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    during the American Revolution took different sides in the French Revolution because of their political views. Thomas Paine took the side of the French‚ opposing his own country‚ because he believed in a system where people can govern themselves. Edmund Burke took the side of the English because he was supporting his country and believed in a system where there needs to be a higher power to keep people in their place. Thomas Paine was a radical in the way he thought and believed in a total reform

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    The French Revolution (1789-1794)‚ worked towards the end of feudalism in France by establishing nationalism and the French nation. The King‚ Louis XVI established the Estate General which included a lack of representation and un-proportioned Third Estate which included majority of the French Population. With the Enlightenment era at that time‚ the Third Estate formed the National Assembly and swore the Tennis Court Oath‚ vowing not to disperse until constitutional reform had been achieved. On August

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    Lionel Edmund Rose was an Australian bantamweight boxer‚ he grew up in Jacksons track near Warragul in Victoria. He had a poor start to life a disadvantage that was and is common he pushed pass this at strived for a different path that would talk his life in a positive example. A prime example of an influence and inspiration for all people that are put into this position and today that is what i am talking about how Lionel rose provided a way to communicate how imperitative it is that there are equal

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    The Puritan Family Number of male and female inhabitants were unequal which caused fatherly authoritative figures to only take place in Chesapeake at the end of the 17th century Puritans wanted male authority; common law tradition that restricted women’s rights Women were only equal in relation to spirit and religion; could become official church members; divorce was legal; marriage = two-sided love; Man = God in church & governor secularly; magistrates (law enforcers) supported male superiority

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    FAMILY George Peter Murdock (Social Structure 250 societies) “A social group characterised by common residence‚ economic co-operation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes‚ at least two of whom maintain socially approved sexual relationship‚ and one or more children‚ own or adopted of the sexually co-habiting adults”. The family thus lives together‚ puts resources and produces offspring. Nuclear family is the smallest group. Extended family is Nuclear family plus vertical

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    books contain religious content he does not always show the positive sides of it. In The Scarlett Letter Hawthorne presents the cruel and harsh punishment that the protagonist‚ Hester Prynne‚ goes through that the Puritans have forced upon her. Hawthorne predominately shows the Puritan rule through this novel and also the persecution of anyone who goes against them. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born July 4‚ 1804

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    Question Emily Morlock The Puritan colonies of New England developed in quite a different way from the previous English colonies in Virginia. The people who settled New England led completely different lives and had entirely different values than those of other English settlers. Religion was very important to them and they emigrated from England to the colonies for entirely different reasons than previous settlers. These values and ideas led the Puritans to influence the expansion of their

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    Even so the first winter was the first big test – half of the group has died from exposure‚ cold‚ tuberculosis and malnutrition – the Puritans survived primarily because of the help from the neighboring Natives. They taught them how to hunt animals‚ cultivate corn and gave them their furs. They regarded the Puritans as helpless children.31) In 1629‚ a group of Puritans was given a grant for land from the Council of New England. They were merchants and eager to leave England behind in order to establish

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    When the Puritans set sail for the Americas they were looking to reform the Church of England from within and to reform ideas of the government. The Puritans major goal in leaving from England was to create a Christian utopia that thrived economically‚ politically and socially. Economically the Puritans believed that it was sinful to have excess‚ therefore they worked within their means and looked down upon materialism. Politically the Puritans had small towns that had a limited democracy and

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    equivalent to that were the Puritan values. The Puritan way of life is one was influential‚ and essential in the development of the New England colonies. Puritans in the New England colonies were hard working and held themselves to a high moral obligation to be a good influence on those around them‚ this influenced all aspects of colonial life from politics to economy to society as a whole because it made the Puritans try to be the best at everything they did. Politically‚ Puritan beliefs defined a social

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