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Gorillaz: Ranking the albums
By Callie Petch 29 June 2018 25 June 2018
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Summer, 2001. An almost seven-year-old Callum Petch wanders into the corner shop next to his Gainsborough-based Primary School with some saved-up pocket money in order to buy a magazine for reading once he got home. He spots an issue of The Box that came packaged with a free VHS of hit music videos, pleads incessantly to his mum for the extra cash required, and the magazine is his. He gets home, tosses the magazine aside never to be looked at again, and pops in the tape. Shaggy, Steps, S Club 7, friggin' Afroman, all the hits of our more innocent pre-9/11 time. But then, nestled in between those titans of popular music, was something darker, something weirder, something… animated. The song was unlike anything this boy had ever heard before, ditto the visuals, and ditto ditto the fact that these cartoon characters were being pitched as the band, not one-off counterparts for a concept video. He had no idea what this was or why the song was called "Clint Eastwood," but he needed more. Immediately.
Thus began an infatuation with Gorillaz that has lasted to this day and will likely last until the day I finally cark it. Over the years, much of the mystique, rules, and kayfabe of the project have dissipated, but the tunes have remained. Oh, boy, have the tunes ever remained! Finally getting to see them live last December at Manchester Arena was the highlight of my year, perhaps even decade, and their every return after a near-endless hiatus (the last of which was effectively a short-lived break-up between co-founders Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett) immediately becomes the only thing I'll talk about and the only thing I'll listen to for months at a time.
This week, Gorillaz will break yet another one of their rules by releasing album #5, The Now Now, only a year and two months after Humanz. The turn-around is insane, made even more so by the singles dropped so far already feeling like Song of the Summer contenders and the artwork that Hewlett's been pumping out for Phase 5 being borderline his best yet. So, with a new album, that TV series (FINALLY), and the grand return of LORE all inbound, what better time to stop and take stock of the recorded output so far of 2D, Noodle, Murdoc, Russel, and now Ace Gangreen from The Powerpuff Girls (yes really)?
Disagree with my rankings? Why not hash it out with me in the comments, I will gladly talk everybody's ears off about this band if given the chance!
5. The Fall
Let's start with the black sheep of the clan. The Fall is Damon Albarn noodling around with his iPad whilst on tour in North America promoting Plastic Beach. The results are disappointingly largely what that sounds like. Admittedly, it is often pleasant to listen to and the set contains a few genuine standout tracks that deserve way more love from both fans and Albarn himself – "Little Pink Plastic Bags," "Amarillo," "Bobby in Phoenix," and especially the gorgeous homesick melancholy of "Revolving Doors" – but much of the album feels like a bunch of half-formed thoughts that drift by without incident. If anything, The Fall's closest relative is that of Albarn's own Democrazy, a collection of demos put out there for hardcore fans to pour over but of little interest to everyone else. The last 'song' is just a 30 second recording of a novelty yodelling pickle toy.
Choice track: Revolving Doors
4. Humanz
Oh, how I 'ummed' and 'ahhed' between this one and the next entry. I love Humanz, contrary to how most of the fandom has turned on it in the year following its release, I have been bumping it regularly, and it still ended up my second favourite album of the whole year. But, if I am being honest, I am more in love with that utterly insane opening run than I am the album's second half, where it falls off somewhat. Strong sequencing and those Ben Mendelsohn interludes do help with the flow and creation of a semi-coherent narrative (party in a tower at the end of the world), but "Carnival" is completely forgettable, the hook on "Let Me Out" is rather deflating, and the album fails to feel like a Gorillaz album. That interplay between the songs and the virtual characters making the album, more vital than most professional music critics will admit, just isn't there; the group feel like passive spectators who only occasionally break through the noise.
Still, as music, divorced from all other context? We OPEN with "Ascension" into "Strobelite" into "Saturnz Barz" into "Momentz!" That's how Humanz opens! "Ascension" is the best Vince Staples song of 2017, and the man also dropped Big Fish Theory that year! "Andromeda" absolutely soars, "Submission" taps Kelela and Danny Brown together in a combination that has no right to work as brilliantly as it does, "Sex Murder Party" honestly reminds me of old atmospheric PlayStation 1 soundtracks, "Strobelite" points the way towards The Now Now (and was my favourite song of the year), and I like "We Got the Power" screw the haters! And if you want to bring the Deluxe Edition into the equation, then you've also got "The Apprentice," "Ticker Tape," and the MASSIVE "Out of Body!" So, yeah, weakest of the main bunch, still better than most other music released in 2017 according to my super-biased self.
