Between 1482 and 1485 Sandro Botticelli painted The Birth of Venus. The painting is one of the most known works of the Renaissance and a lasting symbol of feminine grace and beauty. Since Renaissance also means “rebirth‚” in the piece‚ Botticelli focuses on the birth of love in the world by depicting a beautiful nude woman coming to life in a tropical landscape. Botticelli’s work now hangs at the Uffizi Gallery‚ a prominent art museum located in central Florence‚ Italy. The unrealistic‚ innocence
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APJ ABDUL KALAM Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam born October 15‚ 1931‚ at Rameswaram‚ in Tamil Nadu ‚ Abdul Kalam was born in a middle-class family ‚ His mother tongue is Tamil. His father‚ a devout Muslim‚ owned boats which he rented out to local fishermen. His father‚ Jainulabdeen‚ possessed neither much formal education nor much wealth; despite these disadvantages‚ he possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit. He had an ideal helpmate‚ his mother Ashiamma & three
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Abstract: This thesis examines Deepa Mehta’s trilogy—Water‚ Earth‚ Fire—and the trilogy’s exploration and contestation of colonial‚ anti-colonial nationalist‚ and religious ideologies as intersecting with patriarchal norms to enact symbolic and actual violence on the bodies of women. I argue that Mehta’s trilogy foregrounds the ways in which patriarchal nationalism legitimizes violence against women’s bodies and sexualities through different social and cultural practices and discourses which are
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Social purity feminist and new moralists had different beliefs and advocated for different things when it came to female sexuality. According to Bland‚ social purity feminists advocated that when it came to the women’s body they had every right to say no to all unwanted sexual advances‚ this included married women (Bland‚ 1983). They also advocated that a married woman should have the right to control conception of a child‚ they suggested one of two ways to do so and this was by either continence
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16th century‚ upper clergy had become like secular rulers instead of religious authority. The church owned massive amounts of land and was part of the feudal system. Immorality had become rife in the higher clergy with simony (pay-offs) and non-celibacy becoming the norm. According to Catholic theology at the time‚ if one sinned you could repent and be given the sacrament of penance. While the blame for the sin is gone the sin is not erased and you must still be punished for it through temporal
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a monk of the church‚ one thinks of a person who practices religious asceticism‚ but the “Monk” that Chaucer describes does not necessarily match up to any of the qualities that would come to mind. When most people think of a monk‚ they think of celibacy‚ selflessness‚ nonviolence‚ intelligence‚ and humbleness. These qualities have no place in a characterization of the character that we are introduced to in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The “Monk”
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The poems Disabled and Dulce et Decorum Est have one main theme in common: War and Conflict. The poets have explored and presented this theme in similar ways through their commentary and the way individuals should react to the poems’ content. Disabled expresses the tormented thoughts and memories of a teenaged soldier in World War I who has lost his limbs in battle and is now trapped‚ helpless‚ to a wheelchair making him useless. Whereas in Dulce Et Decorum the Poet says it is not honorable to die
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rejecting faith.’’ After Fang 2 he leaves Ireland‚ he struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the Bronx. Corrigan is a monk sworn to celibacy‚ but everything changed after he
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nude” and were regarded for their masculinity and strength. The kouros had a female equivalent known as the kore‚ and were always clothed. Females wouldn’t be depicted nude until much later in ancient Greece. Early Christian emphasis on chastity and celibacy discounted images of nakedness. Nudes became symbols of shame and sin‚ weakness and defenselessness until the rediscovery of classical culture in the Renaissance. The first and possibly one of the most famous female nude sculptures is Praxiteles’
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the high status of men”(Cullum 621). Men are expected to be sexual beings‚ and by being non-sexual a man is seen as being not normal. Men are to produce heirs‚ and this cannot be done without being sexual. At this point in time the words virginity‚ celibacy‚ and chastity were directly related to women. This article is strictly about christianity and it’s affects on sexuality in the middle ages‚ giving historical information to the time
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