Inquisition

fifth grade teacher, Daniell Russel’s ingenious and creative employment of a hybrid linguistic instruction in “Do You Speak American — Episode 3”, were genuinely interesting and thought provoking. As I watched the video, my mind raced with focused inquisition and a severe hunger to investigate the resolutions of my inquiries. Later, I read an excerpt from Keith Gillard’s, “Voices of the Self”, which in all of its distinguished authority allowed me to identify the categorical linguistic…

Socrates, why aren’t you ashamed that your way of life will probably lead to your death? To answer your question, I have absolutely no shame of who I am. “There you are mistaken: a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.” Actions are not be based on the justification of life and death, but rather who you are as a person. The…

Joan of Arc, otherwise known as the Maid Of Lorraine, helped end the Hundred Years war. She accomplished this by inspiring and uniting the French army. Her life began when she was born into the village of Domremy. When Joan was just around the age of ten, she had begun to hear the voices of who she thought belonged to god and various saints. She believed they were speaking to her to help guide her through life. When she was around fifteen, it was the middle of the hundred years war when…

consider other options. She has to be a dancer or none at all. Through hypnotism, Dr. McTavish then opens the deepest recesses of Laura’s mind, leading her to unravel the secrets of her past life as a member of the Romani tribe caught in the Spanish Inquisition in 1592. The McTavish Regressions is bound to entertain fans of historical fiction and psychological studies. The book does not delve too deep into psychological terms and technicalities, making the fundamentals of Past Life Regression…

Athens and Sparta are both well-known cities that associated themselves with the Greeks and Greece. To this day most people can tell you at least were Sparta and Athens was located. The issue was that these two cities were major rivals and quite different. Sparta was very militaristic city that focused heavily on gaining more land and power for their city and for Greece. They required that all men join the military and help during wars. Sparta was known more as a laid back city that did worried…

There has always been methods to get what one wants from other person, theres hundreds of torture methods along history. We know some from the Bible, like cutting fingers, from Greece, like the Brazen Bull (a devise that is worth reading about), and people are still using torture as a mean to get what they want. Being a confession o causing pain as a punishment. But as we will see, in the Middle Ages people became really experts and used all their creativity to invent the worst methods of…

number of phenomena in the world without scholarly principles of substantial forms and real data, while also using the heliocentric principle of the solar system. He would finish this work within three years. Galileo’s condemnation by the French Inquisition would lead to Descartes’s suppression of his work for several years. Descartes would finish several scientific essays including an emphasis on geometric work in the years of 1635 and 1636. In 1639 Descartes would begin more philosophical work…

considered scary, especially when it is compared to today’s gore-filled movies. Not many people understand how scary books can be. Edward Allen Poe’s story, “The Pit and The Pendulum” is about a man, who is trapped is a cell during the spanish inquisition. The man, while trapped, had to choose between death by a pendulum blade, and death by pit. He finds a way to prolong his death, until the story is brought to its abrupt and surprising conclusions. Poe had achieved a sense of fear throughout…

Throughout Voltaire’s writing of Candide, there were multiple examples of moral evil and a few about physical evil. Moral evil is the final cause of commitment to a bad decision that is followed by a chain of negative occurrences such as murder, cruelty, selfishness, arrogance, stealing, racism, the exclusion of people, and no compassion for others. Physical evil, which is also known as natural evil, can be described as natural catastrophes, such a earthquakes, diseases and storms. The very…

able “to see the extent and aspect of the prison,” meaning that for the first time in the story, the prisoner is able to finally use his sense of sight in order to evaluate the cell (Poe 6). The introduction of sight is quite important as the Inquisition alters their attempt to execute the narrator from the pit to the pendulum. Vision at this time in the story only stands to increase the terror of the narrator as well as implement a sense of despair. Finally being able to use sight forces the…