Canonical

the small morning hours of August 31, 1888, at about 3:40am by 2 Carmen on their way to work. Her body was found in front of a gated horse stable entry on Buck's Row, Whitechapel. She is mostly believed to have been the first of Jack the Ripper's "canonical" five victims. The two men who come upon her, Charles Cross and Robert Paul, saw Ann lying on the ground with her skirts pulled up to her waist. At first they weren't sure if she was either passed out drunk or dead, so they hastily went to…

production (Elizabethan Theatre Trust, n.d). Resultant successful national tours, a West End production, multiple awards, critical acclaims and current place in the NSW school syllabus are perhaps the hallmarks of such a play. The characteristics of a canonical work? Check, check and check. It would be folly or otherwise amateurish, to reduce a theatrical canon down to mere checklists to be simply ticked off. I propose a thorough consideration of the context and period of its birth and debut…

I am writing this letter to express my unconditional support of Dr. Joanna Kaylor’s promotion to Associate Researcher, Step I at the Department of Ophthalmology, UCLA Stein Eye Institute. She is an exceptional young scientist and her appointment will certainly benefit the research program at your Institution. My strong enthusiasm for the appointment of Dr. Kaylor stems first from her exceptional research accomplishments, and second from my personal impressions of her during our interactions at…

Morrison in her fictional writings calls for an examination of presentation of blacks in canonical U.S. literature. She asks in her stories the structured implications and dominance of "literary whiteness". She also interrogates how this literary whiteness…

The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, established in fifteen-forty-two by Pope Paul III (the pontifical incumbent who was also responsible for the authorization of the Jesuit Order), was the primary institution to maintain and implement Papal bulls, in addition to their function of administering legalistic ramifications upon deviants of Catholic orthodoxy within the Papal States, and ostensibly exhibiting proper procedure to Catholic states in the process of…

On the 7th of June 2015 at 8am, St George’s Ministry Centre was visited to investigate the denomination of Anglicanism and its beliefs and rituals in relation to those of the Christian religion. Located at 100 Balaclava Rd, Eastwood 2122, the place of worship was small, the exterior structurally inspired by architectural style. Inside, the focal point of the space was the altar, decorated with flowers to signify the beauty of God’s house and recollection of the resurrection. There were around 20…

Wisdom encompasses all reality, so it is difficult to say that wisdom is found in any particular historical events, cultures or religions or in any ancient civilizations. However, the encounter with wisdom of the community of Israel can be traced in the written corpus which includes the Torah and the prophetic writings. Even so, some scholars studying the wisdom literature have the opinion or caution that, as wisdom is fundamentally related with creation and is available in every aspect of…

Music of that contemporary time consisted mostly of jazz, more specifically bebop and swing styles. During the 30’s and the Great Depression, swing music was the standard among pop culture. Swing refers to the rhythm of the music in which the upbeat of a note would be played as closely to the next down beat as possible. On the other hand, Moore says it better when he explains that, “‘swing’ style — a combination of elongated and shortened beats produced by the fixed attacks and accents of the…

since the Church maintained that God assigned them dominion over the temporal estate. The peasants assert their own competence in “praying to the Lord God, who alone [and no else) can give [Christian doctrine] to us” (Swabian Peasants 4). Without canonical jurisdiction, the ecclesiastical court’s unlimited power was questioned and the barriers to social change were…

Sublime Industry and Risky Aesthetics: A Comparison of Edward Burtynsky’s OIL and Karen Solie’s “Bitumen” Karen Solie’s poem “Bitumen” (2015) and Edward Burtynsky’s photography collection OIL (2009) both question the adequacy of sublime aesthetics as a representational mode for depicting the effects of industry. I will explore how the oil industry is represented as sublime in Burtynsky’s OIL and the critical and ironic distance this representation requires. Informing this will be historical…