Rosary

West Hollywood Carnaval 1. Description Monday October 31, 2016, Halloween night, my friend and I decided to attend West Hollywood Carnaval. Before getting there, we had a hard time looking for parking for we didn’t know it’s going to be that popular. It took us about two hours to find parking which is also very far from the event. We walked for 30 minutes just to get to the location. It’s both our first time. The event takes place in the streets of Santa Monica Boulevard between N Doheny Drive…

It’s Just Cooking Things with a Hint of Love ALEXIS: A life without iPhones, laptops, or maybe even the television. Life in the Philippines was different, and I wanted to find out more about my grandmother, Paulita, and her past. She was born on May 19, 1946 in Pampanga, Philippines. Her only job as a child was to do her chores and help her mom at a family-owned restaurant. After she graduated high school, she got married and had four children, one of them is my mother. She’s a…

remember the intensive work that went into catechism classes in preparation for my Confirmation and First Communion. I also recall that my mother, my two sisters and I would pray together, almost every night. My mother would lead us in praying the Rosary while also reciting especially direct prayers to various saints. We would pray for our health, well-being and prosperity. We also prayed intensely for our dead family members, deeply believing in an afterlife, where we would one day reunite…

My favorite of the Baudelaire poems selected for the textbook is A Carcass. The poem is incredibly graphic and I love that Baudelaire uses such words as “festering”, “lecherous”, and “marvelous meat” to give the reader a very clear mental picture of the carcass he is describing. The poem forces the reader to address the fact that they will die and that their body will decay and there is literally not a single thing to be done to stop that. I think that in a way, Baudelaire is actually reflecting…

Venice is one of those places in LA that you want and have to visit -- if you’re not from LA. I’ve already seen it. The canal, the body builders, and the ridiculous tshirts that only someone stoned would buy. But I’m not from Venice. fourteen miles down south of the beach is South Central, my home for the first eighteen years of my life. Now, during holidays and breaks, I live in the middle of northern LA County in a desert called Palmdale. It’s important to note the differences. One that I…

Were all destined to fulfill a purpose in life in which we want a path that guides us without being so laborious. It's like a seed sprouting in the spring, the seed grows and flourishes into a beautiful flower all through summer to only wither and die in the cold winter, but it must all take place in order to regenerate. As humans were lit up with the seed of aspirations to then face yourself with obstacles that you never expected. We all want to get to those aspirations or the blooming stage,…

they all pitched in to pay for food, clothes, school supplies and anything in between. When Joyce attended school she would make an appearance at St John’s Catholic School. Her mother and father were catholic and so was she. Joyce had owned a rosary. However her parents had been strict, they got grounded when they were trouble and growing up Joyce’s mother had always been more strict than her father. She says graduating was very exciting.…

Where would you like me to start Brittany Sandra Pollock? Yes, I am going to use your full name in this. You may ask why? I have always loved something about a full name and it 's a little hard to explain. I guess I will start with me leaving Omaha for California this summer. But I will really go back even further after I explain something. When you and I were driving to the airport that day, I could tell that you were ready to explode in tears, but honestly, I was on the verge too and I don…

In E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Sandman,” Nathanael falls in love with the object of his desires, the devastatingly gorgeous Olympia. Nathanael worships Olympia for her beauty, her muteness, and her lack of opinion. Eventually though, Nathanael realizes that Olympia is an automaton and has no substances because she is constructed merely to be the most perfect looking woman. Similarly, In Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides, The Lisbon sisters are worshipped solely for their bodies prohibiting them from…

The Cathedral of Santa Maria Annunziata is the most important Catholic place of worship in the city of Otranto. The cathedral, built on the ruins of a village, a Roman domus, and an Early Christian temple, was founded in 1068 by the Norman bishop William. It is a synthesis of different architectural styles including Byzantine, Christian, and Romanesque. It was consecrated on 1 August 1088 during the reign of Pope Urban II from the papal legate Roffredo, archbishop of Benevento. In August 1480,…