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    both positives and negatives to Beccaria’s ideas of punishment. His idea was to prosecute and sentence an individual for a crime based on the severity of the offense. He did not see a need to explain the motivation for the act (Freilich 2015). This is a weakness in that an individual is incarcerated for a crime and there is no understanding as to why the crime was and no rehabilitation is done. Furthermore‚ in order for a program to work based on this idea‚ one would have to understand why the crime

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    current known as the Enlightenment deeply affected the learned clergymen who headed colonial colleges and their students. Around 1650‚ some European thinkers began to analyze nature in order to determine the laws governing the universe. They employed experimentation and abstract reasoning to discover general principles behind phenomena such as the motions of planets and stars‚ the behavior of falling objects‚ and the characteristics of light and sound. Above‚ all Enlightenment philosophers emphasized

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    The Enlightenment The 17th century was torn by witch-hunts and wars of religion and imperial conquest. Protestants and Catholics denounced each other as followers of Satan‚ and people could be imprisoned for attending the wrong church‚ or for not attending any. All publications‚ whether pamphlets or scholarly volumes‚ were subject to prior censorship by both church and state‚ often working hand in hand. Slavery was widely practiced‚ especially in the colonial plantations of the Western Hemisphere

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    Denis Diderot‚ the prominent figure of the Enlightenment‚ was a French philosopher‚ an artist‚ and a writer. Diderot compiled many of the ideas spread around during the Enlightenment into one book‚ the Encylopedie. Diderot was one of the key figures of the Enlightenment which occurred during the 18th century. On July 24‚ 1749‚ Diderot was arrested and placed in solitary confinement in the Vincennes. On November 3‚ 1749 he was released from the Vincennes. He was arrested because the government was

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    Influence on America The ideas from the Enlightenment included the philosophies of Voltaire‚ Baron de Montesquieu John Locke‚ Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. These ideas included inalienable rights such as freedom‚ life‚ privacy‚ etc. There is a social “contract.” In return of the government protecting the people’s rights‚ the people would let the government rule. If this contract was not kept‚ the people had the right to overthrow the government. There was also the idea or the Separation of

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    Question 3 Discuss the relationship between the Scientific Revolution‚ the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. What do they have in common? How did they affect each other? The seventeenth century marked the beginnings of the scientific revolution in which scientists began to question the existence of the world and humanity as it was explained by church from a religious standpoint. Scientific inquiry and experimentation resulted in the development of a new way of thinking and looking at the

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    become a main symbol for the Holocaust. Between 1933 and 1945‚ Nazi Germany established about 20‚000 camps and killed 11 million people. There are three major concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau‚ Belzec‚ and Bergen-Belsen. These camps were very overpopulated and the prisoners did not eat well‚ wore cloth rags as clothing and were forced into labor for more than half of the day. “The first concentration camps opened in 1940 and Jews were gassed in mobile vans which brought around the idea of the

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    sources of business ideas Author: Jim Riley Last updated: Sunday 23 September‚ 2012 Starting a Business - Sources of business ideas Where does an entrepreneur come up with the idea for his/her business? In practice there are many ways in which the business opportunity and idea is first spotted. As we shall see‚ sometimes luck plays a big part; at other times there is a role for approaches which encourage deliberate creativity. Here are some of the main sources of business ideas for start-ups:

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    Declaration represents many Enlightenment ideas and philosophies. The Enlightenment Age deeply affected the ideology of the poor to seek their own nature rights. “Unlike the English and American Revolutions‚ the French Revolution went through a series of phases‚ each of which almost amounted to a revolution in itself; and as the Revolutionists repudiated one policy to adopt another‚ more or less its antithesis‚ they were able to turn from one philosopher of the Enlightenment‚ to an alternative‚ competing

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    personality‚ knowledge‚ science‚ and religion (Dynes).” These ideas would later become known as The Enlightenment. The ideology that fueled The Enlightenment was to “flee from dominant Christian thinking and move towards new ways of knowing (Dynes).” The immense destruction from the earthquake gave philosophers such as Voltaire and Rousseau reason to quarrel in belief. “Voltaire was a prominent figure during such time due to his opposing ideas of the church and government (Dynes).” Voltaire did not agree

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