(American Enlightenment [1], 2) Other political ideas reached America, such as John Locke's publications on contractual government and the divine right of kings. ... Rationalism in ethics is the claim that certain primary moral ideas are innate in humankind and that such first moral principles are self-evident to the rational faculty. ... Franklin, for instance, founded the first library and created a fire department. ... Enlightenment publications, such as Locke's The Reasonableness of Christianity, in which he questions the belief in an all-powerful, all-knowing God, further lessen...

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Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has remained enormously popular since its publication in 1960. ... Lee's first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird was published during the Civil Rights movement and was hailed as an exposé of Southern racist society. ... In the fall, Dill returns to his family in the North and Scout enters the first grade. ... To Kill a Mockingbird also can be read as a coming-of-age story featuring a young girl growing up in the South and experiencing moral awakenings. ...

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Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mormon. ... This had become a core movement to the Great Awakening, and Marty does an exceptional job at creating Whitefield's stand point in religious freedom of that time. ...

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Although she was the first child of Abraham and Taube Bienowitch Goldman, that didn't make her the oldest one, since Taube brought two older daughters - Lena and Helena - from her first marriage into the family. ... During this part of her life, she became aware of the role women could play in revolutionary activities for the first time. ... The reality of work in the factory in which she first worked quickly disillusioned her about the American political system. ... Also Emma Goldman's first experiences with employers attitudes in the factory in Rochester showed the abuses whi...

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