The Age of Reform

defined as a reform movement aimed toward urban and social change through improvements in the nation. This era stemmed from American industrialization and a population growth. Also, the Progressive Era emerged from past movements such as abolitionism, women’ rights, temperance, and the regulation of big businesses. Some of the main goals of the progressives included breaking trusts, ending political reform, bettering living conditions, and establishing voting reforms as well as banking reforms.…

How do Reform Judaism and Orthodox Judaism compare regarding homosexuality? Reform Judaism has embraced and are very supportive of same-sex marriage equality. Orthodox Judaism is the opposite and are against homosexuality and see it as a sin. Although the two religions were based upon the same beliefs they have very different views on this particular topic. Orthodox Judaism is more outdated and still practice their old-fashioned ways. Reform Judaism is very modernized and accepting of modern…

Reform is an important part of history, it has changed the world in several different ways. It is the essence of change in civilizations since the dawn of time. It also is a factor in religious beliefs and places of worship. History is shaped by reforms, some might come smaller than others. But they all alter history and still do today. Without reform the progress in civilization would be stable for the most part. That’s why it’s important to consider reform in historical events. In this essay I…

Following the Feudal ages, a great wave a change hit Europe. Religion was no longer used as proof, whereas human thoughts and experiences were valued. The Enlightenment, during the 17th and 18th centuries, was an intellectual movement that emphasized reason rather than tradition. The philosophies heavily influenced many leaders and were even taken on by absolutists. Frederick the Great and Catherine of Russia, despite their despotism, were truly enlightened rulers who implemented the ideals of…

Beauty Bias Rhode offers her own suggestions for legal reform. Rhode’s strategies for reform include promoting equal opportunity, encouraging employee activism, and looking to jurisdictions that have enacted anti-appearance discrimination laws. Her primary plan to address trait discrimination focuses on long term goals for society. Rhode’s plan for reform is to promote equal opportunity through tolerance and activism. In order to accomplish this reform Rhode argues society needs to change how…

Germany Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, said, the most successful point in ten-year German pension reform is lower the percentage of pension costs in GDP to ten percent and the second is three pillar system change the civil pension perception that standard after-retirement life should rely on state pension. Although there are some drawbacks (e.g. strike), the effect of this reform cannot be ignored in helping Germany went through European debt crisis in…

British welfare state were laid by Liberal welfare reforms between 1906 and 1914. It will examine key influences that shaped welfare reforms between 1906 and 1914, and discuss the political, social and economic factors pre-dating this historic chapter in British social and political life. It will look back to the reasons for state intervention and reforms of the 19th Century to understand the relevance and impact these had in the Liberal reforms and the ultimate formation of the British welfare…

Finney in the Second Great Awakening. The religious excitement that was the Second Great Awakening created a positive impact in the US, emphasizing the democratization of American Protestantism as well as removing barriers of race, class, gender, and age. The Second Great Awakening leveled church hierarchies, provided African slaves with…

Many states passed legal reforms designed to get tougher on juvenile crim in the 1980’s. One of the reforms was the revision of transfer laws to expand the types of offenses and offenders eligible for transfer from juvenile court to adult court for trial and sentencing. These lowered the minimum age for transfer , increased the number of transfer-elijinle offenses, and reduced judicial discretion in transfer decision making. Sentencing juvenile delinquents is not a very good thing for many…

society, as their reforms dated back to this period. The institutions were defined in a document known as the Great Rhetra, by a reformer named Lycurgus. It is found through historical evidence that it is of great skepticism whether this reformer impacted the Spartan institution. However, with little knowledge concerning the issue he is the only historical figure that is shown to have had some influence. Therefore, Lycurgus is known as the lawgiver of Sparta who founded most of their reforms or…