Saint

Introduction Catherine of Siena, a medieval mystic that greatly impacted Christianity through her writings. This paper might seem meaningless to most because not a lot of people know of Saint Catherine of Siena. It wasn’t until recently that she even became known as Saint Catherine. Only a few scholars know of Catherine. I chose to write about her because her story is not average, but it is unique and unusual. At first I didn’t even know anything about Catherine, but after researching and…

Saint Maybe is a story about a picture-perfect family. The Bedloe family, from Baltimore, the focus of the story, is far from being perfect. The family consist of Mrs. Bee Bedloe, Mr. Doug Bedloe, Claudia, the oldest child, Danny the middle child and Ina the youngest. Danny marries Lucy, a divorcee with two children Agatha and Thomas. Lucy was pregnant before meeting Danny so Danny’s daughter Daphne is maybe someone else’s baby. Danny may know Daphne is not his daughter, but ignores the fact.…

Angels in America, by Tony Kushner, and Heroes and Saints, by Cherríe Moraga, examine the essence of life through the issues of constant disease, death, and madness. In Angels in America on pages 263-267, Kushner examines death and disease through the beginning of the AIDs/HIV epidemic in America. Prior Walter, a prominent character in Angels in America, is a homosexual man who has AIDs/HIV. Through his experience, Prior receives visits from the Angel of America. Prior is summoned by the Angel…

When living in a place where everyone around you has a negative mindset and judges you on what you have done, it makes it very difficult to be a positive person. This truth is displayed in Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci . Firstly, Cristina shows that she cares about Vitto and would not want anything awful to happen to her son. Next, this bold character does not let others push her around and does not care about what others think of her. Finally, Cristina displays that she is a feminist and…

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Bernini, is one of the greatest sculptures to represent the era of the Baroque Art. The baroque art,defined is often thought of as a period of artistic style in which artists used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur. Some of the elements to distinguish a baroque art work consists of emotional intensity, a moment in time, dynamism/instability, diagonals, energy/movement, interrupted contours,…

Saint Aquinas was a significant Christian philosopher and theologian of the Medieval Ages. In addition to attempting to Christianize Aristotle’s arguments, Aquinas also stressed the idea of actuality, connecting the “act” with the esse, or being of the object. He argued that something without an essence could not have actuality. Similarly, an nonexistent object cannot have an essence. Aquinas elaborated on his idea of the “acts of being” by putting objects in a hierarchical structure based on…

I chose to read the book Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen. The reasons I decided to pick this book over others is that it drew me in. Reading the summary in the inside front cover intrigued me. It felt relatable and I thought it would be interesting to read it. I don't like many books and it’s hard to find one that I am interested in so I gave it a try. This book is about a teen girl who goes through some rough times because of her family members mistakes. She slowly but surely revives herself and…

of their homeland. From the beginning, the core properties of a country are ingrained in the day to day practices of its people, and these practices carry on to become their traditions, and a part of themselves and their community. In Boxers and Saints, a graphic novel diptych that explores the Boxer rebellion that occurred in China in 1900, Gene Luen Yang illustrates two characters that are the same inner battle from different sides of the rebellion. Bao, a young boy, leaves his village in…

In, “Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics” by Nancy Schephur-Hughes, the typical personality of an Irish person is one of fear and mistrust. They are also, “intensely familistic and tightly endogamous”. Schizophrenia is also very common. They especially do not trust outsiders and are very influenced by their past, holy geography, and their language which they regard as sacred tongue. According to the author, these main type of personality traits arise from the decline in culture of rural Irish…

almost exclusively on the viewpoint of the controlling colonial power, rather than on the indigenous persons being ruled. Stripped of cultural context, these chapters provided a striking contrast to the narrative presented in the book Medicine and the Saints, which also discussed Moroccan colonization and medicine. In the first four chapters Keller explores the ways in which France used psychiatry and a supposed altruistic desire to save the “primitive” Africans from their decadence as a facade…