Martin Luther (November 10‚ 1483 - February 18‚ 1546) was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines of Protestant and other Christian traditions. Martin Luther was born to Hans and Margaretha Luther on 10 November 1483 in Eisleben‚ Germany and was baptised the next day on the feast of St. Martin of Tours‚ after whom he was named. Luther’s call to the Church to return to the teachings of the Bible resulted in
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In this essay‚ I would like to relate Christine de Pizan’s and Martin Luther’s idea of faith with the use of good works to the question of individuality. For Christine‚ faith through good works is essential in shaping one’s individuality; as for Luther‚ faith alone‚ is used to define one as a Christian. By defining individuality as the unique journey taken to discovery of one’s worth as a Christian‚ faith provides a central point of conversion to direct one’s actions toward his or her newly converted
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Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.: An American Leader During his brief lifetime‚ Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. led an exemplary life of leadership. Prior to his assassination on April 4‚ 1968 (“About Dr. King”)‚ Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. was an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement. His work to end racial discrimination‚ however‚ was not the only thing King did to establish his legacy in American history as an important leader. His political activism‚ diplomatic virtue and efforts to improve
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Martin Luther King Assessment Task Research Task (200 words in total) 1. In that ways were the African-American people treated differently from white people in the USA in the 1950s. African-Americans were separated from white people by law and discriminated against by the white people. They were referred to as ‘Negros’‚ which was an insensitive word to call the African-Americans. White people separated children from African-American families and there were ‘coloured’ seats for African-American
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Unlike his predecessors‚ Martin Luther was able to spread his ideas rapidly due to the social‚ economic and political state of Europe at that time. Through technological advances‚ growing unrest with current leaders‚ the threat of a foreign invasion and a high rate of poverty‚ Luther’s ideas influenced many people within Germany that change was necessary. By picking up where those before him had left off‚ Luther was able to bring in a new era of ideas that forever changed the views people had of
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Martin Luther King Martin Luther King was born on January 15‚ 1992‚ in Atlanta Georgia. King grew up in in Atlanta where his father was a pastor at a small church. King had an older sister and a younger brother. Throughout school King was a good student and eventually attended College at only 15 years old. 4 years later King earned a sociology degree from Morehouse College. King married Coretta Scott and had 4 children. He became a pastor at a Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama. He completed
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Martin Luther and the Reformation A German Augustinian friar‚ Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Luther grew up the son of a miner‚ but he did not maintain that lifestyle for himself. He lived in a period that had a widespread desire for reformation of the Christian church and a yearning for salvation. Martin Luther was born at Eisleben in Saxony. Since his father was a miner‚ it was a great distress on him to send Martin to school and then to the University
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Martin Luther Martin Luther was a German theologian and religious reformer‚ who started the Protestant Reformation‚ and whose vast influence during his time period made him one of the crucial figures in modern European history. Luther was born in Eisleben on November 10‚ 1483 and was descended from the peasantry‚ a fact that he often stressed. Hans Luther‚ his father‚ was a copper miner. Luther received a sound primary and secondary education at Mansfeld‚ Magdeburg‚ and Eisenach. In 1501
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Martin Luther King is the most important member of the Civil Rights movement of the 20th century. There has never been‚ nor will there ever be‚ one who is able to best the accomplishments which King achieved‚ as well as the inspiration which he motivated within millions of Americans‚ both who had been oppressed and those who felt the apathy for the oppressed‚ yet had never been inspired to act on their convictions. Martin Luther King brought these two people together in record numbers and in a way
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Martin Luther King Ariunsaikhan Batkhuyag Slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865 with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the states constitution‚ but little has been done in order to give black people real rights. Adoption of the "Black Codes" in the southern states‚ instead of saying the political rights of former slaves‚ has led to the fact that they were away from the political life of the country. Segregation as a form of racial discrimination
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