Write a 2 pages paper on jonathan edwards. Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards, one of the most important philosophical theologians of America, has been famous as a philosopher as well as a missionary and is positioned among the greatest ever intellectual personalities of the nation.

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Write a 2 pages paper on jonathan edwards. Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards, one of the most important philosophical theologians of America, has been famous as a philosopher as well as a missionary and is positioned among the greatest ever intellectual personalities of the nation. He was born in East Windsor on the 5th of October 1703 in a puritan evangelical family as the fifth child of Rev. Timothy, a minister and Esther Edward. Christian theology, Bible, Classics and ancient languages were the subjects of his childhood studies (Jonathan Edwards: Biography). As a child, inquisitiveness was an observable character of Edward and he wrote two essays on the habits of flying spider and the nature of soul even at the age of ten. He was very much interested in different areas of science, ideologies and thoughts and especially in the world of philosophy (Sander-Cederlof, 1974). Edwards became very well aware of all the modern philosophical and theological issues and became familiar with the writing of John Locke and his ‘Essay concerning human understanding’ especially influenced Edward during the period of his study at Yale College. The ideological clashes and arguments between the orthodox Calvinism and its challenging movements such as Deism, Arianism and Angilical Arminianism were included in his studies along with such ideas as British Empiricism and continental Rationalism which were originated in Europe (Jonathan Edwards: Biography). Edwards was dedicated to express his innovative ideas in front of the great personalities of the Enlightenment. He synthesized protestant theology with Newton’s physics, the third earl of Shaftesbury’s aesthetics, Locke’s psychology and Malebranche’s moral philosophy and thereby provided a recasting to Calvinism. Metaphysics and natural philosophy were the other important areas of his interest and one could find his exclusive writings on this topics. He formulated an idealistic metaphysical system in order to challenge the Aristotelianism and he countered the anticipation of Hobbes and Descartes regarding their ideas on theoretical physics. His metaphysical theory possesses beauty as an aesthetic element in it and he considered it as an important feature of an entity (Jonathan Edwards: Biography). Jonathan Edwards as a revival preacher, philosopher and theologian has contributed much to the New English society. As a result of the great awakening experienced during the period 1740-41, a number of new churches were built in order to occupy the new converts. But Edwards was in favor of limiting the church membership only to the truly born again and this resulted in expelling him from his own church. He expected any of the churches to call him back but it did not happen. thus, he went to a village at Massachusetts to work as a missionary and there he led a poor life for eight years and this was the period when he wrote most of his famous theological books (Sander-Cederlof, 1974). some of his major works include ‘A Faithful Narrating of the Surprising Work of Goad’, ‘Charity and its Fruits’, Concerning the End for which God Created the World’, ‘Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God’, ‘Freedom of the Will’, ‘The Nature of True Virtue’, and ‘Original Sin’. In the year 1757 Jonathan Edwards was invited by some his followers to be the president of their newly stated college at Princeton. He arrived at Princeton in February 1758 to undertake new responsibilities and took vaccination against small pocks which was spreading over the town. The vaccination resulted in fever and he departed on 22nd of March 1758 after a month of troubling illness. As Griffin puts in “Edward proved himself a prophet in ways no one had anticipated. The paradoxical nature of his death is somehow apt, for odd turns constantly mark the story of his life: a rise that leads to a fall, which turns out to be a blessing, which leads to a further, but reluctantly accept blessing, which proves instead a catastrophe in disguise” (Griffin, 1971, p.16). References Griffin, Edward M. (1971). Jonathan Edwards. U of Minnesota Press. Jonathan Edwards: Biography. The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University. Retrieved March 9, 2011 from: http://edwards.yale.edu/research/about-edwards/biography Sander-Cederlof, Bob. (1974). Jonathan Edwards. In Ten Christian Men from 1500 to 1800. Retrieved March 9, 2011 from: http://www.txbobsc.com/xianbios/edwards.

prepare and submit a paper on in the character of gatsby, fitzgerald holds the idea of the american dream up to ridicule.

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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on in the character of gatsby, fitzgerald holds the idea of the american dream up to ridicule. with reference to appropriately sele. But when Gatsby returned from the war to New York with riches and a newfound power, he was able to grab hold of the American dream. This dream that became a reality, however, seemed to sell Gatsby short, as he tragically found that his newly acquired wealth and social status – as well as the girl of his dreams, Daisy Buchanan – could not purchase his happiness. In fact, this dream came at the price of his good character, and ultimately, his life. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby in this novel to represent what went wrong with America – a society in the Roaring Twenties that turned its back on morals and integrity to embrace wealth, prestige, parties, immorality and alcohol – ingredients not for happiness and fulfillment, but for loneliness and despair. Fitzgerald begins dismantling the heightened image of the American dream through the character and narrator, Nick Caraway, who often describes and characterizes Gatsby during his quest for Daisy, respect, and acceptance. Unlike most of the other characters in the novel, however, Nick sees through Gatsby’s supposed fulfillment and satisfaction, and does not envy the “great Gatsby,” who is praised and idolized by the indulgent materialistic crowds that gather at his mansion to party and drink. This lifestyle that society was told to buy into did not appeal to Nick, “Gatsby turned out all right in the end. it was what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the aborted sorrows and short-winded elations of men,” (Fitzgerald 6). Instead of seeing Gatsby as a high-paying consumer, Nick sees Gatsby as the one who was being consumed by the price of having to pay dearly to reach his costly dreams, which will ultimately cost him his life. Nick saw through the false promises of happiness to be attained by pursuing and reaching the American dream, and he notes that any satisfaction or happiness gleaned as a result is shallow and short-lived. Early on, the reader witnesses that the ideals of glitz, glamour, prestige, promiscuity, and all the trappings of what became known as the high society in the Roaring Twenties is not what it is cut out to be. Even though Gatsby and the high-brow company he keeps are characterized as living the American dream, the author uses Nick to show the true depravity of those who jump on board to live for this flawed concept. Nick actually calls Gatsby out, telling him exactly what he thinks about those who believe that they have reached the top of the ladder in life, “They’re a rotten crowd . . . You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together,” (Fitzgerald 162). Through Nick, Fitzgerald shows that Gatsby and all the partying elite with which he surrounds himself are morally depraved – even though they hold themselves up as being above the rest of society (that has not achieved the American dream). Nick even sets himself apart from Gatsby and his wealthy revelers, noting that virtuous behavior is far from what those chasing after the American dream possess, “Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known,” (Fitzgerald 64).

The Jataka Story

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2-3 paragraph, explain lesson the story is trying to convey.  Examine the author‘s social commentary. Example, what we can learn about the author’s Opinion of Brahim’s, gender roles, & signs of society in decline?

The Jataka Story

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2-3 paragraph, explain lesson the story is trying to convey.  Examine the author‘s social commentary. Example, what we can learn about the author’s Opinion of Brahim’s, gender roles, & signs of society in decline?