Benedict

“’New Scottish Cinema’ suggests a new wave of film production and is often attributed to filmmaking that considers itself alternative or oppositional to other forms of mainstream cinema”, David Martin Jones, (2005:11). Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1995) is a film that worked around the social, political and cultural development in Britain in the late 20th Century. It gives rise to questions of identity, culture, and community. The main theme in this film is about a group of friends with a heroin…

the Holocaust. The Holocaust was not an accident in history. “The Holocaust occurred because people of authority legalized discrimination and fostered an environment of prejudice, racism, hatred, social division, inequality, and murder.”(William Benedict III 2005) The Holocaust was not just a Jewish issue, but also an issue for Poles, Soviet of POWs and others. However, it seems that Jews are the most pathetic victims. During the Holocaust, the Jews’ rights of life, economy and marriage are…

Ruth Benedict first seeks to demonstrate that perceptions of morality vary between cultures. Only providing one or two examples would evidently be insufficient so we are deluged with many. She dwells on this point, but it is easy enough to grant. However, after wearing us down with these examples, she unexpectedly jumps directly to her conclusion of moral relativity. Unless I am perceiving it incorrectly—which is entirely possible—this is the gist of her argument: cultures have differing views…

with political parties and politicians building up expertise in interactive media has been used as a tool to reestablish contact with supporters, thus mediatisation has encouraged in the first instance, an online religiosity ((Hjarvard, 119) Pope Benedict XVI for example, was the first to…

Benedict Arnold was a great soldier and strategist. He did many great things to lift the oppression of Britain off of the world. He is not remembered for all his great deeds for the colonies though, he is remembered mostly for his betrayal. He was very…

1776 was written by renowned author David McCullough and retells the events of the American Revolution. The book closely follows George Washington as he commands the American army through the hardships that they faced in these times. Both Washington and his soldiers dealt with harsh conditioning which lead to low morale. This sense of overall gloom contributed to the departing of many of the soldiers in the war and some even took weapons or other trinkets of war as collateral for their time…

respect that we have to be active listeners to our coworkers and superiors. Listening is not always easy in the fast paced environment we live and work in, but it is a necessity if we want to succeed. I can see a connection between the Rule of St. Benedict and our daily lives. This week I understand that obedience and discipline goes hand in hand with how we want to live our lives. If we want to be happy, we have to work at…

Middle Age Gardens Web report During Medieval times many things began to change from religion to a lot of wars going on. This is where gardens took place. People's food was very scarce so they had to take care of it the best they could. It was also very important that they had medicine, they grew all their medicine in their gardens. This is when kings and queens order for their gardens to look and be a certain way. This was also a time where walls became so important to keep out invaders. The…

for them doing shootouts and going on rampages. Many shooters in today's society are linked are linked back to video games and being influenced negatively by them. Many of the mass shooters that we know of have something in common. Video games Benedict carey stated, in ¨Shooting in the Dark”, "The young men who opened fire at Columbine High School, at the movie theater in Aurora Colorado, and other massacres had this in common: they were video gamers who seemed to…

know Trappists as “the monks who don't talk”. Thus, it is naturally assumed that they take a vow of Silence. However, the Trappists never actually take an explicit vow of Silence. They take three vows, which have their origin in the Rule of St. Benedict, written in the sixth century: a) A Vow of Stability (loyalty), promising to live the rest of their lives with one monastic community. b) A Vow of Obedience to an Abbot , and c) A Vow of “Conversion of Manners”, the promise to live the…