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The image of “Our Lady of Controversy” presented by Alma Lopez carries powerful imagery invoking activism and expression. Compared to the original Virgin Mary Alma Lopez’s version presents a strong looking woman as opposed to usually being seen as conforming and gentle. There are multiple symbols that supply significant meanings for Chicana Feminists.…
The Hundred Years War was a conflict between France and England from 1337 to 1453 and it began because of two distinct reasons; first, Edward III, an English king, believed he should be crowned king of France since he was a close relative of the former king, Charles IV. However, Philip VI gained the throne. Secondly, multiple kings of both France and England believed they should control Guyenne, a part of French territory under English rule, because of the power it gave them (Encyclopedia Britannica 849). As the spite for one another grew, France and England went to war with one another and the fight for control continued over a century. Towards the end of the war, around the year 1429, the English were…
How many people can say that hearing voices saved their country? Not many, but Joan of Arc is one of the few. Joan, also known as Jeanne d’Arc, began hearing heavenly voices in her early teenage years. Those voices commanded Joan to save France from England in the Hundred Years’ War, as well as seeing to it that Charles was crowned King of France. Joan led the French Army into battle at the age of 19, a remarkable feat in the early 1400’s. This makes Joan the most influential woman of her time.…
In The Lais of Marie de France, poet Marie de France illustrates many different kinds of love. The main themes being marriage and extramarital affairs. From reading the lais, Guigemar and Bisclavret, I believe that Marie has a traditional view of marriage. I can assume that Marie believes a marriage takes two to work. I also can assume that Marie believes that either partner can cause a marriage to fail. In her stories she does not put the blame of a failed marriage on just the husband or the wife, instead she creates different scenarios that causes the audience to recognize that it is not just one gender that possesses certain characteristics. She plays with what society would consider masculine or feminine by giving the characters opposite…
I chose Saint Elizabeth of Hungary because she was very selfless and kind. I also like the name Elizabeth. Saint Elizabeth was born in 1207 and died in 1231. She was born into a very wealthy family. She married at the age of 13 to Prince Louis of Thuringa. She had four children. Each day in the morning and evening she would tend to the sick, hungry and the poor. She spent all her own money to help the poor, sick and hungry. She became a saint on May 27, 1235. She died when she was only 24. Her feast day is November 17…
According to American mythologist, Joseph Campbell, “The greatest love was during the Medieval Ages, when noble hearts produced a romantic love that transcended lust” (Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers [2001]). The Lais of Marie de France are primarily concerned with this idea of love--specifically, courtly love--between a man and a woman. Courtly love, a union modeled after the feudal relationship between a knight and his liege lord, became a popular convention in the 12th century (“Backgrounds to Romance: ‘Courtly Love’”). Instead of proving loyalty to a lord, the man would have to prove his love to a woman. Marie de France, however, focuses not just on the idea of love, but also on the differing kinds of love that existed in medieval society. She recognizes love as a force that cannot be avoided and that can be executed correctly or incorrectly; not all love is equal.…
January 1785: The Dauphin and the Maria are captured by Algerians, their 21 crewmen chained and paraded before jeering crowds on their way to the Algerian leader, or dey, who reportedly spits on them and says, "Now I have got you, you Christian dogs, you shall eat stones."…
Just who was the French king she helped put on the throne. What was he like? Most people would dwell on Joan as a commander or that she heard voices or whatever. But who was she helping put on the French throne. And of course, why did the church condemn her like they did and later (centuries too late to help her) canonize her. Joan of Arc, also known as “The maid of Orleans” was a French war heroine and later Catholic Saint. She is regarded as of one of the most influential people in history for her many contributions, notably to war and peace and the image of women in the past. As perhaps the most famous female war figure in European history, Joan exhibited courage, strength, bravery and expertise in her leadership; accomplishing feats of military successes well beyond what was expected of her gender and age. She first led the French army to victory at the age of only 17; during a time when no woman wielded such power and influence. Unjustly put to death for heresy and witchcraft, her canonization…
There is a fine line between sex and gender. In fact, most probably do not even know that there is even difference between the two! People just assume a boy should act like a boy and a girl should act like a girl. Society forces us to think and behave that way. If you think about it when a baby girl is born everything is pink, but not all girls love the color pink. Society shapes the role of each child based on its biological sex. What happens if you do not behave like your sex is supposed to behave? In the article, “The True Story of Joan/John,” Joan does not act like the female that her surrounding pushed on her to be.…
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In Joan Didion’s memoir, she outlines the events of a painfully tragic experience in her life. She takes the reader through her dismal attitudes of embarrassment, uneasiness, and eventual enlightenment. Didion explains how her distorted view on self-respect from her childhood is morphed into life’s reality when she is not accepted into Phi Beta Kappa. Strong comparisons and distinct diction engulfs the reader and leads them through a journey in Didion’s life.…
Not long after she entered the battle, Joan was struck by an arrow just above her left breast, which caused her to fall back. She had the wound dressed with fat and, after resting for a while, she rejoined the fight. Later that night she left to pray, and upon her return the soldiers reacted with “great ardor” (Gordon, 2000), for they had thought her to be dead from her battle wound. They pushed on and Joan’s standard that she was holding blew in the wind towards the English, which frightened them, as the English and the French believed that when the standard blew in the direction of the enemy, the French would take the wall. Because the English were frightened and was losing hope for a win, the French were able to take the wall and gain control of the north and south banks of the river and bridge, which caused the English to lift the siege on May 8th.…
"As to whether victory was my banners or mine, it was all our Lord 's," Joan of Arc, 1431. Joan of Arc, also known as the Maid of Orleans, was a ferocious figure in history. Fiery in spirit, and possessing a devotion to God that rivaled even the most pious in nature, she was truly a stronghold in the history of France. The change she caused was due to many factors, chiefly to her religious devotion, claimed messages from God, military success, crowing of the Dauphin, and eventual execution, trial, and martyrdom. Seen as a messenger of God, Joan of Arc animated French popular support, thus enabling her to be successful.…
Before Joana asserts that she is the creator of her own circumstances, she needs, first, to dispel her fears. In the opening lines of ‘The Journey’, the narrator exhibits Joana’s state of mind. The narrator discloses that Joana is leaving behind a reality that is solid and has well-formed shapes to situate herself, instead, in a more liquid reality (187). The narrator uses the element of ‘water’ in symbolic terms to denote a shapeless and formless nature. Being water the element that sustains life on earth, Joana, by the act of sinking into the liquid, she is, symbolically speaking, going back to the source of life. Joana is also exponentially turning away from the culturally constructed self-imposed on her, in her childhood, to her genuine…
Thesis statement: Joan led a fascinating life and is one of the most heroic women in all of history: in her early years she struggled with being different, in her mid-life she was a military leader, and in the time of her death she was wrongly accused of something she had no part in.…