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Reformation. He was a national hero whose influence is still felt in the Czech Republic. Huss was born into a peasant family and graduated from the University of Prague (Charles University). He began lecturing at the university in 1398 and served as rector twice. Huss was ordained a priest in 1400. At this time many religious leaders were demanding church reforms, Split by the Great Schism of the West, the church had two rival popes (later three). Huss accepted the ideas of the English reformer…

original idea of a university, how it has changed, and the author’s future expectations of scholarly life. Scruton opens the article with a brief background of John Henry Newman, including his conversion into Catholicism in 1845 and his status as rector of the Catholic University of Ireland. Over his five years of being the head of the university, he gave a series of seminars now known as “The Idea of a University.” From reading the text, the reader gains a clear understanding of Newman’s…

The article, “The effects of divorce on America”, written by Patrick Fagan and Robert Rector explains how divorce is not only hurting society but children. This article expresses the effects divorce has on a child’s life including educational ability, job stability, and emotional health. When children go through a divorce they are sometime left in the turmoil and are forced to make very difficult decisions which adds stress to the traumatizing experience. The authors said most of the emotional…

and John Blair signed the Constitution as their state’s official representatives. After Madison went in office for his two terms, Madison left Washington, D.C., in 1817.Madison indeed remained active in various civic causes, and in 1826 he became rector of the University of Virginia. Madison died at Montpelier on June 28, 1836, at the age of…

In this world, we are experiencing many breakthroughs. There are many men and women who have impacted the world in the field of medicine. One of these individuals is Louis Pasteur, a man who created pasteurization and vaccines. He saved many lives and always found a way to solve problems. Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist whose work is renowned all around the world. Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822; in Dole, Jura, France. His father was Jean-Joseph…

According to Allender, Rector, and Warner, the priority nursing goal for people suffering from homelessness should be establishing criteria to help them develop abilities that will lead them to take advantage of opportunities and cultivate better life choices (2014, p. 834). Therefore, for an intervention to be successful, it should focus more heavily on prevention; and because of its acute characteristics, all forms of prevention should be included to counteract its prevalence (The Homeless Hub…

problems with health, behavior, and drug abuse. They have more emotional problems, higher suicide rates, and perform more poorly in school. They also have a higher drop-out rate, a higher chance of repeating grades, and lower rates of graduation (Fagan, Rector). When parents are not able to communicate effectively and work together as parents during and after the divorce, these effects are increased. Many children of divorce go through denial. They will pretend everything is okay. When a parent…

For decades the War on Poverty has been a debate area that every president running for office has used as an election tactic, especially democrats. Republican voters are usually Caucasian, upper class, and in higher positioned occupations; while those voting democratic are typically minorities fighting to stay at or above the poverty line. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson was the first politician to use the term War on Poverty during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This was…

Throughout, they are depicted as shallow, one-dimensional, conceited due to the time in which the novel was written. Pride and Prejudice was written in the early nineteenth century, at which was a flourishing time period for religion. Austen’s father was a rector and her two brothers were clergymen. She was greatly involved with the clergymen and their traditions, and was religious herself. Although, Austen did not have negative views concerning the clergymen, she wrote about them with a…

Collins’ proposal of marriage to Elizabeth revels several of his less than admirable traits. Austen provides a few of Mr. Collins negative traits when she writes: “…with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his rights as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility” (71). Mr. Collins’ pride in his authority as a clergyman is reflected in one of his reasonings for Elizabeth to accept his proposal, “My reasons for…