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    Calvin and Genevan Society John Calvin‚ the Protestant Reformer transformed Genevan society by facilitating disciplined norms in which individuals lived in accordance and practiced the Word of God. Calvin intended to produce honorable individuals who obey the Word of God in their daily lives and thus promote an overall civil government body. Calvin focused on education in the humanities‚ which he believed had its own power to enrich the whole life of Geneva as a city. He

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    better working conditions. The black death created troubles for the nobles and clergy. This was troublesome because the urban grain markets began to collapse. The plague generated a sequence of religious‚ social‚ and economic disruptions. Some individuals felt that the fury of god was stooping upon man‚ and so battled the plague with prayer. Belief in religion declined after the plague because of the death of multiple clergy and because of the failure of prayer to hinder sickness and death. To keep

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    "Between 1950 and 2002 more than 10‚667 boys and girls in the United States were victims of sexual abuse perpetrated by members of the Catholic clergy. More that 4‚392 Catholic priests and deacons were their abusers" ("Report on the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" 1). The church ’s credibility and the trustworthiness of the Catholic clergy have been devastatingly effected. Because incidents of sexual abuse are vastly underreported‚ and because over 50 percent of those victims

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    Death Comes for the Archbishop By Willa Cather Willa Cather is the author of the award winning novel Death Comes For The Archbishop written in 1927. She was born in 1873 near Winchester‚ Virginia and soon moved to Nebraska (Cather‚ 1927). During her childhood she was surrounded by foreign languages and customs. Even at her young age she felt a connection to the immigrants in Nebraska and was intrigued with their connection to the land. Willa also loved writing about the vanished past of

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    Social factors contributed to the French Revolution of 1789 Although social tensions within France certainly contributed to the revolutionary situation in August 1789 it was not the only contributing factor. Divisions and inequality between‚ as well as within‚ the Three Estates created an atmosphere of disharmony while the influence of the enlightenment and liberal ideas fueled the growing discontent of the Estates toward the government and Louis XVI. However‚ political factors‚ like the undermining

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    Thus‚ the Catholic Reformation would be marked by reformed congregations of the leading monastic and mendicant orders; reform-minded bishops who resided in their dioceses personally looking after the religious lives of their flock; and groups of clergy and laity devoted to personal sanctification and the works of

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    and the Protestant Reformation. As Martin Luther‚ author of the “95 Theses”‚ coments: “ This word cannot be understood as referring to the sacrament of penance‚ that is‚ confession and satisfaction‚ as administered by the clergy”. They were changing the way they think‚ and the clergy did not like those changes. As we had talked in class‚ two worlds were growing together at that time; secular and scared. At that time‚ the mentality that God is the center of everything and man accepts life as an expression

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    When the plague first reached Europe‚ people panicked. In hopes of survival‚ many began to abandon what they had and moved to villages and country sides in hope of fleeing from the disease. “Children abandoned the father‚ husband abandoned the wife‚ wife the husband‚ one brother the other‚ one sister the other…. Some fled to villas‚ others to villages in order to get a change in air. Where there had been no [plague]‚ there they carried it; if it was already there‚ they caused it to increase” (Zahler

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    Religion can be powerful under the right certain circumstances for social change. However it can be argued that religion can be a conservative force. Weber argues that religious beliefs contributed to major social change- specifically the emergence of modern capitalism in Northern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Modern capitalism differs from capitalism as it is based on systematic‚ efficient and a rational pursuit of profit and profit for its own sake rather than consumption. Weber calls

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    Cecilia Mishkevich Mrs. Leahy AP Euro Block F 27 October 2014 Henry VIII DBQ Wanting an annulment from Catherine the Great‚ Henry VIII created the Anglican Church through the Act of Supremacy in 1534. This marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in England‚ and Thomas Cromwell‚ Henry VIII’s head of the King’s Council‚ instigated a series of governmental policies including new taxes‚ growth of royal power in the north of England‚ closure of monasteries‚ and elimination of Catholic church

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