Choice track: Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)
3. Gorillaz
Parts of the self-titled are showing their age and I do feel that the album dips after "19-2000" and never fully recovers until "M1A1" – plus, the UK version has the Ed Case "Refix" of "Clint Eastwood" bolted on at the end like a gorgeous strawberry cheesecake that the chef has decided to garnish with one solitary tiny shit-ball in one corner – but Gorillaz still kicks all kinds of ass. You got those singles that are still untouchable all these years later. The rumbling trip-hop of "Tomorrow Comes Today," the bizarre skanking of "19-2000," even "Rock the House" rules as an unofficial Hieroglyphics solo-Del track. And, towering above them all like the monolith, still unlike anything else to break into the Pop charts and still capable of sending crowds into an absolute frenzy the second those drums kick in: "Clint Eastwood."
But many of the true highlights of Gorillaz can actually be found in the deeper cuts. The cavernous "New Genius (Brother)" is stark and forceful, "Re-Hash" is the catchiest Beck song Beck never wrote, and the utterly gorgeous "Sound Check (Gravity)" remains one of producer Dan the Automator's finest moments. More than any of the individual songs, however, Gorillaz also stands as a testament to Albarn's commitment to Gorillaz as a concept. He sings the vast majority of the songs here with an entirely different voice to his time in Blur, losing himself in 2D. Many of the songs lyrically sound like the kind of nonsense that a moderately-talented band of misfits like the ones that make up the collective face of Gorillaz would pen, particularly in the filthy bizarre "5/4" and the gibberish one-two of "Man Research (Clapper)" and "Punk." Plus, the relative simplicity and guest-sparse nature of the album leaves the cartoons as the stars and makes Albarn recede into the background.
Choice track: 19-2000
2. Plastic Beach
Until Humanz came along, Plastic Beach was the most consistent album that Gorillaz had yet put out. Gone was the rampant genre-hopping of the first two official records in favour of a cohesive, shimmering, A to B, full-blown Pop album. Much of the tangible instrumentation had been replaced by drum machines, synthesizers, and keyboards. Guests permeated all but 5 of the album's 16 tracks, and they took full-command of those tracks from 2D. Upon release, long-time fans may have been ready to riot over these changes, and some did… but most did not because the songs were JUST THAT GOOD. Plastic Beach has bangers coming from every direction, "Rinestone Eyes," "White Flag," "On Melancholy Hill," motherfrakkin' "STYLO" – I didn't actually hear "Stylo" until I bought the album and I was properly blown back in my chair the first time Bobby Womack showed up, not exaggerating.
And then, over time, Plastic Beach's nuances and subtleties made themselves known. This is one phenomenally sequenced album, from the majestic tease of the titular beach through the fog on the orchestral opener, progressing from day ("Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach") to twilight ("Empire Ants") to night ("Sweepstakes") to the bleary haze of the following morning ("Plastic Beach"), the seafaring "Pirate Jet" leading us out as the land fades from view. Despite all the guests, with 2D disappearing for entire songs at a time, and the synthetic instrumentation, Plastic Beach still crafts a world, a narrative, a paradise to escape to that soon reveals itself as a crapsack filled with miserable people succumbing to excess pollution, with the band (or what was left of it at the time because LORE) as your captains. It pulls off the tricky balancing act that Humanz couldn't quite manage and the results make for the kind of album I just have to listen to front-to-back every time. It also contains my absolute favourite Gorillaz song, the mesmeric "Empire Ants" whose incandescent beauty can only be heard rather than described.
