Considered as revitalization, an "awakening" of religious devotion, thus called the "Great Awakening", the fear of the flames of hell swept through the American colonies, mainly in New England, between 1730-1745. Dominating Calvinist orthodoxy, which was the main religion that branched off into other sections before the Great Awakening, it divided the religious community internally, into "old lights" and "new lights", those opposed and those supportive of the Great Awakening; caused primarily by a decline in worship attendance, and Enlightenment rationalism. ... Prizing feeling over than t...

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The growing intensity and intimacy of her relationship with Robert, the careless and young son of Madame Lebrun is the catalyst of her mental, emotional and sexual awakening. ... Edna's awakening, initiated during her summer at Grand Isle, is closely linked with the object of her love, Robert. ... At the culmination of the novel, the reader finds Edna at the scene of her initial awakening, where she had first cast off the mask of Victorian conformity and embraced a life free of the social and familial conventions expected of her. ... Her self-drowning was a conscious statement that decla...

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Passion Conferences are an annual spiritual awakening of 60,000 college students with Jesus as the centerpiece. ... They are not interested in creating a spiritual awakening in this generation--instead they are focused on creating a social vortex for young individuals, which inevitably constructs a self-sustaining business. ...

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For example, in "The Battleship Potemkim", the juxtaposition of descending faceless soldiers with close-ups of civilians, pleading mothers and other members of society powerfully convey a message of repression whilst scenes of explosion at the palace are juxtaposed with statues of lions on the gates that appear to rise up suggesting the awakening of a revolutionary spirit. ...

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This kind of focus can act in a more long-term capacity for bringing about a "Change of Trait", whereby deep awakenings and revelations can occur, creating longer-lasting and often permanent change in one's being. ...

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The Academic Senate of the University of California requires that all university students must learn "academic discourse- in the areas of reading and writing. Academic discourse involves the development of an academic identity and to think as a member of the academic community. Gloria Anzaldua, a...

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An ambiguous, controversial concept, Jacksonian Democracy in the strictest sense refers simply to the ascendancy of Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party after 1828. More loosely, it alludes to the entire range of democratic reforms that proceeded alongside the Jacksonians' triumph "from expanding the suffrage to restructuring federal institutions. From another angle, however, Jacksonianism appears as a political impulse tied to slavery, the subjugation of Native Americans, and the celebration of white supremacy "so much so that some scholars have dismissed the phrase "Jackson...

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