The Way of a Pilgrim

journey of twenty-nine pilgrims to St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury’s shrine, in order to be healed. To pass the time, they all decide to have a competition and tell two stories on the way to and on the way back from Canterbury. Before telling their tale, the reader is introduced to each and every character and learn of the character’s background, social status, and overall appearance. Geoffrey Chaucer does the prior in order to give the reader an idea of society’s view on each pilgrim and their…

1308 and initially called The Comedy, is generally viewed as one of the preeminent works of Italian writing. It is an epic poem that comprises of three books: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise, which chronicle (portray) the experiences of Dante the Pilgrim (an imaginary character embodied by Dante himself) in his goes through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Albeit terrifying on a strict level, on a more noteworthy level it speaks to allegorically a deeper subject: the trials of the human soul to…

in the book. Originally in the book, there were many characters that decided to go to Canterbury to pray at a grave to ask for forgiveness or say thanks in some sort of way. On the way to Canterbury, the host of the pilgrims came up with a way to make the time pass by faster. He proposed that the pilgrims tell stories on the way, and the person with the best story, would get a prize of money. The rules of the contest were simple, tell a story with the best morale education and the best…

With Christianity spreading along the Mediterranean, Christina congregations needed buildings to accommodate large number of converts. Constantine, the first Christina emperor decided to build the Basilica of San Peter on the Vatican Hill in Italy Rome in an area that had been formerly a cemetery where according to the traditions Peter was crucified. The principal portion of the Basilica, the nave was very long. Two aisles ran along the side of the nave making it wider. In the west part of the…

The Hajj Muslims have very strong and specific values on the proper way to spend their life. They believe in an afterlife in heaven that is determined by the quality of your life on earth. A Muslim’s main goal in life is to achieve enlightenment. In order to do so one must complete the five pillars of Islam, the most infamous being the fifth pillar, the hajj. This past time originated hundreds of years ago and is still practiced today. This tradition has rarely been questioned, but all this…

Here’s some fun facts!! President James Madison was my second cousin. I was a descendent of William Brewster, a leader of the Pilgrims who first landed on Plymouth Rock and sailed to America on the Mayflower. My daughter, Sarah Knox Taylor, was married briefly to Jefferson Davis before she died. Davis went on to become president of the Confederacy. I was known for my homespun ways while an officer. I was often disheveled, wore a straw hat, and sometimes wore farm clothes under my officer's…

character Billy Pilgrim projects his trauma into believing that he was abducted by aliens. In the short story Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway, the protagonist Krebs refuses to confront his trauma, and instead decides to run away. And lastly in Arrival (2016) the main character Louise ignores the suffering she will endure, and proceeds with her life anyway. In all these stories, there is one common theme, and it is how the characters deal with trauma. These…

Helen Keller. According to critic Norma Gabler, textbooks are supposed to "present our nations patriots in a way that should honor…

The heart and soul of the pilgrim should move around Kaaba, the symbol of the House of Allah, in a way that no worldly attraction distracts him from this path. Only Tawhid should attract him. Tawaf also represents Muslims’ unity. During Tawaf, everyone encircles Kaaba collectively. There is no individual identification…

-In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five a reflection of moments of the life of the author himself shows Vonnegut’s own view of war expressed in a comically depressing manner. The novel follows the life of Billy Pilgrim who is enlisted in the army at the age of 21 to fight the Germans in WW2 and is later captured and taken to POW camp in Dresden which is later bombed. Billy survives the bombing and is witness to the destruction of thousands of innocence from this he becomes unhinged able to visit…