Year Five

In the novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut it is immediately clear that the author’s intent was to write a novel revealing the effect that war has on the people involved and address these issues as well as how harmful the glamorization of them are by writing an anti-war satire. Vonnegut executed this successfully by explainingly thoroughly the lasting effects war has on people and using examples of the negative and desperate ways that these people will try to cope with their feelings…

Christian thought into what it is today. Thomas Aquinas, also known as St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), was a Dominican friar and a Catholic priest who was an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism. At the age of five he was sent to a Benedictine monastery, and later on decided to leave but wanted to remain religious so he joined the Dominicans. He then became a teacher of theology at the University of Paris. Aquinas was one of the most important…

The Protestant Reformation changed the course of history in Europe due to the people starting to realize that the Pope was overusing his wealth and power. During the 16th century people in Europe believed in one religion known as Catholicism where they supported the Pope’s teachings. Due to the fact that people were illiterate and uneducated the Pope taught them about indulgences and other wrong teachings. The big “religious reformers” were Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Henry VIII who…

Michael Praetorius was born on February 15, 1571, at Kreuzberg in Thuringia. He was a German composer, a theorist, and an organist. “He was the most versatile and wide ranging German composer of his generation and one of the most prolific, especially of works based on Protestant hymns.” Syntagma musicum is one of the main reasons why Praetorius is important as a theorist. His father was a “zealous Lutheran clergyman,” and also had the name of Michael. The Michael Praetorius, his father, came…

Tudor Project Essay By: Abigail Bingham The Tudor Dynasty was a very famous dynasty during the European Reformation. The monarchy was different and very diverse from other dynasties. They did a lot for Europe in many ways. They gained power, wealth, and land. They also established a church and started the Act of Supremacy. They became involved in a lot of secular and nonsecular affairs. The Tudor Dynasty was the influence and guide for Europe at the time. The topics that are the most important…

In 16th century Worms, Germany, Martin Luther first published his 95 theses which questioned the authority of the Catholic Church. One of his main points of contention with the Catholic Church was the selling of indulgences; indulgences, the Church promised, would essentially help you buy your way into Heaven by cutting down on your time in Purgatory. Luther contested that this was merely a way for the Church to line its pockets with its people's money and brought his grievance to the public,…

Slaughterhouse-Five details the struggles of an American draftee and prisoner of war (POW), Billy Pilgrim. The story, partially based off of Vonnegut’s own experiences as a POW during World War II and the bombing of Dresden, takes a fantastic turn as Billy learns that he can travel through time. Yet, it is the lack of structure in Slaughterhouse-Five that sets this book apart from common anti-war or time-travel novels. The structure and “time-hopping” present in Slaughterhouse-Five causes…

around the best interests of the children, rather than our own self-interest of financial gain. Our separation of assets was simple. As Wilkinson-Ryan and Small state, most people can figure out how much money they need to make in a month or even in a year in order to get by or live normally. Thus, a wife who needs a total of $3,000 per month in order to maintain a modest lifestyle, and…

currently in, in terms of capitalism and these issues surrounding wealth and greed in our country. The response made regarding Capitalism by Pope Francis, in the Catholic religious tradition is one in which the argument will be dually noted for many years to…

The word baroque was used in the 1650 through the 1750 all over Western Europe. It was used to describe the style of art that was mostly used all Western Europe. It was a special movement that was based on extravagant living and theatrical display. These features started to be all over Italy and Spain in which it was associated to the catholic reformation. Additionally, it became a big thing all over France in the seventeenth century. Across all over Europe, baroque help changed the idea of…