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Mother Teresa: Server of the Poor "To this love for one another and today when I have received this reward, I personally am most unworthy, and I having avowed poverty to be able to understand the poor, I choose the poverty of our people," (Mother Teresa- Acceptance Speech). Mother Teresa said this during her acceptance speech to declare how devoted she was to the poor. She created a missionary for helping the poor and she worked all of her life to give the poor food and assistance. She would…

Located approximately 90 miles north of Rome rests Assisi, situated high on the slopes of Mount Subasio. Here the well-preserved medieval town looks out upon the rolling hills of the Umbria region of central Italy. With winding medieval streets, Roman ruins, and sacred shrines, the destination is very popular. However, it is known primarily as the birthplace of St. Francis. Assisi is a well-known destination among Catholic pilgrims who visit the churches and relics of Saint Rufino, Saint…

When she was seven-years-old, she convinced her older brother that they should go off to the land of the Moors and beg them. Out of the love of God, to cut off our heads there, but an uncle had found them and brought them back home (Catholic Online 3). St. Teresa had faced so many challenges in her life that led her to sacrifice many things. When St. Teresa was 18 years old, she had to leave her family to become a missionary in India. St. Teresa was a remarkable person who helped a wide range of…

St. Teresa of the Andes lived a short, but holy life. Previously known as Juana Fernández Solar, Teresa was born in 1900 in Santiago Chile. She was born to an upper class family and was the fourth of six children. After feeling an intense calling to the religious life, Juana took the name of Teresa at 19 years old, when she became a Carmelite nun. Before entering her convent, she taught religion to children from her church and helped the poor. She once encountered a very young, poor boy. She…

Mother Teresa, the epitome of Catholic Charity and a beacon of hope to all of the suffering across the world. Since her teenage years, she was interested in charity work. When she was a teenager she went to Ireland to become part of a religious convent and start her journey as a nun [World Biography n.d.]. Her duteous suffering for Catholicism conveniently masks her greater disregard of the people that entrusted her with their lives. Mother Teresa garnered the blessing of the Church for her…

Maria Teresa and Ruggero Badano’s prayers had finally been answered after eleven years of waiting. On October 29, 1971, a healthy baby girl was born. She was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and named Chiara Luce Badano, which means “clear light” in English. As a young child, Chiara honored the works of mercy by visiting the sick, sheltering the homeless, comforting the afflicted, and praying for the living and the dead. Chiara was especially concerned for children and their suffering. She joined…

Mother Teresa was a selfless and giving woman who lived most of her life as a nun who owned nothing, serving the most destitute people of India. This generous, devoted woman even started her own Catholic religious congregation, Missionaries of Charity, whose members numbered in the thousands and still help people living in the utmost poverty around the globe today. Her ultimate goal was to help the people in the most crucial circumstances because no one else would; these people were called “the…

People always have trouble pinpointing where I was born. When I joined my new Macedonian elementary school in the fourth grade, most of my class assumed I had been born in Turkey. I had, after all, just moved to Skopje at the age of nine, having spent majority of my childhood in Ankara. I remember how hard it was to explain to my peers why I had lived there. I doubt I even understood it myself. My dad was simply relocated to Turkey as he had gotten a job there and we all went with him for four…

One of the first accounts of Brutalism was given by architectural critic Reyner Banham in his seminal essay titled New Brutalism published in the Architectural Review in 1955, Banham’s conception of New Brutalism was both a movement in the sense of futurism and a style. Banham’s etymology of the term New Brutalism is clarified through his complex and contradictory explanation of Brutalism as both a movement and style. Banham did articulate clearly three underlying rules which are its core…

As more of the world becomes accessible, intercultural communication is becoming an evolving field of study that combines the interactions between individuals and groups from different cultural backgrounds. It has taken a considerable amount of time to get to the diverse point that the world’s society is at now, with more acknowledgment, acceptance and discussion around diversity. However, one can question is what ascribes and defines this identity that we acknowledge as being diversity. It can…