Convent

The Ursulines were an order of women founded by Angela Merici in 1535. They were dedicated to taking care of the poor and sick. The Ursulines helped women prepare themselves for motherhood, life as a wife and created convents to educate young women. While teaching the women, they converted and taught them Catholicism, benefiting the Church since they were gaining more followers throughout Italy, France, and North America (Haberman and Shubert). The Society of Jesus or…

God’s Cross-Stitch Everyone has thought about the existence of God in one way or another. Whether it is at one’s darkest moments, or on a daily basis, God’s presence is often questioned and called upon. Scientific experiments have been performed to test whether this desire for God is truly human nature, but there have been no conclusive findings. On a philosophical level, this has been debated for centuries; particularly between theists and atheists. “The desire for God is written on the human…

The topic that I choose to write my final response about importance of all the different forms of persecution that took place during the Reformation and Counter Reformation. When it comes to people being persecuted in history, a lot of people face imprisonment, and death during the time of the Reformations, because it was a way for the churches to establish control over the people. The Protestant Church persecuted people who they thought were witches or were against the church, while the…

An ambitious women’s ascent to obtain the very apex of political power in a patriarchal, Confucian society, Wu Zhao’s humble beginnings as a daughter of a lumber merchant to becoming the emperor of China was a story of deception and murder. Many things contributed to the rise of Wu Zhao, including her education and experience, gaining the affection of the emperor, and how she manipulated others in court. Once she gained a position in court, she was able to stay in power due to her network of…

In most of the industrial sectors, from teaching to manufacturing, most of the employees join a union because of advancement in the workplace. Employees get a range of benefits from unions, from legal registration in labour disputes and pensions to more reliable group insurance. Non-unions also provide some advantages to employers and employees but not to the level of unions. The non-union environment includes workers who aren’t the members of the union means they cannot bargain and negotiate on…

Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni is a well-known novelist. She is also a famous poet. Many of her through-provoking articles have been published in more than fifty magazines and are widely read. Her writings have been included in more than thirty anthologies. She was born in Calcutta, India and spend her childhood days there. One of her childhood memories is that of her grandfather who used to tell her many enchanting stories which occur in the Ramayana and the Mahabharatha the two great epics of…

The rules and disciplines were strictly enforced; to illustrate, once a woman entered a convent, she was required by law to stay there until her death (Rudolf 259). Margaret Cotter-Lynch, author of Reading Leoba, stated, “Rudolf’s ideals concerning religious women’s behavior seem to align with the official positions of the ninth-century Carolingian…

Gender Roles in the Ojibwe Society Love Medicine is a multi-layered story taking place over the course of fifty years. These characters, both reflect traditional as well as changing gender roles in Ojibwe society. The main characters in the story seem to be trying to balance the old role with changing role. Some succeed while others do not. This paper will address the primary characters and their attempts at maintaining traditional gender roles as poverty, drug and alcohol abuse and infidelity…

Residents in Hiroshima knew an air raid was fast approaching; the country’s enemy had bombed the majority of the city, and the people living in Hiroshima knew their time had come to face the bombings. What the people of Hiroshima did not know is that the American’s had established a new kind of bomb that would have a devastating effect on the people. From the journal written by Giamo (705), an A-bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the bomb killed one hundred thousand…

The first book in the trilogy “Order of Darkness”, Changeling, a novel by Philippa Gregory, illustrates the process of 17 year old Luca Vero’s quest to record the end of times across Europe in Christendom. The book tells the story in Lucretili, Italy during the span of the middle of the 15th century in 1453. After Luca Vero is recruited to record the strange stories of Christendom in Italy, he travels to an abbey where Isolde, a lady abbess, is trapped. The rest of the book covers Luca and…