The Age of Reform

The catholic church did not like this at all and knew they needed to change. So the Catholic Church took an internal reform and reorganizing, this was called the Catholic Reformation. Around the 1540s, the catholic church tried their best to get protestants to convert back to Catholicism. They called this the counter-reformation. The catholic reformers inspired many artistic…

thinking, the Roman Catholic church lost considerable political authority, although it still retained much of its original power. Humanists, such as Erasmus and Ulrich Zwingli, were also major contributors to the Reformation. Cries for religious reforms challenged papal authority and caused many conflicts between Protestant reformers and the Roman Catholic Church. Reformation also inspired the Counter-Reformation, in which the Catholic church was forced to crack down on Protestants everywhere.…

through the program grow up in the US and are given the chance to build a life in the land of the free, but recent polls have suggested that the DACA program should be withdrawn. To completely understand the reform we must first know what it is, the purpose, pros and cons, and finally where the reform is currently standing under the Trump Presidency. On June 15th, 2012 the then Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano issued a memorandum that was entitled “Exercising…

abstinence education courses were required to teach that “abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage is the expected standard for all school age children”; that “a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity”; and that sex outside of marriage—for people of any age—is likely to have “harmful physical and psychological effects.”. Abstinence courses afterwards under different programs follow suit in strict practices…

example of how reforms made over a hundred years ago can continue to influence our government today. One example of the success of progressive ideas is women’s rights. After 70 years of campaigning, the movement towards women’s suffrage was finally gaining real support in government. Under Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, women once again rose against the government Carrie Chapman Catt lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association through a long and exhausting campaign towards reform,…

be tolerated by any of members of this negotiation. It is necessary that a mandate be decided upon soon. To ensure the mandates success it is with great cooperation from the other present actors, I stress the urgency to press for Security Sector Reform. Mandate Recommendations All parties involved are demanding a mandate, ordering a ceasefire in Redland. There should be a call for an immediate and verifiable council that will put an end to the violence.…

Although the country had been plunged into the shadows of huge corporations which manipulated the government, many spokespeople acted as if all were fine. This corrupted facade is what caused Mark Twain to label the time period as the Gilded Age. During the Gilded Age, monopolies took over business in America, buying out their competitors leaving consumers no choice but to buy their products. The wealthy heads of these monopolies used their money to bribe government official and push for their…

The early stories about the rise of Rome were seen through Livy’s eyes, an Italian man from Padua. His stories about Rome was to glorify Rome’s greatness and how it still connects with its past. His stories examine the good and the bad that has occurred in Rome. Livy’s stories made Rome seem like a great place to be at, with all the virtues that they took to hear the most. The virtues that the Romans considered to be important were duty, courage and determination, loyalty, humility. Even though…

BACKGROUND AND BIO: Born in Ribe, Denmark of May 1849, Jacob Riis would pave the way in journalistic photography in displaying the social problems of his age. With only $40 and a locket, he boarded a steamship and made his way to a new future. Emigrating to the United States in 1870 was challenging, but he would have no clue the impact that he would leave. Upon arrival, he conducted a series of odd jobs: bricklayer, ironworker, salesman, farmer. This would give Riis a unique perspective on…

Immigration Reform can go either way, by helping immigrants and asylum seekers or placing further restrictions on their lives by ever more punitive laws. One part of the act would make it more difficult for those fleeing persecution to find asylum here. Bishop Gerald Barnes of San Bernardino, CA chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop’s Committee on Migration wrote on April 25 to the House and Senate conferees on the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, emphasizing that the Real ID…