There is a myriad of historical ideas that surprised me during this reading. My top three surprising historical highlights are The Globe‚ Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz‚ and the Spanish theatre‚ corrales. Throughout my whole learning experiences‚ I have never come across the corrales. Usually‚ I would learn about how Spanish is very religious based and how they are very well-known for discovering New Worlds. I would always hear Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan. I never really learned about
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Introduction: One step to take before becoming a teacher is to complete forty tutoring hours at Oasis Catholic facility. I have tutored children before‚ but when I first went to Oasis I was nervous. The facility was in a trailer park community primarily consisting of Hispanic immigrants who do not speak much English. However to my surprise‚ the children spoke English well. I initially believed I would need to learn more Spanish to tutor the children‚ but since I tutored the fourth graders‚ I did
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John Smith Joan of Arc 1) When and where did she live? She lived in Champagne and Rouen from 1412-1432 2) What was the nature of her family life and relationships? She was a poor peasant and her dad was a farmer. She was a fun loving child who was wise beyond her years. She was always deep in prayer and began to hear “voices”‚ which people have been led to believe are saints‚ at age thirteen. 3) What was the nature of the society in which she lived? The society in which Joan of
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Mother Teresa was a person that was admired and respected. She was a person that made an impact on your life and made people loot at the world with a different eye. Even though the world is full of good people‚ great humanitarians‚ people who donate billions of dollars‚ who raise their voices to make a difference‚ Mother Teresa stands out in the crowd‚ she was a very unique person. Agnes was born on August 27‚ 1910 in Skopje in Macedonia and given the name of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Teresa was the
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The status of women in the medieval period was mostly that of subjugation‚ very few options were open to women‚ and those that were are often resulted in a harsh treatment‚ of backbreaking labor. However even with such ill treatment‚ women were the integral part to societal growth and stability thus a women’s role was often narrowed and marginalized. To areas thought befitting woman‚ Such as child rearing‚ manual labor‚ the convent‚ or as a wife. This system of casting not only served to maintain
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holds especially true for the monastic order of monks and nuns. Monks and nuns that practiced Theravada Buddhism followed the teaching of the sacred texts known as the Tripitaka which consist of Abhidhama Pitaka‚ Sutra Pitaka and Vinaya Pitaka. The Abhidhama Pitaka incorporated philosophical speculations while the Sutra contained sermons and most importantly; Vinaya contained the Buddha’s discipline or a code of conduct for monks and nuns. In Theravada Buddhism‚ Gombrich also argues that‚ in regards
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Geoffrey Chaucer does an exceptional job bringing this unfortunate reality to life in his narrative poem‚ The Canterbury Tales‚ when he describes many of the clergy members with more vices rather than virtues‚ such as the Pardoner‚ the Friar‚ and the Nun. Throughout his poem
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also serve as some of the rules that Christians must live by‚ which means that they are very peaceful and kind people. In document 8 it states that Brother Gerald vows purity‚ chastity‚ and poverty (Document 8). This means that Christian monks and nuns had to vow to be peaceful and not cause problems. This also shows that many Christians were kind and considerate towards others by being in poverty and giving privileges to others in need. This tells us that most Christians were selfless and peaceful
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Anthony Booth’s play‚ ‘None the Wiser’‚ is a fast paced comedy centring on a gang of expert shoplifters who think they have the perfect cover disguised as nuns. Trouble comes‚ when two nuns seeking accommodation appear at their front door. However‚ the newcomers aren’t what they appear to be either. Farcical in nature‚ the play is aimed purely at entertaining audiences through hyperbolic‚ extravagant‚ and thus improbable situations. The outcome is that anything that can go wrong will go wrong; and
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I was able to listen to a podcast called famous tumors. It talked about many different types of rare case tumors. Such as president Ulysses S. Grant‚ Tasmanian devils‚ a man with a safety pin‚ a nun and God‚ and a lady and her daughter. The first segment was over a tumor that president Ulysses S. Grant had died from. They talked about going to see the squamous cell carcinoma that actually killed the president. They then go on to talk about actual Tasmania devils that the photographer Christo Baars
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