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    Mary Maloney had now moved out of the house where she killed her husband Patrick. She moved into a small apartment where she was going to raise her unborn child she was a month away till it's due date. She didn't know its gender. So she decorated the nursery with Winnie the pooh characters. Mary thought about how she killed Patrick often and how she had gotten away with it so easily. But she did wonder if he would have been a good father if would have helped put the bed together, and help pick…

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    this time was Mary Queen of Scots. According to British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Mary Stuart was born to Mary of Guise and James V of Scotland in Linlithgow Palace during the December of 1542. Since Mary’s father died while she was only six days old, she was handed the title of queen and Mary’s mom acted as regent (1). Mary had a tough life, as did anyone who lived in the 1500’s. She had many targets on her back being the Queen of Scotland and the Queen Regent of France. Mary Queen of…

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    Incarnation came to be accurate. An angel named Gabriel appears to Mary and tells her that you will have a child named Jesus. Knowing that Jesus means “God saves”, she is confused because she has never had relations with a man. Gabriel goes on to explain to her that her son will be the Son of God, the most holy and divine. This account proves that Jesus was developed by the Holy Spirit to start his work of salvation on Earth. Mary, the Mother…

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    When looking at the entrance all I can think about is that statue in the image represent a community and in this case is a religion community, with the virgin standing proud and strong in the middle of the door showing the powerful image of power and adoration making it the central focus point of the church, after you can notice the rest of the statues that differ a little in size but still have a big enough standing point to remain important, when you see the rest of the image you can tell the…

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    St. Margaret Clitherow Middleton is the patron saint of businesswomen. Being a patron saint means they hold a special protection over a group of people. She was raised as a protestant and converted to Roman Catholicism a few years after marriage. The moments leading up to her conversion were because she did not find truth or comfort in the doctrine of the new church. Her husband owned a successful butcher shop in which she helped run. Margaret was put in prison multiple times for harboring…

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    Sainte-Chapelle Chelsea Gross ARTH-100 OL1 Art History Essay Professor Landrus November 17th, 2014 Word Count: 1524 The Sainte-Chapelle is a royal medieval Gothic Chapel. The chapel was commissioned by Louis IX of France to hold his collection of Passion Relics. [1] The Sainte- Chapelle is one of the earliest surviving buildings of the Capetian royal palace and is considered a high achievement…

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, best known for her story of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, went on to write one of the most famous horror novels in her generation and many to come after, still known today, spawning movies, television shows, and other literary works. Looking closely at the novel, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley imprints her life into the novel by reflecting her own trials and tribulations into the plot. Mary Wollstonecraft, soon to be known as Mary Shelley, was born on August…

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an outstanding writer that to this day many still read her novels and short stories. She is recognized as the daughter of the famous and extraordinary writer Mary Wollstonecraft and a well-known novelist and political philosopher William Godwin (Poetry Foundation 1). She recounts to never have thought of writing, but in fact inherited the talent from her parents, and became an extraordinary author as well. Shelley was mainly influenced to write for the terrible…

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    Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein was inspired by the works of Benjamin Franklin combined with tragedy in her own life. Benjamin Franklin’s work with electricity only 66 years earlier had filled society with excitement over the possibilities for its uses, including the potential to re-animate the dead. Mary Shelley 's past was filled with death; losing three children, a stepsister, and her mother. Victor Frankenstein combined these two influences to fight death with electricity, and brought…

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    The novel, Frankenstein, was born out of what Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley described as a “waking dream”, one she had while falling asleep. Under the induced hallucinations of the hypnagogic state, she envisioned a pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. In her classic 1823 novel, Shelley writes about Victor Frankenstein, a fledgling science student who embarks on an experiment that most would consider unorthodox and putrid. During his stay at the University…

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