Families are able to cement political and/or financial ties by having their children marry. ... In Ashkenazi communities in the Middle Ages girls were married off very young in the Jewish community. ... In Mali, the female:male ratio of marriage before age 18 is 72:1; in Kenya, 21:1 The various UN-commissioned reports indicate that in many Sub-Saharan countries, there is a high incidence of marriage among girls younger than 15. ... Middle East Roughly half of Yemeni girls are married before 18, some as young as eight. ... In 2008 the Church changed its policy in the United States to no longe...

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., (4) the Albigensians of Southern France and Spain in the early Middle Ages, (5) the Italian scholastic philosopher Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century A.D., (6) the Jansenists of France in the 17th century, and (7) the Puritans in England and its American colonies during the 16th and 17th centuries. ... He compulsively categorized such phenomena, and high on his list was sensual pleasure. ... In fact, the Romans regarded Jesus as an anarchist whose political message, powerful ability to attract followers, and increasing popularity threatened their ability to maintain a tightly regulat...

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The Second Great Awakening placed religion in the forefront of politics. Alexis de Tocqueville said that, "I found that Religion was the foremost of the political institutions of the United States.... Very few children continued schooling after the age of ten. ... Most high schools and colleges did not accept females or African Americans. ... " Public Education united the country as schools were now open to the poor, the middle class, and the rich. ...

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Now that the United States is involved in War with the Middle East, he still turns to God with prayer for our nation. ... And I pray hey will be comforted by a power greater than any of us spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me"" (Williams 1). ... How is our killing of a high moral calling that the killing by those we so abhor?"... Many say that religion should stay out and that it has no use in politics in war, but it has though been the cause for actions in war. ... "War, religion are compati...

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No soul dared to threaten the authority of king or church as those who did might be tortured or burned at the stake. ... Mimicking the scientists" curiosity, philosophers questioned the basic workings of government and society and in doing so gave rise to the Age of Enlightment. ... In fact, philosophy became a practical method of social and political persuasion. ... The middle-class merchants and farmers resisted paying their taxes, while the poor rioted against these landlords and the insufferable high costs of living that they were subject to. ... They rejected the church's strict cons...

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The vast majority of those that do not progress are lost before the woman is aware of the conception, Between 15% and 30% of known pregnancies end in clinically apparent miscarriage, depending upon the age and health of the pregnant woman. 80% of these spontaneous abortions happen in the first trimester. ... The most common early first-trimester medical abortion regimens use mifepristone in combination with a prostaglandin analog up to 9 weeks gestational age, methotrexate in combination with a prostaglandin analog up to 7 weeks gestation, or a prostaglandin analog alone. ... Early medical ...

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