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    1607 Jamestown Va founded Virginia company founded by Captain John Smith. 1620 Mayflower Compact Plymouth founded 1619 House of Burgesses founded 1628 John Winthrop 1622 John Rolfe 1630 MA Bay Colony founded by John Winthrop 1632 Pequot war starts 1634 Maryland Colony founded 1636 Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams expelled 1637 Anne Hutchinson expelled 1638 Pequot war ended 1651 Navigation Act 1649 Maryland Toleraction Act 1639 Fundamental Orders of CT 1675 King Philips War

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    Chapter 13An American Renaissance: Religion‚ Romanticism‚ and Reform Rational religion 1. The concept of mission in the American character 2. The development of deism 1. Roots in rationalism and Calvinism 2. Nature of the beliefs 3. The development of Unitarianism 3. Nature of the beliefs 4. Role of William Ellery Channing 5. Creation of American Unitarian Association 4. The development of Universalism 6. Role of John Murray

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    Discrimination against mothers in the workplace Before examining the how the workplace discriminates against mothers‚ one must acknowledge how the social construction of gender contributes to domesticity‚ or the gender system that organizes market work and family work. The social construction of gender is the belief that society‚ not biologically sex differences‚ is the foundation of gender identity (TAW 22). Even before a child is born‚ the social construction of gender is already in the works

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    now-famous activists like the African-American Sojourner Truth (d. 1883)‚ who demanded: "Ain’t I a woman?" Victorian America saw women acting in very "un-ladylike" ways (public speaking‚ demonstrating‚ stints in jail)‚ which challenged the "cult of domesticity." Discussions about the vote and women’s participation in politics led to an examination of the differences between men and women as they were then viewed. Some claimed that women were morally superior to men‚ and so their presence in the civic

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    present. The women’s were vulnerable to their men‚ having food on the table‚ and give men hope during the evil days. Victorian women always knew how to make his husband come home with relief and happiness. Women’s where thought to learn the Cult of Domesticity since they are young. Women were thought to cook‚ cleaning‚ sewing‚ decorating‚ and playing the piano. With all of this skill‚ this can bring the man home quick and with

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    Tibetans of China I decided to focus my paper on the modern day Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in China. My group chose option two where we each pick a different culture and choose the same topics to write about. Our group wanted to learn more about the domestic life‚ kinship and marriage aspects of our cultures. Modern day Tibetans in rural areas still have many of their traditional customs intact‚ even though the Chinese Government has been trying to regulate it. In the bigger cities and for

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    Henrik Ibsen’s works Dollhouse and An Enemy of the People can be shown to have both been written by Ibsen not only through characteristic technique such as blocking and character exposition‚ but also the similarity in the decay of the social persona of characters from the norm and the main character’s heightening stalwart. The later of that statement proves the works to be Ibsen’s writing more effectively because such a commonality is a more direct link between works than such subtlies as character

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    America was expanding in the early 1800s‚ politically‚ economically‚ and socially. Many movements occurred during this time‚ particularly from 1825 to 1850‚ aimed to better laws‚ institutions‚ and society and to spread democracy overall. Although the religious‚ penal‚ education‚ and feminist reform movements in the United States sought to expand democratic ideals‚ the temperance and abolitionist reform movements ended up limiting democracy. The religious‚ penal‚ education‚ and feminist reform movements

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    CHAPTER 15: THE FERMENT OF REFORM AND CULTURE Reviving Religion Know: Alexis de Tocqueville‚ The Age of Reason‚ Deism‚ Unitarians‚ Second Great Awakening‚ Camp Meetings‚ Charles Grandison Finney 43. In what ways did religion in the United States become more liberal and more conservative in the early decades of the 19th century? - Scientific revolution changed the way people thinking; they denied the divine of Christ and believe that the world was made with properties

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    Judith Beveridge Poem Essay This essay discusses the value and merit of Judith Beveridge’s poems "Domesticity of Giraffes" and "Fox in a tree stump" and describes how each poem clarifies the value of life. Judith Beveridge is a well known poet whose poems portray moral values and meanings which are essential elements for Australian poetry. Two of her poems "Domesticity of giraffes" and "Fox in a tree stump" express these elements by clarifying the value of life‚ exploring humanity’s relationship

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