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In Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" he uses various comedic devices to create comedy; most noticeably melodrama and farce. These devices are used excessively in order to repeatedly address serious matters in a light-hearted manner; Wilde does this to create humour as opposed to offending his audience. Wilde deliberately wrote the play in this manner as he was fully conscious that his audience consisted of upper class Victorians. Throughout the play, Oscar Wilde articulately…

Short Answer Questions 1. The Investiture Struggle was a power struggle between the church and the monarchy. This rivalry had been brewing for a very long time, but it reached it’s climax in the depute between king Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII. The church had recently taken the power to appoint the Pope from the king and established the College of Cardinals to do the job. Henry IV was against this idea, eventually retaliated and was promptly excommunicated. The struggle went on for quite some…

Of the total population of Quebec, nearly half are descendants of the 10,000 original French settlers. Québécois constitute more than four-fifths of Canada’s total Francophone population. About one-tenth of Quebecers are Anglophones of British descent. Another tenth of the population is of neither French nor British descent and includes aboriginal peoples (Indian [First Nations] and Inuit), eastern Europeans, Portuguese, Greeks, Haitians, and Asians (notably from Southeast Asia). In 1974 French…

The Vatican, a place powerful enough to survive the renaissance. Where conflict happened and they fought back. A strong belief that still takes over. The Vatican is one of the smallest states in the whole world and is not sovereign. Home to the pope since the Renaissance with a small population of 1,000 people located inside of Rome. The pope is the head of the city which makes the Vatican an a theocracy. The Vatican is the only city state to survive beyond the Renaissance, thereby proving…

Professor Steve and Professor Katherine made many good points on Pope Francis in life today. The world is changing and so is society, so the way that the Pope is looked at is altered as well. The two professors make great points on how Pope Francis is modifying the Catholic point of view on the world and promoting unification of religions. I believe that the Pope is one of the best I will ever see in my life. Francis is a Jesuit, which is extremely rare given that Jesuits are bound by oath not…

The papacy has stretched over the course of 1982 years from the first pope Peter the Apostle to the current pope Francis I. There have been popes who have wielded great amounts of power like Innocent III and those who did not wield much power like the modern day popes. There were those who were immoral like Alexander VI and those who were kind hearted with a servant attitude like John Paul II. Throughout the reigns of the 256 popes from Peter to Francis, they were seen as spiritual leaders. For…

Church is a central role that plays in a lot of people’s lives but money makes people ruin good things. The Canterbury tales has a lot of characters who aren’t very religious or lie about being religious. Church corruption is when is when people steal money or go to church for their own personal purpose. In the Canterbury tales the characters who are not religious or are apart of the church for personal gain are the Pardoner, The Monk, and the Friar. In the prologue of the Canterbury tales…

Question one: Describe some of the things in the Catholic Church that people like Martin Luther and John Calvin said needed reforming ? Before the Reformation most Christians in Europe where Roman Catholic, there were other types of Christians in Eastern Europe,Asia and Africa but Roman catholicism was the dominant form of Christianity and had been since the 4th century. During the European Middle ages the Catholic Church really dominated european civilization.The Church during the middle ages…

In chapter eight, The Reformation and Counter-Reformation: Sociopolitical Actions and Reactions, Wells discusses the counter-Reformation of the Reformation that formed the Protestants. During the counter-Reformation, the Catholic church reformed their teachings, and the rulers of the countries had to deal with what religion their country’s religion was going to be. When Luther first started his reforms, he had many Catholics agreeing with his teachings, one of those Catholics was George Witzel…

Oath because of the implication of rejecting papal authority that underlay in the act: an act which would go against his evidently deeply held beliefs. Therefore, More’s actions became criminal as “it might be taken not only as a confirmation of the Bishop of Rome’s authority, but also as a reprobation of the King’s second marriage, particularly because it was a capital offence to deny members of the royal family. From this one can argue that it was because of his opposition to uphold the…