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Blog Post # 10.. Men Can Not Enlightened Other Men, Only God Gives That True Light                    This course has enlightened me, by showing me that the world has gotten worse than it was  during the Restoration Period. During the Restoration Period they presented the same false hope that is being presented today. Just like back then, men continue to build their lives off of the pattern the that other men have drawn up. This is what we call deception, sort like what most company's do in their commercials when they give us a false image of what they are presenting.  Then once w e finally purchase the item, we then realize that they had lied to us. Everybody plays the fool, when we put or trust in man. From the time in the 18th century even until this very day, whenever you are led by other men, you are heading for destruction. I'm not mad with the president of the U.S., because this who are citizens choice as our leader. Just like President Trump was molded into t
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Post # 9..............."His-tory Repeats Itself"

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We are not animals, so do not treat us that way. This is the way many felt during the Revolutionary Period. The government was the puppet master and it ruled and controlled all men. The law enslaved men, forbidding men from being human. Men had no freedom, their freedom was tied into the dictatorship of the law. This was the nature of men, and in today's society things are somewhat the same. The law still enslaves most men. The power of the is to keep men at bay, just like animals. Society is only allowed to do what the law allows. Freedom is not a choice. The law was a legal system input by the power men in government to enslave men. John Locke thought that men by nature should govern themselves and not be governed by other men, which was a form of slavery. This is the same system that exists in today's society. Men are enslaved by the system that the government imputed, which shows that history repeats itself. Now David Hume, on-the-other-hand, saw things different.
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       I believe that Henry Fielding and Jonathan Swift would have been very critical of social media today. They would have been deeply involved in the political satire of the president and how he belittles and constantly attacks the poor and needy. Especially Swift, who was very politically active during his lifetime. Swift saw the poverty and misusing of the poor during his era. He wrote about the poor conditions of poor women and their children. He expressed how the women offered up their children as if they were food for the wealthy. Swift compared the poor children to meals being served to the wealthy. The poor had no choice in their lives, and there was no way for them to escape poverty. "A Modest Proposal", exposed the greed of society and their feelings for the poor. The poor gave up their children in order to feed their children. They begged almost their entire lives in order to survive from day to day. The poor had no chance of moving up in class, this was a tat
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Academic writing is like being in the military. You have to have everything lined up in the correct format, and if not, you get penalized harshly. I hate writing for a grade, because what you write is judged based on someone else's point of view. Every time I drop an assignment in the drop box, my heart races with stress, because I'm about to be judged and criticized on my writing. Academic writing is similar to man writing a letter to his wife and kids from jail. He has to be very careful with every words he writes on the paper, because certain words can be used against him, which may cause his letter to be rejected. Just like jail writing, academic writing has so many rules and formats, that makes you want to pull out your hair for each assignment. This type of writing keeps the writer from being free. Just as Dr. Samuel Johnson was a "Jack of many trades," so am I, but with handcuffs on. Johnson was very versatile in his writing. Because of his social and
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"Guilty", was the verdict of most women that could not read, because they simply were not allowed to. Most married women depended on their husbands to be their voice. Their husband were the ones that read and did the politicking. It was not a  necessity for women to learn to read. Since the women had no voice, men were able to write what the wanted to write about them, and nothing would be said. The men could joke and criticize them as much as they wanted to, because the women had no defense. So, how could the women be charged with writing incorrectly, when they were not allowed to write or read. "I'm incorrect: the learned say that I write well, but not their way." So, how could the men really judge the women, when the women were not allowed to use their voice to fight back. If only the women had a chance to express themselves and fight back, would the men back into corners out of fear of being expose themselves. The women were literally ghost writers,
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Blog #5 Aphra Behn was trying to understand men of color, but she chose a certain kind of colored men. She wanted the glory in her documentary, because her heart was on her assignement and not on her subject. This is the way the Americans looked at African and any other race that wanted white. All races other than white, were prospects for future captivity. "Far from condemning slavery, however, Behn seems to take its existence for granted … The enslavement of Oroonoko and his companions is lamented because it is based on the kind of treacherous overreaching practiced by tradesmen, but slavery itself is condoned … The narrator (Behn) objects to the royal class of people being enslaved, not to the act of enslavement itself." Behn never really saw slavery as a bad thing. she looked at slavery as a way of life. Slavery was just another way Americans stole and sold to become wealthy. This was not her fault, she only believe what she was taught by her parents. She looked a Oroon
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Trying to Think a New Way With the Same Permanent Mindset Blog #4     Is it possible for a rabbit to think like a lion thinks? Can a slave become a master to his master and the master becomes a slave?     John Locke came up with a "New Way of Thinking" for humans, but for which humans? This is the question that I ask myself, because poor people existed at an all time as it does in today's society. I know that he came up with this "natural law", that exist through your life's own experience. But my question is how can the poor think any different than a poor man, when all he knows is poverty, and all of his life's experiences are hardship and pain. I notice that life repeats itself, because the wealthy and rich today think the same way that Locke thought during his time. They encourage every to think positive and do good, and to take their past and use it to better themselves and make life more peaceable and easy to live. This is much easier
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