alive) -characters: two sisters (making haste to be married off) Begins with losing a child nun (i.e. Catherine) (she is recognized as a spoiled and impertinent kid) Catherine has been exploring a hidden and forbidden room Juxtaposition of another story (revealing her past): the father threw himself at the carriage to save a child and died (sacrifice)(choice is wrong??)-> the child nuns are sent away by Mother Superior Castle: “the poor have to work their hides off for the rich.”
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Saint Teresa of Avila is the patron of headache sufferers and she is a spanish catholic writer. She was born on March 28‚ 1515 and died on October 4‚ 1582. Saint Teresa of Avila’s feast day is October 15. Growing up‚ Saint Teresa of Avila had a strict father and a loving mother. Her father was always strict when it came to her. Saint Teresa of Avila was convinced that she was a horrible sinner. As a teenager‚ she only cared about boys‚ clothes‚ flirting‚ and rebelling. When she was sixteen‚ her father
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Sister Helen Preje‚ the Catholic nun‚ appeared to be a genuinely concerned person who took a real interest in the condemned prisoner. She came from a strong background but chose to "give back" to others. Sister Helen explained her need to "give back" during the film and appeared to be completely serious about her commitment to helping others. Sister Helen did not wear her habit during the course of the film. Many people have a stereotypical vision of Catholic nuns: the habit‚ seemingly out-of-touch
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In Karen Armstrong’s The Spiral Staircase‚ she tells the story of her lifelong experience with spirituality and religion‚ beginning with her time in a convent. This was a very interesting memoir to read‚ as you get a firsthand account of this persons long and complicated struggle with religion‚ told honestly about her experience. No matter what you believe‚ it seems you could easily find something to gain from this book‚ as she does not push religion as something one must find to be happy in life
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Buddha began the nuns order is a story that has been told and retold throughout the history of Buddhism. Although some little details are different from place to place‚ the story is pretty much the same. “Five years after the Buddha’s attainment of enlightenment and establishment of an order of monks‚ his aunt and foster mother Mahaprajapati Gautami comes to him and asks that women‚ too‚ be allowed to ‘go forth from the home to the homeless life’ and be ordained as Buddhist nuns. The Buddha‚ however
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Autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux: The Story of a Soul Therese was born in France in 1873. Therese was the pampered daughter of a mother who had wanted to be a saint and a father who had wanted to be monk. They had nine children and the five children who lived were all daughters who were close all their lives. When Therese was four and a half years old her mother died of breast cancer. Her sixteen year old sister Pauline became her second mother‚ which made the second loss even worse when
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she was born in Skopje‚ now capital of the Republic of Macedonia‚ but at the time part of the Ottoman Empire. –wikipedia.com She came from a wealthy family‚ and could easily have lived a comfortable life‚ but she gave it all up to become a Catholic nun and devote her life to the poor. During her lifetime‚ she had many achievements; here are just some of the awards which she won: In 1976 she won the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award‚ In 1979 she was the Nobel Peace Prize Winner‚ In 1985
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of women was subordinated upon the creation of the Order of Nuns by the Buddha. In the Cullavaga text‚ Mahaprajapati (the aunt and mother-figure of the Buddha) asked the Buddha to create an Order of Nuns (bhikkhuni) after he had created an Order of Monks (bhikku). She asked three times‚ with his answer being no upon each request. Finally‚ upon the intervention of his male cousin and attendant‚ the Buddha agreed to allow an Order of Nuns to be founded. Nevertheless‚ in doing so‚ he stated that women
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Speaking of Courage and The Things They Carried Being from a military town‚ people talk about war and the effects it has on people regularly. People that are not around military people probably have no idea what happens when a soldier comes home from war; they may read about one soldier in the news but they do not see the effects first hand. Tim O’Brien tries to show people the guilt people have‚ the death involved in war‚ and the things they will always carry with them in his novel The Things They
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could become a Buddhist nun and if he could ordain her‚ he replied‚ “Yes of course”. On the 24th july‚ 1964 she was ordained and became Drubgyu Tenzin Palmo. She was only the second Western woman to become a Tibetan nun. Fredi Bedi was the first. It was here in Dalhousie India that Tenzin Palmo had her first‚ first hand experience of gender inequality or here she witnessed the sexiest views present in Buddhism. Women were not given access to the same teachings as monks‚ nuns where seen as a distraction
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