Maria

A Virgin Mary statue in a family chapel in Argentina stunned worshippers after it started weeping “blood” during Lent, eyewitnesses have claimed. Photos that have made their rounds online show the Virgin Immaculada Concepcion de Maria with red liquid falling from its left eye. Its clothes are also seen stained with the same color, The Sun details. According to the statue’s owner, whose name has not been mentioned in reports, Mary appeared to him in a dream before the figure “cried blood.” He…

Maria W. Stewart, a free African-American, gave a lecture in Boston, 1832 that explains the lack of rich or affluent black people in the United States. America has been independent from Britain for almost 60 years when this lecture was delivered, and would not fight the Civil War for another 30 years. This Antebellum era was when slavery and its profits made up the entirety of the Southern economy. Free blacks in the North and South were harshly discriminated against, as they could not vote,…

I choose the principle 1 “An articulated philosophy that addresses the needs of children, families, educators and community”. I work in a program that follows Dr. Maria Montessori’s Method of education which emphasizes on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child’s natural psychological, physical, and social development. By following the criterions of this principle, I would first like to talk about our philosophy and methods of teaching, address our program’s strength, where…

All Quiet On The Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque is set in World War I in Germany, where Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old soldier, is assigned to the frontlines. The book tells the story of Paul on the battlefield, his time in the camp where he stays with some of his old classmates, when he is on leave, and in the hospital. Paul tells stories of the horror of the war and how it changed him forever. The author, Erich Maria Remarque, who’s real name was born on July 22, 1898 in Osnabruck,…

The von Trapps never saw much of the huge profits the Sound of Music made nor had any creative input, because Maria sold the film rights to German producers and inadvertently signed away her rights in the process. The Germans then sold the rights to American Broadway producers Hayward and Halliday, who turned the story into a musical starring Halliday’s broadway…

Without caution, lights went dark, a spot light shone at the center of the huge red curtain that swayed above the stage. It was the moment I have been waiting for, listening live to one of the greatest musical piece ever composed in this fin de siècle period, Pierrot Lunaire. My adrenaline sparked through the roof. The time had finally come for me to encounter a creation by a legendary and revolutionary musical composer, Arnold Schoenberg. The seats were filled with audiences from different ages…

The Humanity in "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque shows that humanity can exist in war. Paul expresses three human qualities throughout the war. He is a man about survival, love, and brotherhood. Survival is what the body is made to do. It has many different parts that keep it going and alive. Love cannot be summed up in words. Paul expresses love through his actions in the story. He has a great heart.…

In "The Moths," Helena Maria Viramontes uses irony and symbolism to depict how relationships with family can have valued purpose; however, death and its attended grief brings on a new beginning. In the beginning, Viramontes expounds on the narrator’s relationship with immediate family and Abuelita. Doing this, she uses extended metaphor, when expounding on her sister’s characterization of her having “bull like hands with their cute like voices”(27). Her bull hands become a symbol which connotes…

As a result of your lecture, I learned a couple of facts about college system that no one has told me before, especially our counselors. Besides that, we also had to write a formal letter to tell you what we learned. Since I had never written a formal letter to anyone before, so I was afraid that I might not do it right according to its characteristics. However, you did give us a very helpful example, which is your recommendation letter for one of your students. After reading it for a while, I…

Having one choice to be loyal between the things you love is hard. Magonia, by Maria Dahvana Headley is a fiction chapter book about a girl who get’s taken away from our world and is found by another. I believe that Aza will choose the right decisions for all humanity. Aza Ray Boyle is the character that’s most focused on in this story. In the story, Aza has a vicious lung disease and prevents her from doing normal things. She has breathing problems and visits the doctor daily. Aza…