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    European Exploration

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    Chapter 3: European Exploration and Colonization Trade Route to Asia in the 1400s European Trade With Asia Traders - people who get wealth by buying items from a group of people at a low price and selling those things to other people at higher prices. European countries use trade to gain wealth The stronger countries in Europe in the 1400s and 1500s England‚ Spain‚ France and Portugal. Kings and queens wanted to gain wealth - to build larger armies and navies to dominate other countries

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    bias‚ and have a clearer perspective of it is those who see what truly needs to be done‚ and what needs to be changed. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a prime example of an outside-in view of a society. It contrasts the nature of the puritan town of Boston against the wildness of a girl who grew up outside of the town‚ Pearl. In doing so he reveals a society that values dullness‚ intolerance‚ and suppressiveness. From the very beginning Pearl was different‚ she was a baby born from

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    into the eighteenth century‚ the persecution of Puritans took place in England causing many of the Puritans to separate from the country. As a repercussion‚ the Puritans and Separatists sought a charter to form the Massachusetts Bay Company‚ which ultimately led them to land in Cape Cod. According to records of ship’s list of emigrants bound for New England‚ many of the people travelled by household or in families. (Document B) In New England‚ puritans were a group of Protestants who demanded the simplification

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    imagination. Personally‚ I think that it would be fair to consider Hawthorn a Christian writer with many characteristics seeing in humanist writers. There could be a fine line‚ but if we take into consideration that the base of his writing comes from a puritan background‚ Hawthorn’s writing goes far more into the moral struggles within a society than the Christian struggles or soul saving. Hawthorn was an American novelist and short-story writes who was a master

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    the major Puritan beliefs as you re-read this poem. What philosophical beliefs about God and the purpose of human life are reflected in Bradstreet’s poem? In the poem “The Burning of Our House‚” author Anne Bradstreet wakes up in the middle of the night to discover that her house has caught on fire. Anne Bradstreet was a woman born into a family of Puritans and then married a Puritan man. Being of Puritan religion‚ she regarded this horrible occurrence as a bad sign from the Lord. Puritans did not

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    The Salem Witch Trial

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    The early beliefs and superstitions in Puritanical society that were practiced on an everyday basis supported the idea that the behaviors and physical conditions of the afflicted girls were the evil works of the witches‚ and the Devil. Among many Puritans‚ this belief becomes a fear‚ and then this fear becomes like an additional topping that adds up to causing convulsive hysteria and also hallucinations which were caused by Ergot Poisoning. So‚ here is where the role of Convulsive Hysteria and Ergotism

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    Romanticism v Puritanism

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    2013 Scarlet Letter In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathanial Hawthorne tries to incorporate the Puritan and Romanticist ways that were apparent at the time that the story takes place. Throughout the ending chapters one can really see the difference between the Puritan traditions and the incoming Romanticism showing through. Hawthorne‚ being raised a Puritan‚ can portray the strict and dark ways of the Puritans through different characters and actions. One might say that Hester Prynne and Pearl represent

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    In The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne and Arthur Miller‚ show how the Puritans are too involved with religion and have too much trust in religion. The amount of trust and involvement Puritans had in religion caused clouded perspective and overreaction. These factors together are what caused many Puritan community to become weak and lose much of their involvement in church. Think about it their core value of church is destructive‚ one power is destructive. Clouded perspective

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    city upon a hill

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     lawyer and leader of the 1630 migration of English Puritans to Massachusetts‚ discusses his beliefs Puritans should follow to be a good Puritan citizen. Winthrop tries to persuade the Puritans to create a good christian society‚ which they will achieve by sticking together as a community with the idea of brotherly love. Brotherly love with allow the community to succeed and prosper. Winthrop uses repetition‚  an extended metaphor and tone to inspire the Puritans to create a society that will exceed any other societies and become a community

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    religious reformers into carry out purification of English Christianity. These religious reformers‚ known as Puritans wanted to reform the Church of England from within. Therefore‚ in 1629‚ Puritans secured a royal charter to form the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They proposed to establish a settlement in the Massachusetts area‚ where Boston would become the core of Puritan society. The Puritans didn’t want to separate from the Church of England‚ but rather separate from its impurities. In Rhode Island

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