the papal name Francis‚ after St. Francis of Assisi‚ and was elected as the new pope of the Catholic Church. It was on March 13‚ 2013 that white smoke rose from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican and Pope Francis was elected the two hundred and sixty-sixth pope. He is a pope of many firsts. The first Jesuit pope‚ first pope from the Americas‚ and first non- European pope in more than a millennium. He is known for being humble‚ willing to help the poor
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1. Although Pope worked on this poem from 1729 and had finished the first three epistles by 1731‚ they did not appear until between February and May 1733‚ and the fourth epistle was published in January 1734. The first collected edition was published in April 1734. The poem was originally published anonymously‚ Pope not admitting its authorship until its appearance in The Works‚ II (April 1735). The Essay on Man was originally conceived as part of a longer philosophical poem (see
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jessie Pope was a journalist who wrote recruitment poems for the Daily Mail during the First World War. The poems she did write were positive propaganda poems for the war; her objective was to stimulate patriotism in the readers so that the men would join the forces. Pope wrote a persuasive poem where she compared war to a game. This is illustrated in the title ’Who’s for the game?’ It shows that her attitude to war was that it was a great big event that everyone should take part in one way or another
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PLUNGING WITH THE POPE Characters The Pope - an ancient but by no means feeble man. It is vital that this actor has a flair for comedy and good comedic timing The Camerlengo - Much younger (late twenties‚ early thirties)‚ somewhat naiive The Pope’s private office. There is a desk and a table. He and the camerlengo are decorating the place for Christmas. There is tinsel and a nativity scene. Perhaps Christmas music The camerlengo steps forward and begins speaking to the audience
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Game? By Jessie Pope War is a highly debatable topic that has influenced many poets. An issue that is important in Jessie Pope’s 1914 poem Who’s for the game? This essay will explore a range of literary devices used within the poem to help analyse the explicit and implicit meanings. Furthermore‚ it will use appropriate literacy terminology to back up quotes within the poem. Additionally‚ this essay will analyse the structure of the poem to show how meaning is conveyed. Pope‚ a naive poet‚ speaks
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Pope Leo the great (440-461 AD) is famous for his Tome of Leo document‚ The Council of Chalcedon‚ and he illuminated the conformist definition of Jesus’ being as the religious states of two beings- divine and human. Despite all of this‚ Pope Leo the Great is most famous for his persuasion of the crude Attila the Hun (434-453 AD) to not invade Italy in 452 AD. The emperors usually paid off barbaric tribes to not invade them but this further gave reason for the tribes to invade Western Europe. The
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POPE AS A SATIRIST Satire is a literary genre‚ usually meant to be funny. The word ‘Satire’ was defined by Richard Garnett as‚ The expression in adequate terms of the sense of amusement or disgust excited by the ridiculous or unseemly‚ provided the humour is a distinctly recognized element and the utterance is inverted with literary form. Without humour satire is invective‚ without literary form‚ it is mere clownish jeering. (Encyclopedia Britannica 14th ed. vol. 20 p. 5) Satire is defined by Long
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In Pope Francis’ recent address to the people I think the pope really made some good insights to how we can think of the Church as our mother. There were many passages that really stood out to me. One of them was talking about how the Church is like a mother because a mother generates life‚ "... She bears us in the faith‚ through the words of the Holy Spirit who makes her fertile‚ like the Virgin Mary." I had never thought about the Church like this before and I thought it was interesting how he
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through reason‚ to provide explanations for all actions and events. Both Alexander Pope and Voltaire discuss some of the more common questions posed during the Enlightenment: What is the nature of humanity and what is our role in the greater picture of the universe? Pope argues that everything in the universe‚ whether it is good or evil‚ is essentially perfect because is a part of God’s grand plan. In essence‚ Pope believed in pre-determined fate‚ where no matter our actions‚ our fate remains the
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Explain why Pope Urban II called for a Crusade in Clermont 1095. One reason‚ or trigger for Pope Urban calling the crusade would have been Alexius’ request for his help. Alexius asked for Pope Urban’s aid in helping him to fight the Turks; this is because they were closing in and starting to invade Constantinople‚ which was the main frontier between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Emperor Alexius felt threatened by the Turks‚ and knew that Pope Urban in him being the head of the Church (the
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