Convents

John Meli Professor Natale-Boianelli English 101 2/27/2024. Doctor Angelicus “Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” -Marva Collins. In our modern world, success is seen as something acquired through hard work, discipline, and sleepless nights. It’s the man who can’t stop trying with that one business product, or another, with their dedication to the gym. Our society insinuates that success is the sole result of the individual. Is it really a snub? Is success the exclusive product of the…

There are various examples of the Golden Ratio found in da Vinci’s The Last Supper, which was created between 1494 and 1498 and is located at the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. The PhiMatrix software has been used to show the various occurences of the Golden Ratio in da Vinci’s The Last Supper: In yellow, the ratio of the depth of the table to the space shown below the table corresponds to the proportions of the Golden Ratio. Additionally, the rectangle in the…

Good morning, Today I'm talking about the life of Nano Nagle. Born in County Cork, Ireland, she lived from 1718-1784. Nano Nagle was born to Garret and Ann Nagel . She founded the Presentation sisters in 1775. Nanos real name was Horana, she was the eldest of six children. Nano attended Hedge college in Ireland but was later sent to school in France. Nano Nagle grew up in a rich family on a small property. She was alive around the time of the Industrial Revolution, this was about the time that…

Emma loses her ennui when she is with Rodolphe and gains confidence in her identity. After they experience their first sexual encounter Emma giddily thinks, “’I have a lover! a lover!’ delighting at the idea as if a second puberty had come to her. So at last she was to know those joys of love, that fever of happiness of which she had despaired” (131)! Emma has always wanted a lover like those resembled in the books she reads. Now that she has a lover, she experiences a “fever of happiness,” like…

task is further expand the reader’s understanding of Nector’s perspective in his decision to end his relationship with Marie for Lulu. In Erdrich’s short story, “Flesh and Blood,” the protagonist Marie recounts the time she visits the Sacred Heart Convent with her daughter, Zelda, to gloat about her success and power in the Chippewa tribe. When she returns home, her daughter finds a letter addressed to Marie from Nector. The letter in “Flesh and Blood” is short, and does not offer Marie any…

Mother Teresa wanted to live and help the poor just as Jesus has once done many years ago. This shows humility because she gave up her money and lifestyle to help the less fortunate. Another instance where she shows humility is when she left the convent to go work with the poor. When Mother Teresa went to help the poor she “owned only a sari, a pair of sandals, some undergarments, a crucifix they pinned on her habit, a rosary, a prayer book, a silver bucket for washing, and a thin bed¨ (Scott…

Clara and helped fulfill Isabella’s wishes to convert the New World. Some of the Mestizas became Nuns while others left the convent and began having families of their own, some with Spaniards and some with the indigenous men and some with mestizos. This threatened the became to destroy the authority of the Spanish. This was a threat because the caste system started to become more…

The 2013 film, Ida, tells the story of a young novice, Ida, in 1960s Poland, who is on the verge of taking her vows as a nun, discovering her family’s hidden past that causes her to question her entire life. Before Ida, an orphan raised in a convent, can take her vows, the mother superior encourages her to meet her only living relative, Aunt Wanda. The aunt, who is a Communist and a prosecutor, informs Ida of her Jewish heritage and the unknown death of her parents during the German occupation.…

Architects from the 14th century to the mid 18th century incorporate elements from ancient Greco- Roman architecture into their designs for social, cultural and political reasons. The movement to revive “ancient Greco-Roman culture” is known as the “Renaissance.” The epicentre of this movement was in fourteenth and fifteenth-century Florence. It began with the leading merchant republics studying and teaching ancient Greek and Latin sources of history, science, art, architecture and literature…

her collections. In fact, instead of the interlaced C’s that we know Chanel for, it is a surprise the Lion wasn’t the main stamp. We could see it in her vintage pieces like the quilted bag. When she was a child her father left her and orphan in the convent of Aubazine. She spent here six or seven years. Through her childhood and until she was 18, she learned how to sew which would make her a future designer. Much of Coco Chanel’s design symbols are established in her time at the orphanage at…