Choice track: Empire Ants ft. Little Dragon
1. Demon Days
You're shocked, I can tell. Demon Days is roughly 90% of the Gorillaz fandom's favourite, and it is my favourite album of all-time. I don't think a perfect album exists, but Demon Days gets right up close to that idea. Musically, the thing is on another level, with much more complex and richer instrumentation and lyrics than on the self-titled, without sacrificing the characteristic genre-hopping – the album's middle stretch follows a Verve-like post-Britpop ballad with a slow-burn Jazz freakout, then a slice of old-school Hip Hop and then chases that down with a shot of Grime. The hits were ubiquitous and unlike anything else featured on the James Blunt wastelands of the 2005 charts ("Feel Good Inc.," "DARE," "Dirty Harry") yet many fans could argue they were somehow not the best songs on the record. The production on this thing is the reason why the more hardcore music nerds of your circle of friends still tolerate Danger Mouse no matter how many more chunks of personality he sands off of The Black Keys with each successive album.
But, crucially, Demon Days represented the ideal of the entire concept of Gorillaz. Prior to the album's release, Hewlett succinctly laid out the game plan as "let's repeat the same process, but do it better. Because everyone thought it was a gimmick. If you do it again, it's no longer a gimmick, and if it works then we've proved a point." And that is Demon Days. Hewlett's accompanying artwork was better, the videos were better, the kayfabe of the band was still intact and more involved. The music was a giant leap forward, arguably the best album Albarn has ever put out across his entire career, and even if he largely ditched the voice he utilised throughout Gorillaz, they still feel like songs that go hand-in-hand with the concept rather than songs being funnelled into the concept for lack of anywhere else to go or the concept excessively driving the songs. I could listen to this album every single day for a full month and never get tired of it, something I have actually done before. Demon Days is just magic, unlikely to ever be equalled, but I am more than happy to watch Albarn and Hewlett try.
Choice track: Dirty Harry
Tags: Damon Albarn Demon Days Gorillaz Humanz Plastic Beach The Fall
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The Empire State Building was lit up in blue & gold on Saturday night in honor of the victims of Friday's school shooting in Connecticut.
The names of all the victims of 20 year old Adam Lanza were released by Connecticut state police medical examiner H. Wayne Carver II. late Saturday afternoon, all first graders.
"I've been at this for a third of a century and my sensibility may not be the average man's, but this is probably the worst I've seen," said Carver.
President Obama will travel to Newtown on Sunday night for a memorial service.
State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance still need to "peel the onion" of the crime scene both inside and outside the Sandy Hook Elementary School, a process which could take several more days.
Vance said investigators have found "very good evidence" about a motive and confirmed that gunman Adam Lanza forced his way into the school. Another law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that investigators have found no note or manifesto of the sort they have come to expect after murderous rampages.
Lanza had Asperger's syndrome, but experts say there's no connection between the disorder and violent behavior. Asperger's is a mild form of autism often characterized by social awkwardness.
Columbus, Ohio, psychologist Eric Butter says research suggests people with autism have a higher rate of aggressive behavior than the general population. He says this includes outbursts, shoving or angry shouting, but typically does not include planned, intentional violence.
High school classmates say Lanza was bright but painfully shy, anxious and a loner. Butter says those characteristics are consistent with Asperger's.
Police worked through the night to identify all the bodies inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
President Obama used his weekly internet address to offer more condolences about the shooting. "Our hearts are broken today," the president said. "We grieve for the families of those we lost. And we keep in our prayers the parents of those who survived. Because as blessed as they are to have their children home, they know that their child's innocence has been torn away far too early."
Pope Benedict XVI expressed "his heartfelt grief and the assurance of his closeness in prayer to the victims and their families and all to affected" by the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, in a letter to the Diocese of Bridgeport Administrator Monsignor Jerald A. Doyle reports CNN.
Police say two handguns were found inside the school and a rifle in the back of a car. Authorities also recovered two rifles and a shotgun, but it's not clear where. A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some of the guns may have belonged to Adam Lanza's family.
Police sources say Lanza brought Glock and a Sig Sauer, both pistols, and a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle were found in the school after the massacre Friday.
The official says that a fourth weapon was found outside the school and that investigators have been going to shooting ranges and gun stores to see if Lanza had frequented them.
His mother had legally registered four weapons, his father two.
