What was the primary cause of the Second Great Awakening? * The Industrial Revolution transformed the ways people worked‚ and it created an important separation between public and private life. * While the forces of the market may have created tremendous anxiety for some‚ others used the market to advertise upcoming revivals and church meetings. * Noteworthy religious innovations helped lay the groundwork for the Second Great Awakening‚ including circuit riding‚ voluntary associations
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was a gender role for men and women. The men went to work while the women were “mother wives” whose main job was to to care of the children and help the family. This way of life was predominantly unquestioned‚ except in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. In The Awakening‚ Edna Pontellier‚ a wealthy “mother wife”‚ tries to fight her gender role and become independent. Edna Pontellier’s strive for independence leads to struggles with the society’s gender role upon women. Edna’s independence causes familial
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of women was to be seen as a graceful entity who solely looked after the home affairs. Throughout this period‚ their freedom of expression was limited because they usually followed this unwritten code regardless of how they actually felt. In The Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ Madame Ratignolle is the epitome of how a woman was expected to act and dress. However‚ the words used in the passage that describes Madame Ratignolle suggest that her appearance is shaped by society and she follows their guidelines
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southern railroad to the Pacific. In what ways did the Second Great Awakening in the North influence TWO OF THE FOLLOWING? The Second Great Awakening inspired several movements including the movement for abolitionism and the movement for temperance in society in the north. Abolitionism was an issue that the north and south were debating years before the Second Great Awakening took place in America. The Second Great Awakening
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The Awakening of Edna Pontellier Kate Chopin’s short story The Awakening is set during a time where women were expected to live in a patriarchal society. More specifically‚ this story tells of the well-to-do Creole lifestyles in New Orleans during the mid to late Nineteenth Century. Chopin’s personal experiences as a woman during this oppressive time and her growth as an individual inspired her to write about Edna Pontellier‚ a woman who tries to break from the expectations of society to
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The movie Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film based on Oliver Sacks’ 1973 memoir of the same title. It is one of the best movie that touches the heart of many people. It is the most emotionally stunning and profound moving journey that was based on a true to life story. The movie was great because how they acted their roles were exceptional. Honestly‚ the roles given to them are really hard because they will handle all the emotional and physical challenges of their roles. You really need a
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matched society with her quick Irish wit and charmed anyone who knew her. Not satisfied with the women’s role in society‚ she provocatively stirred emotions‚ thoughts‚ and ideas in her writings. Two such classic examples are “The Storm” and The Awakening. The idea for a woman to have sexual desires‚ human connections‚ and forthright adultery shocked and revolted the society she lived. This unconventional‚ innovative poet did not deter away her own personal thoughts and feelings from her judgmental
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upon her‚ fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.” (2). Chopin’s other very famous story The Awakening has highly portrayed the feeling of oppression that
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I am writing to tell the readers of The New York Times about what has happened in Boston because of the Great Awakening. Before the Great Awakening‚ the churches in my community were not preaching the truth of Christ. This led to many other issues‚ like the people having a harsh and uncaring form of Christianity. They also were missing the spiritual enthusiasm that they needed. Colleges for ministers also failed to do their part and helped strengthen the spiritual issues that we were struggling with
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Reform movements like the Second Great Awakening‚ the temperance movement‚ abolitionist’s movement‚ and women’s rights movement started for many reasons. Firstly‚ the Second Great Awakening was created because of religious purposes and even helped form the Methodists and Baptist denominations. This movement also resulted in a large following from abolitionist‚ women‚ and individuals in support of the temperance movement. The temperance movement was created in order to control the amount of alcohol
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