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Cameron Peters Nicholas McEntire HIS-112-350 21 November 2017 Consequences of the Catholic Counter-Reformation The Catholic Counter-Reformation can be looked at in two different ways. The first way is as a response, or “Counter-Reformation,” to the Protestant Reformation that was happening around the same time in the early sixteenth century (Britannica n.p.). The other way is of a reformation that sprung up from the Catholic Church itself as a result of criticism of the Renaissance popes…

There are endless similarities and differences between the religious beliefs of Martin Luther, John Fisher, and Hans Staden. So much so between Martin Luther and Catholics such as John Fisher that the differences threw Western Europe into the chaos that followed the Protestant Reformation. One of these major differences is how each of the three believed human action led to attaining God’s grace through prayer and good works. Martin Luther’s most prominent belief was one’s faith was the only…

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Irony and Satire In “Slaughterhouse Five” Before Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Slaughterhouse five” even begins, Vonnegut is described as “America’s greatest satirist”. Considering this title, Vonnegut must be well suited within the realm of satirical literature. Along with this sense of commanding satire, Vonnegut demonstrates a affluent abundance of irony. Throughout this book,Vonnegut’s novel “Slaughterhouse Five”, satire and irony are masterfully used to create an emphatic and hilarious anti-war…

Question: How do composers explore and represent concepts that provide us insight into the human experience? The producer Steven Spielberg in “Empire of the Sun” and author Luong Ung in “First they killed my father” explore and represent concepts of the loss of innocence, resilience and exploitation through specific camera shots and direct dialogue. These factors combine to provide the audience/ reader significant insight into the human experience particularly related to children in war.…

dialogue to figurative language to block letters to short sentences) This extract is from the novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, an American author who entered the Second World War as a private in the US Army. He was taken as a prisoner of war in Germany, and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers; hence this experience inspired him to write Slaughterhouse Five. As such, Slaughterhouse-Five's central topic is the horror of the Dresden bombing, which is clearly portrayed…

Introduction Historian Mr. Philip Schaff mentioned that Protestant Reformation marked the end of the middle ages and the beginning of the modern world (Dr. Jack L. Arnold, 1999). Protestant Reformation was the chief force in the history of the modern civilization. It contributed to the capitalism, the growth of secularism, democracy, and new social structure. The historian Ms. ÁoDài mentioned that Protestant Reformation witnessed the formation of the modern nation-state which from the feudal…

Around the 1500s, the Reformation began, causing a massive uproar throughout all of Europe, and as a result many Catholics converted to Protestantism. One group of the Counter-Reformers who tried to go against this movement were the Jesuits. The Jesuits were mostly active in Europe; however, they also sent missionaries all over the world to places such as India, Brazil, and Ethiopia, to gain attention through their new practice. Counter-Reformation included the Council of Trent, the Spanish…

regarding the dishonesty within the church seemed well validated. Finally acting, whether to review the system or to relieve his own spiritual suffering, Luther wrote the “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences,” also known as “Ninety-Five Theses,” a list of questions and propositions for discussion and…

002091004 Young’s Thoughts on the Development of the Traumatic Memory Allen Young examines the history of mental trauma through memory in this ridiculously incoherent but incredibly interesting essay. The development of the ideas of a traumatic memory comes from surgical sources from the late 1800s to Young’s own essay about post-traumatic stress disorder in 1995. This wide range of documents hides the fact that they are mostly researchers situated in the West, not to mention the obvious…