View 12 Jeremiad Of Earth - JEREMIAD has the following synonyms: diatribe, harangue, philippic, rant, tirade. The names and faces of the ten thousand visionaries and pioneers who perished in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are laser-carved on this massive reddish-black piece of old volcanic glass. Many died when they entered space, some returning home, and others attempting to arrive on other planets.
A Prose Dialogue Greetings, Dov Yermiya. Uri Avnery's (Dateline Jerusalem) Dov, I've always thought of you as the salt of the land when I first met you fifty years ago. You were born in a village as the son of a farmer. A "Jeremiad" was first written in the 17th century as a protest against the social and literary movement of New England Puritanism. It is related to the notion of Manifest Destiny in North America, which holds that it is God's Will for people to migrate west to tame and inhabit the wilderness.
completing the supreme national mission The American jeremiad is an indignant speech that expresses profound unhappiness while urgently asking the nation to improve. The phrase jeremiad stems from the ancient prophet Jeremiah, who predicted the collapse and destruction of Israel. What is the Jeremiad and how does it function as a rhetorical device? The easiest approach to describe the Jeremiad type of rhetoric is to consider its name's roots. Jeremiah was a Biblical prophet of doom and, as one of my lecturers put it so eloquently, a performance artist. The Jeremiad, then, is essentially a political sermon.
