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I still haven’t really figured out how my dear old dad succeeded in planting the strong and healthy seed of the Puritan Work Ethic in me, but against all my fierce countermanding and determined rejections of the very concept itself, he did it, and it has stuck with me, to my enduring wonderment. I believed I had a much better idea than (snarf, snort) “working”…I’d be a rich, world-traveling rockstar, rich beyond his wildest dreams, and buy my parents a house, not only paying him back for all the gear he let me weasel out of him, but relieving him of all anxieties he and my mother may be facing in ...
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The Example of the English Puritans
Why should Christians today be interested in the English Puritans? The answer to that is that the English Puritans have left to the Christian Church a most valuable library of expository books. In recent years there has been a rediscovery of this literary heritage. Who were the English Puritans? When the 16th-century Reformation took place three distinct sectors of reformation developed: the German, the Swiss (including France) and the English. Of these three the weakest and least hopeful was the English. At first opposition was fierce. 277 Christian leaders were burned to death at the stake during the reign of Queen ...
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He retained his seat as Chairman of the board. His years of leadership were ones of solid expansion in what Jock knew best - bringing up oil out of the ground. The company's substantial natural gas leases were almost incidental in the beginning; they were a kind of well-why-let that land-go-to-waste-we-might-as-well-get-something-if-not-oil venture. His company was a strong example of the Independents who survived over the iff many didn't]: prudent sense, a game plan of research/acquisition/ a no-nonsense approach based on the Puritan work ethic, a word stood on a handshake, and a virtual army of loyal employees who ...
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Having flown home a day early to escape a Wisconsin blizzard, I faced a Maine snowstorm instead. It got me thinking about snow days. Remember when we were children and we prayed for snow days so we could stay home and do nothing? All we had to do was play. Nothing was planned for and nothing was expected of us. These days, if the storm is particularly bad and we lose power for awhile, we’re afforded that same opportunity. Without electricity, there’s nothing to do—no work, no computers, no telephone (we need to conserve those batteries). All we can do is relax and do ... Read More
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Excellent treatment of what's often forgotten, dismissed or mythologized. An interesting look at the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the remarkable character who lead it for most of its first couple decades. The Fiance. Although this book was required text, and I am usually just a reader of novels, the book held my attention. Excellent use of biography to examine larger issues. One of Edmund Morgan's most enduring works, The Puritan Dilemma, published in 1962, is still a good starting point for understanding the motivations behind Puritan migration to America and the ideological and political difficulties ...
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It's Memorial Day weekend. Get up! There's no time for lazing in a hammock for those who live in an all-work-no-play world. And just who lives in such a non-stop busy land? Why, any American who doesn't enjoy the right to a summer vacation. Our Cover Story is reported by Jim Axelrod : This Memorial Day weekend . . . our unofficial start to summer . . . many Americans will look ahead to the next couple of months and their vacation plans. But not as many as you might think. One in four American workers does not have paid vacation provided by his employer. "And we don't have any law that would require ...
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According to an 1850 census, the U.S. population was 23,191,867 -- up from
13 million in 1830. And the 1850s was a decade of more growth and more immigration
into the North. According to the 1860 census, the U.S. population was 31,443,321
-- an increase of 39 percent in one decade, the South having about 8 million
whites in 1860, compared to about 20 million in the North. Southerners complained of the advantage that the North had in attracting
immigrants -- although the North, with its different kind of economy, could absorb
the increase of free people better than could the South. What Southern planters
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A security car and police tape keep visitors away from SuccessTech Academy in downtown Cleveland, Ohio on Oct. 11, 2007. The previous day student Asa Coon, 14, wounded two students and two teachers at the school before killing himself. • See the results of the Cleveland Schools building opinion survey. • Read more coverage from the SuccessTech shooting A year ago today, suspended student Asa Coon returned to his downtown Cleveland high school and opened fire. The 14-year-old wounded two teachers and two fellow students before killing himself. For those with no direct connection to SuccessTech Academy, the memory of ...
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This Memorial Day weekend . . . our unofficial start to summer . . . many Americans will look ahead to the next couple of months and their vacation plans. But not as many as you might think. One in four American workers does not have paid vacation provided by his employer. "And we don't have any law that would require any employer to do that," said John Schmitt, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He's the author of a study detailing one unique feature of our economic system that's not the envy of the rest of the world: Out of the 33 richest countries, the U.S. is the only one ...
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Scott Brown is living the dream and New England politics are still adjusting to the new reality. The same swing voters who fueled the blue tide that crested over Connecticut and New Hampshire in response to Bush now view their own creation as a disastrous flood, and are uprooting their political homes. Netroots progressive organizations, donors, volunteers and voters are looking at a number of competitive primaries in the region and don't want to lose any more safe seats. As they ponder their decisions, here's some food for thought. First, a few regional factors to keep in mind: One, the "anti" sentiment is ...
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The Puritan Work Ethic. The earliest of the work ethics (or ... The strengths of the Puritan Work Ethic are in its focus on individual responsibility ...
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the protestant ideology of hard work and the economic needs of. English society. .... puritans were concerned with social ethics is one thing; to transmute ...
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From a historical perspective, the cultural norm placing a positive
moral value on doing a good job because work has intrinsic value for its
own sake was a relatively recent development (Lipset, 1990). Work, for
much of the ancient history of the human race, has been hard and degrading.
Working hard--in the absence of compulsion--was not the norm for Hebrew,
classical, or medieval cultures (Rose, 1985). It was not until the Protestant
Reformation that physical labor became culturally acceptable for all persons,
even the wealthy. Previous Section Attitudes Toward Work During the Classical Period One of the significant influences ...
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PogoMix
@mrthejazz1 The Sex & Cash Theory sounds similar to the Puritan work ethic. http://www.anxietyculture.com/puritan.htm
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captaincursor
@Ombwah These are very "Puritan work ethic" ideals. The study was an experiment on how things actually work (in the lab).
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dr_deedee
the nigerian educational system embraces the puritan work ethic; if it isn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong.
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The Protestant Work Ethic (or the Puritan Work Ethic) is a concept in sociology, economics and history, attributable to the work of Max Weber. It is based upon the notion that the Calvinist emphasis on the necessity for hard work is proponent of a person's calling and worldly success is a sign of personal salvation. It is argued that Protestants beginning with Martin Luther had reconceptualised worldly work as a duty which benefits both the individual and society as a whole. Thus, the Catholic idea of good works was transformed into an obligation to work diligently as a sign of grace. You can read more here: ...
The whole premise behind "Puritan Work Ethic" was that hard work led to salvation. This is due to the belief that if you are working hard you have little time for personal vices. Imagine, if you were working all day you would have problems spending all night drinking and going to whore houses and getting up to work the next day. This is still a major issue in American society today. Americans are some of the most overworked people on the planet! Of course, there are almost more (if not so) issues with the problems faced by overworked individuals. Stress, poor health, little time with family, friends and others. You could say ...
