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    The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is considered a success for domestic violence advocates and victims alike. It was the first time that the federal government established nationwide laws to prevent violence against women and aid in the recovery of survivors. VAWA created the National Domestic Violence Hotline to provide immediate guidance and support for victims. It improved the response of the criminal justice system to cases of domestic assault by providing funds for education‚ community policing

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    Puritan Beliefs

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    Question: In what ways did ideas and values held by Puritans influence the political‚ economic‚ and social development of the New England colonies from 1620 through the 1690s? The Puritan community positively and negatively influenced the New England colonies. When they first settled in America‚ they faced countless hardships that seemed to only increase their sense of religiosity. However‚ the colonies would not have been successful without them. Puritan beliefs helped to both introduce and

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    The Puritans once held a position of power among the religious world. Their beliefs were strict and they did not compromise their morals or standards for any outside individual. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the Puritan religion reflects the attitude and values of the common man during that particular time period. The main belief among the Puritans was that they were God’s chosen people. In their eyes‚ they held supremacy over the average man. They believed in Pelagianism based

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    Think about having to lie and say you see the devil or else you get hung. This is what it was like for some of the puritans. The puritans had positive and negative traits‚ one of the positive traits was‚ they were fearful. One of the negative traits was that they were strict. In this movie it’s taught to make the right choice. This is explained well in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ and in Johnathon Edward’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. A few other readings explain well positive and negative

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    The Puritan literature of our first unit rebels against the greater context of world events occurring during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Puritan literature portrays that knowledge was gained through studying the Bible‚ and that the only purpose of gaining further knowledge would be to preserve the integrity of ones own soul‚ or to help others in saving theirs. The Puritans’ interests in gaining or preserving knowledge were solely religious‚ and they also believed that any knowledge

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    out look than the puritans intended. Hester and the Puritans both have strong feelings for this Scarlet Letter but both will not come to terms and define a universal meaning for this strong symbol. <br> <br>The Puritans intend this A to be a disgrace to Hester Prynne. To make the public aware that she is nothing but a sinner and an adulteress. The Puritans want nothing more than to cause humiliation ‚ depression and to destroy anything that Hester can possible stand for. The Puritans use the A to pin

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    Puritan Synthesis

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    Puritan Synthesis Puritans were European immigrants that had many beliefs. Some of the common beliefs were that only certain people could talk to God‚ and that God is mean‚ angry‚ and vengeful. People would often write Literature to express the way they view God‚ or to write a History that often has to due with themselves. Most Puritan Sermons‚ Histories‚ and Poems all include a Lesson throughout and Glorify their God. Both “Upon the Burning of our house‚” by Anne Bradstreet and “Sinners in

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    The Puritans’ ideas and values influenced the political‚ economic‚ and social development of the New England colonies. They valued the importance of church and state bound as one. They also had that drive to work hard and be prosperous economically. But lastly‚ the Puritans had socially adopted the idea of the importance of God and living all for him. All of the ideas had influenced the development of the New England colonies The Puritans values the church and was the center of their town. The

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    The Virginians were better off than the Puritans were‚ because they had tobacco for a cash crop‚ they had a longer growing season‚ and they could trade and sell to England easier than the Puritans could. The Virginians were also more loosely structured than the Puritans‚ and were allowed to be individual people instead of one large mass. Smith and Bradford’s ways of leading their colonies were similar‚ yet so very different. Smith’s main concern was to make money and

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