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    Chapter 1 (I) 1. Hawthorne calling the colony a “utopia” is him being sarcastic and mocking society because society is anything but perfect. The founders of the colony are in a false pretense that their colony will be just as they visualize it with everything flawless and perfect. This is what they think yet their first step in their utopia is to make a cemetery and a prison. A cemetery represents death, so the founders are already expecting death to come before their colony has even begun. A prison

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    Reading ' 'The Scarlet Letter ' ' again, I imagine Hester Prynne as she steps out of the Boston jail. She carries her out-of-wedlock baby in her arms but does not hide the ' 'A ' ' she wears on her breast. Her crime, though it will never be named in the book by more than an initial, is placed on exhibition. Yet she has converted the letter into her own statement by fantastic flourishes of gold embroidery. She is a mystery beyond the reach not only of her fellow Bostonians but also of the reader

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    and started to greet with everyone. After greeting, and everyone taking one paper out of the box and hold done to it until everyone has got chance to draw a paper. Then everyone open their paper and Mr hucchintion got the paper. Then, Tessie Hutchinson, mr. hutchinson’s wife started to protest that her husband did not get enough time to chose s paper. Then, Mr. Summer gave

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    Scarlet Letter, and this is evident as early as the first chapter. The passage pertaining to a rosebush in particular contains many instances of figurative language, as the rose-bush had been “kept alive in history” and may have existed because Ann Hutchinson entered the prison door. Hawthorne directly tells the reader that he wants the

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    in order to carry out said order were often violent and through the persecution of those who were not Puritan, similar to the way the Anglicans treated them. One of the most notable examples of this institutional violence was that of Anne Hutchinson. Hutchinson was a preacher who challenged the fundamental concept of predestination, which was the principle that God had already selected those who were going to heaven and those who were going to hell. While many Puritans considered predestination

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    Book Analysis: Divine Rebel (Anne Hutchinson) Final Draft In U.S. history the roles of society were decide by gender, men’s role was mostly the same throughout history, but the women’s role changed slowly over time. There was many women who were fighting to change their roles and one such woman is Anne Marbury Hutchinson. In “Divine Rebel” Selma R. Williams tells the story of Anne Hutchinson, who was a Puritan woman of the late 1500s, and researched informations was hard to find. There was a movement

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    The Threat of Anne Hutchinson Questions: What had Anne Hutchinson done? Why was Anne Hutchinson such a threat to the Massachusetts Bay colony? How was Anne Hutchinson's trial an ordeal for her and how was it an ordeal for the community? Anne Hutchinson, for centuries now, has been seen as a woman who paved the way for religious freedom. She was a great leader in the cause for religious toleration in America and the advancement of women in society. Anne Hutchinson was "a magnetic woman

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    the Boston Church after they immigrated to Massachusetts. After William became a fee man of the Bay colony, he became involved with a lot of public relations and soon had a lot of importance among the people. (Notable Women Ancestors) Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer were friends. Mary and her husband supported Anne in the antinomian controversy, which was “One of the most

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    As of July 1, 2017, there are an estimate of 2,907,289 people living in the state of Kansas. Out of those 2,907,289 , an estimate of 41,310 live in Hutchinson, Kansas (UCR Publications, 2012 ). Hutchinson, Kansas is one of the 13 cities that make up Reno County, it’s also one of the biggest cities amongst these counties. Due to it being one of the biggest; it also brings more numbers when it comes to crimes. The information researched was from a 10-year time span comparing the crimes from 2006 until

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    Violence carries several meanings. It is commonly defined as an action causing pain, suffering or destruction, but can also refer to a great force, or an injustice, a wrong. Actually, violence is not only physical, it may also imply a moral dimension. In other words, it plays both on the field of the outer and inner worlds. In all cases, violence stages a relation between domination and subjection which are entangled in it. In The Scarlet Letter, violence seems to be the leading string of the plot:

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