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“Stray bullets whined about the house—one smashed a window; another nicked the washing machine; another bored a hole through the door where Mrs. Young was peeking out.” (Lord 110) Walter Lord’s, Day of Infamy, is an extremely detailed account of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Mr. Lord’s nonfiction novel gives you a front row seat to all of the action by telling the story in a way that will not allow you to put the book down until you’re done. Walter Lord once said, “I look for something that is…

indulgences for money. He scammed members of the Church out of their money by using catchy slogans, and playing into the emotional attachment these people had to their deceased relatives. The corruption was so bad that monk Martin Luther wrote ninety-five theses on the practice of indulgences and how it needed…

The Reconstructionist Martin Luther was sickened when he heard about the selling of indulgences and how the pope would persuade people into buying. The pope would send his salesman and helpers town to town convincing people to pitch in money so that they can “save their friends and relatives” from purgatory. Crowds of people believed this non-sense to supposedly save their loved ones from this false idea, purgatory is when a dead person’s soul is to be purified so that he or she…

The Comparison between Medieval Europe and Renaissance Northern Europe The two civilizations that I am comparing are the Medieval Europe and the Renaissance Northern Europe. To begin with, in Medieval Europe, Christianity was spread to everyone. The Catholic Church spread Christianity mainly to convert the pagans. It rejected all pagan traditions. During the Latin reign, the Greek/Hebrew parts of the bible were translated into the Latin language. Medieval commoners used the Bible. Its text…

to the public. “The Ninety-Five Theses,” written by Doctor Martin Luther, illustrates the friar’s blatant protest against the Catholic Church, and its corrupted practices, through contrasting instructions that Luther deemed aligned with the Bible. The Prince, written by Niccolo…

conflicts. The irony in that situation is that taking the easy route generally makes things harder, just as a doctor treating only the symptoms of a disease generally makes things worse. Another irony pointed out by Ken Paulson in an article discussing the consequences of banning Slaughterhouse-Five in high schools is that "...today's high schools are full of students engaged with video games and engulfed by social media. Why would we ever build a barrier to reading a book?" (Paulson 1). Paulson…

In this essay I’ll be discussing the history of Baroque art and two artist from that era, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Then I’ll explain the role of the church during this era and how Caravaggio and Bernini differently conveyed faith and commitment to the church. Lastly, I’ll give my visual analyze on Bernini’s painting Ecstasy of St. Teresa and Caravaggio’s painting Crucifixion of St. Peter. The Baroque era came about from the Reformation which was a religious…

intellectuals and nobles to interpret his writings. Unlike past reformers, the message of Luther easily spread to the general media long before the invention of social media. This co-ordinated public opinion. Thanks to the printing press, the ninety-five theses nailed to the church door in Wittenberg on the thirty first of October 1517, made Luther famous overnight. Here, the role of the printing press allowed for Luther’s message to gain such popular support, while the corrupt nature of the…

Billy the Kid is an historical figure from the Old West whose story has eluded historians and has created controversy among biographers. One thing is sure; he has truly lived. However, most of his story told is part of a myth. The author Michael Ondaatje, in his novel The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, has improvised a story about this historical figure, with as the only starting point, his imagination. In The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, the author Michael Ondaatje uses the medium of…

John Calvin and Martin Luther were both very signifcatn men during the time of the Protestant Reformation and throughout the Renisance. Although Martin Luther and john Calvin had similars views against the church, they both had different views and thoughts on Political authority and Social order. Martin Luther steamed his ideas of the Reformation with his “theory of justificaon by faith alone. That was basically meaning that one needed to have trust with god in order to be able to go to heaven.…