Convents

Creating art is, as some say, the indication of mystery in excellence or God; it is a diversion in which man lets off an overabundance of steam [stored energy]; otherwise it is the outflow of feelings by man’s psyche, and most of all; it is pleasure; however, considering everything, it is a method of social unity amongst mankind; consoling them in similar feelings and forever extending the shared common visual language of the world. Through new visual ideas introduced by artists, categories of…

Kleeman did an excellent job of describing her emotional state while being in a Catholic Convent for only five days. "I felt sad for no good reason, unfocused but undistractible - I couldn't seem to get my mind off how I felt, but I was unable to bring the experience into sharp enough relief to analyze it. It's more difficult to think when you're…

I needed to be healthy to prosper. On a scale of 1-5 I feel like this decision was at a 4 difficulty and was tough to maintain. The reason I graded it as a level 4 score was due to the fact that I love food and that bond that had with it, had to be terminated for the greater good. This meant I couldn’t just go to the refrigerator and eat/drink whatever I wanted, I would’ve had to decide appropriate times to eat and then look at the labels of the food that I’m eating to find the healthiest one.…

Hypatia is the martyr of women philosophers. She was one the first notorious female philosophers. She was quite possibly one of the best mathematicians for her time. She influenced masses of women after her. She encouraged generations of women to think for themselves, one of them being Christine de Pisan. Christine de Pisan seems to be like the first feminist that parallels with modern feminists. She fought vehemently against the poem Rose. She argued that, “not all women are immoral.” She also…

For so many years, Jews were part of a somewhat peaceful life. When one day Hitler decided to destroy all the Jews, he could. That is when disaster struck! Nazis started destroying all the Jews they could. Despite the dangers, non-Jews sacrificed their lives to help save Jews. In 1933, hell froze over in Poland. Nazis started to take over more and more of Poland every day. When Nazis started taking over Poland they made Jews stay in Ghettos. Ghettos were not fun at all, they had very little…

beauty and social status. Women’s beauty was seen to be an accessory to the husband’s wealth, an asset, the more beauteous the female was the more envious and respected he was. Females at the time only had two choices in life, marriage or go into the convent. Their path and chooses predetermined by the parents and then after marriage by the husband. Never being allowed to express or compose an idea or a thought of their own, only to be confined to how society norms of what a produced women.…

The beginnings of Martin Luther’s life were surprisingly similar to the other famous people of this time. I was genuinely interested when I found how many people that were famous from the renaissance had started out in life on low-income farms and were born to seemingly unremarkable people. Along this theme, Martin Luther was born to Hans Luder: a miner who was described as rugged, stern, and harsh; and Margarete Lindemann. When he was younger, Martin Luther was regularly beaten by his father,…

Sitting in his cell smelling the fresh lumber and listening to the rhythm that the carpenters uses as they nail the gaols, Richard Hawes closes his eyes wishing desperately to be anywhere but in the cell where he had lived for the past few weeks. Fleeting, Richard thought, April used to be his favorite time of the year. Whispering, he said “I should be in Atlanta with Mayes”. as he envision the new life had grab at with both fist. Mayes Story Hawes, Richards new wife, was sweet, biddable and…

acts piously in her marriage she will “not escape calumny”, meaning her reputation will be tarnished. Within his tirade, he often demands that Ophelia go to a “nunnery”. This is an indication that Hamlet believes Ophelia is a sinner and must go to a convent to redeem herself. The barrage of insults is unwarranted from Hamlet; Ophelia obeying Polonius is to be expected considering he is her father. Hamlet exhibits the actions of morally flawed individual by verbally abusing someone who truly…

In addition to using myth to empower women and to be a witness for their ordeals, Boland has also used myth to explore personal family relationships—an important part of the female experience. In particular, she has used the Ceres myth often in her poetry. She uses it again in her 1990 poem "The Making of an Irish Goddess" to illustrate the complexities of motherhood. She begins her revision of the myth almost as a passive observer: Ceres went to hell with no sense of time. When she looked back…