As the division between the classes had been emerging, during the 1730s-40s, the Great Awakening arose. In a sense, the Awakening was aimed at regaining the lost brotherhood within the lower classes. The Great Awakening, helped people hesitantly express their ideas that challenge the tradition of culture; upper class remains above the lower classes....
The literary canon, a historical body of masterpieces and classics, is considered the best of the best; literary works that withstood the test of time. Many of the authors whose works have been included in the canon are white males like William Shakespeare and Mark Twain. The general exclusion of wo...
In the words of the great children's author, Dr. Seuss, "Everyone has issues. It's a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute." What one may deem as unimportant can be of importance and troubling to another. Troubles are values to an individual t...
Johnson, Paul E. and Sean Wilentz. The Kingdom of Matthias. New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 1994. "The meeting of the Prophets Matthias and Joseph Smith was one of hundreds of strange religious events that occurred all across the United States from the 1820s through the 1840s"...
The "political awakening occasioned by the Algerian war" fomented "the birth of a new form of political thought and subjectivity in France, whose accomplishment was the great political, philosophical, and intellectual ruptures of the end of the 1960s" (p. 38). ...