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    Puritan Women

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    2014 Women in the Puritan Society Rights for women in the Puritan community were very scarce. The women lacked rights because men were seen as superior to them. Even though men were the ultimate leaders of the Puritan community‚ women still played a vital role throughout their society. With the limited rights women possessed‚ they impacted the Puritan community in many ways. Puritan women had little to no rights back then; however‚ they did play an important role in the Puritan society through their

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    Jobs I’ve Held There are many decisions to make when searching for a career. Along the journey‚ I have held different positions at various companies and there are various leadership styles I have come across while working under different managers. My very first encounter with a manger was when I was doing my National Youth Service in my home country Nigeria. The National Youth Service is a compulsory one year scheme organized by my country. This one year scheme was created to avail graduates an

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    Puritan aspects

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    The scarlet letter The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses the aspects of relationships‚ religion‚ community‚ discipline and punishment in the puritan community of 17th century Boston. Relationships between men and women were very constrained and that is what made adultery such a bad sin in the eyes of everyone in the community. Religion seemed to govern over all‚ people would look up to reverends and the community believed that fate was their destiny. Public discipline and punishment

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    Puritan Synthesis

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    Puritan Synthesis Puritans were European immigrants that had many beliefs. Some of the common beliefs were that only certain people could talk to God‚ and that God is mean‚ angry‚ and vengeful. People would often write Literature to express the way they view God‚ or to write a History that often has to due with themselves. Most Puritan Sermons‚ Histories‚ and Poems all include a Lesson throughout and Glorify their God. Both “Upon the Burning of our house‚” by Anne Bradstreet and “Sinners in

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    Puritan Literature

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    The Puritan literature of our first unit rebels against the greater context of world events occurring during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Puritan literature portrays that knowledge was gained through studying the Bible‚ and that the only purpose of gaining further knowledge would be to preserve the integrity of ones own soul‚ or to help others in saving theirs. The Puritans’ interests in gaining or preserving knowledge were solely religious‚ and they also believed that any knowledge

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    Puritan – (1472-1750) – Most of this is histories‚ journals‚ personal poems‚ sermons‚ and diaries. Most of this literature is either utilitarian‚ very personal‚ or religious. We call it Puritan because the majority of the writers during this period were strongly influenced by Puritan ideals and values. Jonathan Edwards continues to be recognized from this period. Enlightenment – (1750-1800) – Called the Enlightenment period due to the influence of science and logic‚ this period is marked

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    Puritans and Sex

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    article‚ “Puritans and Sex” by Edmund S. Morgan‚ the author explains that contrary to popular belief‚ the Puritans openly acknowledged their natural human urge for sex and‚ while looking down upon sinful acts such as adultery and rape‚ regarded them only as “pardonable human weaknesses” (Morgan) that called only for prevention and very rarely for major punishment and furthermore found sex after marriage perfectly acceptable and even necessary for a functional society. The idea that Puritans were opposed

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    The Puritan Story

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    The puritan story was a story of many things; from the landing of the first group of puritans in New England‚ to the formation and trouble of the bay colony bible commonwealth‚ to the puritans versus Indians‚ ending with the New England family. This story wouldn’t be anything without the help of the one and only King Henry VIII. It was King’s‚ tie breaking with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530’s that launch the reformation of the protestant church. The reformation of the church led to a group

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    Puritans and Sex

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    Puritans were often stereotyped as a strongly religious group that lacked humor and was very sexually repressed. Although they were strongly religious‚ they were still human beings. They knew sex was a human necessity and understood that fully. What they did was make vigorous strides to make sex before marriage illegal. In other words‚ they only wanted married couples to partake in sexual intercourse to honor the code of God. They came up with a number of laws to protect sexual misdemeanors such

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    puritan belief

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    In the United States today‚ Puritan beliefs and themes have influenced our way of living. Public policies in modern day society are shaped around what the Puritans believed in. This is shown in the tenants of the American Dream‚ as well as the constitution‚ and the bill of rights. All three of these were created around the Puritan time‚ and the Puritan’s were the ones who created them. One of the biggest law’s that the United States has‚ that many other countries do not is covenant‚ it is the importance

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