Adam Lanza's rampage is said to have started at his Newtown home where he lived with his mother. He is believed to have shot his mother Nancy in the face before heading to the Sandy Hook Elementary School where his mother was a substitute teacher.
Adam Lanza smashed the glass of the front door according to a police lieutenant and was not buzzed in through the front door.
The school's well-liked principal, Dawn Hochsprung, was believed to be among the dead.. Town officials said she died while lunging at the gunman in an attempt to overtake him. A woman who worked at the school was wounded.
Jeff Capeci is chairman of the town's Legislative Council. Asked whether Hochsprung is a hero, he says, "From what we know, it's hard to classify her as anything else."
Hochsprung had worked at the school for two years. Capeci says she immediately became a beloved figure. "It's so sad to lose somebody like her" and that residents are feeling "a deep sense of loss" over her death.
Marsha Lanza, of Crystal Lake, Ill., said she was close with Adam Lanza's mother and sent her a message on Facebook on Friday morning asking how she was doing. Nancy Lanza never responded.
Lanza's parents filed for divorce in 2008, according to court records. His father, Peter Lanza, lives in Stamford, Conn., and works as a tax director for General Electric.
Hundreds of people stood outside Friday night at the St. Rose of Lima church in Newtown, some of them holding hands in circles and saying prayers. Others lit candles and sang "Silent Night."


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A band of ruthless mercenaries…
A trap-filled dungeon…
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The fate of the Empire depends on it.
On the barren, war-ravaged demon world of Eriis, the fierce queen Hellne fights to keep her people alive and her son Rhuun's heritage a secret.
On the green and gentle human world of Mistra, demons have faded into myth. Only a handful of old men and fanatical children still guard The Door between the worlds.
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The situation for Reserves claimants injured on training nights or annual camps is quite different to that of a full time serving ADF claimant. On some occasions a Regimental Aid Post might provide first aid or emergency treatment. Injured Reservists parading out of reach of an ADF Regimental Aid Post are commonly referred to a public hospital for emergency treatment only.
It should however be noted that Reservists will receive health care (usually through Defence Health Services) for injuries or illness resulting from their Defence service until such times as the transfer of the claimant into the RCG scheme is complete. That is until a decision is made by RCG including the reconsideration process. Details of these processes are contained in DI(G) PERS 16-1, amendment 4 dated 8 May 2002.
Thus, Defence medical files for Reservists may contain medical information, contemporary with and relevant to the injury and claim for compensation.
For these reasons, it may appear that Reservists are on the same footing as a civilian Commonwealth employee and that they are therefore subject to S54(3). However, it is not appropriate for Delegates to exclude a case under S54(3) in the first instance. Reserves claimants should instead be briefed on their responsibility to provide medical evidence to support their claim. They should be told verbally and in writing that, while RCG may receive and acknowledge the claim, we are unable to start processing or to finalise that claim until we have a diagnosis from a treating doctor.
A request for a Reservists ADF medical records is also to be made through SAM.


Learn some of the crucial Private Blog Network Footprints and tips to circumvent them. The checklist is not exhaustive, but we've taken into consideration the most common footprints.
We've also shared some advice at the end of each footprint.
Registering your domains for all your PBNs under one registrar can hurt your entire network.
Tip: Ensure to use a variety of registrars for your entire network. For instance, you could use Namecheap on one blog and GoDaddy on another one and so on.
This is also another footprint that you must avoid. To maintain your genuineness, use real address and name.
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Tip: Use a variety such as .net, .tv, .info and region-specific TLDs such as .fr for France or .co.uk for United Kingdom and etc.
Too much SEO hosting might make your IPs look spammy and also lead to unexpected downtimes and slow loading speed.
Tip: Streamline Blog Networks by use of premium cPanel hosting. Read a complete PBN guide on this site.
If you create several sites under a single cluster, that's a blog network.
Tip: Diversify your IPs or buy more servers.
You can spread your servers globally. Using servers on a single datacentre and country for your entire network can be bad.
Tip: Host your domains on global servers such as Canada, Asia, and the US. In fact, the best states are EU and US.
Never rely on one provider for all your domain hosting. Even though you love Namecheap, try as much as possible to diversify your hosting.
