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Last Updated: Second Time Lucky (1984) review. Director: Michael Anderson. Starring: Diane Franklin, Roger Wilson, John Gadsby, Robert Helpmann, Robert Morley, John Michael Howson, William Ewens, Eunice Ewens, Erna Larsen, John Hudson, Gay Dean, Brenda Kendall, Onno Boelee, Paul Owen-Lowe, Derek Payne, Norman Fairley, David Weatherley.
Jul 1, 2007 · In the space of a year, the residents of Bridgewater House are about to discover that living cheek by jowl with each other makes for an eventful and hectic time. In Second Time Lucky, Sophie King gets right into the nitty-gritty of relationships, but does so in lively style.
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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan .
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I saw this movie many years ago and I really enjoyed it. I can't understand all of the negative reviews that this film has gotten. I thought it was very charming and inventive. The casting is great, especially the lovely Diane Franklin... an interesting, romantic, and original adventure.
- What Was The Great Revival?
- What Is A Burned-Over District?
- When Did Mormonism Arise?
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At the beginning of the Second Great Awakening, preachers brought their message to the people with great fanfare and excitement in the form of a traveling revival. The earliest of the tent revivals focused on the Appalachian frontier, but they quickly moved into the area of the original colonies. These revivals were social events where faith was re...
The height of the Second Great Awakening came in the 1830s. There was a great increase in churches across the nation, particularly across New England. So much excitement and intensity accompanied evangelical revivals that in upper New York and Canada, areas were titled "Burned-Over Districts"—where spiritual fervor was so high it seemed to set the ...
One significant byproduct of the revival furor in the Burned-Over Districts was the founding of Mormonism. Joseph Smith (1805–1844) lived in upstate New York when he received visions in 1820. A few years later, he reported the discovery of the Book of Mormon, which he said was a lost section of the Bible. He soon founded his own church and began co...
Bilhartz, Terry D. "Urban Religion and the Second Great Awakening: Church and Society in Early National Baltimore." Cranbery NJ: Associated University Presses, 1986.Hankins, Barry. "The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists." Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.Perciaccante, Marianne. "Calling Down Fire: Charles Grandison Finney and Revivalism in Jefferson County, New York, 1800–1840." Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 2003.Pritchard, Linda K. "The Burned-over District Reconsidered: A Portent of Evolving Religious Pluralism in the United States." Social Science History8.3 (1984): 243–65.Second Time Lucky (1984) - Turner Classic Movies. 1h 38m 1984. Overview. Credits. Film Details. Notes.
Mar 7, 2018 · The Great Awakening came to an end sometime during the 1740s. In the 1790s, another religious revival, which became known as the Second Great Awakening, began in New England.
