Convents

La Peor de Todas, The Worst of All, was put on by the National Museum of Mexican Art as part of the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival. The entire play was performed in Spanish with English supertitles. I know some Spanish and was able to more or less keep up with the play without the supertitles, which was also a satisfying experience. However, if I did look to the supertitles, I could tell that they were often too far ahead or behind the dialogue which was a little annoying.…

Concert Report 1 On October 26, I went to the two act opera, Il Matrimonio Segreto (The secret marriage), by Giovanni Bertati. The opera was at East Carolina University in the School of Opera Theater. The casts’ members were Marshall Williams (Geronimo), Elisetta (Rebekah Shamberger), Hannah Riddle (Carolina), Kaitlyn Davis (Fidalma), Steven Vinolas (The Count Robinson), Graham Leonard (Paolino), Gina Marie Folk (Virginia), Kelly Hart (Florida), Johnathon Spell (Marylando), and Joseph Morris…

There are a lot of tricky, dirty games in politics. Many who have hidden agendas or shared aspirations play it. As a result division is formed. It stands to reason why there are different political parties and interest groups. Both aim to influence society. They, or individuals inside groups or organizations want the whole pie, not a piece. However, due to their political views, it can result to selfish behavior damaging politics and American elections. Interest groups work from the outside.…

Some people who read the play A Midsummer's Night's Dream might think that Shakespeare is trying to convey the message that it is possible to control another's actions, but others may argue that it isn't possibles to control another's actions. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare makes the case that it is not possible to control another person’s action because you cannot change one's mind if you're not convincing enough or if they care deeply about something. Body Paragraph 1:…

Prior to this, women had received around two-thirds (or less) of the male wage. (“Equal pay for women | National Museum of Australia”) “In 1937, Muriel Heagney helped found the Council of Action for Equal Pay." "Muriel received her education in a convent in Richmond before training as a primary school teacher." (“Muriel Heagney | vic.gov.au - Victorian Government”) From 1906, she was a member of the Richmond branch of the Political Labour Council furthermore was its delegate to the Women's…

(Newman, 2015). The role of the Abbess was the main commanding role of women in the middle ages that was referred to as Mother Superior. Mother Superior officiates over the sister and had held particular influences in the surrounding area of the convent as well (Newman, 2015). There is no doubt that role of the women in medieval was met…

that they were, 80% were female; Bingham believed that these were the skeletal remains of the ‘virgins of the sun’. According to Spanish accounts, the ‘virgins of the sun’ were the most beautiful females in the empire who were chosen for the sacred convent when they were around 8 yrs. Old, these females lived the rest of their lives serving the Inca emperor. Bingham believed that when the last Inca king went into the mountains to escape the Spanish, he took the ‘virgins of the sun’ with him. In…

The Altarpiece of St. Clare: A Visual Biography The Altarpiece of St. Clare was created by an anonymous artist around 1280. The media used in this piece are tempera paint and wood. This was a common choice among artist during the middle ages. (Davies, 279) The subject matter of this painting is St. Clare of Assisi, one of the first followers of St Francis of Assisi. Her portrait, which is in the center of the painting, is surrounded by eight small frames which narrates important episodes of…

“Group Minds” In 1919 Doris Lessing was born in Persia, and was the daughter in a farmer family. Lessing attended a Roman Catholic convent and an all-girls high school in Rhodesia. By 1959 Lessing started writing a bunch of writings on fiction. A lot of her writing attracted the attention of scholar. One of her articles called “Group Minds”, is an article that presents the idea that we as humans are group animals and that we will never truly be an individual in the world, but her article is…

Peasants A peasant is a type of farmer, slave or labourer in the early Middle Ages. They weren't treated well and were given minimum of everything. The women peasants were often raped by higher or up classes of men. They were treated with little or no respect. In Europe the peasants were divided into 3 groups of people. The lowest were the slaves, next were the serfs and finally there were the freeman. Peasants were mostly farmers, supplying food for everybody in the land or selling it at the…