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    The Ideal Puritan Society

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    John Swift The Ideal Puritan Society Puritans thought of themselves as members of the Church of England. Disgusted with the tainted modern religious practices‚ puritans tried to change that institution. They soon became frustrated with the lack of successful reform as English kings James I and Charles I persecuted them. The Puritans migrated to the New World to create a nation according to their own beliefs. The Puritan Society was a very restrictive and socially constrictive one. Massachusetts

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    punishment. Hester is described to be a slave of her own sin. Puritans laws required Hester to be bound through her identity to her very public sin. As such‚ the puritan system is the basis for which society has discovered its punishment systems. This would include beliefs on God‚ beliefs on marriage‚ how the influence of Puritanism relates to Hawthorne’s life‚ and how Hawthorne tied these into his story The Scarlet Letter. Puritans believed that nothing could influence them whether they would

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    Puritan Synthesis Essay

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    Synthesis Essay The Puritans dream was to create a model society for the rest of the Christians. Their goal was to make a society in every way connected to god. But to really understand what the aspirations of the puritans were‚ we must first understand their beliefs. These beliefs were expressed through their writings which have been read through the years by American students. With this‚ American students were taught Puritan lessons of devotion‚ virtue‚ and conformity. Devotion can be defined

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    The Puritan society believes that the word of the Bible is the key to a divine life and must be followed. If any individual decides to stray from the Lord’s word‚ they will be punished. Although those beliefs are heavily pushed in the Puritan society‚ those beliefs are no longer as widespread. Although Puritan and present day society both consider sins of murder‚ rape and stealing a major deal‚ there are still some major differences between the two. Anything that relates to giving your soul to the

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    Essay On Puritan Women

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    early 16th century‚ a ship reached Cape Cod shores and out stepped a large number of puritans that today‚ to the average American‚ they would be called pilgrims. When one thinks of the pilgrims‚ they will think of how they were one of the first people to colonize on the East coast and of the men and women who feasted with the Indians nearly 400 years ago. Despite the time difference between the two cultures‚ puritan and contemporary American society are similar in regards to our laws and punishment

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    Puritan Farmer In 1640

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    The puritans were much stricter‚ religiously‚ compared to the average modern Christian. A Massachusetts puritan farmer in 1640 would probably think of God as a wrathful angry god with absolute sovereignty. This belief would be brought upon him by the church and he would have believed this since childhood. The farmer would believe that his reason for existence is to obey the covenant that the Puritans had with God‚ and thus‚ if obeyed‚ God would grant him saving grace. He would need this saving grace

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    The Enlightenment is a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. The Enlightenment was the period of scientific Awakening. It is an movement that had a huge impact of freedom and equality. While the Enlightenment was going through dramatic changes‚ it also inspired people to change their governments into a better system to benefit the society. The main cause of these changes all began from the French Revolution‚

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    have fit in perfectly in the 1700’s‚ where these two extremes were quite common. The difference between Puritan and Humanist ideals is that Puritans believe in duty and heavy labor for the rewards of Heaven that a fierce and just God could provide‚ while the Humanist believe that performing acts of kindness is simply the nature of the human being‚ while receiving immediate rewards. The Puritans started in the 1600’s‚ when religious folk realized that religion was slowly dwindling in society‚ and ran

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    Enlightenment

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    The Age of Enlightenment (or Age of Reason) was a cultural movement of intellectuals occurring from about 1600-1800 in Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. Its purpose was to better society using reason‚ to challenge ideas and possibly go against ones that society had made tradition and faith‚ and to increase knowledge using the scientific method. It promoted scientific thought‚ skepticism‚ and intellectual interchange. Enlightenment thinkers opposed superstition and

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    Enlightenment

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    ANALYSIS OF IMMANUEL KANT’S “WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?”    POSTED BY BILL ON 07.11.11 0 COMMENTS Immanuel Kant In December 1783 Johann Friedrich Zöllner published an article in Berlinische Monatsschrift that stated his opposition to civil marriage‚ an idea proposed in a previous issue of the journal.  Zöllner wrote that the foundations of morality had been shaken in the name of enlightenment and concluded his piece with the question “what is enlightenment?” Zöllner asserted that this question

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