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    Seventeenth century‚ rebellions and civil wars for instance The Thirty Years War‚ the need for states to create larger armies to attain greater monarchial power‚ to sustain that power and armies they had to find ways to fund their armies and still maintain control over the state (William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel World History‚ vol. 1‚ 434). In response to this people searched for order. Many sought stability‚ but in order to obtain it they had to increase their monarchial power. The end result

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    STUDENT ID # L25222334 LYNCHBURG‚ VIRGINIA SEPTEMBER 2013 Hutson‚ James H. Church and State in America: The First Two Centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press‚ 2008. ABSTRACT Church and State in America: The First Two Centuries‚ by James H. Hutson explores the history of the relationship of church and state from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Hutson explains the connection of the events in Europe and its effects on church and state in America‚ for example the revolution

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    RELATED WORKS Schramn (2008) worked on e-learning web based system that could simply offer and grade mathematical questions with immeasurable patience. (Adebayo and Abdulhamid‚ 2009) said‚ it needs the capability which requires for the input and output of mathematical formulas‚ the dynamic generation of plots and the generation of random expressions and numbers. (Al-Bayati and Hussein‚ 2008) presents an applied Generic Software of multiple kinds of E-Examination package; this package of e-exam

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    During the second half of the 17th century‚ the enslavement of African Americans began within North America. First‚ African-Americans that arrived in Jamestown in 1619 were brought as servants‚ not slaves. This quickly changed to a different approach‚ when the House of Burgesses in 1670 declared‚ "all servants not being Christians imported into this colony by shipping shall be slaves for their lives (Earthlink)”. The exploitation and capture of slaves were “rationalized” through the reasons of religion

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    Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries new ideas and discoveries led to revolutionary changes. The evolution from the previous ways of thinking to these contemporary innovations developed through numerous adaptations‚ inspired by significant persons and groups of people. Through the influence of those like Napoleon‚ Parliament‚ and the Luddites‚ there were tremendous progressions in European society. Through outstanding movements and people‚ many social reforms were instated and adopted

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    Empiricism of Scientific Societies in the 17th Century: Intellectual‚ Social and Cultural Impact | HPS210 | Dr. Christopoulos | | Written by: Jinyao Wang | 6/8/2010 | | In his most famous memoir‚ Sir Isaac Newton said he was just a boy playing on the seashore‚ while the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before him. Despite his humble words‚ no century has reflected as much spontaneous scientific development as the seventeenth century. Scientific societies across Europe were

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    Race‚ class and gender interacted in 17th Century Virginia in several important ways which include the English changing the slave system that was not based on race into one that was‚ population of free blacks were also strictly controlled which resulted in their slave status as being inevitable and they created the perception that masculinity and femininity only existed among white men and women. The first law to discriminate blacks from the Europeans was created in 1640 where all blacks except

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    OF FREEDOM WRITERS Freedom Writers is set in the 1990s and tells the story of a novice teacher’s interactions with a group of students in a Long Beach high school two years following the Los Angeles Riots. The film is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them‚ a collection of essays compiled from the real experiences of Erin Gruwell (1999) and her students‚ known as the Freedom Writers. The teacher

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    Important changes being with excellent ideas. During the 17th and 18th century in Europe. “Well educated people know as philosophers‚or philosophes met in a french salons and English drawing rooms to discuss political religious‚ economic‚ and social questions. The enlightenment helped shape the capitalistic‚ democratic world we live in today‚ because the was a time of high intellect and bright new ideas.” The philosophers believed that allowing individuals more freedom and reduce government control

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    two principal factors that are behind the events of 17th century Great Britain? The seventeenth century extends from the accession of the first Stuart king (James I and VI) in 1603 to the coronation of the third (Charles II) in 1660. Between these two reigns massive political and social events took place that bridge the gap between the Tudor “tyranny by consent” of the sixteenth century and the constitutional monarchy of the eighteenth century. Yet‚ all these events had not occurred if it were

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