Relic

Joan Didion in the article, “On Keeping a Notebook,” explains that keeping a notebook is very different than keeping a journal. Didion supports her explanation by giving examples of what she wrote in her notebook, and explaining why she wrote those things. The author’s purpose is to inform, in order to let her audience know that keeping a notebook is important. The author writes in an informal tone for the audience. Joan Didion writes using pathos, ethos, and rhetorical devices. Throughout her…

Shotoku at Two Years, made in the late 13th century, is a wooden sculpture depicting Shotoku Taishi, a famous historical and political figure in Japanese culture, as a young child praying. The piece is made of wood, crystal and pigments. This work is 53 cm high, 20 cm wide. This figure is about the size of a small toddler. Despite its small size, It is overwhelming in the sense that it depicts a future ruler as an innocent child. The piece of work appears to be delicate in both subject matter as…

locations and give forgiveness for sins that were committed. In this story the Pardoner is more deceitful as he would travel from place to place and prey on the poor and uneducated by selling them pardons when could not afford it. He would also use relics to try and get more money out of people, for example said he had a piece of the sale from the time of Saint Peter was out at see until Jesus found him, also having a jar of pig bones that he also used to convince unsuspecting countryside folks…

abuse of indulgences. Indulgences were the Catholic concept of salvation, and it is basically paying for sins. There are three ways one might pay for their sin. People could use the coffers and give money, they could pay to use relics, or working off someone’s sins. Relics are things that the popes passed off as bones, blood, or teeth of famous people from the bible. The popes would tell them that it was a bone, tooth, or blood of a famous bible figure, and then make the person pay him so much…

outcast, human, elves, dwarf, so in need of a Blacksmith they’ll take a woman. The magical war raging Tizbeth plans to stay out of the way until she is dragged into it, a war council who has figured out who Tizbeth was and that she had given the magic relic to the exile that stirred up the war. They threaten Tizbeth’s new family if she doesn’t go back for something to fight the exile who had turned her…

acquired legally, there should be no moral duress for the stone to be returned. If ethics would be the sole determinant of ownership, both sides would have a valid argument for ownership. However, when dealing with a priceless thousands of years old relic, many factors need to be under…

People are always changing. Our ideas and theology of the world is ever evolving. Some periods had more development than others. Buildings are often a continuum of the change. It makes sense considering for many they make the physical boundaries of our world. Churches in medieval times changed dramatically between 1150 and 1550, the style changed from Romanesque to Gothic. The reasons for this can be divided into three categories, Social, Technological, and Theological. Churches needed to be…

previous tragic incident in which pilgrims were trampled when trying to observe the holy relics housed in the particular church. This was in part due to the poor layout of the area that housed the relics. Cluny III sought to avoid this tragedy happening again, which resulted in the rounded ambulatory. This, paired with the aisles alongside the main nave allowed for unobtrusive and functional observation of the relics. This is just one of the many examples…

Having a heartbreaking breaking relic be represented by a park where children laugh and play is disrespectful. The entire importance of the antiquity would be demolished by the uptone of the symbolization choice. Similarly, the relevance and specificity is important when it comes to symbolizing something valuable. Kirk Savage wrote the published book, Monument Wars: Washington, at which consists of this excerpt. Savage asserts, ‘‘The memorial itself contains no actual relic of Lincoln’’…

therefore they must start choosing challenging literature. He uses “dulness” to described a person's mind in order to further insult the people who choose to read low level literature. Yet he uses words like”relics” to described a book in order to contrast the ideas. Thoreau believes that books are relics that have survived through time and if people should ignore them they are “sloughing off of all the intellectual faculties.” He uses “faculties” to entertain the idea that books are full with…