The Enlightenment is the most important part of World History 2. The Enlightenment spread from Europe to the American colonies in the 1700s through newspaper articles reprinted from Great Britain. Many of the ideas for the making of the Enlightenment itself was from the Americans‚ Enlightenment thinkers and philosophies. Americans applied Enlightenment ideas of natural and political science to the problems that interested them. These ideas was marked by highly creative and thought-provoking
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Reading Response #2 Benjamin Franklin’s principles are comparable to the Mary Rowlandson’s orgins in way and also diverse in some ways. In Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography‚ Franklin holds alloy of importance on educations and improving one own self‚ and how it can benefit to anyone. Franklin is a person who believes if he constantly read and educates himself he will improve his own work and archive hid dream. Compared to Puritan constant belief in the bible and her faith in god will
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Benjamin Britten‚ an outstanding British composer‚ pianist‚ and conductor‚ is one of the most famous composers of the 20th century. His talents include composing Operas‚ Chorals‚ and Orchestra pieces. Included in his accomplishments are compositions composed for symphonies‚ operas‚ and films. He became quite well known for his work during the mid-twentieth century. Benjamin Britten was born in 1913 in Lowestoft England. Britten’s father was a dentist‚ and not very involved in young Benjamin’s
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Benjamin Bradley was born a slave in Maryland‚ around 1830‚ but became an engineer and inventor. Although it was against the law to teach a slave how to read or write‚ Bradley learned literacy from his enslaver’s children. Bradley was also good at mathematics‚ and showed a natural talent for making things. As a teenager‚ Bradley was put to work at an office where he built a working steam engine from pieces of scrap metal. Others were so impressed with Bradley’s mechanical skills that he was given
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Forum Participation: The Enlightenment The Enlightenment witnessed in the 18th century radically reoriented the European politics‚ science‚ philosophy and communication. It is potentially the most prominent movement in the history of the European mind. The Enlightenment started earlier than the 18th century‚ but it is in the 18th century that a significant departure from the Middle Ages became apparent. It transitioned the Western mentality into the primarily rational‚ secular and materialistic perspectives
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Main Idea of The Enlightenment The Enlightenment which was during the seventeenth and eighteenth century was a time that helped shape the capitalistic‚ democratic world we live in today. The Enlightenment was also called the Age of Reason because that period was a time of high intellect and bright new ideas. Philosophers would meet to discuss economic‚ political‚ social‚ and religious questions. These questions made the philosophers hope that they might some new ways to understand and improve
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ENLIGHTENMENT ERA The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment) is the era in Western philosophy and intellectual‚ scientific‚ and cultural life‚ centered upon the 18th century‚ in which reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority. Developing simultaneously in France‚ Great Britain‚ Germany‚ the Netherlands‚ Italy‚ Spain‚ the American colonies‚ and Portugal‚ the movement was buoyed by Atlantic Revolutions‚ especially the success of the American Revolution‚
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As the most profound and significant intellectual movement since the Renaissance in Europe‚ the Enlightenment in eighteenth century was never a coincidence‚ instead it was set in complicated economical‚ scientific and social context. With the growing power of emergent capitalist industrialism‚ the new middle class who had known poverty and hardship‚ and most of whom had obtained their present social statue through hard work‚ put high value on the virtues of self-discipline‚ thrift and hard work.
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national‚ European and world markets. Major changes in art‚ music‚ literature and religion wrecked the system of medieval values. Another period marked by significant changes‚ is the eighteenth century or an age of Enlightenment. Although present throughout Europe‚ the origins of the Enlightenment are closely associated with France and its philosophers such as Voltaire‚ Rousseau and others.
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The Enlightenment shook the grounds of Europe‚ seeking a more intellectual society. Centuries later‚ the Great Awakening had a similar effect on America; pulling the colonies back to religion. Although the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening were pushing for two different causes‚ and took place on opposite sides of the globe‚ the two eras are quite alike. Both of these time periods produced profound intellectual and religious ideas. A major goal of the Enlightenment was to utilize the means learned
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