Notre Dame de Paris

The Cathedral looms over viewers as they walk past and tourists line up expectantly waiting for their turn to enter one of the hottest tourists sites of Paris—Notre Dame de Paris. This Cathedral that was once a place of worship has lost most of the prayerful atmosphere it once would of held and now hosts a gift shop as well as a museum including a relic of the crown of thorns (that of course, people can see for a fee). At first glance the throngs of tourists may deter people from appreciating Notre Dame de Paris, but in truth, the architects who created Notre Dame used beauty to educate and inform fellow Christians and as a result, this Cathedral is overflowing with information into the past if only one takes the time to look. Notre Dame de Paris has a staggering dimension of 41 meters wide, 43 meters high up to the base of the tower, and 63 meters up to the top of the tower. The amount of history and the number of stories architects and artists managed to fit onto the exterior of Notre Dame alone is overwhelming. One could spend hours, even days investigating the meaning, the care and the thought that went behind the creation of the façade of Notre Dame and still barely scratch the surface. Historically speaking, it is said that the first stone of Notre Dame was laid in 1163 in…

Jacob Wolf Period 1 Western civ 13 April 2016 WW2 Tour The first place to go in Paris, is the Louvre. The Louvre has seen its fair share of events whether it was its abandonment during the making of the buildings or the stolen pieces streaming from the Louvre. The Louvre still contains some of the most famous pieces of art ever created. Pieces made at different times and for different events. Every painting has its own historical significance and the artwork is memorable to every person for…

There are many characteristics that help identify a structure as Gothic. Tall pointed archways, ribbed vaults, flying buttresses, and stained-glass windows are just a few. These characteristics came from wanting to make the buildings taller and more noticeable. Notre Dame de Paris is more than seven hundred years old and it is the only most recent of holy houses to occupy ancient sacred ground. Notre Dame de Paris is the worlds ambassador of gothic cathedrals. This cathedral was finished in…

memories. On a budget of three thousand dollars, I would choose to take a trip to Paris, France, or Chicago, Illinois. Paris, France is an elegant, historic city where I would be able to learn about local sites. I would leave for…

I had to understand why Seurat used such a difficult technique for his work. I then came upon the theory that perhaps he wanted to produce a deeper sense of life in his paintings. All things in the world are composed of millions of cells, and these cells create objects, color, and everything that practically exists. I imagine that Seurat's motive was to utilize this scientific law in his work to give an atmosphere of life, texture, and movement in the scenes that he…

The Greenlease Kidnapping An Institute for small children in Kansas City, Missouri called Sister Morad of the French of Notre Dame De Sion was having school on September 28, 1953. As the children were having school, there was a knock at the door and as one of the teachers opened the door to a woman who said she was the Aunt of Bobby Greenlease. Robert Cosgrove Greenlease Jr., refer to as Bobby, was the six-year-old son of Robert C Greenlease Sr. Robert Sr. was a weathly automobile dealer who…

Today I watched Rudy an inspirational football movie. In Rudy, a young boy named named Daniel Ruettiger, who was nicknamed Rudy, has a dream of going to the University of Notre Dame, and playing on the football team. Everyone tells him that he can’t do it. He gets a job at a steel mill, where his best friend, Pete, died in an explosion. He then goes over to South Bend, and talks to a priest. The priest helps him get enrolled into Holy Cross College. Holy Cross College is a junior…

felt bad for a person that is made fun of just for being different? Esmeralda felt bad for Quasimodo in Hunch Back Of Notre Dame. Quasimodo was the same as everyone else, but people treated him like he was dirt just because he looked different and didn’t look like how the world expects us too. People thought Quasimodo had an ugly face and a hump on his back. They crowned him “king of fools”. When he snuck out to go to the festival where they crowned him king of fools, he hid his face so that…

money, and stress. Same as Shawn, Rudy also had a dream to go to college and play football but he had a specific dream to play on the Notre Dame football team ever since he was a young boy. Rudy worked hard and he has tried for multiple years of trying to make it on the team he finally made his dream come true and he made it into a game in his senior year. These football stars have very similar dreams, but their reasoning behind them are different. Shawn and Rudy both lived with little money.…

It is possible that a single event can change a person’s life. The event should be small, but it can make such an impact that life is never the same again. This happened to Daniel “Rudy” Rutteiger, whose life story is told in the film Rudy. In the film, Rudy dreams of going to the University of Notre Dame and playing football, but he is small and isn’t very small. Therefore, Rudy’s friends and family think that he should to be satisfied as a steel worker like his father and his brothers. For…