St. Alice Natalia Rosario Visitation School Grade 7 February 2013 St. Alice is a very inspirational saint who spent her life with a spirit deeply embedded in humility and a kind heart. Born in 1204 in a tiny village in Brussels‚ called Shaerbeck‚ Alice was sometimes called Aleydis. At the age of seven‚ Alice decided to join a convent of Cistercian nuns called Camera Sanctae Mariae. Alice would spend the rest of her life in that convent. Alice’s acts and deeds influenced many others and many
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For my analysis of a discourse community that I am a part of‚ I will be focusing on St. Xavier High School and Jesuit education. St. Xavier is a great example of a discourse community and is backed up by the scholarly articles written by John Swales and Joseph Harris. Joseph Harris focuses his argument about what makes a community a community around writing. Harris proposes that “our aims and intentions in writing are thus not merely personal‚ idiosyncratic‚ but reflective of the communities to which
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“The view of boarding school life constructed from their words portrays how an institution founded to transform Indian youth was paradoxically given life by the very people whose tribal identities it was committed to erase” (eBook). So therefore‚ In the late 1800s‚ Native Americans were abducted from their homes by the government to attend assimilation schools‚ likewise‚ the wolf girls from “St. Lucy’s home for girls‚” were sent to an assimilation school. Once the Indians and wolf girls came upon
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In "The Little Convent Girl"‚ the girl was forced to become an adult at a young age‚ not knowing who she was‚ and not being able to decide on her own. The girl was forced to join the convent at a young age when knowing yourself is impossible. She was unable to grow and learn from mistakes. In the text‚ the little convent girl did not show much emotion and give many opinions. The only idea to grasp about her is from the interactions with the people on the ship. The narrator gives a description of
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St. Clare St. Clare was born on July 16‚ 1194 and died on August 11‚ 1253. She was the daughter of a count and countess. She heard St. Francis preach in the streets of Assisi and told him of her desire to give herself to God. They grew to be close friends. On Palm Sunday in the year 1212 the bishop of Assisi presented a palm to this noble maid of eighteen who was beautifully garbed. That same night she left her castle with one acquaintance and went to the church of Our Lady of the Angels‚ where
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St. Francis and Clare March 11th‚ 2013 Francis Bernardone was born in Assisi during the middle ages. His dream as a child was to become a knight. However‚ once he began to fulfill his dream‚ he realized that God was calling him to do something else so he returned home. He began to pray and read the Gospel. Later in the movie‚ St. Francis started visiting the lepers outside of the city. People started to worry about St. Francis because he was spending more time with the lepers than he spent working
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Throughout St. Rita of Cascia’s life‚ she suffered through excruciating pain and conquered many trials. Even during her toughest times‚ she still stuck by God’s side and allowed him to play out his plan. Until the time of her death‚ St. Rita fought to please others till she finally reached her goal. St. Rita has become a prime example of a strong woman just by her life teachings and extraordinary actions. St. Rita of Cascia was born in 1381 in Roccaporena‚ Italy and she was considered to be a miracle
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Eve‚ Mary-mother of Jesus‚ and Mary Magdalene are all prominent characters in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and to some extent are mentioned in the Quran. Regardless of whether or not a person believes these women really existed as portrayed within these religious texts‚ they had and still have a major impact on societal views towards women today. For women to be truly liberated and treated as equals to men requires the circumvention of conventional patriarchal‚ anti-feminist interpretations and
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How does Rossetti tell the story in lines 1-84 of The Convent Threshold? The convent threshold is a story about a female who is talking to her lover‚ asking him to repent along with her but also about her struggle to repent herself. This gives us the indication that they have both sinned‚ so maybe had some kind of sexual relationship with each other. The title of the poem indicates that she is going into a convent however indications within the poem make us question whether or not she is on her
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and truth‚ and St. Jerome went after him or her with his mighty and sometimes sarcastic pen. He was above all a Scripture scholar‚ translating most of the Old Testament from the Hebrew. He also wrote commentaries which are a great source of scriptural inspiration for us today. He was an avid student‚ a thorough scholar‚ a prodigious letter-writer and a consultant to monk‚ bishop and pope. St. Augustine (August 28) said of him‚ "What Jerome is ignorant of‚ no mortal has ever known." St. Jerome is particularly
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