Mendicant

The Religious Life is an underlying phenomenon of every religion. Many Religious often raise the questions in others: “What is the reason behind becoming a Religious?” and “How can a religion shape your life?” In the following paragraphs, I will indirectly answer those questions by displaying the interpretation and origin of the Religious Life in Jainism and Roman Catholicism. Jainism Jainism is classified as an atheistic creed based in India - largely in Gujarat, Rajasthan and some parts of…

From day one I have been an Ox described by the Chinese zodiac as a person who can make a clear distinction between right and wrong. Similar to the ox, I am cautious, industrious, patient and honest. Additionally, I would characterize myself as someone who has integrity, persistence, and diligence. As a child who grew up in a small neighborhood to a middle class family, I always strived to help people just as my parents who served as my role models. My hard working parents were brought up in…

This is a problem that we can solve and we will solve it. There has been many gaps in the jail system dealing with mentally ill. Considering the cost for their mendicant and their care a mentally ill person cost more than any inmates. Take Florida for an example in the Broward County it cost about $80 a day to hold a regular inmate. Well in the other side it cost about $130 to keep are mental ill inmates. Texas…

commission for religious environments, such as the Scrovegni Chapel, and therefore had a practical purpose as devotional works as well as their aesthetic beauty. The change from monasticism, in which religious practices were separated from the world, to mendicants, a more communal approach to devotional practice, thus impacted on the meaning of artworks in this period. There was an evident shift to engagement and relation to the religious figures of the artworks where there had been a level of…

The Society of Jesus The Society of Jesus is a Religious Order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola after being granted confirmation by Pope Paul II in 1540. Also known as the Jesuits, this religious order, today, is spread all over the world. They have a long history of working for the evangelization, in defense of faith and the promotion of justice in the world. “Ignatius had founded not only a new order but a new kind of order, distinctly different from the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the…

Buddhism’s creation is credited to Siddhartha Gautama, who after seeing an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a mendicant, determined that the answer to stop human suffering was to engage in the life of a wandering ascetic. Buddhist edicts of wanderers include engaging in practices of austerities, cultivating meditative techniques to produce altered states of consciousness…

Love. A short, yet very powerful word. It is an intense feeling of deep appreciation. The word itself is over and underused. People fall in love each and every day, in real life and in literature. William Shakespeare commonly used the theme of love in his work. The story of Romeo and Juliet is a dramatic tragedy of two young lovers who struggle to be together while dealing with numerous family complications. The two younglings come from different families- the Montagues and the Capulets- who…

The Canterbury Tales is a set of romantic, humorous, and ironic stories that provide a life lesson in the end. Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of The Canterbury Tales, portrayed these tales in their own unique ways from using different characters to make fun of each other and then writing another tale to get back at them to simply just showing his point of view on people. Chaucer is definitely selective in the types of people he prefers; while he is a feminist all the way, he cannot stand the…

As one of the most well-known movies in America, does Dead Poet’s Society promote the controversial ideas of transcendentalism? Furthermore, should Mr. Keating’s advice be followed? While some may say the movie demotes transcendentalism based off of the characters’ rather unfortunate endings, the ideals of the movie prove otherwise. The movie follows the story of Mr. Keating, a teacher who imbues private school students with transcendentalist values, and because he is the main protagonist, the…

heartbreak, but out of that also came a new beginning for him. Chaplin grew up in a poor family. He said in his autobiography, “I was well aware of the social stigma of our poverty. . . Those who could not sit down to Sunday dinner at home were of the mendicant class, and…