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- 91: Education History
- ... the Protestant Reformation. Most of the Europeans who came to America were Protestants, but there were many denominations. Lutherans from Germany and Scandinavia settled in the middle colonies along with Puritans and Presbyterians. The Reformation was centered upon efforts to capture the minds of men, therefore great emphasis was placed on the written word. Obviously schools were needed to promote the ... all." As in Europe, then, schools in the colonies were strongly influenced by religion. This was particularly true of schools in the New England area, which had been settled by Puritans and other English religious dissenters. The school in colonial New England was not a pleasant place either, physically or psychologically. Great emphasis was placed on the shortness of life and the torments of hell. Like the Protestants of the Reformation, who established vernacular elementary schools in Germany in the 16th century, the Puritans sought to make education universal. They took the first steps toward government-supported universal education in the colonies. In 1647, Puritan Massachusetts passed a law requiring that every child ...
- 92: Young Goodman Brown - Symbolism
- ... of society. Puritan justification was a topic Hawthorne was aware of as a journey to hell necessary for a moral man. Having referred to the heart of man as hell, Puritans founds themselves in the midst of Satan and his multitude of devils as he established his kingdom in man’s heart. This was a dreadful revelation that caused Brown to ... wilderness around them. Set in Salem during the early witchcraft day of then, Young Goodman Brown’s experience in the dark, evil forest correlated and would have been recognized by Puritans as a symbol of mistrust of their own corrupt hearts and faculties. Just as man could not trust the shadows and figures he saw hidden in the forest, he could ... The modern day person has taken this work ethic and given it a greedy twist. People of today fight for position, status or power just as much as the pioneer puritans worshipped and studied the bible. Hawthorne uses symbolism and irony to illustrate the theme of man not knowing that sin is and unavoidable part of human nature. The idea ...
- 93: The Crucible
- ... Puritanism thrived through out the northern colonies. In a time of a small government, towns relied more upon themselves instead of outside influence. In efforts to become more pure, the Puritans held three basic beliefs, Plainness, Grace, and Divine Mission. Though these beliefs were meant to help Puritans, they also caused the disintegration of Salem Village in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Living a plain lifestyle is not easy, unlike what the name states. Living a plain lifestyle ... he would not pardon the others accused of witchcraft. He was too thick headed to realize what was happening and ultimately caused the downfall of Salem. Divine Mission focuses on Puritans being an example to the world. On a lesser scale though, Salem Village was to be an example for the surrounding towns to show it had no tolerance for ...
- 94: Chesapeake Vs. New England Col
- ... the New England colonies. Unlike the Chesapeake, the New England colonies were greatly interested in their long-term colonization efforts. A man by the name of John Winthrop led the Puritans, which composed the New England colonies. He believed that their colony was “a city on the hill,” as described in the book of Matthew. The Puritans were a fervent religious colony, where the church was never disputed. There were some historical cases when the Puritan people would speak out and therefore speak out against the church ... took her husband and seven kids to Road Island where religion was not as strict. The New England colonies survived on exporting lumber, grain and the production of ships. The Puritans wanted to be the model society; they did not realized that being “a city on a hill” would not prevent them from an attack by their own people, this ...
- 95: The Crucible 8
- ... Thousands of people were put to death during the period; and a few people questioned the actual existence of witches, but the only problem was how to identify one? The Puritans accepted most readily the idea of witches existing in society. Part of this is the result in the complete acceptance of the Bible as totally accurate and would allow no ... Reverend Parris] hardly ever mention God anymore. As I have mentioned in the preceding section, the concept of the Devil grew out of basic tenets of the Puritan religion. The Puritans accepted completely the principle of original sin and many sermons emphasized that man was born depraved and sinful. He was depicted as existing on the verge of eternal damnation and ... hat they were worms, insects, and filthy beasts. In conclusion, there was much confusion and disagreement about how to detect a witch and just what a witch actually was. The Puritans agreed only that witches came from the invisible world and sought for some means of making them known to the visible world so as to destroy them. In their ...
