Rector

“You mustn’t look ... for the old stable ego of character. There is another ego, according to whose action the individual is unrecognizable.” (D. H. Lawrence) How did modernism re‐conceive character? With the rise of modernism there came a huge change in the way characters were presented in works of literature. Up to this point the realist writers painted their characters in broad strokes, often using clichés and making people act in a different way to how a real person would behave…

He was born Juan de Yepes y Álvarez[3] into a converso family (descendents of Jewish converts to Christianity) in Fontiveros, near Ávila, a town of around 2,000 people. when in 1529 he married John's mother, Catalina, who was an orphan of a lower class, Gonzalo was rejected by his family and forced to work with his wife as a weaver. In 1563[11] he entered the Carmelite Order, adopting the name John of St. Matthias. The following year (1564)[12] he professed his religious vows as a Carmelite and…

It was May 20th, 2015, a warm and extremely beautiful spring day, when a memory that could last a lifetime was created. I had the day all planned out and was ready for all of the adventures that would be remembered for years to come. With this being his first birthday since we began dating, I made sure to plan an exciting day that would be followed by revealing my big news that I had in store. He pulled up to my house early in the morning, in his little grey Civic, and our day of creating…

When thinking about families often they are associated with the private sphere of life, isolated from the effects of the public sphere. However, this could not be further from the truth as everything in the public sphere effects and dictates how families function, especially government policy. In order, to be aware of this fact policymakers use a method called the Family Impact Analysis. A 36 question analysis which measures the effects of a particular policy through five overall principles;…

early on in the novel, leaving her on her own to fend for herself as the plague wipes out almost an entire population. She knows that people are becoming more scared as more people die, which tears them apart from one another. Michael Mompellion, the rector and the strong masculine figure in Anna’s life, says, “In the Delf, friends, we may stand at a safe distance from one another, so that the ill do not infect the well,” which shows how afraid everyone was of one another, afraid that the person…

idea of the reading from Vatican I was that it is coherent in the Holy Scriptures that the Pope has a promise to fulfill. "it was to Peter alone that Jesus, after his resurrection, entrusted the jurisdiction of the supreme pastor and rule [pastor et rector] of his whole flock saying: 'Feed my lambs' and 'feed my sheep' (John 21:15)." (Vatican I, Pastor aeternus) The followers of Christ are represented as the lambs and it is the Pope's responsibilities to nourish, care, and provide for us in a…

Most of the 21st century immigrants relocate to the United States to provide their families with increased employment opportunities. Crevecoeur portrayed America during his time as an asylum, melting pot, and wonderful place full of opportunity. Today, America is known as a country people go to in order to seek a new life and find a job. It is a land of opportunities full of immigrants from all over the world who wish to start a new, successful life in America and set a good foundation for their…

America’s economy is struggling. Millions of hard working American citizens have lost their jobs and fight to make ends meet. In addition, according to “Our Democratic Debt,” an article written in July of 2014, the federal government’s total debt is approaching $18 trillion (DeMuth). With this in mind, over eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in America. Illegal immigrants do not pay taxes, which worsens this debt and burdens the economy. In order to subsidize illegal immigrants’ lack…

Society has set a standard for high school graduates to complete their education through attendance of a university. Personally I aimed to fulfill that standard by attending the second largest university in the state. When applying to the University of Central Florida, applicants were given the opportunity to prove to the reader that they are a respectable, independent, and well-rounded student in around 500 words or less. Which, because there is so much to talk about yet we are restricted by…

actual living conditions of those who were declared as poor. For example, “Only 4 percent of poor children were hungry for even a single day in the prior year due to lack of funds for food, and only 6 percent of poor households were overcrowded” (Rector & Sheffield…