Pope Benedict XVI Type of Ministry: Pope Benedict XVI was born with the name Joseph Alois Ratzinger. He was born on the 16th of April 1927 and is the current head of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the 265th pope. He became pope after the death of John Paul II‚ and was elected on April 19‚ 2005. He was born into a religious family‚ he was baptised on the day of his birth‚ and his brother‚ Georg Ratzinger is a priest. According to relatives‚ he had wanted to become
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through reason‚ to provide explanations for all actions and events. Both Alexander Pope and Voltaire discuss some of the more common questions posed during the Enlightenment: What is the nature of humanity and what is our role in the greater picture of the universe? Pope argues that everything in the universe‚ whether it is good or evil‚ is essentially perfect because is a part of God’s grand plan. In essence‚ Pope believed in pre-determined fate‚ where no matter our actions‚ our fate remains the
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Jessie J was born Jessica Ellen Cornish in Chadwell Heath‚ London‚[8] daughter of Stephen Cornish and Rose Cornish (née Archer). She was educated at Mayfield High School in the London Borough of Redbridge. She attended Colin’s Performing Arts School and as an 11-year old-was cast in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West End production of Whistle Down the Wind.[9][10][11] Jessie has two sisters‚ who are five and seven years older than she is‚ who were both head girls at school. Unlike her academic sisters‚ Cornish
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“In the selection of Owen’s poems‚ compare the ways in which he reflects on the price paid by soldiers during wartime. You should look for connections across the poems studied‚ in relation both to the situations and feelings described and the way in which Owen has used language for effect.” Wilfred Owen gave us his first hand experiences of war. He was appalled by the ‘human squander’. the waste and pity of war. In both ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Mental cases’ he highlights the absurd glorification
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the papal name Francis‚ after St. Francis of Assisi‚ and was elected as the new pope of the Catholic Church. It was on March 13‚ 2013 that white smoke rose from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican and Pope Francis was elected the two hundred and sixty-sixth pope. He is a pope of many firsts. The first Jesuit pope‚ first pope from the Americas‚ and first non- European pope in more than a millennium. He is known for being humble‚ willing to help the poor
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Explain why Pope Urban II called for a Crusade in Clermont 1095. One reason‚ or trigger for Pope Urban calling the crusade would have been Alexius’ request for his help. Alexius asked for Pope Urban’s aid in helping him to fight the Turks; this is because they were closing in and starting to invade Constantinople‚ which was the main frontier between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Emperor Alexius felt threatened by the Turks‚ and knew that Pope Urban in him being the head of the Church (the
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life‚ with the soldiers described as being ’like old beggars’. The Latin used at the end of the poem means ’It is sweet and honourable to die for your country’‚ a concept Owen is strongly denying. * War transforms soldiers‚ breaking them physically and mentally: ’Bent double’ ’Knock-kneed’. Rather than glorious men‚ Owen presents the soldiers as weakened old ’hags’. * The experience of war is something no soldier can escape: ’In all my dreams‚ before my helpless sight‚ / He plunges at me’
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Wilfred Laurier‚ at the beginning of the twentieth century‚ predicted that “The next hundred years would belong to Canada.” I believe Wilfred was correct; the twentieth century did indeed belong to Canada. The Canadians and the Canadian/British allied forces had many victories‚ Canadian born people who grew up to change the world and many other events prove that Canada owned the twentieth century. Many consider the victory at Vimy Ridge in 1917 a defining moment for Canada. Although it
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1. Although Pope worked on this poem from 1729 and had finished the first three epistles by 1731‚ they did not appear until between February and May 1733‚ and the fourth epistle was published in January 1734. The first collected edition was published in April 1734. The poem was originally published anonymously‚ Pope not admitting its authorship until its appearance in The Works‚ II (April 1735). The Essay on Man was originally conceived as part of a longer philosophical poem (see
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Jessie Mary Grey Lillingston Street was born on 18 April 1889 in Ranchi‚ in Bihar‚ India. In 1896 Jessie came to Australia with her mother‚ who inherited Yugilbar station of Clarence River‚ near Grafton NSW. Jessie was the eldest of three children of Charles Alfred Gordon Lillingston‚ civil servant‚ and his wife Mabel Harriet‚ sixth daughter of Edward David Stewart Ogilvie of Yulgilbar station. Jessie began her formal education with a governess. In 1904-06 she attended Wycombe Abbey School‚ Buckinghamshire
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