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Marriage from a Colonial Perspective

writes in Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, "The Puritans loved robustly and gave mar...

Fire from Heaven by David Underdown

In six pages this text as it examines 17th century English village life analyzes its portrayal of Puritan reform movements in Dorc...

Puritan Beliefs and Their Impact on Society

2000, p. 40). This small number would of course have included those who believed as he did. Calvinism encouraged its adherents to ...

Puritan Beliefs, Attitudes and Behaviors

such a doctrine demands its adherents to examine themselves closely and constantly correct any "imperfections" so that they will b...

Puritan Values Rejected by Nathaniel Hawthorne in The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter

In seven pages this paper examines how Hawthorne's first 2 novels represents his rejection of New England Puritan values. Twelve ...

New World Migration of the English Puritans

In nine pages the New World migration of the Puritans of England and the influence that they still exert in contemporary America a...

Puritanism and the Formation of the American Character

and that the Puritans did not come to America to seek their freedom, but to "improve their economic well-being."3 At least that wa...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

'Narrative of the Captivity & Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson' and the Puritan Covenant

In this six page paper Mary Rowlandson's relationship with God symbolizes the Puritan covenant and sustains her through her captur...

Journeying into the Woods in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper discusses the similarities between the journey into the woods and the Puritan journey into the wilderness...

Evaluation John Winthrop's Christian Experience

his education, rather than to his natural bent, however. Though he was raised in and surrounded with religion, it was not u...

Pilgrim Separatists and William Bradford

officials such as bishops and archbishops" (Carroll and Noble, 30). Nor was there just one group of dissenters. The Presbyterians...

What if the Mayflower Had Landed in Jamestown instead of Plymouth?

that ended with the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony, a band of settlers once again took to the sea on a quest for the settleme...

American Religious Freedom and the Puritans

In five pages this paper examines the Puritans in America and how the concept of religious freedom as a double standard. Four sou...

Religious Oppression in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In six pages the oppression that existed in Puritan society is the focus of this analysis of The Scarlet Letter. There are six so...

Dualities and Opposites of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

The opposites and dualities that appear in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne are analyzed in 5 pages with Puritan ethics and...

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritan Beliefs

a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...

Samuel Adams, Radical Puritan by William Fowler

In six pages a review of this book is presented with the emphasis upon the correlation between Adams' Puritan beliefs and his poli...

Theology of Herman Melville in his Writings

political and social ideals integrated into Melvilles stories and pushed the author to reconsider his religious dedication and his...

A Comparison between the Puritans and the Cavaliers

and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...

Historical Connections Between Puritanism and Calvinism

world over. Emphasizing the omnipotence and strength of God and contrasting it with the weakness of men, Calvin set out t...

Puritan Dilemma of John Winthrop

In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...

The Search for Jon Winthrop in The Puritan Dilemma

than with the individual. England regarded the Puritans as near-heretics in their abandonment of tradition as they sought to live...

Anne Hutchinson of Massachusetts

This paper consists of five pages and discusses why Anne Hutchinson would be perceived as threatening to the Puritan rule in Massa...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Differing Ecological Viewpoints

"same freedom for imagination and desk-top investigation" that is utilized by empirical ecologists in the field (Wu, 1994). Both o...

Racism and its Relation to Misperceptions

There are, unfortunately, many reasons for societal discord. Often as not these reasons revolve around the misunderstandings and ...

The Relationship Between Personal and Organizational Ethics

ethics. Personal differences and preferences have the capacity to impact organizational ethics in a variety of ways. This is mos...

An Ethical Consideration of the Drug Companies

Drug companies are often criticized for unethical behavior. The writer considers the pharmaceutical companies from an ethical per...