The American Dream

What is the job of an American?What are our limits?Do we really have any freedom if we have limitations?

Reflection
In a excerpt from William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, although the puritans experience hardship in their voyage to America in their initial arrival they still maintain their reverence to God and each other(their initial reason for fleeing England). But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. Thus his curses light on his own head, and it was an astonishment to all his fellows for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him. I chose this piece because it seems that they didn't go against anything that God had did.

In America we invite in immigrants but too many can be over bearing. In this cartoon you see a Tsunami being represented as the amount of immigrants we are receiving. In America today, there is a huge amount of legal and nonlegal immigrants which in turn affect the population. Also in the cartoon you see Lady Liberty saying "Give me your tired,your poor.". This is pretty much an open armed invitation for people to come into America. We send out our help but there are certain limitations because you have to be legally in America.

Reflection
After reading Anne Bradstreet's poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband" it showed how lonely and depressed she felt when her husband was away.Also in "In Reference to her Children" it really that same insecurity sense of without the comfort of her children. I think that Anne Bradstreet never felt safe around anyone else but her loving husband and her children.

Anne Bradstreet suffers a great loss when now that her children are all leaving the nest. in this cartoon you see a mom giving her child to the daycare lady. The child is crying don't go but the mother feels suffocated by so much love. This would represent the opposite of Anne Bradstreet because she felt insecure when she was alone.

In Edward Taylor's "Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God"he uses a tone of fear to scare church goers into thinking that they are all sinners going to hell.