Let me describe Nicaragua. Tall‚ silver buildings ‚ people scurrying on the sidewalk‚ giant green palm trees‚ tropical breezes‚ and even a cool gust on a hot hot summer day. Nicaragua is the place to be. But that’s only what the capital is like. The rest is poor cities. Nicaragua’s main oceans are the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea‚ and they have a lake named after them. Since its such a big country‚ it has three climates. The Pacific Region‚ Central Highlands‚ and the Caribbean Region‚ which
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How is it possible that Nicaragua‚ a diverse country‚ rich in flora and fauna‚ with an exotic and exquisite culture‚ with friendly people‚ humble‚ and lovers of life; Cannot have a stable and adequate health system for its population. The battle over healthcare is a global concern that is being handled differently in each country. However‚ health care is more accessible in Nicaragua than in the United States but the quality of care is much worse than in the U.S. hospitals. Writing this essay reminded
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Pope Leo the great (440-461 AD) is famous for his Tome of Leo document‚ The Council of Chalcedon‚ and he illuminated the conformist definition of Jesus’ being as the religious states of two beings- divine and human. Despite all of this‚ Pope Leo the Great is most famous for his persuasion of the crude Attila the Hun (434-453 AD) to not invade Italy in 452 AD. The emperors usually paid off barbaric tribes to not invade them but this further gave reason for the tribes to invade Western Europe. The
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POPE AS A SATIRIST Satire is a literary genre‚ usually meant to be funny. The word ‘Satire’ was defined by Richard Garnett as‚ The expression in adequate terms of the sense of amusement or disgust excited by the ridiculous or unseemly‚ provided the humour is a distinctly recognized element and the utterance is inverted with literary form. Without humour satire is invective‚ without literary form‚ it is mere clownish jeering. (Encyclopedia Britannica 14th ed. vol. 20 p. 5) Satire is defined by Long
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In Pope Francis’ recent address to the people I think the pope really made some good insights to how we can think of the Church as our mother. There were many passages that really stood out to me. One of them was talking about how the Church is like a mother because a mother generates life‚ "... She bears us in the faith‚ through the words of the Holy Spirit who makes her fertile‚ like the Virgin Mary." I had never thought about the Church like this before and I thought it was interesting how he
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through reason‚ to provide explanations for all actions and events. Both Alexander Pope and Voltaire discuss some of the more common questions posed during the Enlightenment: What is the nature of humanity and what is our role in the greater picture of the universe? Pope argues that everything in the universe‚ whether it is good or evil‚ is essentially perfect because is a part of God’s grand plan. In essence‚ Pope believed in pre-determined fate‚ where no matter our actions‚ our fate remains the
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Explain why Pope Urban II called for a Crusade in Clermont 1095. One reason‚ or trigger for Pope Urban calling the crusade would have been Alexius’ request for his help. Alexius asked for Pope Urban’s aid in helping him to fight the Turks; this is because they were closing in and starting to invade Constantinople‚ which was the main frontier between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Emperor Alexius felt threatened by the Turks‚ and knew that Pope Urban in him being the head of the Church (the
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19 March 2013 Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and Election of Pope Francis The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Pope Francis are getting to be a pretty big deal around the world. Pope Benedict XVI was born under the name Joseph Ratzinger on April 16‚ 1927 in Marktl am Inn‚ Bavaria Germany. He grew up under war and reparation from World War I. He was briefly a member of the Hitler Youth in his early teenage years. He turned to theology studies after the war. His father was
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agency‚ where it fails to account for the rationality of man’s behaviour in each of their conscious decisions (VS 67). St. John Paul II in Veritatis Splendor‚ explains that man’s actions cannot be determined solely from the fundamental option because it outlines human freedom as an intention to perform an action without abiding by humanity’s moral obligations (VS 67). St. John Paul II further ascertains that true morality considers whether or not the behaviour performed conforms to the integrity of humanity’s
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The influence of Pope John XXIII on the Christian tradition has allowed for him as one of many “men” to “reform and revitalise the Christian tradition” to serve God. Pope John XXIII‚ born as Angelo Roncalli was ordained a priest in the diocese of Bergamo in 1905. Roncalli then in 1925 became the Apostolic Delegate of Bulgaria in 1925-35 before becoming Apostolic Delegate to Turkey and Greece in 1935-44. Roncalli’s actions of saving Jewish Children from the Nazi forces in Turkey would influence his
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