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    Chaucer's Social Class

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    who were actually not that mental image we created. For example the Prioress Nun (Madame Eglantine) who was suppose to be your little average good perfect girl who worshiped and only worried about god. Meanwhile she was by far not little but fulombtious‚ she was by far more slutty than perfect‚ and she worried about her jewelry as much as god. She does have good manners but she uses them on men which she is seen as a Nun who does not participate with men. So it’s a definition of behind the scenes

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    DOUBT MOVIE QUESTIONS

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    is known as a feeling of uncertainty and lack of conviction. It describes a feeling of a person when he/she feels uncertain and confused about a certain situation due to lack of knowledge‚ proof‚ or even experience. The movie‚ Doubt‚ is about a nun who believes that the Father of her perish is having an inappropriate relationship with some of the male students‚ mainly a boy named Donald Miller. This accusation of Sr. Aloysius was triggered after a sermon that Father Flynn gave about doubts one

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    Who were the Poor Clares? Why is it somewhat surprising that they were accomplished musicians? The Poor Clares were an order of nuns. The Poor Clares isolated themselves from the outside world‚ but the church was accessible to members of the public. If you stayed during Mass‚ you would’ve heard the nuns‚ hidden in an enclosed choir‚ singing. It is surprising that they were accomplished musicians because not only did they isolate themselves from the outside world‚ but they took the vow of silence

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    Chaucer’s prologue in his book‚ The Canterbury Tales‚ is one of the most prominent pieces of literature today. The first twenty six pages of the novel describes thirty different characters‚ who have different backgrounds‚ cultures‚ and behaviors. Many of the portraits in Chaucer’s prologue act poorly‚ and do not behave the way they are supposed to; while few respectively follow the seven virtues of the society. One of these characters is the holy and virtuous Parson. Chaucer describes the priest

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    I scene i‚ Hermia has just refused to marry Demetrius‚ going against her fathers demands. This enrages her father‚ so her father brings her to Theseus‚ where the passage begins with Theseus telling Hermia that she must marry Demetrius or become a nun. In this passage‚ Shakespeare conveys the idea that people are often inconsiderate when reacting to others misfortunes. Shakespeare shows this through his use of stylistic devices‚ and his characters thoughts‚ feelings‚ and reactions. In this passage

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    Spread of Islam vs. Spread of Christianity 600 CE to 1250 CE—a time in which Islam’s golden age took place and‚ from a Eurocentric point of view‚ a time of Christian expansion and conversion—was a period of religious spread and expansion. While Islam was “spread by the sword” due to the military conquests and expansion of the Arab empire (which was predominantly Muslim)‚ Christianity had no association with a specific race or group of peoples and therefore did not spread with the purpose of expanding

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    Mother Teresa

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    spread love all around the world. As she turned eighteen she moved out of her parent’s resident and joined an Irish community called sisters of Loreto the Irish community was a community of nuns with missions in India. Mother Teresa was sent to India where she took a vow on May 24th‚ 1931‚ that she is completely a nun. In 1931 to 1948 she taught at St. Mary’s high located in Calcutta but looking at the conditions outside the school made her want to stop teaching and help the needy. In India she got trained

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    She visited Irish Priests and nuns abroad quite often. She was the first President to host a greeting for the Christian Brothers. She was granted an audience with Pope John II‚ when working on a trip to Rome. On her visit‚ she was supposed to have broken the dress code of the Vatican

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    mentions a time where she was playing outside and one of the nuns from her school passed by her and questioned where she lived. “You live there?... the third floor‚ the paint peeling‚ wooden bars Papa nailed on the windows so we wouldn’t fall out. You live there?” (Page 5). It is quite clear that this family is struggling financially. They are constantly moving from house to house in almost uninhabitable living spaces that even caused a nun to be lost for words and in

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    Tambu’s journey progresses from “entrapment to rebellion to escape”. How is this made clear in the novel? Tsiti Dangarembga’s novel ‘Nervous Conditions’ follows the main character Tambu and her desire and attempts to receive an education. In this novel‚ to achieve her goal‚ Tambu escapes entrapment‚ rebels against her familiy’s and culture’s ways‚ before she escapes from poverty which restricted her and the burdens and expectations of womanhood. This process from “entrapment to rebellion to escape”

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