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    The Enlightenment period placed new ideas about religion and society that worked to shape the policies of the French Revolution. During the period of 1798-1799‚ the religious toleration and separation of church and the ideas of equal rights lead to the start of the French Revolution. Famous philosopher‚ John Locke‚ had a big role in the social impact of the Enlightenment. Locke wanted liberty and justice for all‚ even for those part of the third estate that had a restricted amount of

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    The ideas of punishment from the post enlightenment era‚ such as‚ vengeance‚ humiliation‚ and retaliation to deter the criminal and other members of society‚ from further criminal activity would best serve purpose as punishment for type one crimes that are planned and carried out. Crimes that are committed with malice such as burglary and first-degree murder are intentional crimes. These crimes require planning‚ violent acts‚ and harm to another. In my opinion‚ the severe punishment of the post

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    The American and French Revolutions were both fundamentally based on the Enlightenment ideas. The main ideas that they followed were by John Locke. His ideas inspired the Americans and the French to have a revolution. In these revolutions‚ the Americans had success and the French failed. The success that the Americans experienced wad due to the protection of rights they had. These rights are "Life‚ Liberty and Property." In America a constitution was put together that provided for a stable

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    France‚ and Haiti was the impact of political ideas from the Enlightenment. Although most Enlightenment writers are cautious about political reform‚ their confidence in reason and progress inspired a new generation to fight for greater freedom from oppressive governments. The contradiction between slavery and the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality was all too evident to the enslaved and the free people of color. The two most important Enlightenment references for late-eighteenth-century liberals

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    During the Enlightenment Era the philosophers decided to start spreading their ideas. These people used thought and reason to question actions that took place‚ they also questioned the government of their county. The philosophers ideas spread to the people so their ideas spread like wildfire. The name of one of the more popular philosophers is Adam Smith‚ he did many things to impact the people of his time. He was very passionate about his work. He based his ideas off his conflicts during his childhood

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    How to Find the Main Idea of a Paragraph An important part of developing reading comprehension is identifying the main idea of a paragraph or passage. The main idea states the author ’s overall purpose for writing. Identifying the main idea and restating it in your own words develops skills of comprehension and analysis. Though there are several techniques for identifying the main idea of a reading selection‚ some general guidelines and strategies for both reading and checking your decision can

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    My 3 highest scores are: Information Processing (85)‚ Study Aids (95)‚ and Time Management (60).The 3 areas I scored the lowest on are: Attitude (5)‚ Motivation (5)‚ and Selecting Main Ideas (20). I’m going to work more on my attitude‚ because it’s important to me that I graduate and get the degree in the career that I want to purse‚ so that I can prove to all the people who told me that I wouldn’t be nothing‚ or had doubt in me‚ because my parents didn’t finish High School‚ nor graduated. Motivation

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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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    The main ideas in the 20 pages talk about who is Winston Smith . Winston Smith was thirty-nine years old‚ and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle. He lived in Victory Mansions. He worked at a kilomentor away the Ministry of Truth. There are four apartment such as Minitrue‚ Minipax‚ Minlur‚ and Miniplenty. Precisely‚ the Ministry of love was the really frightening one because there are gorilla-faced guards. Also‚ Winston wrote the diary about the movie he watched. After that he thought about

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    Introduction: The main idea of a multiple regression analysis is to understand the relationship between several independent variables and a single dependent variable. (Lind‚ 2004) A model of the relationship is hypothesized‚ and estimates of the parameter values are used to develop an estimated regression equation.(abyss.uoregon.edu) The multiple regression equation used to describe the relationship is: Y’ = a + b1X1 + b2X2 + b3X3 +……. + bkXk. It is used to estimate Y given selected X values

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