Stigmata

Saint Catherine of Siena was born on March 25, 1347. She was the youngest of 25 and had a twin, who died in infancy. She always wanted to pray instead of doing housework. She grew up being very beautiful, but decided she didn’t want to get married. When she was 6 years old she had her first vision of Christ above the Church, and a year later she decided to always remain ready for Christ (Glavich 50). Catherine’s sister was married, so when she died she left her husband a widow. Catherine’s…

The positivist school of criminology derived from positive philosophy and the logical and methodology of empirical or experimental science. Positive philosophy emerged during a time of tremendous social change which occurred at the end of the time for Enlightenment thinkers, and it was an explicit repudiation or reaction to the critical and “negative” philosophy of Enlightenment thinkers. Two of the most recognizable figures of positive philosophy are Saint-Simon who fought in both the…

Introduction Upper gastrointestinal bleeding can be manifested with hematemesis, melena or hematochezia. Acute bleeding due to gastroesophageal varices in cirrhotic patients is associated with higher morbidity, mortality rates as well as development of life-threatening complications. This bleeding significantly increase protein concentration in the bowel which results in increased ammonia production by colonic bacteria and precipitation of development of hepatic encephalopathy [1].…

Lombroso to define a person who is not fully evolved. Lombroso considered people who had an abnormality in the skull, brain, muscles, organs, and other parts of the skeleton as “throwbacks” the earlier forms of humans and primates. Anomalies, named as ‘stigmata’ by Lombroso, could be expressed in terms of abnormal forms or dimensions of the “skull and jaw, asymmetries in the face, etc, but also of other parts of the body” (Sabbatini). Lombroso also throughout his medical career made a list of…

The basic idea of the positive theory is that the criminal are born and not constructed. Positive Theory focused on biological and psychological influences to explain criminal behavior. An Italian physician and psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) studied cadavers of executed criminal s in an effort to determine scientifically whether criminal were physically and different from non-criminal (Positive Theory, 2011) Cesare Lombroso alleged that people were born criminals and facial…

Monica Frackowiak Rhetoric 102-001 Paper#4 The sociology of criminal behavior Understanding criminal behavior has been a concern for years due to the increase of violence in our society. Can criminal behavior be a part of genetics? Or is criminal behavior learned? Can surroundings influence an individual's perspective on criminal behavior? A criminal is an individual who is taking…

expand out into an infinite space in time . The paint flies beyond the canvas and the shadows and reflections blur into one. The pinks, blues, reds, yellows, oranges, purples, and browns blend together to create a symphony of colors. There is a stigmata in the Lili pad brush strokes and a legato in the lines of seaweed and willow branches. Claude Monet captures a fluid motion of an impressionist in his painting of the Water Lilies. He mesmerizes his viewers with a flat plane of space and…

Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, stage designer, poet, and playwright throughout the twentieth-century. During his career he geared more towards different types of Cubism, along with Surrealism. One of his most monumental paintings named “Guernica” combines both Analytic and Synthetic Cubist forms. It is said that this painting serves a political message towards Picasso’s powerful protest against the brutality of war. Dating to 1937, Pablo…

A Pentacle is very similar to a pentagram. A pentagram is a five-pointed star, each point representing one of the five elements, earth, air, fire, water, and akasha also known as spirit. A pentacle is a pentagram encased in another shape; most commonly a circle but it can any shape, a pentagon, a triangle, or another star. The word its self is broken down into two pieces, “penta” meaning five sided, and “cle” referencing the circle. It is a symbol cloaked in history and dripping with meaning.…

The impressions that I get about Christians, Jews and Muslims is that they all wanted what they believed to be the best thing for their people. They all fought wars against each other while they also benefited from each other. They all trade goods between then and help grow their communities and cities. Some were taken over and rebuilt and torn down again. The MUslims knew what they wanted when they invaded in 711, they most likely wanted everyone to end up being Muslim. In 732 Islam was…