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To my dear and loving Husband
Anne Hutchinson, also known as Anne Bradstreet, was a Puritan poet who expressed her beliefs about her religion and the rights of women as wives being a part of that religion. She wrote 'To my dear and loving Husband' in November of 1637 and by 1650 she became the first Puritan settler (female) to have their own published poetry book. -
Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God
When the pligrims came and settled in the northern area of the United States, they did so during the Puritan Revolution, Disapproving of the Catholic churches ways, Puritans sought to cleanse and spread christianity over the lands. They lived their lives with thought of only the good Lord and purifying the Church. Johnathan Edwards was a Puritan Missionary who wrote Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God to show and explain how corrupt then Church had become and what he believed was real faith. -
Speech to the Virginia Congress
Patrick Henry, most famous for his statement, "Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!", spoke those very words at this congressional convention to persuade the members of congress to support his ideas of the revolution and to take action beside him.
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The Declaration of Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson, this document, signed on July 4th 1776 in Independence Hall by our founders, was a declaration that the colonies were no longer of England's control. They were now a fully independent county. The United States of America. -
from the American Crisis
In 1776 Paine wrote Common Sense, a successful pamphlet arguing for Independence from England. He then wrote 'from the American Crisis' which is a collection of 16 pamphlets in all that outline the early beginnings of the revolution and his philosophies.
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Speech in the Convention
On the last day of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin delivered this speech. He said, "On the whole, Sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument." This statement meant that even though everybody in that room had doubts, disagreements, and concerns, he would sign.
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The Decil & Tom Walker
Writtten by Washington Irving, this novel demonstrated a new take on literature and controvercial subjects.
Romanticism -
from Nature; Self-Reliance
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the book outlined his ideas about the manifestation of the universal spirit in nature.
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The Raven
Written by Edgar Allen Poe, this literary piece defines human emoitions and darkness with the light.
Romanticism -
The Scarlet Letter
by: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Moby Dick
Written by Herman Melvin, th is a dark romance between a man and a whale which he hunts with burning passion which I personally found compulsivley obsessive and disturbing. Lmao.
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From Walden
Written: 1854
By: Henry David Thoreau
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Leaves of Grass
Written: 1855
By: Walt Whitman
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Leaves of Grass
By Walt Whitman, it expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. -
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Realism
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The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Written: 1885
By: Mark Twain
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Poetry Collection
Written: 1890
By: Emily Dickinson
Realism -
We Wear the Mask
Written: 1895
By: Paul Laurence Dunbar
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The Red Badge of Courage
Written: 1895
By: Stephan Crane
Realism
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The Awakening
Written: 1899
By: Kate Chopin
Realism
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The Call of the Wild
Written: 1903
By: Jack London
Naturalism
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A Wagner Matinee
Written:1904
By: Willa Cather
Regionalism
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The House of Mirth
Written: 1905
By: Edith Wharton
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Modernism
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The Road Not Taken
Written: 1916
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The Wasteland
By T.S. Eliot
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The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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As I Lay Dying
By William Faulkner
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Their Eyes were Watching God
By Zora Neale Hurston
Modernism -
The Grapes of Wrath
By John Steinbeck
Modernism -
For Whom the Bell Tolls
By Ernest Hemingway
Modernism -
Native Son
Written: 1940
By: Richard Wright
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A Worn Path
By Eudora Welty
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Post-Modernism
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I,Too
By Langston Hughes
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Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger
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Invisible Man
By Ralph Ellison
Post Modernism -
The Crucible
By Arthur Miller
Post Modernism -
A Good Man is Hard to Find
By Flannery O'Connor
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Old Age Sticks
Written: 1958
By: ee cummings
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To Kill A Mockingbird
By Harper Lee
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from Walden
By Henry David Thoreau, this outlines his own personal experiences and feelings about society.
