The Puritans’ ideas and values influenced the political‚ economic‚ and social development of the New England colonies. They valued the importance of church and state bound as one. They also had that drive to work hard and be prosperous economically. But lastly‚ the Puritans had socially adopted the idea of the importance of God and living all for him. All of the ideas had influenced the development of the New England colonies The Puritans values the church and was the center of their town. The
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Heritage‚ Local Communities and the Safeguarding of ‘Spirit of Place’ in Taiwan Peter Davis‚ Han-yin Huang International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies‚ Newcastle University‚ NE1 7RU‚ UK p.s.davis@ncl.ac.uk; han-yin.huang@ncl.ac.uk AND Wan-chen Liu Graduate Institute for Museum Studies‚ Fu-Jen Catholic University‚ Taipei‚ Taiwan wanchenliu@yahoo.com Abstract: After brief reviews of the theoretical issues relating to place and ecomuseological processes this paper traces the changing relationships
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England‚ the Puritans had been people of resources and political power‚ but King Charles did not accept their attempts to reform and restructured the Church of England (Anglican Church) to be more Protestant. In not following with their request to make the changes‚ they began to protest against the Church of England and its leaders‚ the English monarch and the parliament as well. When William Laud was chosen by Charles the first as Archbishop of Canterbury‚ who is pro-catholic and anti-puritan in 1630
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Reading Report The Puritan Dilemma Author: Edmund S. Morgan New York 1999 I. Subject. This book is a short biography about John Winthrop. In this book Morgan outlines how Winthrop struggled with the dilemma‚ first internally‚ as he dealt with the question of whether traveling to the New World represented a selfish form of separatism‚ the desire to separate himself from an impure England‚ or whether‚ as he eventually determined‚ it offered a unique opportunity to set an example for all men
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1.The Puritans and the Quakers responded to the social and political pressures caused by their immigration to the new world by attempting to create a Utopian society but they had deeply failed due to disease and illness and created the opposite of what they wanted‚ a dystopia. This is an imperfect community. The Puritans had soon turned on most of their religious beliefs once the Quakers had appeared in their community‚ and their religious views were different than each other. The Quakers believed
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motivated to avoid certain consequences or dangers. Puritan writers wrote most often in plain style or sermons during the early 15th century until the Revolutionary Period. Humanist writers‚ including Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine‚ changed the Puritans’ writing style to a new‚ unconcealed‚ and religiously based text during the late 16th century. People of this generation realistically motivate themselves with regards to the rewards that follow like the Puritans thought; however‚ people might be more motivated
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what extent did the early New England Puritans live up to their idealized vision of community? Explain Like the other groups from Europe that came over to the New World‚ the puritans came over primarily for profit at first. Then the puritans saw their opportunity to seek refuge from the harsh theocratic government to start their own utopia for only puritans‚ in the early seventeenth century. The puritans had the idea of growing a closely-knit Christian society. Although the puritans lived up to
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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 Influences on Modern American Culture and Thought The ideas put forth by the Puritans are not simply an important starting point for American culture because they were the first in the country‚ but because they offered ways of thinking that are still ingrained in our culture today. Although many of the thoughts of Puritans have gradually dissipated or become less meaningful over time‚ it is important to note that Puritan writers and thinkers such as John Winthrop and Roger Williams offered
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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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