Coralyn Kurz-October 11th, 2016

Today's objectives in class were to be able to apply a historical lens to identify literary and rhetorical trends, as well as being able to evaluate how changes in writing reflects changes in history (past events documented), philosophy (the way people think), and culture (the way groups of people act or dress). First we defined what a lens was and what it did. A lens is how something is viewed, it makes somethings vivid and others dull. We also determined that history can be defined as trends over time (and space). A historical lens develops a reciprocal relationship. In class we analyzed what "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" taught us about the great awakening's time period. The text was a religious speech using pathos to say the country needs to change to find faith, through this we were able to determine it was a religious time period when they thought people were in need of faith, people liked to argue in front of an audience, they used less logic and more emotion. Through different texts and speeches we are able to determine what different time periods in our history are like.