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    Up until the 1700s religious scripture and ideology has ruled how man has thought of the world. The religious base for all facts and information drove what we as humans thought of biology and the human body. In the start of the 1st century at the beginnings of Christianity the religious based information was continued and spread further and stronger. It wasn’t until the time of the Enlightenment around the 1700’s that the ideas were truly questioned and put to test through factual experiments and

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    democracy rose in Europe. This idea makes appear a literary and artistic movement known as Romanticism that refers to the philosophy prevalent during the first third of the 19th century. This movement rejects the logic and reason inherent to the Enlightenment. The Romantics encouraged spontaneous and emotional responses to explore and describe the immeasurable aspects of the nature and people’s relationship to it. They valued imagination over reason‚ emotion over logic and heart than head. In this

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    Throughout the existence of our great nation‚ the ideas of what constituted freedom have been varied. This was especially true for both the Native American Indians and the Africans. Even in times as early as the 1600s‚ the peoples of early America could not pinpoint a solitary basis for their freedoms. With inhabitants ranging from the Native American tribes such as the Catawba and Wampanoag to settlers from Europe and England‚ and eventually African peoples‚ such ideals were different in many

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    The Enlightenment “Dare to know! Have courage to use your own reason!” -Immanuel Kant‚ ‘What Is Enlightenment?’ (1784) The Age of Enlightenment is the period in the history of Western thought and culture that spanned from the mid-seventeenth century to the eighteenth century. It is commonly characterized by the dramatic revolutions in science‚ philosophy‚ society and politics that swept away the medieval world-view and ushered in our modern western world. The driving force behind the Enlightenment

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    John Locke and Isaac Newton were the major intellectual forerunners of the Enlightenment. Print culture was a culture in which books‚ journals‚ newspapers‚ and pamphlets had achieved a status of their own. The Enlightenment flourished in this. The most influential philosophe was Voltaire. He wrote Letters on the English. The book praised the virtues of the English‚ especially their religious liberty‚ and criticized the abuses of French society. Voltaire said Muhammad and Islam represented simply

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    rules of the church. The church and the state were together if anyone were to go against the church or were Heretics they would be burned on a stake to show that if anyone went against the rules this would happen to them. The hierarchy in Europe in the 1700’s was made up of the nobility who were tiled privileged and wealthy‚ which they had received from their ancestors. Then came the middle class which consisted of merchants and bankers‚ they were growing in political power and wealth. The majority of

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    The status of women during the enlightenment didn’t change for the better as most may think but instead surprisingly degraded. Economically‚ laws were produced that restricted all women’s rights to own property and run businesses. Comparing the 1600s and the 1800s‚ it was obvious businesses owned by women in London had dropped to less than ten percent of the original number. The Enlightenment pressured the change for education but the quality for women education also degraded. In the 16th

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    elements associated with the Kunst 1600 ? 1. Value elements * Cost savings from not having to change oil because the Kunst 1600 is an oil-free vacuum pump. * Higher revenues‚ and hence profits‚ due to higher productivity of the Kunst 1600 in lower pressure settings. These higher profits are only generated in the light commercial refrigerator repair segments since in these segments‚ the technicians can complete more jobs with a faster pump (the Kunst 1600) in comparison to the more traditional

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    Executive Summary The Kunst 1600 is best suited for introduction into the light commercial refrigerator repair market. Its superior features‚ durability‚ and reliability provide the customer with nearly $1‚000 value in use of over current competitor models. However‚ the Kunst 1600 is not well suited to the residential AC market due to the wide spread perception that a 1.6 CFM pump is not capable of handling repairs for comparatively larger air conditioning units. For the home refrigerator repair

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    Enlightenment and Religious Revival As colonies grew and developed in the Americas‚ so too did the needs and wants of the people who lived within them. With all the mounting turmoil that was stirring‚ people’s moral compasses spun about wildly‚ contrasting sharply‚ chalk full of uncertainty. Access to knowledge was available to a vast array of people from all walks of life. This was the perfect recipe for a religious reformation‚ or The Great Awakening. Conflicting views and new knowledge from the

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