The public education movement emphasized that civil responsibility and morality needed to be taught in order to have an effective democracy.
Horace Mann, who started the common school movement in Massachusetts, believed that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's children into judicious republican citizens.
Vittoria Colonna represented renaissance ideals because Vittoria Colonna was a well known writer, the first secular woman to achieve a high level of literary status in Italy for venacular production, and her example opened the way for subsequent women writers to publish in all manner of genres. She devoted her later years to religion and literature, Michelangelo called her his "sun of suns" and credited her strength for lifting him closer to God.
<u>The basic belief of the Islamic religion is that its faith centered around in one God, Allah</u> (belief in Allah as the one and only God). It is a monotheistic faith. Its history relates back to the patriarch Abraham, and to the first prophet, Adam. The last in the series of prophets that preached the same universal message of belief in one God and kindness to humanity, according to Muslims, was Muhammad (is the final prophet). He was not happy because of superstitions and social/economic injustice. The people were worshipping many gods and had forgotten the message of prophet Abraham (to worship one God). His main message is that there was no other God but Allah and that people should lead their lives in a way that was pleasing to Allah.
<em>Allah is the Arabic word for God.</em>
