The Great Awakening was a religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s. ... By doing so, Jonathan needs the congregation to believe in him with their heart and soul, therefore, being aware of his audience and the setting, Edwards's uses ethos and pathos to convince the Puritan congregation to obey and believe in God. ... "(Pg 87) Just like Jonathan Edwards, another great spark in the Great Awakening there was George Whitefield. ... To maintain the innocence of entertainment, due to there was no theater in early colonial America during the Great Awakening, Whitefield, often spoke of no domin...

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From the days of the cavemen, to the transcendentalist movement of the Second Great Awakening, to modern day, mankind is finding comfort and closure in nature. ... In the opening scene of the novel, Hawthorne describes the setting of the prison where Hester Prynne was held for her crime. In a way, the natural setting of the prison showed the contrast between the utopian Puritan society and the evil, dark place where the audience meets Hester Prynne. ... The theme of the relationship between sin and humanity and also the identity of humanity are extremely apparent through the use of the natural...

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The Grand Budapest Hotel is loosely based on the events leading up to and including World War II while combining dark undertones, planimetric framing, stylized acting, and mood lighting to transcend various levels of time and locations in order to establish a basis of confusion, amusement, and diversion all at the same time by cutting from scene to scene in a planimetric but also story telling fashion from setting to setting giving the audience joyful memories littered with sadness as the main characters reminisce. ... As each cut-away occurs, the degree of the lighting, colors, and acting cha...

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The scene has no music in the background, not setting up what is supposed to be a happy occasion. ... This "response is, perhaps , part of his awakening- as is the shuddering trauma throughout his voyage 'beyond the infinite'" (Kolker 666). ... After a psychedelic transition through a black hole, Bowman arrives in the "Jupiter Room", where the aftermath of Bowman's awakening and new awareness takes place. ... It also breaks away from the bleak, impersonal settings of the previous spaceships. ... Deren's choice of having the settings be in and out of a h...

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Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. Perhaps these ideas of Great Awakening and even more so of the Enlightenment, influenced Abigail's more independent mind and analytical spirit. ... Mary Todd rarely experienced or observed discipline and reserved conduct in Lexington's contradicting setting of frontier violence, slave mistreatment and personal abandonments. ...

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To understand the concept of the awakening of the self, the reader needs to step back from the lines of the page, and observe how even the point of view cries out the message of changes to come. ... Ironically, the setting of the tale, addresses this changing of old ideas for a novel approach to personal freedom. ... The setting ties directly back to the idea of replacing the black and white perceptions of the ego, driven by greed, vanity, and self pity, with a centralized notion of independently, self-recognized thoughts, which are the building blocks of one's own reality. ...

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Many have heard horror stories about inclusion in general education: stories about the disabled student who is "dumped" into the general education setting and the other 20-30 students are ignored as the teacher's time is monopolized by the disabled student; or the cognitively impaired student who makes noises, screams, or otherwise disrupts the remainder of the class. ... It's a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. ... Therefore, the law req...

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The brutal awakening illustrated by De Las Casas in his account allows us to see that the Spanish were not so kind to the people of the New World based on their horrific acts of raping the native women, killing innocent babies and helpless elderly, also killing women who were pregnant, using them as slaves and overall putting fear into all of the native people and its leaders by doing so in the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty ever seen or heard of especially by men who claimed to have been Christians. ... One of the goals the Spanish wanted to accomplish when setting foot on...

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Therefore, the hypnotic activity of Zolpidem has also been explored in different patient populations and assessment included both objective and subjective measures of hypnotic efficacy for different treatment durations, with results confirming that ten milligrams is superior to placebo. (2) Consequently, according to the update of Zolpidem's pharmacology done in the year of 2001, the recommended dosage is ten milligrams in the non-elderly suffering from short-term insomnia; in elderly patients five milligrams has been shown to be effective at inducing sleep as per optimum the safety profi...

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This narrative is a real life demonstration that the social structures placed on nineteenth-century women to maintain piety, purity, and submissiveness were only applicable in certain ideal settings for white women and an impossible code for slave women to follow. ... This newborn consciousness stems from the awakening that a Black person experiences when exposed to higher education. ...

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No person is immune from depression it occurs in people of all social classes, all countries, and all cultural settings. ... There are many different symptoms caused by depression, some of them are sad mood, sleep problems, appetite change, concentration loss, suicidal thoughts, anxious, empty mood, feelings of hopelessness, pessimism, feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness, loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed, including sex, decreased energy, fatigue, being "slowed down", difficulty concentrating, difficulty remembering and making decisions, i...

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In both the novel and the film, the setting plays an integral role in defining the imagery. ... For Cesira, nature is "the sheltering setting for refugees who are able to discover human values in the midst of war (Prigozy 85). ... Through his own education, Michele acts as a catalyst in Cesira's awakening and self-realization that capitalism, a social structure that is the fruit of her sin, is not the root of life. ...

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The conflict between civilisation and savagery is portrayed throughout the play by its setting, language and imagery. In the opening lines of the play, we are first introduced to the setting: Lemnos, a large island west of Troy. ...

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Obviously there are many aspects that influence film and its development. The history of movies/film, although only a century old, is rich and complex. This essay tries to bring light into the roots of film by focusing on two main movements that have very much helped shape the techniques of contemporary film making. - German Expressionism and Formalism, both of which occurred in the 1910's and mainly in the 1920's. Both these movements resulted in influential developments in film theory and a distinctive body of films that are still considered important by nowadays film makers. E...

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By setting aside their forced leaving of their native Africa the slaves emerged with new identities with local roots but all based on their strong cultural belief and need for kinship. ... From 1750 and onwards the "Great Awakening" saw the Evangelical noncomformist movement sweep through the Cheaspeake and the Carolinas, important in a number of ways this revival helped to enhance religion amongst the whites and encouraged them to allow slaves to attend church. ...

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Moreover, the general political atmosphere in Europe did not allow new concessions to Italian balance when the powers were concerned with maintaining the balance of power and to prevent the setting of French hegemony in Europe again. ... Moreover, the movement of Risorgimento which was the awakening of Italian nationalism and an intellectual and civil revival called English tenmen, was not "pure" in any way because many lines worked at the same time her unification without coordination and unity, but on the contrary rivalry was marked the revolutionaries and the republicans feared the masses m...

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