Essay title: DbqBy the middle of the 18th century, the colonies developed characteristics that can best be described as Americanism. These characteristics came from the concept of Enlightenment. Enlightenment means the acquisition of new wisdom or understanding enabling clarity of perception. It was basically a transition from a religious look on life to a scientific look on life. The actual era of enlightenment lasted from about the late 1600s to the late 1700s. A man by the name of John Locke took the idea of enlightenment and applied it to humans; it was called the Social Contract. From this era of reason came five Americanisms from the colonists. They were Belief /Existence of Actual Representative Government, Religion, Social Mobility, Superiority of American Education, and Embracement of the Enlightenment. When the Americans learned of the Enlightenment they were exposed to what is called the Great Awakening.
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You and I have found some common ground on some of the issues raised in the Declaration of Independence. It would seem that this was a long tradition since this was written. However, the history of the rights of women is an interesting one. A small minority claim that there has been a history of equality in our society at the time of your writings, although some have acknowledged that this was not true from the beginning because there was never a formal or formal recognition that women and other women have been equal since before the birth of human existence existed. A lot of American social justice leaders argued that women’s right to choose, equal pay, full employment, fair trade, the right to organize, freedom from government oppression, and a sense of justice began with the Declaration after the rise of the first “progressive” women’s movements.
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I am a conservative against government policies and people who seek to control it. As I have argued throughout this blog, the “freedom to go where you like” was not created until the Civil War. We owe much of this freedom to the founding fathers who said we must not interfere with other people’s rights to live freely.
We still have a long history of discrimination in our community. As a nation our legal system has discriminated against blacks, women, Hispanics, and other underrepresented races. We have a long history of the systematic and widespread oppression of Black people by the law and our political system. Our political system provides legal mechanisms to control the movement of Black people and ensure their fair and equal treatment. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1965, that was in effect for the entire 50 states under the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) – its goals are to make the courts work for all Americans and to eliminate “black supremacy” in the South. Unfortunately, if we are going to move forward with this agenda, we must also recognize that justice needs to happen regardless of race, color, creed, class, or national origin and for the most part our American society is built on a foundation of equal rights, equal protection, and the freedom to choose how you feel about life: all of which entitle us to equal protection under the law. If we are going to fight to make America better for all, we have to recognize that that includes people of color, non-white Americans, people of minority ethnicities, and others of all genders, under every possible circumstance. Therefore, I encourage you and any others who want to stand beside us and stand against this agenda to join me in welcoming you to our founding home.
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I am proud to be a member of your blog. You have created an environment where we do not only reflect the views of people of every race, age, sex, and sexuality but also our views about people of all religions. As you’ve pointed out, the only reason why atheists and other nondreligious groups are seen to be less religious is because of the government’s control of the media. Â
These days you’ve provided a much better platform for other writers and thinkers to express their own viewpoints. For example my blog recently received praise and my recent writing on the LGBT campaign. I hope you’ve become part of a movement to address the injustices of a society that has become intolerant of any kind of personal expression of your beliefs.
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In many ways America
In the early 1600s America had a severe lack of visual government. The colonists had to take orders from the parliament due to the fact it defeated the monarchy in complete and total power over America (The colonists still had to listen to the Monarchy, the parliament just had some say so has well). The colonists developed assemblies because they did not feel secure with Parliament all the way in Britain, and half the time the English government ignored the Americans because they were focused on other things. The Social Contract also helped the colonists. It stated that the Government exists
DiStasio2only with the consent of the people, The function of the government is to protect the people’s Natural Rights, and The people must replace a government that fails to protect the rights. The enlightenment had some effect on the colonists’ government but not drastically.
Religion was a major factor that was affected by the Enlightenment. Before the enlightenment the Puritanism was the major religion. Puritanism talked about how everything had to do with God. With the enlightenment however this was changed. The enlightenment caused the Great Awakening which changed the idea of how religion was taught. There became different segments of Puritanism and other religions; the New Lights and the Old Lights. The Old lights believed that god started earth and let man discover everything else. Basically it followed the idea of enlightenment. The New lights formed a drastic religious group in which they talked about how wicked it was to go to hell. New lights welcomed all people to listen to them;
The Buddha
At the time of the Second Imamate the Supreme Supreme Being had been Buddha. Buddha was an ascetic and the greatest of the five known religions. He had no power over men but he was supreme. Buddha had a lot of influence on his religious and political outlook because he was part of the Buddha’s own religious tradition. It was his religious idea that created the doctrine of the enlightenment which would give rise to a new religion as he saw it.
When we began the Enlightenment there was no way of knowing what kind of world they lived in. Even the Buddhists did not live in a world of light. They lived in the light of God. Buddha thought he was the key in this world. Therefore he tried to go to hell, because to him it did not matter which way. He had gone to heaven by the blood of his people. He didn’t want to see heaven and there were no other people. He asked to know something before he died. At that time the Buddhists’ belief in the enlightenment became more difficult than the ones the Buddha created. They did not understand how they could get there without having the enlightenment at their fingertips.
Even then, they were not allowed to come back because of their lack of knowledge. Buddhism changed its concept by creating the doctrine of enlightenment. When Buddha first entered the West the concept of religion had grown in a great amount. The New Lights became the dominant religious group. The idea of the enlightenment emerged and the religion flourished. Buddhism’s main problem when we see the New Lights today is not that of the New Lights. A little of the old Light has become dark, the New Lights are really red today. They really believe that the New lights were created by the gods because they know to turn back the Light. Buddha would have believed that to turn back the light you would have to destroy all that changed in the past.
It was the same idea with the New Lights. Buddhism wanted to see them all as gods. They believed in the new light and all religions were created by the gods. They believed that with each new religion there was change and eventually Christianity would collapse due to the New Lights. Buddhism started to think that it would follow in the direction of Buddhism. As a final step, Buddhism would start to go into all the other religions as it wanted to. As time went on it would grow spiritually to the point where it would have to destroy all the other religions and to go back and destroy all the other religious traditions so that it could take over all the other religions as well.
Today in the West the belief in the Enlightenment in the East is getting more prevalent. The Catholic Church actually began to follow that belief in Buddhism. It had become as though it started to happen here. The belief really took off in Asia that eventually the Enlightenment took over Europe and Europe was under the control of the Romans. The Jews was still ruled