i DO love the puritans and the pilgrims
I am eating chips and sitting around and Ximena is doing Italian and Zoe is reading my Puritan paper. Loveliness.
I need a topic for my seminar paper. It's a pretty broad range, just somehow relating to how Americans structure their lives and how it relates to politics/society/etc, probably in the 17th-19th centuries. I may do something with the Puritans again, though that is broad. Puritans and... membership? bounds on society? I feel like it's all so overdone. And my mother sent me a call for papers on politeness and civility, which we've talked a lot about in my class. Something about how civility is of higher importance at times of great social upheaval, to preserve stability and to provide a means of civil discourse in a time when people are more likely to disagree. And... I dunno, stuff.
Mink has his office hours tomorrow morning, so I'll stop by I guess and be incoherent and hope he tells me something inspiring.
I watched the History Channel program on the Mayflower last night. It was nothing really that I hadn't read already, but seeing them run around and Winslow looking irritating and pushing some Wapanoag's moccasins out of his face as he tried to sleep. They didn't explain the whole part where the Wapanoags would hum themselves to sleep and thus kept Winslow and Hopkins up half the night, though the reenactors did hum. It also made me tear up at the end, because-- confession-- I am a sucker for basic screen manipulation through use of dramatic music and inspiring shots and trite narration about Bradford becoming a father figure of his own and honoring his agreement with Massasoit all his days etc.
And then I remembered that the Pilgrims were crazy mofos who wanted to split with the Church of England and printed seditious pamplets about Christmas. OI, CHRISTIAN RIGHT! If you are looking for the Warriors On Christmas, you may want to start with some English folks in Holland, early 1600s. Anywho.
I need a topic for my seminar paper. It's a pretty broad range, just somehow relating to how Americans structure their lives and how it relates to politics/society/etc, probably in the 17th-19th centuries. I may do something with the Puritans again, though that is broad. Puritans and... membership? bounds on society? I feel like it's all so overdone. And my mother sent me a call for papers on politeness and civility, which we've talked a lot about in my class. Something about how civility is of higher importance at times of great social upheaval, to preserve stability and to provide a means of civil discourse in a time when people are more likely to disagree. And... I dunno, stuff.
Mink has his office hours tomorrow morning, so I'll stop by I guess and be incoherent and hope he tells me something inspiring.
I watched the History Channel program on the Mayflower last night. It was nothing really that I hadn't read already, but seeing them run around and Winslow looking irritating and pushing some Wapanoag's moccasins out of his face as he tried to sleep. They didn't explain the whole part where the Wapanoags would hum themselves to sleep and thus kept Winslow and Hopkins up half the night, though the reenactors did hum. It also made me tear up at the end, because-- confession-- I am a sucker for basic screen manipulation through use of dramatic music and inspiring shots and trite narration about Bradford becoming a father figure of his own and honoring his agreement with Massasoit all his days etc.
And then I remembered that the Pilgrims were crazy mofos who wanted to split with the Church of England and printed seditious pamplets about Christmas. OI, CHRISTIAN RIGHT! If you are looking for the Warriors On Christmas, you may want to start with some English folks in Holland, early 1600s. Anywho.