Through politics Chuck met and watched many people believe in Christ. Tom Philips, one of Chuck’s former colleagues, accepted Christ to be his Lord and savior. He told Chuck Colson that he had been to a Billy Graham rally and while there that he surrendered his life to God. One night Tom invited the
Mary Dyer was born in England in 1611. She married William Dyer and went to Massachusetts in 1635. She was a good friend with Anne Hutchinson and shared the same views; they were Quakers. She was the mother of 8 children, two died shortly after birth. Mary had a stillborn daughter that was deformed and they buried in secret, because it was believer that either if a women preached or listen to a woman preacher their child would be deformed or that the deformed child was consequences of the parents sins.
William Bradford also mentions how the christians acted differently when the others needed care and love. “There was but six or seven persons, who… spared no pains, night nor day, but abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed them meat, made their beds, washed their
Some of the worst forms of malice come from love. Abigail Williams from The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a great example of this. Abigail is a young girl who was caught practicing witchcraft in order to make John only love her. In the puritan times this would mean death. So, to combat this she calls multiple townspeople witches, saying she had seen them with the devil.
From being accepted to accompany the explores on the journey, to being key for trade for them, to doing it all with a new born child on her back. Sacagawea was truly a remarkable woman at such a young age, between 16 and 17 years old, risking her life to help these men to travel across country, and yet receive nothing in
Two Seneca siblings watched as their other sister attempted to learn the language of their people. Mary Jemison was certainly different, but to the sisters, she was family. Even without the bondage of blood between them, they found a connection between two cultures that was different. They both remembered many years ago when Mary was taken in by two Seneca masters, and by this, they learned to love her.
On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth. On July 7, 1865, Mary Elizabeth Surratt was hanged with charges of aiding the assassins. Owner of a boarding house in Washington D.C. during the Civil War, she was thought to have previously owned a safe house for the Confederates underground. Though she had a quiet childhood and normal marriage, her life took an unexpected turn for the worse by the year of 1861. Surratt was a Confederate sympathizer and often housed rebel spies, which did not help her in the trial.
Booker T. Washington and Harriet Jacobs are two black historical figure. Booker was born on April 5, 1856 and died on November 14,1915 and Harriet was born on February 11, 1813 and died in March 7, 1897. In the movie Booker, it shows the early life of Booker and showed the ending of the Civil War and the effects. It also showed how hard booker had to work to get education. Doing my research on both of them I realized there are some difference and some similarities.
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become old” (Stoppard). Susan was born in Springfield, Illinois, on October 13, 1862. She was known as Susan by many, but her real name was Sue C., later changed to Sue Caroline, and nicknamed Susie. Her parents names were Rehuna Lawrence (R.D.) and Mary Lawrence (Volkmann 1). She was an only child.
Although Catharine Sedgwick and Anne Bradstreet lived about two centuries apart I found that Sedgwick mirrored some of the same themes that Bradstreet had in her literary works. They both discussed religion,sickness,family values, and also feminism frequently. One similarity between Sedgwick and Bradstreet was that they were both pious women. Sedgwick a calvinist and Bradstreet a Puritan. Sedgwick mentions a few different religions in her novel: Calvinists, Methodists, and Quakers.
Lastly, Tim Ferriss and Carol Dweck are completely different in their interest. Tim is more interest in being an active person and enjoying doing any extraordinary physical performance. For instance, he talks about instead of doing ordinary tasks, performing extraordinary work is what he is considering doing. In other words, Ferriss is an active man that bears an extraordinary mind that will allow him to do unusual hobbies. Tim 's hobbies will make him satisfied by accomplishing them because that is what he lives for.
He grew up in a Christian home and accepted Jesus Christ at a young age. After accepting Jesus Christ as his saviour at a young age, Bonnke's passion for spreading the gospel of Christ was ignited, leading him to pursue a path that would impact millions of lives around the world.
Ellsworth Toohey and Gail Wynand played great roles as antagonists in the novel called The Fountainhead. Both of them spent much of their lives seeking a very selective form of truth which was a lie. They tried to control human thoughts, change people's points of view, and have superiority over others lives. But their quest for power wasn’t the same as both of their personality was unique.
One last thing to draw out from their lives is that they both put their whole life into their ministry. It wasn't a half hearted effort, they both suffered
Although they went through hard times they believed in was all apart of God’s greater plan and never lost
