The age of the Enlightenment is when, during the eighteenth century, people began to question authority, religion and philosophize about life and science. The influential thinkers and writers of this period were called philosophes. These included Descartes, Pascal, Bayle, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. Their four main points were: 1. To question the traditional authority, and traditional ideas of the Old Regime. 2. Believe in the existence of natural laws. 3. establish these laws as basis of human activity through human reasoning and 4. Hope everything would be perfected when we...

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... of Maastricht established the European union (EU). The first six members were Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. In 1972 UK , Ireland and Denmark joined as well. And then an until now Greece joined in 1981, Spain and Portugal in 1986 and Sweden, Finland and Austria in 1995....

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... him surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience, so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world, in an absolute reality ,a surreality. Surrealism became dominant in the 1920s and 30s and was internationally practiced with many and varied forms of expression. Salvador Dali and Yves Tanguy used dreamlike perception ... , the subconscious or spontaneous thought. Surrealism as we know it is closely related to some forms of abstract art. The movement survived but was greatly diminished after World War II....

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Evils of Christianity It has been my experience, through my upbringing as a Christian, that Christians are often blind to the evils of the religion. They are taught from a young age that God is almighty, and should never be questioned, so the less-finer points in the religion are often skipped over. Many problems in society have arisen from this religion, which include discrimination, anti-Semitism, sexism, violence and war. Christianity has fought over hundreds of years to become the only religion, scaring people away from other religions in the process. Christians continuously fight among th...

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