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    church and the church is their home. Also they live with other monks and they consider them brothers or fathers. And each one of them respects the elders of the church and or they respect the people that are a higher position. St. Benedict and St. Francis of Assisi were two saints that lived these lives and also made some major building blocks in both of these orders. Mendicant orders are similar to monastic orders with their requirements except the mendicant orders are much stricter. They do not

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    character is a rich man who longs to be with a girl named daisy. His conquest for her undivided affection eventually led to his death following the discovery of their extramarital affair. In Hemingway’s short story‚ “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”‚ Francis Macomber is a cowardly man who wants to keep his wife but is having her drift away from him and into an affair with a more masculine‚ confident hunter. Once Macomber becomes brave‚ just like once Gatsby becomes brave‚ he dies – just as Gatsby

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    before that time? (P.38) 4. Anaphora * The truth always wins- and we are not afraid of it. The truth does not need Mr. Bryan. The truth is eternal‚ immoral‚ and needs no human agency to support it. (P.24) 5. Antithesis 1) In a trail in which religion played a key role‚ Darrow was an agnostic‚ Malone a Catholic and Hays a Jew. (P.11) 2) Today it is the teacher… and tomorrow the magazines‚ the books‚ the newspapers. (P.14) 3) Man against man and creed against creed.

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    Flees 1 Kellor Flees Matt Dumon English 10 11/2/12 The Encounter on what we needed to do to survive on our imposing 90 mile hike through the scorching deserts‚ over the treacherous mountains‚ and the long dark forest trails of Philomont‚ New Mexico. He thought us how to keep the bears from getting our food by suspending it in bear bags. The ranger also told us many helpful tips. For example if you hear a humming bird put on your sun glasses because they have been known to dive bomb

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    The short happy life of Francis Macomber The short happy life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemmingway is a short story taking place in Africa savannah‚ where Mr and Mrs Macomber have come on a hunting trip‚ led by a man named Robert Wilson. The hunting trip ends in a tragedy‚ where Mr Macomber finally mans up before shooting a buffalo‚ he himself is shot by his wife. The short story was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine‚ Later it was among the collection of stories

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    One thing that I learned in this chapter is that during his imprisonment Francis was alone in his cave and found it difficult to pray; it has been discussed from earlier sources that he would often cry because he was so fearful of what would happen to him. What is more‚ I was shocked to learn that Peter brought criminal charges onto Francis for being rebellious‚ public humiliation‚ and theft-these offenses during this time period resulted in either imprisonment or banishment (Chap.5‚ p.52). Moreover

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    Throughout the short story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” written by Ernest Hemingway‚ the reader is being taken along a journey in which people and animals are fighting over power and dominance. From the killing of the lion and buffalo to the manipulation and infidelity‚ this story is full of disproportion of who and who does not have power. Watching how the fight for power effected these individuals showed the true idiosyncrasy of the people in this story. In all at the end of the it

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    Pope Francis: The Peoples Pope The Catholic Church has a rocky history. From the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades‚ to sex and money abuse scandals. The Church‚ with such a dark past‚ needed to have a beacon of light to bring it out of its dark history. 2013 marked a landmark in church history. It saw Pope Benedict XVI resign‚ the first Pope to do so since 1415. Following in the steps of this trend of new‚ the Church also saw its first South American Pope. Pope Francis has ushered in a new era

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    Zcash May End The Money Trail Zcash A decentralized and open-source cryptocurrency that has a complete anonymity on the blockchain is causing a lot of worries with law enforcement as most agencies think it will harbour illicit transactions. A US state prosecutor‚ Kathryn Haun‚ expressed skepticism regarding Zec’s claims of full anonymity‚ emphasizing that if it works as advertised then it would make the prosecutor’s job “a lot more difficult.”Criminals want to be paid‚ Haun stated‚ therefore agents

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    ‘Pope Francis to visit survivors of ‘Yolanda’ in Tacloban’ As Pope Francis goes Manila‚ Tacloban City will be one of the places he would be visiting on January 17‚ 2015 for six and a half hours to meet and check the current condition of the poor people who survived the disaster brought by typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) more than a year ago. Palo‚ Leyte archbishop John Du in partner with SM Cares Foundation Incorporation had an agreement last August 2014 to construct 400 houses for Yolanda Survivors

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