Does Bradstreet's poetry reveal faith bringing prosperity to her life?

     Anne Bradstreet was known for her faith in God and wrote about it in many of her works. She was a loving mother and wife, but she also endured her times of trouble and doubt. She wrote about a lot of her trials and tribulations, and contributed the pain and sin to being weak in her faith.
     In her poem "The Flesh and the Spirit" she compared twins as night and day, good and evil. Flesh being the sister that lives life too fast and forgets that God or (a higher sphere) has a plan for them. She is dreaming  and in search of materialistic things instead of filling her soul with righteousness, as Bradstreet reveals:

         "Then let not go what thou maist find

          For things unknown only in mind" (http://www.annebradstreet.com/the_flesh_and_the_spirit.htm)

    Spirit is the complete opposite, having good morals and living life right, or at least trying too. Living life calm and at peace with meditation and knows glory comes from up above.

         "Thy sinful pleasures I do hate,

          Thy riches are to me to bait.

          Thine honours do, nor will I love,

          For my ambition lies above." (http://www.annebradstreet.com/the_flesh_and_the_spirit.htm)

     Bradstreet revealed in the stanza above, all the pleasures we dwell in and tempt us to do bad are instruments used as bait. And to cure ourselves from being lost in temptation, we are suppose to keep our spirit open to God, because with God good things are to come. She begins to further reveal prosperity through faith when in "To My Dear and Loving Husband", she says "The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray." She was saying how much she loved her husband and she prayed the heavens rewarded her for having a strong faith and carrying out God's plan. (Line 10)

     The enlightening "To My Dear Children" is where she really revealed a lot about her faith and battles with good and evil. She revealed how she lived a life where she could not keep evil on her soul and always had to pray til she was relieved of the pain. She tells her children that she had to pray and pray until she was blessed with a child. (http://mith.umd.edu/eada/html/display.php?docs=bradstreet_tomydearchildren.xml&action=show)

     I believe through Anne Bradstreet's writings she revealed that in her life she got where she was through faith in God. The bad she encountered, she realized it and confessed and as she did so she began to prosper in life. So with the ups and downs, she began to realize and reveal in her works to stay on the path of righteousness, prayer is the way. Let God guide your footsteps is what I feel she tried to live by, and it guided her to prosperity and the knowing that after her death, her writings lives on.

WATCH this video, its a poet that expresses feeling about religion, good vs evil, and life, and ties in with Anne Bradstreet's way of letting God guide.

         

         

Were John Smith's goals the reason for Jamestown's success?

John Smith's Goals -----

• Encourage a policy for farming to replenishing food for the colony.
• Enforce a strict code pf discipline.
• Strengthen Defense.

John Smith is well known from his part in the Disney movie Pocahontas, but he is also known for his leadership in shaping the new world and the colony of Jamestown. Jamestown was a colony set up, at that time in 1607 for Englishmen and boys to go out and search the new world for gold, in hopes for coming up successful like the Spaniards in South America. 144 total people came over on the initial voyage to the New World, Virginia to be exact. Doing little farming since they were sent out to search for gold, the colony began to suffer as food diminished and the harsh winter struck the colonist along with malaria, a serious disease.
After the first year, 38 people were left from the original 144, then John Smith brings his leadership to save the colony from perishing. He was very strict and had the motto "Work or Starve", and anybody hearing those words would be smart to follow the motto as code. He also made it rule that every person had to spend four hours farming each day, which began to replenish the food. In 1609, John Smith had to return to England after a gun powder incident. He would never return to the colony.
History shows that John Smith was the reason for Jamestown's success due to the fact the goals he set out to accomplish improved the colony a full year leading up to his departure. The colony was on the verge of perishing and being executed by the Powhatan tribe. Smith becoming a subordinate chief in the tribe can be credited with keeping the Powhatan's from attacking the colony. And even after his departure he still promoted the further colonization of Virginia. He encourage more men and woman to follow and go to Virginia, convincing everyone that the new world was the "land of opportunity."
John Smith did receive another chance to return to the New World, but not Virginia, he made a successful voyage to Maine and the Massachusetts Bay area, and he named it New England. It would be his last successful trip to the New World. 

More Information on John Smith and the colonization of the New World can be found in the links below:

http://www.ushistory.org/us/2c.asp

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-johnsmith.html

Below is a video about the Jamestown Colony, a lot of great facts:

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