her teens‚ Agnes became a member of a youth group in her local parish called Sodality. Through her involvement with their activities guided by a Jesuit priest‚ Agnes became interested in missionaries. She took the name ’Teresa’ when she joined the Sisters of Loreto‚ an Irish community of nuns in 1928. She devoted her life to the poor. The mother was moved by utter poverty‚ suffering and misery of a large number of people in India; she decided to dedicate her whole life for the welfare of the poor and
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century St. Louise de Merillac Sisters of Charity • 1633 - The founding of the Sisters (or Daughters) of Charity‚ Servants of the Sick Poor by Sts. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Merillac. The community would not remain in a convent‚ but would nurse the poor in their homes‚ "having no monastery but the homes of the sick‚ their cell a hired room‚ their chapel the parish church‚ their enclosure the streets of the city or wards of the hospital." [1] • 1640 - The Sisters assume charge of a hospital
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The Fabulous Button Sisters In this short story we hear about Karen. She is a teenage girl going to school. She had a best friend in her class‚ Connie‚ but when Connie turned sick with fever‚ at the same time as a new girl‚ Michelle‚ started in the class. Karen realized at the moment Michelle walked into the class‚ that she was going to be her best friend. And so it all happened. Michelle was a type a girl who would like to control and wanted to be heard. Michelle was living with her aunt‚ because
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Vu Ngoc Giang Poem for my sister “Poem for my sister” is another opus of Liz Lochhead about the relationship between a big sister and her younger sister. Furthermore‚ it’s her feelings towards her sister’s process of growing up. In stanza one‚ Liz tells us of an everyday occurrence – her sister trying on her shoes‚ she uses heeled shoes as a metaphor for life and how her sister is experimenting with it : My little sister likes to try my shoes‚ to strut in them‚ admire her spindle-thin twelve-year-old
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luxurious life‚ she slept in front of the fire place and earned her name for being dusty and full of ashes. Her ordinary world was working for her own family and being ignored by her own father. For example‚ he didn’t stand up for her when her step sisters took her clothes away and told her she couldn’t sit with them at the kitchen table. Cinderella’s father one day goes to the fair and asks his step daughters and daughter what they want from the fair. Of course the stepdaughters tell them they want
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My dear child‚ why don’t you come to Jesus? Jesus is waiting for you. He wants you. Why don’t you come? Sister Reed‚ what is this child’s name?" "Langston‚" my aunt sobbed. "Langston‚ why don’t you come? Why don’t you come and be saved? Oh‚ Lamb of God! Why don’t you come?" Now it was really getting late. I began to be ashamed of myself‚ holding everything
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My bloody sister It was a cold dark night. I was so scared I wanted to cry but I was afraid that my mother would hear me. It all started a week before‚ she lost a lot of money and she was fired from her job. she always said all that happened because of me and my sister. she started to hit us more and more every day. but this night she got insane. she was planning to kill us. "maily!" my mom screamed at me. I was struggling‚ trying to get out‚ but she put me in a small box. I was putting
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Mother Theresa‚ a Catholic nun who entered the Sisters of Loretto in Ireland to become a teaching nun‚ was sent to India to teach. Later‚ moved with compassion‚ and the love of God‚ she received a "call" from God to help the poorest of the poor. Modern people‚ and most people who call themselves Christians‚ think that going to Church on Sunday‚ saying some things‚ and being nice to people is what it is all about. They are completely missing the mark. Those kind of things are just the tip of the
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Kaitlyn Lebo 10/8/13 Hey Soul Sister My LEAP partner is Miria—a 21-year-old female from Rio Grande‚ Brazil. When we got to request a certain gender or nationality for our LEAP partner‚ I said I wanted a female‚ because I would feel more comfortable talking with someone from my same gender‚ and I wanted someone from a Spanish—speaking country because I speak some Spanish (and even though they speak Portuguese in Brazil‚ it is a sister language of Spanish‚ meaning they are very similar). So
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The Duality of The Cherry Orchard:To Laugh or not to Laugh The Cherry Orchard’s first performance took place in 1904. It was directed by a frequent collaborator of the author‚ Constantin Stanislavsky. Constantin Stanislavsky came from an aristocratic background‚ which I believe had a great influence on the play’s spirit.. In order to cater to the audience of his peers‚ Stanislavsky chose create an emotionally evocative tragedy that plucked the heart strings of the diminishing aristocracy (Jackson
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