Since the dawning of the new world several eras have swept over this fertile soil and planted their seed in society. The first that reigned over the new world is the Puritan era. The English Protestants or “puritans” came to the new world to flee from religious persecution, which was occurring in England in the late 1500s and into the 1600s. Such persecutions consisted of painful and humiliating amputations of ears and the slitting of …showed first 75 words of 832 total…

…showed last 75 words of 832 total…and bullet abrasions. The war set a crucial reality in everyone’s mind that life is not so splendid and sublime as we wish and more so that it is fierce and unyielding. In today’s culture all the eras exist in some form, and they helped shape the way one lives life today, whether it be through religion, industry or entertainment we all have a little puritanism, rationalism, romanticism and realism flowing through us.