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The aim of a philosopher 's theory is his plan. In chapter 1 of Introducing Philosophy, it discussed how God had a plan for all humans and how he gave them a set of guidelines to help them stay away from the evils of the world. In the book, The Beautiful Struggle, The father’s aim for all of his children was to grow up and become like him. He showed his aim by supplying them with black literature, black music, and black culture which showed them the importance of race. He did this in hoping it will lead them to become black activists like him. The father believed his aim for his children was right because he knew it would help them become educated strong black people.The black literature, that the father gave to his children, resembled God’s commandments. They both used scripture to help them guide their children on to the right path. A philosopher’s aim can be misguided by his follower’s actions. God’s children rebelled against him when they chose to sin. The environment around one of God’s follower can play a big role in how a follower will act in certain situations. If sin surrounds them, they may be more likely to stray away from God’s aim. In the book, The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-Nehisi Coates strayed away from his father’s aim when he had been kicked out of …show more content…

God’s followers are surrounded by sin every day which can shape the way they see the world. Many of them choose to conform to society which means they also conform to all the sins that their society has. By conforming to society’s sins, they then stray further and further away from God’s aim. In the book, The Beautiful struggle, Big Bill strayed away from his father’s aim because of societal influences. Big Bill grew up in a world where he thought fighting was his only way out. He always acted tough so no one would try to hurt him. In this case, toughness/ courage was a vice because he used it for getting into fights with other

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Throughout the book, Douglass shares his experiences to show how the white slave owners abused the bible. The slave owners who participated in religious activities were the ones who treated slaves the worst. Douglass had a slave owner named Mr. Auld who possessed cruel, hypocritical characteristics. Mr. Auld was a discriminative man that did not allow his slaves to have a freedom of religion. During Douglass’s time with Mr. Auld, Douglass attended a Sabbath school which taught slaves how to read the bible.

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Auld’s misinterpretation of the passage emphasizes slave owners use of religion to reinforce their power over their slaves. Christianity rationalized the concept of buying and selling human beings, and that God approved this too. In addition, Douglass used religion as a way to fuel his abolition movement. Under Master Hugh’s, Douglass began to learn how to read and write. Once

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I you but ‘We and Us”.their were all in one as brothers that were equal. equality was taught the same as all his brothers he thinks that writing this paper is a sin because as said in the book pg 17 “It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper.” in his society

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Du Bois uses many different ways to target the reader. His main purpose in “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”, is to educate mistreated Africans American about demanding equality and rights that were promised to them around the time of the Emancipation Proclamation. Du Bois uses different types of literary devices (mostly personifications) and firsthand accounts stories about injustice to make his point to the reader. For example, Du Bois states, “Will America be poorer if she replaces her brutal dyspeptic blundering with light-hearted but determined Negro humility?” (Du Bois 297).

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Christianity was, to the slaves of America, (something with a double meaning). In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, Frederick Douglass, the author, argues about how Christianity can mean one thing to a free white man and something completely different to a black slave. The slave owners follow the ‘Christianity of the Land’ while the slaves follow the ‘Christianity of Christ.’ Frederick begins to build his credibility to a, white, northern, audience by including documents from trustworthy writers and by getting into personal experiences through his writing. Throughout the narrative, he is articulate in how he writes, and it shows the reader that he is well educated.

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The distinction of the people by their color is nothing the Lord and Master had taught, as “the American preachers appeal unto God, the Maker and Searcher of hearts tell him, with the Bible in their hands, that they make no distinction on account of men’s colour.” Nothing in the Bible had differentiated one man’s color to the other, nor said one to be superior to the other. Walker debated, “what right then one of us, to despise another and to treat him cruel, on account of his colour, which none, but the God who made it can alter.” There is no justification for the black’s inferiority or them coming from a different biological origin as the whites proclaimed. As Walker argued, there are no rights to differentiate men alike from each other based on color and treat them any less humane.

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