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The Influence of the Renaissance on Modern American Society, Culture and Art

by Nicole Smith North America Comments Closed • Machiavelli, The Canterbury Tales, The Enlightenment and the Formation, Puritan Influences on Modern American

The Renaissance had a profound influence on the course of the development of modern American society, culture, and, since it is a natural extension of both, artistic expression. The Renaissance influence in America brought about a new focus on humanism →

Overview of the Reconstruction Era in American History

by Nicole Smith North America Comments Closed • American History Since 1865, Slavery in America's South, Emancipation Proclamation, Kansas-Nebraska Act

Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War that extended from roughly 1865-1877 in the span of American history immediately following the Civil War and involved the re-integration of states of the Confederacy. It was a highly volatile time because while many →

Puritan Ideology in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and “A Model of Christian Charity”

by Nicole Smith North America Comments Closed • American Revolution, Renaissance on Modern American, Puritan Influences, Resistance and Rebellion as Common Themes

The early American writers Jonathan Edwards and John Winthrop had quite little in common even though they were backers of the same basic principles of Christianity. Perhaps this difference is because of the situations each faced during his time of →

Puritan Influences on Modern American Culture and Thought

by Nicole Smith North America Comments Closed • Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The Enlightenment and the Formation of The United States, The Minister's Black Veil

The ideas put forth by the Puritans are not simply an important starting point for American culture because they were the first in the country, but because they offered ways of thinking that are still ingrained in our culture today. →

The Meaning of Virtue in “Meno” by Plato

by Nicole Smith North America Comments Closed • Education in the Roman Empire, Plato in the Voice of Socrates, Meaning of The Theory of Moral Virtu

Meno seems surprised when Socrates is unable to provide an answer to his questions about the nature and definition of virtue, but this rhetorical method allows Socrates to later question Meno’s assumptions about what is and is not virtue. “For my soul and →

Narrative, Rhetoric, and Audience Awareness in the Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.

by Nicole Smith North America Comments Closed • Civil Disobedience, Emancipation Proclamation, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

A great deal of the power behind Martin Luther King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” and “I have a Dream” speech lies in an acute understanding of the power of rhetoric and keen awareness of the audience. While all of the →

Comparison of Marx and Locke : Views on Government, Property and Labor

by Nicole Smith North America Comments Closed • The Essential Adam Smith, General Theory of Employment, Das Kapital, Principles of Political Economy, Economics of Socialism, World and Historical Societies

It could easily be argued that without some of the theories proposed by John Locke, the later ideas of Marx might not have existed, especially in terms of the function and rights and government. One of John Locke’s primary assertions →

The Kansas-Nebraska Act Controversy

by Nicole Smith North America Comments Closed • American History Since 1865, Reconstruction Era, Slavery in America's South, Emancipation Proclamation, Last Rebel of the Civil War

Before beginning a discussion about the Kansas-Nebraska controversy, it is useful to point out that there were sectional and other political problems brewing. For example, one cannot ignore the role played by Stephen Douglass nor the current economic situation in →

Analysis, Review, and Summary of Jesse James, Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles

by Nicole Smith North America Comments Closed • American History Since 1865, Reconstruction Era, Slavery in America's South, The Kansas-Nebraska Act

It is impossible to consider the life, crime, and times of Jesse James without first considering the historical context within which he was situated. In a biography of Jesse James by T.J. Stiles “Jesse James, Last Rebel of the Civil War”, →

American History Since 1865: Major Events and Trends

by Nicole Smith North America Comments Closed • Reconstruction Era, Martin Luther King Jr., North Korea's Nuclear, The Long Telegram, Vietnam War

The America that existed after the end of the Civil War is nothing like we know it as today. Major urbanization and industrialization, equal rights for all citizens, and two major world wars have shaped how we understand it. While →

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