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- 151: Immigrants In 17th Century United States
- ... fortunate few owned boarding houses or saloons, where their dispirited countrymen sought solace in the bottle. For Irish-born women, opportunities were still scarcer; they worked mainly as domestic servants. But it was their Roman Catholicism, more even than their penury or their perceived fondness for alcohol, that earned the Irish the distrust and resentment of their native-born, Protestant American neighbors. The cornerstone of social and religious life for Irish ...
- 152: The Reformation
- ... the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits tried to keep Catholics from leaving the Church, and tried to make Protestants return to the Catholic Church. Jesuits set up colleges and seminaries and sent missionaries to spread Catholicism to other lands. The Counter-Reformation created many conflicts. In Germany, Catholics and Protestants began to fight, and the Thirty Five Years War erupted. The war left Germany devastated. Results of the Reformation and Counter ...
- 153: Fairness And Equality In Ecuad
- ... Colombia. Its population is 12.500.000. there are different ethnic groups in Ecuador, there is mestizo (mixed Amerindian and Spanish) 55%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish 10%, black 10% (-1-). The predominant religion is Roman Catholicism. 90% of the population knows how to read and write. Ecuador is also very rich in tradition and it has been blessed with tons of natural resources and a climate that allows us to grow ...
- 154: St. Francis Of Assisi
- ... Frati Minori in Italian, a name which has come down today to us in the title Friars Minor. In 1209, Francis set out with his 12 followers for Rome, insisting on seeking the approval of Catholicism from Pope Innocent III. The pope was hesitant at first when Francis presented his case. In those days, Rome was the seat of discretion, a youth couldnt enter the papal chambers seeking universal approval ...
- 155: John Dryden
- ... best talent was writing formal verse satire until he was at the age of 50. After the death of Charles II and the succession of James II, Dryden and his two sons were converted to Catholicism. He quickly developed many enemies that accused him of opportunism. As a result of he was to lose his offices and their much needed stipends. He then wrote The Hind and the Panther, a metrical ...
- 156: James Joyce
- ... of his work are a sense of betrayal. Ireland, dominated both political and economically by Britain and religiously by the Catholic Church caused Joyce to regard them as "the two imperialisms" (Attridge P. 34). Roman Catholicism is an integral aspect of the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In 1917, the English novelist H.G. Wells in a review of the novel in the New Republic wrote ...
- 157: Henry VIII
- ... the VIII's only legitimate son, the parliament passed many more church reforms. But, then in 1553, Edward's half sister, Mary, the daughter of Catherine of Aragon was a Roman Catholic, she re established Catholicism as the state religion. Even though Henry altered the Church, he did not even wish to introduce Protestant doctrine. Those people who refused to accept the Church of England and its teachings were executed. The ...
- 158: Rubens
- ... artists as Antoine Watteau, in the early 18th century,and Eugθne Delacroix and Pierre Auguste Renoir, in the 19th century. Rubens's father, Jan Rubens, was a prominent lawyer and Antwerp alderman. Having converted from Catholicism to Calvinism, Jan Rubens in 1568 fled Flanders with his family because of persecutions against Protestants. In 1577 Peter Paul was born in exile at Siegen, Westphalia (now in Germany), also the birthplace of his ...
- 159: Nostradamus - The Man
- ... Jean his youngest brother became Procurer of the Parliament of Province. As a small boy Nostradamus underwent significant changes in his life. While Nostradamus was a child his family was forced to convert to Roman Catholicism. Around this time he was sent to live with his grandfather who taught him the basics of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Mathematics and Astrology. A few years later Nostradamus's grandfather died and he went to ...
- 160: Napoleon 2
- ... allowed freedom of speech and press. His main idea with these laws was to give all men equal rights. Women were also included into several laws. Another accomplishment was shown through religion. Though he supported Catholicism and declared the majority of the French people were Catholics, he affirmed religious tolerance for all. Though many accomplishments were shown in government as well as religion, Napoleon s main interests were focused on building ...
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