Committee to state their case. The PMRC leader was Tipper Gore‚ Al Gore’s wife. Dee Snider was also there to defend music against the accusations of music glorifying rape and violence. Snider is the lead singer for the glam metal band “Twisted Sister”‚ and provided a great case defending music. During the case‚ there was a great amount of pressure from the media. In the end‚ it was ruled that the albums come with a warning label if the lyrics contain profane content. It seemed that rock had
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to read‚ sing and go to church. She was in the choir with her sister‚ Aga‚ and went to the Lyceum school. At the early age of 12‚ Agnes started to think about spending her life dedicated to fulfilling God’s works. When she was 16‚ Agnes attended several religious retreats that helped her realize that God was calling her. Two years later‚ when she was 18‚ Agnes joined the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto‚ a dynamic Irish group of sisters throughout active in India. In 1937‚ she took her vow into the
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In the time of the butterflies summary chapters 5-8 Chapter 5 Back in the present (1994)‚ Dede considers how Fela‚ their longtime servant‚ thinks that she is possessed by the spirits of the dead Mirabal sisters. She had accidentally come across Fela’s shrine to the girls one Friday in the shed behind the house. She had ordered Fela to move the shrine‚ but Minou scolded her for being intolerant. Minou often stops at the shrine‚ which is now down the street. She asks Dede where Lio Morales now lives
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purpose is to save a life. There is a moral difference between selecting for socially desirable traits like blue eyes and blonde hair‚ and selecting for medically desirable ones. Anna was genetically engineered as a perfect donor match for her older sister Kate in order to save Kate’s life threating disease; leukemia. Anna decides to take legal action to be in control of her body. Where is the line with choices? How is a decision determined to be right or wrong? These are some of the questions that
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for medical emancipation. They expect her to give up one of her kidneys for her older sister Kate‚ who has had leukemia since she was 2 years old. Her parents conceived Anna because they needed a donor of umbilical chord blood to keep Kate alive‚ and since then Anna has donated bone marrow and stem cells to Kate when she relapsed. But now she no longer wants to continue being used as an organ bank for her sister‚ and her only resort is the law. She does her research and then goes to a lawyer‚ Campbell
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not return to Immaculada Concepcion with her two sisters‚ and instead‚ she waited for her future husband to visit. His name was Pedrito Gonzalez‚ and with his “strong body‚ his thick hands‚[and] his shapely mouth” (p.50) he won Patrias heart‚ body and soul‚ and stole her off the path that she swore she would devote to the Lord. Even though Patria began to stray away from her godly lifestyle‚ she lived very innocently‚ and when her younger sister‚ Minerva‚ began to speak out more freely against
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The fabulous button sisters. Resume Karen and Michelle are preparing for a party‚ where Michelle suggests them both to dress up with the theme of chocolate buttons - “the fabulous button sisters”. Michelle has already decided that she wants to be white and Karen should be the ordinary one – the brown one. The night when Michelle and Karen are going for the party are they making an agreement about to meet in ten minutes at the corner. When Karen arrives‚ she sees Michelle wearing some other clothes
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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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Frail woman rebuilt to become indestructible: The prominent transformation of Maria Teresa The novel‚ In the Time of the Butterflies‚ retells the story of 4 sisters who fought in a revolution against the dreaded regime of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The Mirabal sisters‚ Maria Teresa‚ Dedé‚ Minerva and Patria all have different insights and perspectives on what they think freedom actually is. The novel is written in first and third person and Maria Teresa’s contributions to the novel are
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