Inquisition

Last semester, I read Plato’s Apology. This is a review of the book that I intend to submit to the Smithsonian Magazine. Plato’s Apology is told from the prospective of the great philosopher Socrates and instead of an apology is his defense in his trial where he is accused of corrupting the youth of Greece. The title Apology is well chosen as it is the exact opposite of an apology—rather Socrates uses his closing remarks to explain why he is not sorry for his actions and that he was actually…

Galileo Galilei’s contributions to science was great. After building his own telescope, he became the first person to study this stars. Galileo’s first discovery was that Jupiter had four satellites circling it. He noted that these satellites were much like our Earth’s moon. Another one of Galileo’s more famous discoveries was the moon’s surface. It was previously thought by the Aristotelians that the moon’s surface was smooth, but upon further observation Galileo discovered that the moon was…

In Cather’s book ‘My Antonia’, she writes through the eyes of Jim Burden. Cather, throughout the book, expresses her admiration for Antonia’s charisma and tenacity with Jim’s ongoing inquisition about Antonia. One characteristic that Jim writes about that expresses his admiration for Antonia, was her harmony with her friends and close acquaintances. Any person who got to know Antonia loved her willingness to work and care for the less fortunate. “I could not imagine Antonia’s living for a week…

physically somehow by what the Germans did to him. Wiesel goes on to describe that “it was like a page from a book, a historical novel, perhaps, dealing with the captivity in Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition” (17). Comparing ghettos to the captivity of the Jews in Babylon or the punishment of Jews in the Inquisition shows that Weisel masters relating figurative language to…

In 1615, a furious priest by the name of Father Lorini sent a copy of Galileo’s letter to Castelli to the Roman Inquisition. In 1616, Galileo was called to Rome to defend his case. After listening to him, the Holy Office declared that his propositions-that the Sun is immovable and the Earth is possessed of a diurnal rotation-were both foolish and absurd. Additionally…

‘Invictus’ is about drawing upon one self’s inner strengths, and discovering what we can achieve in the darkest of times, having the will to survive. Within the first stanza, the line “the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole” uses a Metaphor to represent the austerity of the world we live in, and the problems that are circumjacent within society. His use of the noun ‘dark’ and ‘night’ imply its negative association with humanity, in particular the hardships that encompass…

and profound extortion. What's more, for the following 1600 years, the Vatican kept up a political stranglehold on all of Europe, prompting such happy periods as the Dark Ages, alongside illuminating occasions, for example, the Crusades, and the Inquisition. Christianity, alongside all other mystical conviction frameworks, is the misrepresentation of the…

writing. Almost all of his stories are dark and have something to do with death. Two of his most famous writings are full of darkness and death. In his story “The Pit and the Pendulum”, Poe tells of a man being trapped in prison by the Spanish Inquisition. The man wakes up in a dark room where he can’t see anything. When the man drinks some of the water they give to him, he passes out because the water is poisoned. The man wakes up again but this time he is tied to a table and has a large and…

Additionally, the legal code restricted women’s individual agency in exchange for protection and certain freedoms. For example, women could engage in trade and would be protected from public seizure of their goods. According to “Etiquette for Women” by Ibn Habin, an Andalusian legal expert of the ninth century, to be a good Muslim women during this time meant to be submissive and obedient to the legal hierarchy (Coope, 2013). This hierarchy was the same one that prohibited women from freely…

a. What were the central ideas of the reformers, and why were they appealing to different social groups? During the early sixteenth-century, people from all across Europe began to have problems with the Catholic Church. Educated professors, common people, and even some religious officials were calling for a reform in the church. The people who led the reformation, known as the reformers had four different central ideas that were the basis of the reformation. The first central ideas of the…