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         <title>Start </title>
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         <title>NATIVE AMERICANS: 2200 B.C. to 1600 A.D</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>1. Oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs.<br>2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natural world.<br>3. Deep respect for nature and animals.<br>4. Cyclical worldview.<br>5. Figurative language/parallelism.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>NATIVE AMERICANS: Samson Occom </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>works:Sermon at the Execution of Moses Paul<br>A Short Narrative of My Life</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-09-26 05:40:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>NATIVE AMERICANS: natve americans are nomadic,semi nomadic and static</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<ol><li>Some Native Americans were <strong>nomadic,</strong>some were <strong>semi-nomadic,</strong> and others were <strong>static</strong> .</li></ol><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-09-26 05:43:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>NATIVE AMERICANS: IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC AND DANCE</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Music and dance </strong>were important parts of the Native American culture. Songs were sung at important religious rituals, but were also part of everyday life. They believed that music was the language of the spirits.</div><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-09-26 05:44:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>PRESENT DAY</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Native americans are 1.60% of the population in the USA </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-09-26 05:44:26 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First &quot;American&quot; clonies: 1600-1800</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>1. Wrote mostly diaries and histories, which expressed the connections between God and their everyday lives.<br>2. South to "purify" the Church of England by reforming to the simpler forms of worship and church organization described in the New Testament.<br>3. Saw religion as a personal, inner experience.<br>4. Believed in original sin and "elect" who would be saved.<br>5. Used a plain style of writing.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-09-28 16:42:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First &quot;American&quot; colonies: Authors and works</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<ol><li>William Bradford -"Of Plymouth Plantation"</li><li>Anne Bradstreet (poetry)</li><li>ohn Edwards -"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"</li><li>Edward Taylor<br>-"Huswifery"</li></ol>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-09-28 17:03:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First &quot;American&quot; colonies: long church services</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Puritan worship services were very long. A sermon could easily last two hours and a prayer may go on for over an hour.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First &quot;American&quot; colonies: Puritan women</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Women played an important role in Puritan life. They ran the household including the finances and education of the children. Unlike many women of the time, Puritan women were taught to read.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-09-28 17:12:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Present day</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Puritans are is around  they still live and thrive in every area of society ,in our churches, and our governments</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-09-28 17:16:15 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Rationalism: &quot;The Enlightenment&quot;. 1775-1783</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets<br><br>2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-10-04 09:34:14 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Famous Authors and Works</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Benjamin Franklin<br>—<em>Autobiography</em><br><br>Patrick Henry<br>—"Speech to the Virginia Convention"<br><br>Thomas Paine<br>—"The Crisis"<br><br>Phyllis Wheatley<br>—poetry<br><br>The Constitution<br><br>The Bill of Rights<br><br>The Declaration of Independence</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-10-04 09:38:06 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The &#39;Encyclopédie&#39; </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The 'Encyclopédie' was the first encyclopedia accessible to the general public</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-10-17 06:50:21 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Rationalism based on facts</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Essentially, rationalism regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge or what's true. Truth, in the case of rationalism, is not sensory but intellectual, which is why rationalists believe that knowledge can be acquired through reason alone.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-10-17 06:50:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>today</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>it has transformed politics .Today those ideas serve as the cornerstone of the world's strongest democracies</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-10-17 06:51:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Transcendentalism&quot;The American Renaissance&quot; 1840-1860</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>1. Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul.<br><br>2. People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.<br><br>3. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and link conformity to tradition.<br><br>4. Important social and political movements include the Abolitionist, Utopian, and Women's Suffrage Movements</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Famous Authors</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Ralph Waldo Emerson<br>—Nature<br>—"Self-Reliance"<br><br>Henry David Thoreau<br>—<em>Walden</em><br><em>—Life in the Woods</em><br><br>Louisa May Alcott<br>—<em>Little Women</em></div>]]></description>
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         <title>Transcendentalists believed people and nature were filled with goodness.</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>They believed society and institutions had corrupted people. They stressed people were their best when independent and self-reliant. The Transcendental Club was formed in 1836 and lasted four years.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-11-15 09:25:56 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>transcendentalism is famous for</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Its adherents yearned for intense spiritual experiences and sought to transcend the purely material world of reason and rationality.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-11-15 09:29:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>modern day</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>we can see it in forms of media like&nbsp;in television  with the connection with God, Nature </div>]]></description>
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         <title>Romanticism: 1800-1860 </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>1. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.<br><br>2. Placed faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.<br><br>3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and sought unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality.<br><br>4. Championed individual freedom and the worth of the individual<br><br>5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of the imagination<br><br>6. Dark Romantics: used dark and supernatural themes/settings (Gothic style)</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-11-15 11:30:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Romanticism: Famous authors and works</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Washington Irving<br>—"Rip van Winkle"<br><br>Emily Dickinson<br>—poetry<br><br>Walt Whitman<br>—<em>Leaves of Grass</em><br><br>Edgar Allan Poe<br>—"The Raven"<br><br>Nathaniel Hawthorne<br>—<em>The Scarlet Letter</em></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-05 20:08:57 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Nathaniel Hawthorne: 1804-1864</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-12 21:01:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Nathaniel Hawthorne: Hawthorne and his wife etched poems into the windows of their first home.</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody married on July 9, 1842, at Elizabeth Peabody’s Transcendentalist bookstore in Boston, then moved into <a href="https://www.nps.gov/places/the-old-manse.htm">The Old Manse</a> in Concord, Massachusetts, a two-and-a-half-story clapboard house built by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s grandfather. Henry David Thoreau planted an heirloom vegetable garden for the couple and Emerson loaned them money the first few years of their marriage.</div>]]></description>
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