- 96: American Indians 2
- ... Frontier: Puritan and Indians, by Alden Vaughan, reconciled Miller s position on the presence of Indians in American history. Vaughan s book describes the interactions between the Indians and the Puritans and how both societies dealt with each other. The author s fair-mindedness and equanimity seem everywhere apparent, so that when he asserts the history of interracial relations from the ... however, later in his book, Vaughan states, One [society] was unified, visionary, disciplined, and dynamic. The other was divided, self-satisfied, undisciplined, and static, (Tompkins, 413). Vaughan refers to the Puritans to be the unified culture and the Indians as the divided culture. Tompkins argues that that comment was biased and inaccurate. She questions the degree to which the Puritans were unified. Certainly there must have been some problems within the Puritan community. Tompkins acknowledges Vaughan s unbiased account (for the most part) of Indian presence in American history, ...
- 97: 16th And 17th Century English
- ... another conflict caused by James I came out of the issuance of the Book of Sports. This authorized and promoted the Sunday sports and festivals, which was denounced by the Puritans as pagan occasions of sin. William Prynne s book Histrio-Mastix was published only a few months before Charles I reissued the Book of Sports. Prynne s book was an ... monarchs. A piece of literature from a women named Lucy Hutchinson, written in the 1660 s supplies a view of retrospect on the time. As the 1630 s wore on, Puritans of Various kinds pressed for more Reformation in doctrine, worship, and church government to eradicate idolatrous and papist elements while Charles I s Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, imposed those elements ever more strictly. (Norton Topics #1) When the Puritans finally rose against Charles I in 1641 they relieved him of his duties and put an end to the long-standing power of the Bishop of London censoring publications. ...
- 98: Crucible
- ... Puritan justice system, much has been improved. In 1692, in the town of Salem, many people lose their lives or are punished unfairly due to their justice system. Justice to Puritans really is not justice at all; it is a quick fix to a complicated problem. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the Puritan justice system is poorly illustrated due to ... At this time, the ways of the Puritan justice system are completely acceptable, whereas public hangings and executions do not seem out of the ordinary. When Arthur Miller writes: “ …they [Puritans] carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution… So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem ... ideas… They believed, in short, that they held in their steady hands the candle that would light the world…” He is remarking about the way of life and beliefs of Puritans. He says they will not let their new world be polluted with sin and crime, and the world will imitate their actions, depending on the way their society is ...
- 99: Bring Back Flogging
- ... pierced with a hot iron, and finally in 1694 Hannah Newell and her consort were lashed for adultery. He concludes that the corporal punishment system did not vanish with the puritans, Deleware did not get around to repealing it till 1972. Jacoby’s sarcasm can be noted by the way he illustrates the punishment of various acts. He notes in a ... modern day justice system is even more noticeable when he claims that prison is the all purpose, all in one punishment. His final statement of the essay that perhaps the puritans where more enlightened than we thought contradicts one of his initial statements concluding that we are more enlightened that the puritans how we cage wrongdoers confirms his satire or verbal irony in his essay. The question arises toward Jacoby’s first reason for flogging. Jacoby’s case for the overpopulation ...
- 100: Genocide
- ... a religious group (Winston Dictionary). Genocide is universal rather than limited to one time and one group of people. The Catholics in Ireland were being threatened and eliminated by the Puritans. The typical Irish lifestyle came to an abrupt halt during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Lewis 9). In 1641, the Norman-Irish, who were worried that their lands would be ... and the native Irish, who were forced to accept an unfamiliar culture, rebelled (Lewis 9). In 1649, Oliver Cromwell, leader of the Parliamentarians in the English Civil war, lead the Puritans into a bloodbath against the Catholics (Lewis 9). "He did it brutally, massacring the Irish without mercy and called the large scale killing ‘the righteous judgements and mighty works of ... phenomenon is not as frequent as it was when the law was first introduced. Undoubtably, genocide is an inhumane course of action chosen by irrational individuals. The bloodshed of the Puritans against the Catholics, Turks against the Armenians, and the Chinese parents against their very own flesh and blood were only a few examples of the numerous situations of this ...
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