Convents

a devotional Catholic woman, she too died when Parker was a small child. Martin Rothschild, her uncle, died on the Titanic in 1912 and her father died in the following year. Forced by her Catholic stepmother, Parker went to the Blessed Sacrament Convent School to then get expelled at the age of fourteen. After this incident, she was put into an all girls boarding school. At this boarding school, Parker’s Jewish traits stood out from the rest of the students making her an outsider. To cope with…

Having to read about how a young childish boy falls in love with his best friends older sister really makes you think about how you were once this boys age, and once had that young love. Reading about Gabriel and his non returning love from his wife makes you hope that you never have to go through something like that yourself. James Joyce does a phenomenal job at explaining how the realization of both the boy and the older man don’t get the love they feel they deserve/ want. The ages of both…

Educated at St. Francis Convent Secondary School in Kota Kinabalu, Yenny began a trainee nurse at school of nursing in Sandakan which is now known as College of Nursing Sandakan for 3 years. Yenny enter Sandakan Hospital as a Staff Nurse in 1990 and gained her certificate in Midwifery…

The historic tradition of the Spanish people has determined the way of being of its people. Inheritors of a culture that mixes various religions and ideologies, the Spanish have developed a marked hospitable, open and cordial faces accent with a protective need for their unity as a country, a task which strove to establish for centuries. Some of the most distinctive cultural features of Spaniards are: regionalist sense The Spaniards fight for the traditions and history preservation with passion…

. Her actions do not go unpunished, as for Babamukuru “Anyone who defies my authority is an evil thing in this house, bent on destroying what I have made.” (Dangaremba 169) Her objection to his authority is a direct offense to the power standing of the male patriarchy. Babamukuru feels threatened as “Shona society limit women aspirations, pushing them, “to "contain" themselves, to make themselves small by kneeling, to lower their voices” (Shaw 11). The fifteen whips that she receives as a result…

The Vienna Coronation Gospels was created before the year, ca. 800. It is an illuminated manuscript hand-written by the scribes and miniaturists at Charlemagne’s court in Aachen. The Coronation Gospels contains four full page evangelist portraits. These images are richly illuminated with each page being written on purple dyed parchment in gold and silver ink. These elements are indicative of Roman Imperial culture, both in the attention to luxury and in colour scheme. It is in this way that the…

“There was an interest in buying the old convent east of town, moving the courthouse out there and tearing it down but I said “no, no, no” and instead got it on the national register. So, it was like saving the structure and to me the heart of downtown Maryville.” Carneal said part of his job…

Donatello’s Mary Magdalene was a sculpture created during the Italian Renaissance in 1455, it was placed in the convent at Santa Maria di Cestello. Donatello’s Mary Magdalene was believed to have been created for a source of hope and inspiration to repent prostitutes at Covenant Santa Maria di Castello.1 This artwork is looked at today as an example of penitence, Renaissance realism, as well as one of the most famous expressions of female emotion.2 Not only is Donatello’s Mary Magdalene known…

Why? why does Australia do this? As a nation we are meant to be free, but then as soon as people arrive here to be in a safe environment they are thrown into detention centres onto remotes islands such as Manus. If these people are running from dangerous and unhealthy situations, then why are they being put into similar situations in another country. The three topics that are being covered include: how Australia doesn’t protect the human rights, what the rights towards refugees and asylum…

I, the worst of all Twenty first century, it is probably the best time for humans to live in. Now, we have curable diseases, technology that helps us in our everyday life and our living expectation is close to 80 years old. It sounds like we’ve accomplish a lot as humans beings, however, there’s still something that does not let us advance and become a unified society free of racism and sex stereotypes, the male gaze. Gay people and for the most part women, still the most affected with this…