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    In Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden uses the word "phony" to define people who are insincere and to label people who grow up only to conform to society’s standards‚ even though they’re capable of much more in their life. Besides the nuns at the sandwich bar and Holden’s little sister and brother‚ almost everyone in society embodies Holden’s depiction of phony‚ except for most children. Children are exempt from Holden’s definition of phony because children do not care about society’s standards

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    poems. Aunt Lupe knows writing can help Esperanza set her free from Mango Street. In addition‚ another minor character is the nun. The nun showed an attitude toward Esperanza when Esperanza showed the nun where she lived. The attitude the nun showed towards Esperanza remained in Esperanza’s head and as Esperanza grows up her writing showed how she wanted to prove to the nun that

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    Thesis Statement: In “The Things They Carried”‚ Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is torn between being a good leader and his love for Martha‚ thus making him a truly dynamic character. I. No matter how hard Lieutenant Cross tries to be a good leader‚ he cannot stop himself from fantasizing about Martha. a. The hardest thing that the Lieutenant carries is his emotional attachment to Martha. b. Throughout the entire story‚ Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is struggling to stop thinking about Martha

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    her appearance so much. She has a daughter named Pilar‚ who does not play well with her and always refuses to work for her in the bakery. Then she gets a call from a nun who witnesses the death of her father. The nun tells her that her father is fully dressed‚ covered with holy blue light when he is about dying. Later he thanks the nun for her kindness and leaves by passing the window‚ without telling anyone where he heads for. Lourdes is stressed about this story. When she is anxious‚ she has the

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    Mole Poblano

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    has a history to show. Here you will know how the famous dish of mole started‚ the different kinds of mole and how you prepare mole. Many years ago in the city puebla mexico the famous dish of mole was created. Mole was created by nuns to welcome the archbishop. The nuns didn’t have any food to welcome the archbishop they were so desperate they wouldn’t find something to feed the archbishop. They started praying to the angels so they would give them an idea or inspire them to invent something. Finally

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    lives. One outlet for wealthy medieval women was to become a nun. A wealthy woman could escape an arranged marriage if she joined a nunnery. (Hughes 135) Hughes goes into detail how some women tried to break from society in the Frankish Kingdom. Some wealthy woman would give up their land to their church and become the abbess of the nunnery. Wealthy woman from around the land could flock to the abbess‚ but serfs were not allowed. The nuns would often become teachers and some schools were famous enough

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    miracle tale‚ the account draws heavily on the convergence of many Buddhist and Daoist beliefs. We have seen a similar emphasis on austere diets for Buddhist exemplars in Kathryn Ann Tasi’s book “The Lives of Nuns.” In one account‚ a nun by the name of Kuang-Ching‚ who prior to becoming a nun observed a strict diet of neither sweet nor fat foods‚ lived on a diet of pine resin for 15 years before growing too weak. Though Kuang-Ching was not an immortal‚ her hagiography shows the importance of austere

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    Marriage in the Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer ’s Canterbury Tales have long been respected as the embodiment of popular sentiment toward love and marriage in the Middle Ages. In these tales‚ Chaucer repeatedly addresses two main issues concerning marriage: male vs. female sovereignty in marriage and the place of sex in marriage. Whether positive or negative‚ nearly all of the tales express some sort of sentiment toward marriage. One of the most blatantly expressive is that

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    Most women were either‚ peasants‚ noblewomen‚ or nuns. Most Medieval peasant women were serfs‚ living and working on the estates of noblemen. About 90% of all women in Medieval England lived in rural areas‚ and were therefore involved in farm work. (www.historylearningsite.co.uk). The life of a peasant

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    fasting: eating less than you need to avoid hunger * Vruti Sankshepa: limiting the number of items of food eaten * Rasa Parityaga: giving up favourite foods The aim of fasting Jain fasts may be done as a penance‚ especially for monks and nuns. Fasting also purifies body and mind‚ and reminds the practitioner of Mahavira’s emphasis on renunciation and asceticism‚ because Mahavira spent a great deal of time fasting. Santhara - fasting to death Fasting to death Santhara or Sallenkhana

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