Jacques de Lamberville

Tekakwitha’s life changed Figure 1. Painting of Kateri Tekakwitha clutching a cross (“Tekakwitha Kateri”). beyond return the day Jacques de Lamberville dipped her head under water while making the sign of the cross (Bowden). Following Tekakwitha’s Baptism, she slept on a bed of thorns, constantly fasted, arranged for a flagellation, stood in the snow for hours praying the rosary and whipped herself with reeds until her back bled in atonement for her sins (“Kateri Tekakwitha”). In her debilitated state, Tekakwitha made the trip up to Montreal, where she took the vow of chastity and became a nun (see figure 2) (“Kateri Tekakwitha”). “The priests advised that she should wait Figure 2. Painting of Kateri Tekakwitha dressed in her veil…

the need for reform was ultimately down to the controller generals of finance over the subsequent years which led to a lack of reform. Charles de Calonne who was appointed by Louis XVI in 1783 as controller general of finances recommended across the board taxation as the only way to salvage France’s dire financial situation. Calonne was the only hope for France’s financial situation as the revolution was drawing near. Louis XVI was reluctant in introducing taxes to the First Estate yet he…

1 Within the first twenty minutes of the film “American Beauty” I knew Freud would have had a hay day with this film. The main characters I will be referring to is Lester, Caroline, Jane, Angele, and Ricky. Luster is married to Caroline. Luster and Caroline’s daughter is Jane. Angele is Jane’s friend. Ricky will later become Jane’s romantic interest. This film is packed full of lustful relationships, blurred lines of morals, and unhealthy relationships. Lester develops lust for Angele. This…

gender and sexuality and those of Judith Butler, whose thorough deconstruction of structuralist iterations of cisheteronormative literary theory have provided the means for post-structuralists to address the effects of gender and sexuality essentialism on literature and its immense social impact. A central point in Butler’s book, Antigone’s Claim, is its challenge to the notion of socio-symbolically insupportable desire and aberrant gender non-conformity as a drive to certain death. Despite…

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the protagonist, John “Scottie” Ferguson, falls in love with a falsified image of a woman named Madeline Elster. Madeline’s true name is Judy Barton, a woman payed by Gavin Elster to impersonate his wife and portray her as mentally unstable enough for Scottie to believe she committed suicide while the real Madeline Elster was in reality murdered by Gavin himself. Judy Barton uses her body, appearance, and mannerisms to create the character of Madeline in the image…

“A Poison Tree” by William Blake is ostensibly dealing with the narrator’s refusal to communicate his anger to a tree, but the overdetermined nature of the words Blake uses makes a final, correct determination of meaning impossible. In this paper, through a utilization of Derrida’s methods set forth in works such as Spectres of Marx and Dissemination, I will examine how the contradictory imperatives contained within the metaphors in this poem draw a reader away from their initial assumption…

nevertheless older than the amorosi. The servants or the clowns are referred to as the zanni and include characters such as Arlecchino, Brighella and Pedrolino. Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was born in 1921 in Paris, was a French actor, mime and acting instructor. Lecoq trained his actors in ways that motivated them to find ways of performance that they felt suited them best. His training was aimed at finding and nurturing the creativity of the performer, as opposed to giving sat tasks and…

Casey is a man who lived a very active life prior to a tragic accident in 1995. Although he was autistic, he felt like he lived an average life. According to Casey, he had a very widespread group of friends and was quite the social butterfly. Going through many different girls and going out a lot, he had an active dating life. He was an auto fanatic, with a certain interest in car audio. He was looking into a career in electronics. Emotionally, he was a blunt and outspoken person. Casey’s life…

The Review of the book Alone Together by Sherry Turkle In her book Alone Together, Sherry Turkle considers the issue of the relationships between people and technologies that has become critical nowadays. According to the author, the new “smart” technologies were perceived as the second intelligence that provided the opportunity to its users to estimate the trait of their minds and determine their “selves” through conversation with machines. However recently this attitude has significantly…

Unconscious 1.Instincts are part of our unconscious mind. 2. Language and its structure also exist in the mind, but is a conscious part of an individual’s mental development. a. The ability to use language is stored in the mind. b. Humans learn to acquire language from birth and the language that they acquire is based on the cultural structure in which they live. c. Language structures are what separates humans from other living creatures. d. Language and its uses have evolved…