A little social drinking is not a terrible thing, but drinking turns deadly when people treat it as a sport and try to “out drink” others. Or when people drink solely to be drunk and are not happy with themselves sober. Looking at this case from the point of view of a potential fraternity member it saddens me to see that incidents like this actually happen. A big reason why I am attempting to join a fraternity is because of the respect they have shown me and I know they would never put me in a situation that would make me uncomfortable. In the case of Benjamin Wynne I believe he was attempting to join a fraternity for all the wrong reasons and the fact that he chose drinking and wasn’t responsible enough to limit
The number of Americans actually converted during the Awakening is hard to ascertain. Early estimates ranged from several thousand to half a million, although the latter figure is quite high given a total colonial population around one million in 1740. In New England, where again records are best, the years of revival witnessed a marked increase in the number of people joining the church (often the only reliable guide to measure conversions). The Connecticut churches, for example, admitted on the average about eight people each per year in 1739 and 1740, but then about thirty-three per year in 1741 and 1742. Similar gains took place in Massachusetts.
Winthrop wanted to establish this Utopian community in the New World because of the lack of the ability to truly practice their religion in England. However, in trying to force everyone in community to adhere to the Puritan beliefs, Winthrop’s society fell victim to the same problems that caused his people to leave England in the first place. There was the hope by Winthrop that everyone would buy into the Puritan beliefs and create a wonderful community that would be the envy of all in England. As a result, he believed that others there would see the Puritan way was the best and then reform. The difficulty in this concept is that it ignores free will, and the fact that not everyone thinks alike.
Religion was the real reason that colonization began, with out it, the colonies all over the world would not have ever came to be. The fourteenth century was when factors that would eventually lead to the start of colonization began. The followers of John Wycliffe, also known as Lollards, had pushed their ideas of religious power on the religious community: both the bible and religion had ultimate power over everything (Reformation 4). Martin Luther was one of the first men to openly go against the Lollards ideas. He believed that the Catholic church was corrupt for selling indulgences as penance for sins in that the sale was a way for the Church to exploit the unfortunate and poor (Reformation 5).
The other songs were not so patriotic. Green Days song, “American Idiot,” is any thing but patriotic. They disagree and continually restate that they disagree with commercialism and the medias hold on America and the dreams that Americans have. This is clearly stated in the lines, “…Under the new media…” “…Television dreams of tomorrow” “…Now everybody do the propaganda” “…One nation controlled by the media.” The song “Amerika,” by Rammstein is against America in my opinion. It seems to me that they focus on the materialism that we have here in America and how we spread it all around the world where we influence.
The Puritans: Were they successful in creating their vision of ‘a City upon a Hill? Physical separation from the Anglican Church was the first step the Puritans took in breathing life into their vision for the New World. They felt as though the Bible was the ultimate book of instructions for an individual to live a pure, Christian lifestyle. The Puritans were successful in creating a prosperous colony that flourished socially and economically. However, Native American bloodshed, their harsh persecution of religious dissenters, and the Salem Witch trials are a blatant display of their hypocritical ways.
The English wanted to colonize because it seemed to be somewhat of a dissident dumping ground to them. A dissident is a person who disagrees mainly on the style of government. They also had religious refugees wanting to spread their word of god to anyone who would listen. Economic opportunity played a very large
Not only did they risk their own lives and land, they risked those of their families and neighbors. Thomas Paine pressured people to see the extent of the monarchy threatening them. Another revolutionary radical, Patrick Henry, stood up for liberty against the evil acts of Britain. Freethinkers like John Locke, John Toland, Matthew Tindal and other freethinkers and deists led the battle in Britain against state-sponsored religion, and led the fight for civil liberty (Ritcheson). Conservative, these men were not.
Though both characters' conflict was similar in that truly the conflict was in how each of them felt. Orwell felt conflicted in shooting the elephant because the elephant was not harming anyone. He was under pressure to do the right thing, the right thing being shooting the elephant that had already killed a man, and Orwell was a man of authority. Orwell did shoot the elephant, but Gideon, on the other hand, was conflicted on sharing his medicinal secret to those that only wanted to profit from it, yet he wanted to share his cure because it would help so many people, but he did not. The difference between Orwell's and Gideon's internal conflict was the outcome.
She doesn't believe that the 50's should be taken 'literally' because from the 50's there were changes in values that caused racism and sexism discrimination against women. Many of the existing social problems could have been avoided or ignored. Racial conflict was intense in many places, but many suburbs were exclusively white. The poverty rate was higher than today, but at least it was falling. Teenagers had more babies than they do now, but access to good jobs-even with only a high school education-enabled young men to marry their pregnant girlfriends.