Dec 16, 2009

The Scarlet Letter | Compare and Contrast

1640s: The Puritans believed in their mission to establish a model community for the Protestant world.

1850s: America had developed an ideology of "manifest destiny" that held that the prosperous expansion of Americans across the continent was inevitable and ordained, and implied that the country was destined to become a great global power.

Today: America's global power seems both assured with the splitting of the Soviet Union, and a thing of the past with the rise of countries like Japan and Germany to...