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    country of England, but the Queen used clever tactics and hired the best people available to make sure England was a stable, safe country. Philip II wanted to overthrow Elizabeth, for she was Protestant and he believed that he had to replace the Catholicism that had been lost. He also wanted to take over for he believed it was rightfully his for he was married to Mary, whom Elizabeth had executed earlier. On May 18 the Spanish sent an Armada (fleet) to attack England. It left the port of Lisbon…

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    Middle Ages The period of history from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance, people do not know whether to call it the Dark Ages or the Middle Ages. This period of time should be called the Middle Ages. This period should be known as the Middle Ages because feudalism, a unique and useful form of social organization, was created during this time. Each social class did something and got something in return. According to the illustration by Stanley M. Burstein and Richard Shek, “Peasants worked…

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    of Great Britain. The purpose of the Quebec Act passed reforms favorable to the Catholic expansion. This was viewed as a hostile act by predominantly Protestant America. Britain was actively promoting the Roman Catholic church faith even though Catholicism was restricted in Britain. During 1785 statistics show that Catholics represented 1.6% of Colonial America.…

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    The nature of Mexican or Mexican-American people varies between good people with faith and ethical values and also evil ones as well. The reason for this is that a lot of these people practice religious faiths such as Catholicism and Christianity. For example, my mother brought me up in a Christian home with good values. A good and evil nature makes for a teachable society. The Mexican people are dominant over their environment and nature but not as much as Europe or the United states. They’ve…

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    As technology advances, people are now able to instantly communicate with people around the world in seconds. Our communities, that were once culturally isolated or being very homogeneous in character, are now becoming more culturally and ethnically diverse. While this change can be beneficial for a society, it can also present a wide variety of challenges that can impede communication and understanding. For nurses, it is especially important that they have cultural competence. Cultural…

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    Scholars have long attempted to justify the prevalence of the occult in Guiney’s works without damaging the legacy of her self-professed Catholic faith. In her memorial-biography of Guiney, Alice Brown asserts that while Guiney was definitely “Christian in belief, she was pagan in the listening nerves of her” (Brown 507) a statement with which Brown says Guiney agreed (506), but never fully asserts how or why that is the case. Henry Fairbanks says much the same in his biography of Guiney,…

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    Staying within the same class as your spouse was better in the name of family because they will be able to find a common ground. Marriage is what held families together.The backbone of the Colombian society is Catholicism, so divorce was not an option. The fear of being rejected from the community was most feared. The lifestyles of the people in the community are affected by the woman in the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Gender defined what a person could…

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    Exploration Project 3 Participant Observation By Devon Tiedemann-Pikala Minneapolis Community and Technical College GLOS World Religion I am catholic; I was baptized and raised catholic. So I do not have a lot of knowledge of many outside religions, this class has opened my eyes up to the views of many other religions and one of those that has caught my eye was Buddhism. Some of the reasons I was attracted to learning more about the Buddhist religion it seems like a very…

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    unique style, because of its artistic spirit and practices, with a clear distinction between High Renaissance. If the Renaissance can be classified as "classical", "baroque" can be classified as "romantic." It was after the restoration of feudal Catholicism, with the consolidation of the aristocracy and developed. However, you can not simply "baroque" art and its representatives, the title "anti" and "regressive" art. Of course subject to personal history, reflecting a variety of personal and…

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    need an image to follow or praise, but rather a loving and powerful force to guide and protect them. By detailing the personal experiences and religious growth of her characters in The Color Purple, Alice Walker reveals a new way of approaching Catholicism based upon the struggles of African-Americans, while Countee Cullen approaches this same topic with traditional beliefs in God’s great and indeterminable will. These varying points of…

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