Tip: Use a mixture of premium hosting companies like PBN Pilot.
Cheap hosts help to cut costs but they are costly in the long run since you will have to deal with slow loading time and unwanted downtimes.
Tip: Try to avoid cheap hosts as much as you can.
An SOA record is the information you provide while signing up with the company and using similar SOA records on several sites is a huge footprint.
CloudFlare was used to hide IPs for multiple sites hosted under one dedicated server but this is not the case today, although CloudFlare can still be helpful for other uses.
To keep link juice, blog owners used to redirect all 404 to the home page. This is no longer helpful today and in fact, it can affect your PBN index.
Tip: Create unique URLs and limit your 404 redirects to home.
Search engines know it when you impede crawlers. And only a few websites can block bots and crawlers.
Tip: Allow crawlers to crawl freely on your site unless it's necessary to block them. Also, if you have to, then limit your blocking.
Well, it is not usual to find multiple sites on a network using the same plugins; however, this should not keep you from using Yoast SEO plugin or W3 total cache since these are common. But you should diversify.
Tip: Use a variety of plugins in your entire network.
There are themes and frameworks that are popular but you should diversify when using them on a large network. However, with a well clustered private blog network, you can use the same themes on multiple sites.
Tip: Use 3rd party themes since they are the most popularly used today.
It's obvious that using same author names and images on different sites can be bad.
All your tracking IDs on your blog networks should be unique. If you have to use Google Analytics account and affiliate links, ensure they vary.
Tip: Use a different account for every tracking ID. The best tracking IDs are Clicky and Jetpack.
A website with no contact details especially the contact form or legal pages suggests that it's a low-quality site. In fact, poor quality sites with no contact details and legal pages can be easily deindexed by search engines.
Tip: Always include nicely formatted contact forms as well as legal pages in your sites.
When it comes to PBNs, poor design is a huge problem. A good design will make it through manual review and users will benefit from visiting your site. This is what every website owner should aim at.
Good quality design and layout makes your blog look amazing to your readers. Having multiple blogs with similar color scheme and layout can put off your readers.
Having fewer categories and pages in your site suggests lack of authority. It is a sign of a poor-quality website.
Tip: Include as many categories and subcategories as possible together with pages such as About, Contact, Testimonials, Request a Quote, Terms, Privacy and more.
Too much outbound links on the homepage are not only bad for your readers but also for Google. You could include some few, but when the number goes beyond 20 on your entire network, your domain name risks being penalized by Google.
Tip: Practise interlinking and keep outbound links at a minimum.
Including full posts on the homepage of a blog or a website was the best exercise some years back, but today, doing that makes your site look ugly and that's why a bigger percentage of bloggers tend to use a unique layout. Ensure to leave your home page clean and easy to navigate.
Tip: Choose from a variety of layout including Business, Masonry, Magazine and more.
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Tip: Create diversified many pages on your sites.
Although creating sites that are related to a particular niche does not determine Google rankings but having niche sites helps to pass a manual review.
Tip: Try to limit yourself from creating many general blog types. Create a mixture of niche and general blogs.
It looks mundane to have a site that has no social proof. Well, although it is acceptable to have a site with no social profiles especially for some business layout pages, it adds value to your blog when you include social proofs regardless of the niche.
Truth be told, you must have seen a blog without a real name of the author but just "Admin". This pisses me off and I hope you too.
Quick Fix: Ensure to use a proper name, a professional photo and social proof.
Spinning and duplicating content is not only bad for search engines but also turns away readers. Google has technologies in place that detects spun and duplicate content and can make your site get penalized.
Tip: Create unique and original content. If you cannot do it, you can outsource your content creation to freelancers at an affordable price.
Creating posts for the sake of linking to your sales site without filler content may get your site penalized by Google.
Tip: Include at least 3 filler articles on every post that links to your sales sites.
There are many authority sites online apart from Wikipedia. To find out authority sites, you can perform reverse engineering on Wikipedia pages.
Tip: Find out blogs that do not compete with you in your niche that are high-quality and link your content to them.
Interlinking is an important practice that keeps your visitors moving around your site. This is a good practice that helps to show Google that your visitors love your content and can increase your rankings. Lack of interlinks may lead to a high bounce rate which will affect your SEO effort.
