Inquisition

The Baroque Period, which ranged from 1600 to 1750, was an innovative era for music. During this period, musicians began to compose motets and madrigals, which differed from the type of music typically used during the previous period, The Renaissance. This era of music showed that there were many talented artists that influenced the way music is played today. In fact, "A new style of solo singing was developed, recitative, that aimed to join features of music and speech. This led inevitably to…

III. Gugliemites and their Beliefs: “He heard from sister Maifreda di Pirovano and Andrea Saramita,” recalls Francesco da Garbagnate, “that while Guglielma – who was buried in the monastery of Chiaravalle – was alive she said to them that from the year 1262 the body of Christ had not been sacrificed nor consecrated alone, but with the body of the Holy Spirit, which was Guglielma herself.” Whether she meant that she was in fact the incarnation of the Holy Spirit is not easy to ascertain.…

Vanessa Parkey Coach Matt Health 4 May 2015 Opium Introduction Twenty-eight-year-old, Thomas De Quincey, took 50 to 150 grains of opium daily for relief. He had used opium since he was eighteen. A classmate recommended laudanum (a form of opium) for pain relief from a toothache to De Quincey in the autumn of 1804. He started taking opium as a pain reliever for intense stomach pains, most likely caused by the stresses of his childhood. De Quincey was a full supporter of opium and found it…

One day, I was sitting in Mr. Mackey’s class and I felt very tired. The classroom was very warm and I started to fall asleep. I fell forward and my head hits the desk. Suddenly, I wake up and I am no longer in the classroom. I am in a time machine with Leonardo da Vinci. He tells me that he is my tour guide for a journey into the Renaissance. He also tells me that every person we see comes into the time machine with us for a big surprise. The first thing Leonardo does is he travels to the…

Foundation - Judaism was founded in the ancient region of Canaan, which is the biblical name for the land that lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The area is modern day Israel and Palestinian territories. Abraham is regarded by the Jewish people as the father of the religion. They believe that God spoke to Abraham, and told him that he would be the leader of a great people, but only if Abraham followed God’s instructions. Moses was a biblical figure who led the Jews out of…

Point of View in ¨The Pit in the Pendulum¨ Edgar Allen Poe's first person narrator in ¨The Pit in the Pendulum¨ is a strong survivor but being in captivity is driving him insane. In first person the readers become the strong survivor, that is the unreliable prisoner of Poe's famous short story and they get a deeper, and more visceral experience because of it. In first person point of view the reader sees the story through the eyes of the narrator, their view and interpretation of the events.…

"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." (Book of Exodus, Chapter 22, Verse 18) And with that line from the Holy text came a whole new wave of paranoia. In the 1600's this fear over took New England. What could this fear be of exactly? Economic issues, plagues and diseases, and of course, witches. This led to a chain of massacres, torture, and inhumane behavior throughout New England and Colonial America. Despite the idea of witchcraft showing up as early as the 14th century, an abundance…

Staycation Getaway Evaluating the finances as well as choosing the most feasible option for relaxation and entertainment to fill the days and nights of a break off school or work comes around a couple of times a year for potential vacationers. Juggling the budget and paying the bills, while trying to fit in the making of happy memories and affordable downtime can be quite a challenge when deciding between a staycation and a vacation. However, if one knows from the get-go, the difference between…

environment and as such should be regulated. Thus, she would pose questions such as whether it in the place of humans to control nature or whether the public have the rights to be told about environmental – climate change – issues. These forward-thinking inquisitions with regards to how human beings perceive and interact with the environment would strongly influence and make people demand information regarding how the environment, in this case, climate change is caused and by whom. Thus, her…

Fig. 46. In the early Renaissance, Dante’s Inferno, became a powerful classic that dramatized Satan’s sphere of influence in hell; drawing by Giovanni Stradano, 1550. It occurred first as part of the epic, The Divine Comedy, and became known as a devilishly chilling account of Satan’s domain. A s mentioned in the last chapter, after the Emperor Constantine’s conversion into Christianity around A.D. 325, he ordered the closing of a significant amount of pagan cults and orgiastic temples…