Christopher Hitchens

Nation of Lies Why do we lie to others, but expect others to be honest with us? Today in society, lies have embodied the lives of many to the point where it has become a natural part of our lifestyle. Lying has become a natural habit for us, it has become a factor in how we carry out our lives. Whether we may have lied in consideration of how others may feel, or if it was because we did not want to carry out something we were assigned, lying has become so natural to us that we cannot…

After the World War I Women in the Progressive Era achieved many important activities. Among them Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu also call Mother Teresa, born on August 27, 1910 in a devout Catholics family in Skopje, Yugoslavia and died on 5th September 1979. (Guntzelman, J, n.d.) Mother Teresa was a strong, beautiful, kind and an independent woman with remarkable heart when it comes to help others, specially orphan children. She was obedient, willing to listen to others ideas and follow her own state…

Located approximately 90 miles north of Rome rests Assisi, situated high on the slopes of Mount Subasio. Here the well-preserved medieval town looks out upon the rolling hills of the Umbria region of central Italy. With winding medieval streets, Roman ruins, and sacred shrines, the destination is very popular. However, it is known primarily as the birthplace of St. Francis. Assisi is a well-known destination among Catholic pilgrims who visit the churches and relics of Saint Rufino, Saint…

How could a feeble Irish woman be capable of rescuing over 200 children? Missionary Amy Carmichael did exactly that! Travel to India and took children from house of his homes and brought them into a safe environment. Carmichael shared the love of Christ by advising the women and children, who were often thought as inferior to men, and help them learn how to except Jesus as their Savior. At the age of 14, she decided she wanted to follow God and spread His Word across the world. Following the…

The saint I find most adorable is Saint Maria Goretti. Saint Maria was born on October 16, 1890. She was a young adolescent when he father, Luigi Goretti had passed away. Maria was faced with a very overwhelming and tough position to fill. She had to help her mother take care of the house hold and act as another parent figure. She learned that she need to grow up fast and take on these responsibilities and help her family. The story of Saint Maria Goretti is she was in the house one day…

Retrieval Chart Use LibGuides. Question Research points Reference Details Who were they? brief biographical details (when and where they were born etc.)? • St Teresa (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada) • Is a saint of sickness • Born in Avila, Spain on 28th March 1515. • Both parents were pious Catholics and supported Teresa to take up a life of prayer • Mystic – claims to have seen God • When young Teresa showed signs of a religious nature • Reformed a convent life of nuns. • Encouraged…

When she was seven-years-old, she convinced her older brother that they should go off to the land of the Moors and beg them. Out of the love of God, to cut off our heads there, but an uncle had found them and brought them back home (Catholic Online 3). St. Teresa had faced so many challenges in her life that led her to sacrifice many things. When St. Teresa was 18 years old, she had to leave her family to become a missionary in India. St. Teresa was a remarkable person who helped a wide range of…

St. Teresa of the Andes lived a short, but holy life. Previously known as Juana Fernández Solar, Teresa was born in 1900 in Santiago Chile. She was born to an upper class family and was the fourth of six children. After feeling an intense calling to the religious life, Juana took the name of Teresa at 19 years old, when she became a Carmelite nun. Before entering her convent, she taught religion to children from her church and helped the poor. She once encountered a very young, poor boy. She…

Raneem Botros had grown up in a relatively good life with a good house hold. That had been the first six years of her life. She had always been happy and smiling, always pleased to see her father until she had come to the true reality that life was; her mother was a lesbian, her father had raped her when she had been only fifteen, and the man she had grown up calling her daddy had only been her mother 's father. Raneem wasn 't displeased about the fact she had two mothers instead of one, and…

Are we at war? The once cheerful cartoons on the small television monitors get tuned into a muted vivid image of a plane heading toward the twin towers. Than another. Flames begin to blaze as smoke surges through the air, the oxygen we must breathe now. The buildings immediately tilt as our world starts to break, humans’ ordinary humans have a life or death decision to make. But do they really? Because, either way the ones attacked physically need to choose how they’ll die that day. The…