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- - - - Intellectual faith is not enough, you need to be moved emotionally and aesthetically. Power and wealth will not save you, only conversion will.
  - - - The ELECT in the eyes of God means having hardwork and frugality. Everything is up to God, everything is up to God's grace, whoever God decided to save are called the elect special ones.
- - - - Nat Turner was a rebellion leader that caused a flashpoint in arguments during this century. During his rebellion he was killing women, children, and men. He escaped slavery briefly, and on him he wore the marks of scarring in various places. He wore these scars as a mark of the violence of slavery. By the end of his rebellion, there were nearly 200 dead. This rampage caught the attention of white southerners and white abolitionists. People look at Nat Turner’s rebellion and claim that this is what happens when slave owners are too lenient and this is what happens when slaves can read.
  - - - Henry David Thoreau used his essays to voice the wrong he sees. He is very much about pushing people from column A into column B. He's questioning the enlightenment and he does not care about the majority. He describes the government as a machine, He claims it may be ethical but it is not democratic.
        
        John Brown was an abolitionist who was captured and hung. He was labeled as a mad man because of his decision to lead a raid on the government in order to get rid of slavery.
    - - Benjamin Franklin "So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature"
- - - - The 1920's were a time of explosion of wealth after World War I. Too much of the wrong type of people had too much money and they would spend it in a tacky way.
        
        Babbitt (1922) was a book written about consumerism and conformity. This was written during a time of mass culture, advertising, social climbing and social conformity. This reading also touched on the loss of other values. The reading also defined consumer America in the 1920's as ready made, cheap factory goods.
  - - - Dr. Bob Smith was a medical doctor who talked in the language of medicine during AA. He helped make alcoholism a disease and not a sin.
        
        Bill Wilson's job during this fall: He was a stock analyst with a very specific language idea of needing to hit rock bottom. On "rock bottom" there is complete hopelessness and deflation of depth were almost always required to make the recipient ready to receive treatment.