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How Did The Puritans Change Our Society

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On a normal day I wake up, get ready, put on clothes I want to wear, eat my breakfast and go to school. The weather doesn't matter; if it's raining or sunny. People are nice, people are mean; I am too. My worries are different, my thought consist of how my hair looks, if I have acne, am I'm going to stand out? (Hopefully not.) I don't worry about making it through the day, keeping my ears on my body, getting hurt. But The Puritans did, even innocent people, people with seven children running round a house, watching and waiting by the window, praying their mother will come home; and at dark when there's no arrival their hearts darken. For all they wish is they will walk through that door their mother never came through again. Since when in a society is it permitted to convict innocent people, even guilty people, the way the Puritan society did? Since 1635. If the Puritan society followed the first amendment, so much would have been different in our history, most of the people from Massachusetts wouldn't have wanted to change their religion, they would be able to speak freely about what they believe in, and there wouldn't be as many deaths. Most puritans wouldn't have wanted to change their religion because they could choose their own religion. Puritans were fighting, they were fighting for what they believed in, they wanted …show more content…

People grow up with hopes that maybe someday life will be different, in this century we have hopes that maybe there won't be discrimination towards other people and saving our environment, back then problems were based on getting rid of witches. No one believes in witches, werewolves or vampires these days, I mean come on, people coming back from the undead, people turning into beasts, and people having magical powers? I don't think so. But our society hasn't had evidence of such things, maybe the Puritan society did, or maybe it a

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