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    and ultimately living in the dark while someone else guides you. Once again‚ you are immature. The idea of someone else controlling your life is sickening and hard to swallow‚ but for some reason millions of people continue to let someone else control them. The question that must now be asked is why people would want to live in mental slavery. This is the question provides an answer that Enlightenment thinkers have waged a war against. People want to live lives of comfort and any struggle will cause

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    III. The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening‚ 1720–1765 A. The Enlightenment in America 1. Many early Americans believed in folk wisdom‚ while others relied on a religion that believed the earth was the center of the universe and that God intervened directly and continuously in all kinds of human affairs. 2. philosophers of the European Enlightenment used empirical research and scientific reasoning to study all aspects of life‚ including social institutions and human behavior. 3. Enlightenment

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    As the most profound and significant intellectual movement since the Renaissance in Europe‚ the Enlightenment in eighteenth century was never a coincidence‚ instead it was set in complicated economical‚ scientific and social context. With the growing power of emergent capitalist industrialism‚ the new middle class who had known poverty and hardship‚ and most of whom had obtained their present social statue through hard work‚ put high value on the virtues of self-discipline‚ thrift and hard work.

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    1 Analyze and evaluate the various Enlightenment philosophers‚ including Voltaire‚ David Hume‚ and John Locke. What contributions did they make to Western Society? The Enlightenment was a reaction against the current political and social frameworks in Europe. The enlightenment attempted to suggest the standards of sound judgment and motivation to the workings of ordinary life and in government while questioning humankind in society. It dismissed the celestial privileges of rulers even though it

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    Department of Education (DepEd) has finally released the much-awaited Graduation Message 2013 by Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro‚ and you can find it below. School administrators are looking for this graduation message to be included in the program of their graduations and/or commencement exercises this 2013. See the full text of Bro. Luistro’s message as shared by one commenter of this blog: 2013 Graduation Message of Secretary Armin Luistro To our Dear Students‚ Parents‚ Teachers‚ Staff‚ Administrators

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    Questions for Poison by Roald Dahl 1. Timber states‚ “The bite is quite deadly except sometimes when you catch it at once”.  Toward the end of the story‚ Harry calls Ganderbai a “dirty little sewer rat” and “You dirty black--.”  What is the relationship between Timber’s statement and Harry’s statement? 2. How do we know that Harry is very “refined‚” according to Timber (What does Timber spot on Harry’s pajamas?) 3. What is the denotative definition of “refined”?  What is the connotative

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    Haydn’s Impact on the Enlightenment Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer during the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. He had a major impact on the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution by providing his compositions with a distinctive style. His well-rounded personality led him to be known as an ideal man of the Enlightenment. Haydn impacted the Enlightenment by providing his compositions with distinctive style. He started his career when he was hired by

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    “What is Enlightenment?” asked the prominent German Intellectual Immanuel Kant. “It is a man’s emergence from his self imposed...inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance...Dare to know! ‘Have the courage to use your own understanding’ is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.’ “” (Ways Of the World). The film “Amadeus” was set during the age of enlightenment. The film depicts the life of Mozart‚ while subtlety depicting issues related ideals of the Enlightenment. The film

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    written by Hillary Clinton. The Enlightenment produced modern separate theories of psychology and ethics‚ some of the most important ones were the freedom of speech‚ cruel and harsh punishments and most importantly women’s rights. The Enlightenment represented an intellectual philosophical movement. People began to seek a way to understand the world through science and reason. Women’s rights have made the largest impact in the world. Without women’s brave and smart ideas‚ a lot of the things today would

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    ENLIGHTENMENT ERA The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment) is the era in Western philosophy and intellectual‚ scientific‚ and cultural life‚ centered upon the 18th century‚ in which reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority. Developing simultaneously in France‚ Great Britain‚ Germany‚ the Netherlands‚ Italy‚ Spain‚ the American colonies‚ and Portugal‚ the movement was buoyed by Atlantic Revolutions‚ especially the success of the American Revolution‚

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