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Exemplify how, when a man off a boat loses (or nearly loses) his life, that event is interpreted differently, but in ways consistent with their era's ideology, by Captain John Smith, William Bradford, and Ben Franklin. Captain John Smith was a "southern planter/colonial writer." He did not believe as much in the will of God and the whole belief that everything happened according to the Lord. William Bradford on the other hand, described two different incidents with men overboard. One incident was with a "mean and nasty sailor." The pilgrims were sick and hungry and the sailor did nothing but be mean to the people aboard the ship. Finally he died and was basically thrown overboard. That shows that God did not deem him worthy of life. His next example was of a pilgrim who fell overboard in a sea storm. He was somehow able to get back onto the ship and he became a Puritan after that, believing strongly in God and holding God as the reason he survived. Finally, Ben Franklin wanted "moral perfection." A man fell overboard because he was drunk and Franklin saved him because morally, that's the right thing to do. 4. Read the following excerpt from a letter written by the famous Eighteenth century American naturalist and scientist William Bartrum. Then, explain the ways in which this letter is typically neoclassic. You query which of the tribes of Indians I have visited are the most polished in their religion, in their manners, in their language, and in their government. If adopting the manners and imitating the customs of the white people is to be termed as civilization, perhaps the Cherokees have made the greatest advance. But I presume, if we are to form and establish our judgments from the opinions and rules laid down by the greatest doctors of morality, philosophers, and divines, either of the ancients or moderns, the Muscogulges must have approbation and engage our esteem. Their religion is, perhaps, as pure as that which was in the beginning revealed to the first families of mankind. They have no notion or conception of any other God but the Great Spirit on high, the giver and taker away of the breath of life; which is as much as to say that eternal Supreme Being who created and governs the universe.
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