several languages and literature.


2. Women tend to be mothers or to manage the houses. They were also not allowed to go to the theater and or act on the stage.


3. Wrote for women’s right, in “The Prologue”:

“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits; If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.”

(The men’s opinions of women: Women were not capable of higher thinking, women’s skulls are small, and ships were wilder, little dignity)

“Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are, Men have precedency and still excel, it is but vain unjustly to wage war; Men can do best, and women know it well. Preeminence in all and each is yours; yet grant some small, acknowledgement of ours.”

(Women can do almost everything as men can do and she satires on the reality that women were not supposed to write literature or participate in any politics, just live as properties.)


4. Bradstreet's education gave her advantages to write with authority about politics, history, medicine, and theology.

She is considered by many people as the first female poet to be published from either Puritan America or England.

Her indifference to material wealth, her humility and her spirituality, regardless of religion, made her into a positive, inspirational role model for any of us.

Even, nearly a century later, some 18th-century American poets and writers, was still influenced and pays homage to Bradstreet's verse.

My work on the guide of John Winthrop

My work on John Winthrop.


-famous New England politician in Colonial American

-the most important founder of Massachusetts Bay colony

-talented at practical affairs and government skills.

-He was the governor of Massachusetts Bay colony for twelve consecutive terms, vice governor for three terms, the assistant of the Court of Assistants for four terms, and the first president of United Colonies.

I think we need more information about his political contributions and positive influence on literature.

By doing this project, I noticed that the cooperation is really important in a group. I was looking for the information about John Winthrop's politic life, while another two were doing the family part, and the other one arrange the information we got, and put into on the website.

However, I still had some problems in the process of the project. We usually use the information on the Wikipedia, and we need to learn how to select information. And I believe it will be easier and better for us to make a good project.

John Winthrop

Political Life:

John Winthrop was a famous New England politician in Colonial American, the most important founder of Massachusetts Bay colony, and talented at practical affairs and government skills. He was the governor of Massachusetts Bay colony for twelve consecutive terms, vice governor for three terms, the assistant of the Court of Assistants for four terms, and the first president of United Colonies.

Family:

John Winthrop married his first Wife who born him six children. And the Oldest son was the future governor of Connecticut. He married his second wife, it was a short marriage, because his wife died only one year later at 1616. He married his third wife Margaret Tyndal at 1618. However, she died in Massachusetts after a 29-years marriage. After that, John winthrop married his fourth wife, unfortunatly, he died of natural casues on 26 March 1649.

That is what I got in the class today, at the same time, I am going to talk about his effort for the literature. And the story on his politics influence in Britain. I will collect more information on weekends.

Mary Rowlandson

Mary Rowlandson was born 1637 and died at 1711. She was brought to Lancaster, a part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. During the King Philip’s War, She was captured by Native Americans and endured there for about eleven weeks when the Indians came to the village and wanted to reclaim the land from the colonies. After she was released by some money, she wrote a book called A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson about her experience on the days of being captured.

I read the first part of the book. It describes the terrible situation after the native Indians robbed the Lancaster. The house were burnt, many people die, even children. The Indians killed the people in a cruel way.

I was shocked after I finished reading the first section, and pitiful with their unfortunately experience. And it was just the beginning of the writer’s life by the Indian capture.

Food, Inc

I was shocked after I saw this documentary. Do you know it just takes 48 days of a chicken from the birth to enter the supermarket for sell? Do you know the slaughter worker in the farm always get infection on their hands when they cut the dead pig? Do you know there are so many social problems caused because of the food-borne diseases?


Here is a really amazing part of the film.

When the owner of the chicken farm take the photographer inside, everyone was shocked by what they saw. There is not enough space for the chickens, and they cannot move around there. All they have to do is to lie on the ground and grow fatter and fatter. However, it is kind of medicine for faster growing, some of the chicken even nearly died before they were send to the supermarket. And then, they become the ‘delicious’ in our daily life.

Deaths, medicine, disease, these words, look difficult to relate to the healthy, green farm. Virtually, it does, even it appears every day.

Finally, in short, this documentary not only discloses the amazing truth in the farm, but also warns people to eat the natural food not the genetically modified foods. And we must think of ways to deal with this problem not later, but right now.

Bradstreet's

In the poem, the writer describes the life in 17 century. Whatever men did, they were always respected by others. However, women were different, because the women existed as a week class at that time. Usually, women did the easier job, did not have as much power as men, and the position was low. Thus, it is hard for women to be esteemed.


Absolutely, this poem exactly reflects the regular social life of that era. But in the poem, the writer did not show a negative mood, but positive. She thought the women should get respect just like men, and at the same time, women should also have the rights to do anything they want.

In my opinion, the thought in the poem is an advanced concept and a great progress of society. There were still women like the writer who wanted to change this situation. And it was the time the position for women class began to rise up in the society.

Winthrop's Model of Christian Charity

Although I am not a Christian actually, I think I still get the some of the spirits of the God by reading the article.


First of all, God gives his love to every creature. However, it is not always equal, because there is difference between people. Some people will have power and wealth. But it is this difference, people will have a goal to pursue, will enjoy the gifts by the upper governors.

In addition, as we know, the difference absolutely results in the poor and rich people. Even though there will be a gap between the two various class of people, we still need to respect and be friendly, kind to each other. With this relationship among people, just like the writer said, the rich will not eat up the poor while the poor will not rise up and shake off the yoke.

Last but not least, for avoiding the fight of power or wealth, people should be together like brothers. It is a connection beyond other things, and it will help people have a peaceful world filled with love.

Freedom, Sustainability, and the Global Community

In my opinion, it is really a hard essy to write. We need to connect the freedom with sustainability, the two totally different things, and then try to prove wether they can coexist or not.

However, after thinking over the meaning of freedom and the importance andd necessarity of sustainability, I found that these two things can not fit together for now. As people usually use their rights to do the things they want, such as drving cars to work, lumbering for the fireplace, or exploiting the coal mine or oil as more as they can, they need energy from the nature all the time. Definitely, it is impossible to have these nonrenewable resource again, unless waiting for another million years. Although poeple really enjoy the freedom of using the rights, they will not have these rights anymore in the nearly future if they do not develop sustainably.

So, for the our next generation, we must have a sustainable development, which exactly means we have to abandon some of our rights for this great decision. At the same time, the government did the same things. As we know, the high pollution leavel bussiness will be limited and manangered more strictly, and almost every country already realized the significance of environmental protection.

In short, absolutely, it is impossible that the freedom and the sustainabilty can fit to each other. However, with the great progress of science and technology, and the populariztion of new, clean, nexhaustible energy, the day which the freedom and sustainablity are compatible will come soon.

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