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    desire to do missionary work. After deliberating and praying, Agnes accepted her desire to work for God. She told her mother, who was not surprised. Agnes decided on the Loreto Sisters because of their missionary work in India. Agnes’s journey was long and difficult. She travelled to Zagreb, Croatia with her mother and sister to wait for another girl, Kanjc. Together the girls travelled to Paris in 1928 and arrived in Ireland at the Rathfarnham house where they learned English and prayed. The…

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    mate. Both movies of the Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella and A Cinderella Story depict different versions of the story of Cinderella but they both share the same concepts and themes: mistreatment of a young girl by her step mother and step sisters, the importance of father figures in a young girl’s life and the hope of finding true love and living happily ever after. Both of these movies would be beneficial to use in the classroom. Teachers can use both movies in their classroom to…

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    on the shoe and it does not fit them. Then Cinderella tries it on after being locked in her room by her stepmother because she doesn't want her to try it on and the slipper fits her. The Grimm's version is quite different. In this story when one sister tries it on and the slipper did not fit the mother handed her a knife and told her to cut off her toe so it would fit. So she did and once the price saw the blood tracks he took her back cause he knew it did not fit her. As the second one tries…

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    “Chucha shakes me awake. Sunlight is streaming in through the jalousie windows. Before I can ask her what’s the matter, gangster men in their dark glasses storm into the room, thrusting their guns here and there in the corners of the closet and under my bed, in search of something they can not find. Chucha and I clutch each other and watch the men pulling open drawers, throwing my clothes into the floor. Soon another bunch of men come into the room, pushing Mami in her nightgown before them.…

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    Every day after her death I would visit her grave and pray that I would turn out to be the woman she hoped for me to be. In time, my father remarried to a nasty woman with two unbearable daughters that found joy in pestering me. Although my new step sisters were indeed very pretty, they had evil souls. My step mother did nothing to stop them, instead egged them on and even replaced all of my beautiful clothes with raggedy servant clothes and uncomfortable shoes made of wood. I was made into a…

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    Promoting Social Justice

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    experience, I worked to promote the learning and development of young students at the Felician College Child Care Center located on Felician University’s Lodi Campus. The Felician College Child Care Center, founded in 1987, consists of Felician Sisters and lay teachers who uphold many of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Their philosophy is that each child ought to be treated as a unique individual because each one of us is a distinct…

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    Mother Teresa Corruption

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    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…

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    The Fire of Revolution A desire for change gives fire to the spirit of revolution, yet few dare to chase it. One such person is Martin Luther King, Jr. who fought for racial equality. The fire that burned inside him was, in his childhood, just a flicker lit by watching his father protest segregation. Then, it was fanned by his own treatment in the South and he started the bus boycott. As a result, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested and his house bombed; however, each incident simply motivated…

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    Both the chinese version and french version of the cinderella stories have similarities and differences. There are four main similarities that both stories have. The first similarity is also the one that most little kids know of. Which is the part that yeh-shen and cinderella get married to a prince. The second similarity is that both moms die and get mistreated by their stepmothers. They get mistreated because they get treated like servants. The third similarity is something “magical” helps…

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    Once upon a time, there lived a teenager named Cinderella.Cinderella lived with her wealthy,but horribly evil stepmother and stepsisters who tried to make her out of their servant. Cinderella wished for nothing but to leave the horribly people more than ever. So, she wished to meet the prince and it finally happened. Then Cinderella and the prince fell in love and lived happily ever after. The formal Cinderella is a classic fairy tale that has been around for a very long time. Some people have…

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