Puritan Character Analysis

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There were three characters in the conversation and one person explained the conclusion on the each characters’ role. Mimi as the Puritan, Barathi as the Thomas Paine, Ain as the Benjamin Franklin , and Jessie concluded.
Character: A Crazy Attitude Puritan Women
The demon were possessed someone. Demons are everywhere, we should believe because it was the tradition to believe. The Christianity inside you was vanishing. It was due to modern influence. In the puritan itself, demon and satanic are one of the believes. Maybe the thinker and ideology of modernism are not relevant to the belief. Moreover, these beliefs are tradition to the puritan believer. The age of reason vanish the symbolic of our puritan tradition. It is because the age of
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First is that labor in developing countries move to developed countries. Developed countries have slow population growth or even a numerical one (Zero Population Growth) to developed countries’ labor shortages. While in developed countries the employment rules are good, but still labor inflows from developing countries to developed countries bring negative impacts. This is due to the cultural differences between native and immigrant population. The negative impact of them, there was a physical collision or other social conflicts between indigenous and immigrant …show more content…
Before subjecting it to any matter, one must be able to incorporate elements of rationality behind it and try not to subject to evidence of superstitious or proclaiming the illogical views of nature. Also by Benjamin Franklin, a well-known prestigious writer, he sees the impossibility of perfection. How every individual were devout in chasing after perfection, they almost lost control of themselves. Perfection was appointed not only impossible but also a selfish kind of act. Perfection would drive a particular person towards the edge of having irrational thoughts or doing illogical act/behavior. During this era, the Age of Reason, every opinion or solution acquired has to be measure with a touch of scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious doctrine. People in the era believe that everything happens for a reason and that one needs to think rationally on the matter

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