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Epistle: Wilsons “The Road From Revolution”

Epistle: Wilsons “The Road From Revolution”. By: Tim Ross, Justin Eichorn , Brianna Lange, and Jess Volm. Epistle- A formal and informative letter. Each Epistle in the Bible addresses a different situation or problem All throughout the Bible

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Epistle: Wilsons “The Road From Revolution”

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  1. Epistle: Wilsons “The Road From Revolution” By: Tim Ross, Justin Eichorn, Brianna Lange, and Jess Volm

  2. Epistle- A formal and informative letter • Each Epistle in the Bible addresses a different situation or problem • All throughout the Bible • Wrote The Road Away from Revolution to help save his country • He believed that Christianity and Jesus could save the nation

  3. Time period background • Red Scare • Despite provocation and pressure to enter the widening war in Europe that had begun in 1914, Woodrow Wilson maintained American neutrality for two years • escalation of submarine warfare by Germany that included unlimited war on neutrals left Wilson with no choice but to ask Congress for a declaration of war in April 1917 • Wilson's Fourteen Points Address of 1918 called for a peace of reconciliation • based on democracy, self-determination, without annexations and indemnities, and a postwar League of Nations

  4. Woodrow Wilson • Born December 28, 1856, in Virginia • Very religious, grew up with a Presbyterian preacher as a father • grew up in Georgia and South Carolina during the Civil War and its aftermath • Wilson is the only U.S. president to hold a Ph.D. • Was often ill • After traveling around the world to get the Treaty of Versailles ratified, fell ill and never fully recovered Woodrow Wilson

  5. “The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the spirit of Christ and being made free and happy by the practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all the shadows listed from the road ahead.”

  6. Communism Capitalism Differences

  7. Communism • a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production • Marxist–Leninist interpretations • a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state

  8. Capitalism • an economic system in which trade, industry and the means of production are controlled by private owners with the goal of making profits in a market economy • Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets and wage labor • term “capitalism” is often attributed to Karl Marx

  9. Differences • Capitalism-growth depends on private enterprise • Communism- the state takes over the productiveness of the country, which is supposed to bring equal prosperity to the whole population regardless of how hard each individual works or merits • Doctor reaps same benefits as a garbage collector • in capitalism there is freedom of speech, while in a communist way of life the very nature of the system does not allow freedom of speech

  10. Chart of Economics Link

  11. Country Ranks

  12. Obama Fundamental Change video

  13. Responsibility

  14. Debt clock

  15. Trillion dollar video

  16. Fill In the Blanks • The idea of capitalism is ___________, but it needs to be used to help others • He feared America would become like the __________ and turn to a ________ Economic society • He wanted a moral, _______ society • The Epistle is a _____. private ownership Soviet Union Communist Religious Letter

  17. Questions • What is the difference between Communism and Capitalism? • Communism is how everyone who works, works towards the community and everyone benefits the same no matter how much work they put in. Capitalism is all about how much work and individual puts in. The individual then reaps the benefit of however much work they put in, so no work means no benefit. • What did Woodrow Wilson believe would save America? • Jesus and the Bible • What was going on that led to the writing of the Road Away from Revolution? • America becoming more capitalist, didn’t want to become communist

  18. Sources • http://www.wilsoncenter.org/about-woodrow-wilson • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism • http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/communism • http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071110110523AAadBMv

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