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    their inner natures‚ Chaucer outlines each pilgrim to portray their personal view towards life. The vocabulary he utilizes allows the readers to vividly piece together the identity of the pilgrims. Chaucer uses his master skills to reveal the knight‚ nun‚ and monk’s inner natures by describing their physical appearance. By describing the knight’s physical attributes and what he has been through‚ Chaucer reveals that he is a honorable‚ upstanding man. The knight is manifestly the most prestigious person

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    Mother Teresa

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    Vocation At the early age of twelve‚ Agnes knew she wished to become a nun. Mary hoped that becoming a nun would lead her to a life like that described in the wonderful stories told of missionaries and saints at her local parish. She left home to follow her dreams‚ never to see her mother again. At age 12 is when Agnes started to believe that God was calling her to become a nun. This is when she started looking into becoming a nun and what it would involve. Agnes did many things like read books and

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    whoever brought them together deserves to be found and honored. So who is the matchmaker? Rosaline was Romeo’s love before Juliet‚ and because Rosaline became a nun‚ Romeo could not marry her. Therefore‚ Rosaline is the cause of Juliet and Romeo’s marriage. It all starts back when Romeo was in love with Rosaline. When Rosaline became a nun was when Romeo became depressed. He would cry for her love and her beauty‚ and would hide in his room not wanting to talk to anyone‚ but Rosaline. Benvolio started

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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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    of the Andean mountain range led to an inevitable clash of traditional indigenous cultures and what Europeans considered to be an established and civilized culture of the Spanish Empire. Through primary sources such as Catalina Erauso’s‚ Lieutenant Nun‚ and secondary source Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest‚ by Steve Stern‚ we are able to piece together how the indigenous tribes and the Spanish Empire shaped the culture of one another. Europeans called them‚ caused unrest

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    Lourdes In Going South

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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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    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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