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house. This house was built by Burr Keeler, President of the Mason City Brick and Tile Company, but sat unoccupied until 1932, when the Duffield family moved in. Next, in 1948, the Presentation Sisters of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church used it as a convent. Finally in 1965, the MacNider family bought it and donated it to the city of Mason City with the stipulation that it would be renovated and used as an art center. In 2008, they redid the shingles, but besides that, the building hasn’t needed…

From a narratological point of view, a text may have certain stylistic indications of unreliable narration. According to Nünning, some of the most evident stylistic clues to narrative unreliability are “frequent occurrences of speaker-oriented and addressee-oriented expressions” (97). A narrator’s reliability is doubted if he/she is an obvious monologist, talking mostly about him/herself and ignoring the views of other characters. Stylistically, then, Tambu’s narrative reliability is challenged.…

The Miserable Ones In the poem “London” by William Blake, (1794), the author demonstrates the vile history of for those living in poverty without blatantly stating this to the public and those in power. Blake focuses on the condition of London during the 18th century as well as its culture. Within each stanza of Blake’s classic poem, the character describes in detail what he is seeing as he continues to walk down the destitute and barren streets of London. This man surreptitiously explains the…

Burrows, in the chapter The Destroying Demon of Debauchery from his book Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, unravels the religious period of the early 1830s in NYC and its consequences on the social and moral development of its residents. Charles Grandison Finney, an American Presbyterian minister, not only introduced a new preaching style, but he also introduced the idea that Jesus was only going to come to the world by human action. With the support of the Manhattan-based Association…

Book Review: Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance In the book Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance, co-written by Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook, the authors attempt to highlight the story of Francisco Noguerol de Ulla. Noguerol, as they reference him throughout the book, was put on trial in Spain for bigamy. Although, he claimed in “good faith and truthful ignorance” that he did so unwittingly. Both of the Cook authors walk the reader through his early years across the Atlantic in the…

One of the greatest accomplishments in United States history is perhaps one of the oldest bridges built in Brooklyn known as the Brooklyn Bridge completed on May 24, 1883, in New York City. The bridge connects to Manhattan and Brooklyn and part of the project may never have been completed without the assistance of no other than Emily Warren Roebling. Although Females are often recognized with stereotypes because of past history misrepresentation of females, Roebling helps motivate others to…

When I was twenty-one I had been dating a young man named Andrew for about a year and he received a job in Utah as an outdoor adventure therapist for troubled youth, with a company called Apsiro. He had just moving to Utah and I decided I wanted still have him in my life, so I moved to Park City, Utah, to live with him and find a job. Within the first few months it was all new and exciting and I had found a decent job to support myself. At about the two month time I started to really miss my…

When I was a kid I was Catholic. When I was a kid I was straight. When I was a kid I loved my parents without question. When I was a kid I stayed away from anything my dad didn’t like or anything my mother didn’t approve. My music taste belonged to my parents. My look belonged to my parents. I belonged to my parents. When I was a kid I didn’t know who I was, but only who my parents were. With parents like mine, it took a few tries for me to finally become my own person, with one moment in…

The document highlights the control Muslims exercised over the Christians. The Christians were able to secure their safety and that for the churches and convents by paying a tax of one dinar for every household. The relationship was advantageous to the Muslims. The Christians had to entertain every needy Muslim in return for their basic rights. The Christians were responsible for helping Muslims in every…

Introduction Prayer is a powerful, intimate, relational discipline used to express to God all the areas of one’s heart. This essay has been written to reflect on what I have come to understand about prayer as a spiritual discipline. I will briefly explore Teresa Avila, a significant Christian in history who has expressed the importance of prayer and take a look into how both Catholic and Pentecostal denominations pray. Summarise your original understanding of the discipline before the course…