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Gone are the days when the word count for every blog post was supposed to be 500 words. Today, people are looking for in-depth content and even if it means writing 3000 words, just to ensure you provide enough details of the topics you write about, just do exactly that.
Posting content across multiple sites on the same date and time can harm your entire blog network.
Tip: Schedule posts using WordPress editor so that they go live at an interval of between hours or even a day.
This is the worst footprint. Avoid this at all costs.
Most PBN links are do-follow. Ensure to mix it with some no-follow links to diversify your link type.
People love rich media content and same is Google bots. Posting content without images or videos makes your site look blank.
Tip: Include images and videos throughout your blog posts to make your content interesting to read.
Traffic an important factor that determines website rankings. As mentioned above that these are not related to footprints, but a website with more traffic shows that it has good content.
Solution: Integrate both long tail and short tail keywords and practice on-page optimization to increase your website traffic.
Traffic brings social share. However, it's better to stay without social shares than to have a bunch that won't attract traffic to your site.
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It is possible to experience ineffectiveness with CSS and Code especially after doing a plugin or WordPress update. However, you can fix this issue and ensure to monitor it regularly.
Downtime and Hosting are almost associated. Downtime affects your websites' Google index and when it happens on your entire network for a long period of time, you might not be able to work it out easily.
Your PBNs must provide value to readers and that's what Google wants. The primary reason for having the sites is to provide information, attract leads and make sales and if that's not what's happening then you need to figure out where you are going wrong.
We've shared this list with a thought that it will help many bloggers to fix issues related to networks.
Taking your time to work on your sites appropriately will increase the chances of attracting leads, make more sales and increase your sites' Google ranking.


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Logistical Thinking of Jonathan Edwards
Category: History, Philosophy
Subcategory: History of the United States, Philosophical Theories
Topic: American History, Puritans
Jonathan Edwards straddled two definitive eras in American history: the hardline beliefs of the Puritans he was raised by in the Connecticut Valley and the freethinking, logical reasonability of the Age of Enlightenment (Norton Anthology 396). These ideas are blended fascinatingly in Edwards's Personal Narrative, a seemingly day-to-day account of his ideas on The Bible and God thought through in the most logical manor he could conceive given the information at hand, and his upbringing as the son and grandson of famous reverends. His life was at great odds with that of his even more renowned grandson Aaron Burr, born into the middle of the Age of Enlightenment. Although Edwards only lived into the second year of his progeny's life (Chernow 277), both his accomplishments and mistakes seem to have had a massive effect on the way Burr viewed religion, politics, and even writing itself.
Edwards's mind was filled with thoughts of religion that he meticulously documented. In his Personal Narrative, he begins talking about his childhood views on religion, the reawakening of the spirituality of his father's congregation, and his own dutiful religious practices. His worldview is purely Puritanical. There were certain expectations put upon Puritans to serve God the best that they could, working tirelessly to do so, objecting to anything that could distract them from their reverential mission. Edwards's beliefs on the sovereignty of God, one of the core Puritan principles, testifies to his old-fashioned way of thinking that his parishioners dedicated themselves to. He said his, "mind was wont to be full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty," on page 399, but then goes on to explain, "God's absolute sovereignty, and damnation, is what my mind seems to be rest assured of, as much as anything that I see with my eyes." Edwards would continuously repress any doubts of his beliefs with the feeling that worshiping gave him. Burr would have abhorred the musings about God that seemed to flow from his ancestor's pen as if it was coming from his very heart.
