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    TMA 03 Using the data in the table provided on pages 20 and 21‚ what can you say about the relationships people have with their neighbours and immediate community? Provided is a table‚ which was taken from a study by the research consultancy ICM on different aspects of neighbouring. This table looks at the responses of people to answers on neighbouring‚ using different groupings. On the top‚ the general heading shows the gender‚ age‚ social class and regions. The horizontal

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    Natives‚ he fell into disfavor *The Puritans were Protestants who wanted to purify the church of England Wanted to get the church to actively live out the meaning of the New Testament Didn’t think the government should control the church Felt that the church was too focused on ceremony/liturgy *William Bradford led the first voyage of Puritans in order to build a new society patterned after the word of G-d and to get away from religious persecution *2 things Puritans were certain of: Humanity was

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    Puritan Literature

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    October 3‚ 2011 Puritan literature‚ there are many ways to describe it‚ and many examples of it. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”‚ “Huswifery”‚ and “On Being Brought from Africa to America” are a selection of the most famous pieces of this type of literature in various ranges of time periods. They each combine different elements like diction‚ imagery‚ personal beliefs and didactic approaches and more; including character of the author and the role of religion. All Puritan literature is somewhat

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    Have you ever wondered how people hunted during the puritan time? Over the years hunting has really not change‚ but many of the thing they did during the puritan times‚ they still do today. Some of the things are the guns‚ animals and trapping. The guns are not exactly the same but they are close. Trapping has not changed much at all The only thing that has really changed is that we have live traps‚ and they did not. They mostly used snares and foot holds. The animals are another thing that are the

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    Puritan Mentality

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    Puritan mentality as well as pillars and determinants of the American society must be defined at the beginning. The topic of this thesis reflects social and cultural issues and changes in the U.S. during the 1920s and 1930s‚ including organized crime. It concerns American identity and cultural changes‚ however not in general. It focuses on one of U.S. cities: Atlantic City‚ which has been a focal point in mass culture‚ new cultural trends which determined the archetype of leisure. The new trend in

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    Puritan Religious Beliefs

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    the Puritans came to escape religious persecution and worship freely in any way they saw fit. Shortly after arriving in North America they become a dominant religious force in the region. Early Puritan groups establish their own societies which featured a system of government The Protestant goal was to maintain and spread what they believed was the “perfect" religion; however it required everyone to worship their way. They managed this thought conversion and persecution. Although the Puritans phased

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    The Puritans‚ in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ were a group of people who were shaped by English experience and complete involvement in religion. The Puritan society molded itself and created a government based upon the Bible and implemented it with force. The crime of adultery committed by Hester generated rage‚ and was qualified for serious punishment according to Puritan beliefs. Ultimately the town of Boston became intensely involved with Hester’s life and her crime of adultery‚ and

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    During the 1600’s the Puritans came to America for religious freedom. When they arrived they found that a few people wouldn’t follow the strict new rules that they had set in place. They soon started calling them out as witches‚ and so the Salem witch trials began. But to know about the Salem Witch trials first you have to know who started them. Once you know who started them then you need to know what happened. How could you tell someone was a witch? How were these people prosecuted? Who were these

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    Puritans Role Model

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    Plymouth Colony‚ the Puritans settled from the native England to the US‚ immigrated to begin with the new world – civilization. In the new world‚ I believe the role of the leader was the role model of keeping and maintaining simple life and separation from the world for Puritan societies. What it means to be a Puritan‚ and how its Puritans lived. The article was written between 1632 and 1682 about the laws about Puritans and a way of life from childbearing to local communities. Some of the laws were

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    based in a Puritan society. If you look at how people live today and their actions in their everyday life and compare it to how Puritans or the Amish live‚ I believe that some people would be in shock that there are people who live like they do. And these people who live unlike us don’t think that their way of living is strange or weird. In a Puritan society the Bible provided the way of living and the people living in the community wanted to be a city on the hill. The Amish and the Puritans are two

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