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    Evangelical America After 1720‚ two great European cultural movements‚ the Enlightenment‚ which emphasized the power of human reason to understand and shape the world; and pietism‚ and evangelical christian movement that stressed the individual’s personal relationship with God reached America. Both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening fostered religious freedom. The Enlightenment underlined individual’s natural rights to choose one’s faith. The Awakening contributed by setting dissenting church

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    Comparison of the two Great Awakenings The Great Awakening and the Second Awakening were less of a rebellion and more of a mind shift for Christians. These two events caused people to rely on their faith. In previous centuries people relied on their religion. The two Awakenings were similar in their goals but very different in the way they came about and the individual tasks that were accomplished. The first movement‚ the Great Awakeningwas focused on people. In the past preachers

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    Question Before the Great Awakening even occurred in New England‚ Jonathan Edwards brought about a great revival in his own town of Northampton that helped spark the awakening. In the town the young people were disrespecting authority‚ and because of the difficult economic situation many were living in their parent’s homes well into their twenties. When Edwards first began preaching he could sense that the town was regaining its vitality‚ however the revival was slow and it was not until three years

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    The Second Egyptian–Ottoman War or Second Turko–Egyptian War lasted from 1839 until 1841 and was fought mainly in Syria‚ whence it is sometimes referred as the (Second) Syrian War. In 1839‚ the Ottoman Empire moved to reoccupy lands lost to Muhammad Ali in the First Turko-Egyptian War. After suffering a defeat at the Battle of Nezib‚ the Ottoman Empire appeared on the brink of disintegration. Britain‚ Austria and other European nations‚ rushed to intervene and force Egypt into accepting a peace treaty

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    Before the Great Awakening‚ religious authority was very bias which lead to many uproars. Religion was very strict back then and it shaped the way people lived their lives. It had total control over everything‚ including government. Acceptance into heaven wasn’t even a privilege because many believed that God decided who was going into heaven no matter what. However‚ by the 1700s‚ colonists believed that communities were beginning to take their religion a little less seriously. In order to bring

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    people‚ and a final drop of the hatchet and permanent dismemberment of what used to be the American dream as they continue to feed further in the lie that the lower class deserves to be there‚ the middle class is getting poorer and the rich getting richer and therefore those who refute their oversimplified version of “the truth” must be lazy‚ poor‚ incompetent‚ or just plain out stupid. Essentially‚ what made America great‚ is dead. In this upcoming election we have two options. A vindictive con-man

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    Robert Wooster History 1301.247 19 September 2014 The Spiritual Revolution The Great Awakening in the New England colonies was a time of chaotic religious uprisings and divisive turmoil. The two main characters in this period were the old and upright Charles Chauncy and the radical new prophet James Davenport. Both were men of God. Both fought against the evil of misguided teachings and claimed that the other was an agent of the devil himself. In such a serious time these men competed for the

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    Compare and Contrast Essay 3/19/13 How motifs affect theme in The Awakening and The Great Gatsby In common literature‚ motifs are reoccurring symbols that develop a certain aspect of the author’s intention. In The Awakening‚ Kate Chopin uses the motif of water to develop the theme of freedom. Similar to the Chopin‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the motif of yellow and white to develop the theme of appearance versus reality. In contrast‚ their themes may be different‚ however the intention of both

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    I. There were two Great Awakenings in the U.S. The principal‚ which happened when the U.S. was as yet a settlement of Great Britain‚ occurred in the 1730s-1740s in New England. This development was a Puritan response to their observation that there was a decrease in confidence in the group‚ and it included their endeavor to recommit the group to the possibility of destiny (that individuals’ confidence was in God’s grasp and that they must be spared through their faith in God). There were a few new

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    The Great Awakening was a time period between the 1730s and the 1750s in which colonists once again became wildly interested in religion. The newfound interest in faith became the driving force behind many of their plans‚ such as some of the universities that were created during that time. The Great Awakening united the colonists under the same idea and eventually led to a desire for independence from England. It encouraged the spread of religion‚ inspired the beginnings of an American Identity‚

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