From the article “The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas”, the author use France and England’s their tiny change during last seventeenth as an example of the being of enlightenment. Also, the author describes the difference between the enlightenment and now modern, because these events and influence happened on enlightenment it slowly create the modern day we have today. The new thing start to development in this period, the improvement of the science. All these thing cause people began to doubt the existence of god. Enlightenment thinkers people can believe themselves don’t need to seeking priest and prince these high lever socials help. Our today’s world are just like the enlightenment have the different gap; the upper class, the middle class, and the lower class. These like us believe our self-more and more. Believe our judgment insist our doubts. This is how humans change the truth from divine revelation. The people started to know more and more knowledge; science, statistics, history, literature. The changing makes more and more people start to question the society, when the people got to the different social class there are more and more problems coming out. During the past men and women don’t have the equal rights the man they have much more power then women. On the last seventeenth century women in the enlightenment as the important characters, they “presiding over SALONS,” writing novels… However, in today’s social they started to have the equal right as men do. I think the freedom of speech, equality between women and men. The enlightenment started a critical turning point. It just like a button thoroughly changed the world’s old style to the modern period that we have right now.

Didi Hu