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As a Portuguese Water Dog that does not serve as a working dog like my ancestors, but strictly as a companion, I could not help but realize how the focus of lives have greatly changed over the course of hundreds of years. Times have changed ever since the separation of church and state, and so have people’s views of religion and commitment to these religions. Upon the Burning of Our House, by Anne Bradstreet, is a Puritan poem that takes a look into the life of a devoted Puritan Christian that places all her faith in God. Although the Puritans valued centering their whole lives around God and believed all things were done through his will, this is something we do not see nearly as often today. The daily values discussed in Bradstreet’s poem were directly linked to God, and the hardships and losses the narrator faced were comforted by her belief  that “It was His own, it was not mine” (line 17). On the contrary to the common modern approach of dealing with loss and destruct...

The other day I was doing a little thinking during one of my naps about  Christopher  Columbus and  Indigenous  People. After straining to stay on task,   the  mis representation  these people face in our holidays and history textbooks became apparent .   It's  disgusting. Native Americans deserve far more representation and respect than they receive now. This is  especially true considering how such a cruel man as Columbus can have a whole day to himself (7 whole days if we're talking in dog years) . If Columbus can have his own special day, how come " the thousands of years of indigenous civilization that existed before European colonization , " are practically ignored in textbooks and do not have their own  holiday  ( Donnella )?   These are the     people that are responsible for first living in North America and were mistreated  by  white   men .  You  see, the truth about...