Aaron Burr didn't actually write much of anything down, for his "habits were to never trust himself on paper, if he could avoid it, and when he wrote, it was with great caution" (Chernow 278). While his grandfather remained married to the Puritan way of life, Burr was working to become renowned in a different field all together. Although he lived with another reverend growing up, the religious fervor of the rest of his family did not pass onto him. Burr truly embodied an even newer stage of the Age of Enlightenment, for he wasn't a statesman crafting documents that would come to define the United States to this very day, but a politician intent on seeking power (Chernow 279). Their differences cannot be summed up more effectively than a comparison of Edward's sermon entitled A Divine and Supernatural Light and Burr's commencement speech as he graduated Princeton, a school his grandfather briefly presided over, entitled Building Castles in the Air (Chernow 277). In his sermon, Edwards quotes from scripture, "thou knowest what God alone can teach thee." (Edwards 417). Burr's speech directly disdains the thinking his grandfather cherished and demonstrated in his Personal Narrative, for Building Castles in the Air, which "declaimed against frittering away energy on idle dreams." (Chernow 277). As a man who valued his distinguished place in society, and dreamt of the highest office in the land, Burr surely would have found Edwards's musings to be a waste of time and energy. The simplistic belief in God as a feeling is also in direct odds with his grandson's logical thinking.
The men's differences may be summed up most succinctly in the mistakes they made that would later define their respective careers. Jonathan Edwards lived his life in expression of his deeply held beliefs, and was propped up by them. From his childhood building places of worship with his friends, to choosing his mate in Sarah Pierpont, and finally the wish to return his church to its former glory by naming backsliders from the pulpit and crafting a return to the old form of communion that would get him dismissed from his church (Norton Anthology 389) he lived through his religion. Aaron Burr, after keeping his views to himself throughout his career, found a scapegoat in Alexander Hamilton and shot and killed him. This over calculation on Edwards's part, and under calculation on Burr's shows the weaknesses in both of their ideologies. Edwards was so involved in his brain and his Bible, he didn't look up to see where the tides of culture had taken his congregation, and Burr kept his grudge against the other revolutionary alive for so long, it exploded in one ill-advised duel. Burr may have avoided the mistakes of his grandfather, but created one of his own.
The age of Puritan rule giving way to the Age of Enlightenment, like any revolution, wasn't an overnight event. Enlightenment took years transformation from writers like both Edwards and Burr to come into its cultural dominance. For although Edwards represented an old-fashioned way of thought by the time his grandson rose to prominence, those thoughts became the building block for how Americans were going to grapple with the religious fervor that cyclically falls upon the nation and the reasoned thinking that the nation was founded on.
CHERNOW, RON. ALEXANDER HAMILTON. S.l.: HEAD OF ZEUS, 2017. Print.
Baym, Nina, and Robert S. Levine. The Norton anthology of American literature. 8th ed. Vol. A. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2012. Print.
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Local residents are set to benefit as Macmillan becomes the new charity partner of London Luton Airport.
Following a competitive public vote, Macmillan won first place to become the airport's chosen charity for the next two years.
The partnership will see staff from across the airport raise funds for the charity, including the annual runway run and golf day. Employees will also help increase awareness of the charity's work within the local community.
Macmillan will use the money raised to provide emergency grants for people affected by cancer and their families in the Bedfordshire area. The charity hopes that the new partnership will raise more than £80,000 over two years, supporting over 400 local people with cancer.
Having cancer can have a significant impact on people's finances with many people having to take time off work and travel to hospital regularly for treatment. Macmillan research shows that four in five people are, on average, £570 a month worse off as a result of a cancer diagnosis.
Macmillan has seen an unprecedented demand for grants in the Bedfordshire area in recent years. The money raised through the charity partnership will help people pay for necessities such as clothing, heating bills and transportation to and from hospital. The grants are often described as a 'life-line' for those who have had to take time off work due to their illness.
Chika Austin, community relations executive at LLA, said: "Supporting the local community is important to everyone at LLA and through our partnership with Macmillan we all hope to make a difference to more people in the Bedfordshire area. The charity partnership is just one of many ways we make a positive impact locally. The Get into Airports apprenticeship scheme and our Community Trust Fund also help support young people, local businesses and charitable organisations."
Richard Quaife, Regional Corporate Account Manager at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: "The number of people with cancer is rising rapidly and by 2030 more than 39,200 people in the Bedfordshire area will be affected. We are seeing more and more demand for financial support and the money raised through our partnership with LLA will fund the entire Bedfordshire grant programme. This will mean that we can double the number of people with cancer that we support in the local area and make a huge difference to the lives of hundreds of families. We would like to thank everyone who voted for us and look forward to working with LLA to reach our fundraising target."