Nun

Buddhist nuns and St. Augustine agree that the body affects how the soul attains enlightenment, but they disagree on the role that the body plays in this process. The Buddhist nuns contend that humans must reject the body in order to achieve enlightenment because the body is a hindrance to the soul, while St. Augustine emphasizes that the body is an instrument that humans must utilize to refine their souls as a means to achieve enlightenment. Thus, both St. Augustine and the Buddhist nuns…

“And she was known as Madam Eglantyne” (125). Throughout the nun’s section in the canterbury tales prolog we come to find out this quote sums up the nun quite nicely. This line encompasses everything the nun is, elegant, well mannered, and caring. One of the things the nun feels is important is, to be seen among the travelers as elegant. She shows this in the way she eats by not letting her hands get dirty, and in the way she sings hymns. She never dips her hand in too deep in sauce and never…

as a nun. Deciding to become a nun was a very difficult decision. Becoming a nun not only meant giving up the chance to marry and have children it also meant giving up all her worldly possessions and her family, perhaps forever. When mother Teresa was 17, she made the difficult decision to become a nun. Having read many articles about the work Catholic missionaries were doing in India, Mother Teresa was determined to go there. Thus, Mother Teresa applied to the Loreto order of nuns,…

Church was able to evangelize people that lived in rural Europe through the Monasteries. This was able to occur because the monasteries were built in farmland and wooded areas, allowing for communities of monks and nuns spread into these rural areas. This then allowed for the monks and nun to not only evangelize…

Holden’s hidden personalities and social challenges when he is confronted with the nuns. While this is not the Holden we have come to know, he puts himself in the nun's shoes and he demonstrates the effect of a more caring Holden, also the discussion reveals that Holden constantly puts himself down and he portrays to us how he perceives society and how it can create barriers for us. The scene when Holden meets the nuns illustrates a more caring Holden by his tone and how he seems to be…

un-comfortableness". The nuns take a very brutal approach to the girls' self-esteem and mental well-being, even going as far as questioning them "do you want to end up being shunned by both species?" which is a preview of the disassociation effect. A preview of how uncomfortable the girls are feeling is that the nuns are sowing them a slideshow of former wolf girls who have "failed to be rehabilitated". There were images of sad eyed women, "limping after their former wolf pack" and the nuns…

Amy, made him "choke on his sad feelings," according to The Bobby Bones Show. Amy is in the process of adopting two children from Haiti. A nun said something to her while she was in Haiti that confused her at first, but ended up touching her and many others, including Bones. Amy shared the story with a photo of her and her adopted daughter: The words the nun told Amy answered many questions when she thought about having kids:…

and did not receive food (American Indian Relief Council) (1). The Indians were just learning, so it was unfair for the Americans to treat them so poorly. Also, in St. Lucy’s, Mirabella was “shot with a tranquillizer dart” because she did not let the nuns give her a nametag (St. Lucy’s) (239). Correspondingly, when the Indians did not behave like they were expected to, they were locked in a “dark press room,” where the rats would get…

form of a swan. The swan, being much stronger than the girl, held her captive, but in return gave her two children that would become monarchs and hold a lot of power. The poet is establishing a dialog by comparing the Leda and the nun because, as previously mentioned, the nun is a manifestation of Ireland and this way the country will rise from its ashes and recover the culture it lost when it “unified with the…

My grandparents, John Bernard “Jack” Timmons and Ellen Amanda “Ella” were married 20 April 1918 in a Catholic Church in Chicago, Illinois. Their daughter, Jean was born almost four years later in 1922. I believe I recall my mother saying that her mother had a difficult time carrying a child and miscarried two or three babies prior to Jean being born but, I don’t remember any specific details. After Jean there was no more children born to Jack and Ella. Jean Timmons was the only child of Jack…