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American Self-Making and Self-Help, By Mike Nannini - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Mary Rowlandson. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
        
        Rowlandson believes that God's grace and providence shape the events of the world
        
        Shares ideas on God doing certain things for the elect and punishing people due to not elect
    - - an early Puritan leader whose vision for a godly commonwealth created the basis for an established religion
      - “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630)
      - "We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us."
  - - - Skeptical Christian, Believe in God, but does not believe in the extreme values that some possess at this time.
- - - - This quote is powerful to me because we can see that this is where the great men who are respomnsile for the foundation of our country draw the line and declare independence and say that they will go to war for it.
      - The semi-colon separates the United States from being under British rule to completely independent
  - - - leaders of the Revolution that brought independence to Great Britain's American colonies in the late 18th century
  - - - Responsible for the many freedoms in which we expirince to this day
    - - Prime sees the opportunity t try something that would be better than any form of government in the current world something which would result in a ton of freedom
- - - - Auto-biorgtraphy on self help and how to be successful
      - How Ben Franklin accumulated his wealth nand became the successful man that he is. Includes his ideas of not drinking, making money, and many more
      - Auto-Biography of Ben Franklin
      - “a penny saved is a penny earned.”
  - - - Henry Thoreau
        
        Enlightenment
      - Edgar Allen Poe
        
        Romanticism
        
        The Raven (1845/1849
        
        “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary ... Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.”
      - Ben Franklin
        
        Romanticism
        
        “a penny saved is a penny earned.”
  - - - Creation of Government
        
        Link Title
    - - Creation of Country
        
        "Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds al"
- - - - Here, We can see that Frederick Douglass is describing himself in the manner that he is a an enslaved man. And he is comparing himself to the white folk who are rich and free.
      - We can see here that Douglass strives to be a free man and envisions it for himself to be free someday.
    - - Here we see the actual plan of escape ofFrederick Douglass. It is pretty empowering to think what he has done and what history would have missed out on if Douglass did not escape.
      - Douglass did end up escaping 100 miles to the North and spent his life becoming a powerful abolitionist.
  - - - This poem is about a 5 year old girl who faced death as an escape from the hell on Earth that is slavery
        
        Famous colored author
      - Encountered death as an attempt of freedom
  - - - Old colossus = warrior figure
  - - - Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
      - "“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. "
- - - - Believed that African Americans should be separate than whites, but still share equal rights with them at the same time.
      - Washington argued that African Americans must concentrate on educating themselves, learning useful trades, and investing in their own businesses. Hard work, economic progress, and merit, he believed, would prove to whites the value of blacks to the American economy.
      - "Do not get others to do what you can do yourself. "
    - - Believed that African Americans should be completely equal to white sand that they should be on the same level.
        
        "Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."
      - DuBois was a staunch proponent of a classical education and condemned Washington's suggestion that blacks focus only on vocational skills.
      - Founded the NAACP
        
        National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization
  - - - Forced to carry papers with them
- - - - Becoming Wealthy and being a useful and successful member of society
        
        “When you're good to others, you're best to yourself.”
        
        Belived in self improvement everyday.
  - - - Fitting into society and trying to be "Successful"
      - “I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom's swift-winged angels, that fly round the world; I am confined in bands of iron!”
  - - - Our value in the world.
      - "Sometimes it stood to be stuck in the in between. Even if its uncomfortable"
    - - The American Boy
        
        “What we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man."
      - Boys should live like cowboys in the Wild West