The information presented in the presentation are from the book of Outline of the American Literature written by VanSpanckeren, Kathryn.

1. Prepared by:
Erika Panganiban
BSED – Eng1231

2. 
 begins with the orally transmitted
myths, legends, tales and lyrics of
Indian cultures
 oral literature is quite diverse
 maintained their religion

3.   the government ranged from democracies
to councils of elders to theocracies
 Indian stories glow with reverence for
nature as a spiritual as well as physical
mother
 old world spiritual narratives are often
accounts of shamans’ initiations and
voyages

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5. 
 the first European
record of
exploration in
America is in a
Scandinavian
language

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7.  Columbus faked
the ships’ logs so
the men would
not know how
much farther they
had travelled
than anyone had
gone before.
 first sighting of
land as they
neared America
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8.  Bartolome de las Casas – richest
source of information about the
early contact 
between American
Indians and Europeans
 transcribed Columbus’s journal
 vivid History of the Indians
criticizing their enslavement by the
Spanish

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First Landfall: San Salvador
 Second Landfall: Cuba
 Third Landfall: Hispaniola

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11. 
In Jamestown:
 became involved with the Virginia
Company of London plans to
colonize Virginia for profit
 charged with munity
 Jamestown site as a location for
colony

12. 
English colonists were killed and
John Smith was taken to Chief
Powhatan.
captured by Indian leader
Powhatan and almost put to death
 saved by Pocahontas

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New England:
 returned to the Americas in a voyage to
the coasts of Maine and Massachusetts
Bay
 captured by French pirates off the coast
of the Azores
 escaped after weeks of captivity and
made his way back to England

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15. 
 a clear and compelling account of the colony’s
beginning
 First book: focuses mainly on the journey of the
pilgrims from England to North America and
discusses the founding of the Plymouth
settlement
 Second book: not completely finished because of
Bradford's death, struggles of the pilgrims in
North America in day-to-day living and his
concerns about the health and spiritual welfare of
the colonists.

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If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay,
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere
That when we live no more, we may live ever.

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19. 
Make me, O Lord, thy Spining Wheele compleate.
Thy Holy Worde my Distaff make for mee.
Make mine Affections thy Swift Flyers neate
And make my Soule thy holy Spoole to bee.
My Conversation make to be thy Reele
And reele the yarn thereon spun of thy Wheele.

20. 
Make me thy Loome then, knit therein this Twine:
And make thy Holy Spirit, Lord, winde quills:
Then weave the Web thyselfe. The yarn is fine.
Thine Ordinances make my Fulling Mills.
Then dy the same in Heavenly Colours Choice,
All pinkt with Varnisht Flowers of Paradise.

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Then cloath therewith mine Understanding, Will,
Affections, Judgment, Conscience, Memory
My Words, and Actions, that their shine may fill
My wayes with glory and thee glorify.
Then mine apparell shall display before yee
That I am Cloathd in Holy robes for glory.

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23. 
Ten considerations:
1. God may cast wicked men into hell at any given
moment.
2. The Wicked deserve to be cast into hell. Divine justice
does not prevent God from destroying the Wicked at
any moment.
3. The Wicked, at this moment, suffer under God's
condemnation to Hell.

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4. The Wicked, on earth - at this very moment - suffer the
torments of Hell. The Wicked must not think, simply because
they are not physically in Hell, that God (in Whose hand the
Wicked now reside) is not - at this very moment - as angry
with them as He is with those miserable creatures He
is now tormenting in hell, and who - at this very moment - do
feel and bear the fierceness of His wrath.
5. At any moment God shall permit him, Satan stands ready
to fall upon the Wicked and seize them as his own.

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6. If it were not for God's restraints, there are, in the souls of
wicked men, hellish principles reigning which, presently,
would kindle and flame out into hellfire.
7. Simply because there are not visible means of death before
them at any given moment, the Wicked should not feel
secure.
8. Simply because it is natural to care for oneself or to think
that others may care for them, men should not think
themselves safe from God's wrath.

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9. All that wicked men may do to save themselves from
Hell's pains shall afford them nothing if they continue
to reject Christ.
10. God has never promised to save us from Hell,
except for those contained in Christ through the
covenant of Grace.