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WHAT IS THE 95 THESES AND WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT? ( 500 words) Martin Luther was born in Eisleben ,Germany in 1493. He was a monk and a professor at the University of Wittenberg, In Germany. Martin Luther started reading the bible on his own and found out that the Catholic church was selling lies to get rich. He did not like the fact that the church was lying to all these people and the believed every word of it. Luther made the 95 theses and had them printed out on a printer press and he made…

I, the 95 theses, am the greatest thing to ever happen in the Renaissance. I produced a change throughout Italy and, unlike the corrupted priest, I let the truth be known and didn’t lie to the people. I began a revolutionary division even though I started out small, But I allowed change to happen with a greater cause. To begin, my story starts off as young Martin Luther was walking in a hell storm and promised the big man in the sky that he would become a priest and worship god in exchange for…

Christianity and the Reformation The 16th century was the age of the Reformation, it lead to the birth of several new religions and the reform of what was the old Catholic Church. Two of the most well known religious leaders of the time period were Henry VIII from France and Martin Luther from Germany. They became very similar in many ways, while still different in others. While Henry and Luther both used their political advantage and declined the church in their own ways, their motives were…

Kurt Vonnegut had delivered quite a few commencement speeches during his time. One in particular, at Rice University, contains a multitude of rhetorical strategies that exemplified the quintessential speech genre. Vonnegut used this genre’s conventions in order to convey his overarching message to the new graduates, as they leave the university. His message to the new generation was to reflect back on their own lives, pause, and consider, “If this isn’t nice, what is?” In other words,…

“Blue Ocean V19” is a song by rapper Jaden Smith. Jaden Smith is well known as actor Will Smith’s son. Also, Jaden Smith has starred in a number of movies with his father such as Pursuit of Happyness and After Earth. Will Smith’s daughter, Willow Smith, was also featured on the song providing background vocals. Jaden Smith has released several mixtapes and 2 albums. Blue Ocean V19 was released through Willow Smith’s “SoundCloud” account. I think Blue Ocean is about a Jaden Smith’s…

others through mere observation. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut and The Wars by Timothy Findley both utilize characters that display inconsistent personalities in public contrasted to how they act in private. Especially in wartime, humans are pushed to their limit and more than often emerged disfigured physically and mentally. Through this observation of the public and private lives demonstrated by the characters of The Wars and Slaughterhouse-Five, all that they held private are lost or…

hypocrite in his views. His writings and teachings consistently defended the nobility’s power. In his Ninety-Five Theses, Martin Luther criticized many practices of the Roman Catholic Church, most notably the sale of indulgences. Indulgences were a piece of paper, that for a small price, were believed to send souls from purgatory, a place between Heaven and Hell, directly to Heaven. In his Ninety-Five Theses, Luther criticized the sale of indulgences, saying “Any truly repentant Christian has…

Slaughterhouse-Five: The Crusade for Free Speech Ever since the first communities were established, war and violence have been significant parts of human history. During this time, fighting in a war was solely regarded as a display of loyalty to that community; warriors were glorious heroes impervious to any adversity. This view has been held for millennia. However, relatively recent revelations into post-traumatic stress disorder have shown that the impacts of war extend far beyond physical…

Immortal Memories in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five Death. “[W]hen a person dies [,] he only appears to die” (Vonnegut 33-34). Death does not mean a moment is lost forever. In Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a character that experiences war and travels through time . Vonnegut conveys the impermanence of death by using imagery, a motif and creating a nonlinear plot. In this novel, Vonnegut uses a great amount of visual imagery to display the true…

In Martin Luther’s 95 Theses he informs us a lot about what the Church was doing during the time of his life. Martin Luther believed that Christ made a world where we lived in a world of repent where we practice the sacrament of confession. Luther believed that the Pope had too much power. Luther’s point of view was that the Pope did not have the power to forgive or excuse penalties unless God remits it. The dead were freed from all penalties by death. Those who died and had an imperfect or…