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    “The Great Awakening” A revitalization of religious piety that swept through American colonies during the 1730-1770 was known as the Great Awakening. Christian life was of real importance to the North American colonists. And yet, during the eighteenth century, the Great Awakening can be described in several areas of religious revivals history. This was a schism that was made more acute by the enormous Pietistic wave. While reviewing the Great Awakening, if understanding correctly, it focuses

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    which is what makes it one of the most influential themes. That is why I chose love for my theme because it is present in everything people do. Love is an impactful theme in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler, and The Awakening by Kate Chopin. The Great Gatsby showed the theme of love in two significant ways. One way was Gatsby’s love for the past and things that could never exist again, and another was Gatsby’s totally blinding

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    The authors of The Great Gatsby, The Awakening, and Twelfth Night portray their respective novels as more realistic. But on The Great Gatsby and The Awakening, those two novels were written with explicit communication rules, which make it easier to understand and interpret the intended meaning they convey while the use of figurative language was predominate in Twelfth Night. In portraying the characters, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts how Gatsby rose from a poor background to achieve extraordinary success

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    The Great Awakening- was four periods of great religious revival in American religious history. Religious passion happened between 18th century to the 19th century. These "Great Awakenings" was set apart by widespread revivals led by biblical Protestant ministers which resulted to the increase of interest in religion, an extreme sense of judgment and freeing from sins on the part of those affected, a rise in church membership, and the creation of new movements and denominations. George Whitefield-

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    During the Jacksonian Era, the Second Great Awakening grew immensely in popularity in the United States. This return to religion brought along not only religious zeal but also the urge to achieve reform in various areas of American life. The religious revivals that took place during this movement had a major effect on the culture of the United States. This is so because it caused many new religions to branch off of Protestantism. Baptists, Methodists, and Congregationalists are a few of the many

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    to the Great Awakening. In the England colony there was a lot of work but little people to do the work that needed to be done. The Great Awakening was a movement that modified religious beliefs, practices and the relationships in the colonies. Due to all the religions that were swept throughout the British Colonies, it sparked the Great Awakening. “The development of great schools set up for the purpose of educating and training ministers to work in the New World contributed to the Great Awakening”

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    The second great awakening was a religious revival that spread through out the whole nation in the 1800's. The second great awakening had an influence on the growth of democracy & the effect on the young republic in many ways. I think that the second great awakening gave an influence to everybody was because it gave short and simple messages so that everyone can understand. Although that the messages were simple & short they had a lot of great things in it that made everyone think and act differently

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    The Great Awakening was a fervent religious movement that had a significant impact on the Protestant people and shaped new congregations deriving from the “’New Light’ revivalist and ‘Old Light’ traditionalists.” (Brinkley, p.83) The apex of the Great Awakening was between the 1730s and 1740s, offering the colonial people a deeper sense of spiritual improvement by preaching’s that made faith the center of personal focus. The Great Awakening was the result of neglection of spiritual guidance among

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    spiritual revivalism spread rapidly through the colonies. This led to colonists changing their beliefs on religion. The great awakening was the level to which the revivalism spread through the colonists. Even with this, there was still religious revivalism in the colonies. One major reason for the Great Awakening was that it was not too long before the revolution. The great awakening is reason to believe that William G Mcloughlin's opinion and this shows that there was a cause to the American Revolution

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    The Great Awakening was an intensely religious movement that spread rapidly throughout the colonies in the mid 1700s. This explosive and fiery movement eventually led to the Separation of Church and State in America. By undermining the prestige and honor of the older clergy members and the mouthpiece of royalty, the Great Awakening gave authority for members of society to challenge their authority. The Great Awakening made people question their religions beliefs, leading to the creation of multiple

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