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    Dylan Goodman History 4/21/14 Lieutenant Nun Q&A Part A: Question 3 After reading through the various experiences of Catalina de Erauso‚ it is very clear to me that she wanted to escape the strict and binding socio-political norms established in Spanish society. While I do not doubt the religious faith of Catalina de Erauso‚ I feel she placed a great social value on those working under the crown in the New World. She did not want to be bound by a religious convent like her sisters.

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    Xuan Chen Kyle Dieleman Modern Religion and Culture 27 February 2013 The Nun depicts the miserable story of Sister Suzanne‚ the girl who is forced to enter a convent and take the holy order. She experiences criminal and sexual assault in the cloisters and she cannot escape the huge cage of monastery. Dennis Diderot does a good job exploring the difficulties‚ cruel and mercilessness of the cloisters through the experience of Sister Suzanne‚ who has an adamant personality that never surrenders

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    the indigenous past and whether this serves as an example of preserving one’s ethnic identity. Crowned nun portraits trace their history to old-world traditions‚ but featured deceased abbesses and notable nuns. In comparison to new world portraits which featured professing nuns of varying statuses‚ these portraits were unique to colonial Mexican convents. Despite the tradition of flower-crowned nuns in old-world cloisters‚ Cordova finds correlations between the unique flower-crowned professing portraits

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    Life of a Nun in the Middle Ages The daily life of Medieval nuns in the Middle Ages were based on the three main vows:  The Vow of Poverty  The Vow of Chastity  The Vow of Obedience Medieval nuns chose to renounce all worldly life and goods and spend their lives working under the strict routine and discipline of life in a Medieval Convent or Nunnery. The reasons for becoming a nun‚ their clothes and the different orders are detailed in Medieval Nuns and Nuns Clothes in the Middle Ages. This

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    Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma‚ Commander of the Japanese‚ began an unrelenting attack of the island on May 1st. Japanese troops boarded a landing craft to assault Corregidor on May 5th‚ under the command of Major General Kureo Tanaguchi. The first wave of Japanese infantry met brutal resistance and was hindered by oil which coated the beaches of Corregidor. The Japanese began to make advances and by May 6th they had captured Battery Denver. The marines quickly moved to recover the battery

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    The French lieutenants Woman by John Fowles is a novel that tells the story of a woman (Sarah) misjudged by her community and a well to do gentleman who has to choose between being with her and being with his fiancé. The author’s use of conflict in making Charles Smithson choose between passion and responsibility has an effect on the entire novel by providing the basic storyline for the novel‚ allowed an opportunity for character development with Sarah and Charles‚ and it also gave the author to

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    Gaitor‚ Bridget Word Count: 1‚859 The Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine by David H. Jackson Jr. exemplifies the life of Charles Banks as Booker T. Washington’s main abettor‚ in the Tuskegee Machine. This descriptive autobiography of Charles Banks life’s work‚ gives the reader an insight into the success of Booker T. Washington. Along with the biography of Charles Banks life‚ the book also addresses the creation and struggles of Mound Bayou. It also gives the reader an inside look on Booker

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    Kathleen Licari Professor Stephen Allen History 100 25 September 2014 Gender Matters In the riveting novel‚ Lieutenant Nun‚ Catalina de Erauso goes against every norm for a young woman in Spain. This story told from a first person point of view has many themes including religion‚ violence and gender. Catalina de Erauso was able to achieve things disguised as a man that she wouldn’t have been able to as a woman. Catalina was able to embrace her masculine alter-ego and did so by resorting to extreme

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    A Nun of a Different Cloth Jason Tuttle Baker College Lit332 A Nun of a Different Cloth In Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s “A New England Nun”‚ Freeman tells the story of Louisa Ellis‚ a young woman who‚ due to circumstances beyond her own control‚ becomes the embodiment of a nun of a different cloth. Louisa patiently waits 14 years for her fiancé Joe Dagget to return from his fortune-seeking in Australia. During this time Louisa learns to value her solitary life. Her days are spent ripping

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    A New England Nun is a wonderful story about 2 people who fell in love with each other and became engaged 14 years ago. With the hopes of making money separating them for most of their engagement‚ Louisa and Joe decide to stay together with the hopes of eventually becoming married. As time went on the couple noticed that there was a lot of built up sexual frustration from being apart from each other and both had decided to deal with it in their own ways. Louisa used the power of sewing and gardening

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