The Great Awakening Just before mid-century the country experienced its first foremost religious revival. The Great Awakening swept the world, as religious power pulsed between England, and the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. ... Opponents of the Awakening or those split by it, Quakers, Anglicans, and Congregationalists, were left behind. ... Even though the fury continued and the separation of the congregations prolonged, the Great Awakening had many constructive results. ... Additionally, many well-known colleges (Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth) was established because of the Great ...

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The Second Great Awakening was a religious impulse that swept through the nation post-1790s. ... The Second Great Awakening placed religion in the forefront of politics. ... " The Second Great Awakening sparked an era of change, an era of spirituality, an Era of Reform. The Second Great Awakening led many to explore and experiment with a wide array of social reforms as ways to accomplish reform, whether it be through environmentalism, temperance, body reforms, transcendentalism, social utopias, or abolition. ...

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Provoked by the Second Great Awakening, many reformers advocated for improvements and believed in self-improvement. ... The Second Great Awakening stimulated this inspiration, women were inspired especially. The inspired of this awakening advocated for many reforms, due to the fact that they believed it was a sin, For example alcoholism. ... As the Second Great Awakening spread, the converts, especially women, led to the reformation of a rapidly changing society. ... Provoked by the Second Great Awakening, many reformers advocated for improvements and believed in self-improvement. ...

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Also, the Half Way Covenant and what was known as the Great Awakening brought together several different people through religion. ... These beliefs launched the Great Awakening, creating a more emotional form of religious services. ... From William Penn and the Half-Way Covenant in the 17th century, to the Great Awakening in the 18th century, religion provided a means in which all people could come together beneath a common force. ...

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Second Great Awakening - a wave of religious fervor and revivalism that swept the United States from the early nineteenth century through the Civil War. The Second Great Awakening also provided further religious motivation for the reform impulse. ...

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The philosophies of Puritanism, the Great Awakening, and the Enlightenment provide much of the intellectual foundation for the establishment of the United States. ... The Great Awakening was, in part, an emotional effort to reassert the earlier extreme piety over the rationalism and optimism of the Enlightenment. ...

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When the first settlers die out, the faltering of tradition and development of new beliefs by newer generations aroused what is known as the First Great Awakening. ... The Second Great Awakening, like the first, expressed that everyone could be saved from damnation through rebirth and led to many reform movements and the birth of new religious subgroups of Christianity. ...

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At the end of the 1820s and into the 1830s, The Second Great Awakening, a religious movement based off evangelism, changed the approach of expansionism. ... Therefore, this Second Great Awakening inclined American Protestants to view Catholic nations south and west of their country as "a distinct challenge to their religion and security " (Greenberg 14). ...

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The focus is on the rise of Asian nationalism. Embittered by the failure of the victorious powers to dismantle their imperial empires in the Pacific, their peoples racked by poverty, famine and cultural ferment, Asia's leaders sought new strategies for change. Chinese writer Lu Xun and Japanese righ...

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"(Cohn, 2014) Although Ebola may seem to be uncontrollable, "it took nearly five months for the World Health Organization to declare the outbreak a public health emergency, there are signs that the international community is awakening to the seriousness of the outbreak....

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We have been taught since elementary school that the pilgrims journeyed away from Europe to escape from the oppression of the British king to be free in the new land of the Americas. There's always the story of the landing on Plymouth rock, and thus begins the spread of what sparks the debate of the...

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Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundati...

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The Roots of Reformasi in Indonesia Indonesia, from Acheh to Irian Jaya, is equivalent in distance from London to Moscow. It has a population of more than 200 million, which is nearly twice the population of Japan. Its archipelago layout, rather than making communications more difficult, makes it more easier to link together, with sealanes, the economic wealth of the nation, into a single economic unit. Due to centuries of Dutch colonialism, the country, and people, were left backwards. After the independence war against the Dutch, led by Sukarno, the idea of using the military to adm...

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