Pilgrimage

I sit here in this half empty room listening to music. I try to think of what keepsakes to use for my Opus project. This project isn 't hard, but very tedious and time consuming. I already found four objects to use and wrote the paragraphs about them. I really hope what I wrote about them is enough. I follow along in my book, but the movie jumps and lose where I am. I give up following along, so I just watch the movie. I am completely enthralled in the movie and the story line. The Importance of…

Schizophrenia and OCD: The Troubled Mind of Margery Kempe The mind can be a very fragile thing. Too much stress, too much trauma, and a person can be left as a mere shell of their former selves. Once a person’s psyche is shattered there is no guarantee that they will pull themselves back together again or whether the victim will come back the same. Mental disorders can be tricky, they do not always affect one person the same way that it might affect another. Some are left irrevocably changed…

The Himalayas: A Mystic’s Viewpoint Himalaya literally meaning the abode of snow. Apart from being a geographical entity, it has in various ways shaped the life and culture of South Asian people. Comprising of nine highest peaks in the world, this awe inspiring range has been an object of veneration for people and epitomizes the concept of sublime beauty. The Himalayas are bordered on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, on the south by the Indo-Gangetic Plain, on the northwest by the…

Critique of Dante’s Hell Why do people do the things they do? Is it because they simply love to do it? Is it to make money? Is it to make another person happy? Ultimately, people do things because they want to get something out of it, or benefit from in it some form or another. For example, a teenager probably doesn’t just feel a burning desire to wash the dishes for their mom because they love her and want to serve her in any way imaginable. They most likely want their parents to let them go…

Poor nutrition, plagues, sexism, and social classes: these are only four of the prices of civilization that we, along with our ancestors, have faced. War is another major source of destruction, but also cooperation or even the creation of a new identity. War has the power to “make or break” a civilization, completely changing the course of history. No historian can ignore wars due to their influence. Merely one example of these influential wars are the Crusades. So, what is a Crusade? Depending…

On December 8th 1531, La Virgen de Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego at the top of the Tepeyac hill. Using Nahuatl, Juan Diego’s native language, she asked that a church be erected in her honor. Juan Diego attempted twice to convince Archbishop Juan de Zumarraga (Archbishop of Mexico from 1530-1548) of the apparition of the virgin; as well he attempted to convince the archbishop to build a church to Honor La Virgen de Guadalupe. Unfortunately, his first two attempts were unsuccessful. As a…

he used his time wisely to write a novel called, The Pilgrim’s Progress, where a devoted christian sets out on a pilgrimage in a attempt to save his soul. In the novel, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, he uses symbolism through the main character, Christian and the difficult obstacles he has to face in order to portray…

If subjected to two years in concentration camp confinement and eventually becoming emotionally and physically degraded, how would one’s beliefs and innocence change substantially? In the autobiographical novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel does such by shifting from being a young devoted believer in God, into a more independent individual throughout the span of his traumatic imprisonment. Wiesel transforms into a self-reliant being and feels a disconnect from the old God in which he had…

The Abrahamic Faiths Abrahamic religions are monotheistic religions that involve only one God. These religions include Judaism (Jews), Christianity (Christians), and Islam (Muslims) and all trace their origins back to their father founder Abraham. God had a very close relationship with Abraham and “promised him his descendants would ultimately comprise many nations” (Global Education Source, 275). The chronological order of founding is Judaism (1st millennium BCE), Christianity (1st century CE),…

flourished in the Andes Mountains from 900-200 B.C.E. which is around the time this structure was made. The structure conveys its religious theme through the way in which it meets where two rivers join, symbolizing a harmonious meeting. It is a pilgrimage for the shamans which mean that it is a faraway location which shows that the people who go are devoted to their worship.…