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    Colonial Habits

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    the convents and local elite families allowed the nuns to play an important role in Cuzco’s economic development. The convents not only helped the country economically but also provided a safe haven for women and orphaned children, as well as providing an education for the children of elite families. The convents also reflected the different social hierarchies of the colonial…

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    and nuns a daily routine that they could follow. This would best allow them to be close to God and be as pure as possible. This helps keep social order together and keeps the monks and nuns loyal. 2. How can rules ensure an atmosphere of love, prayer, and peace? Rules can ensure an atmosphere of love and peace by keeping people in check and not allowing others to hurt one another and by enforcing some small rules you can easily keep people together. 3. Why might you, as monks and nuns,…

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    Occam's Razor Answers

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    2. My answer for this question, the explanation that is the easiest to understand is the best explanation, is wrong because the explanation that is without the extra assumptions should be preferred, even though it might not be the easiest to understand. Occam's Razor centers around this idea that if you hear hoof beats think horse, not zebra. A horse should first come to mind because it is the most likely explanation and more commonly found to be the answer. I honestly think the wording tripped…

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    Red Lotus Of Chastity

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    deception to accomplish their goals. It follows Machiavelli’s The Prince, concept of being the fox and the lion. Both Devasmita and the nun in The Red Lotus of Chastity attempt to succeed in being both animals. Although Machiavelli states in The Prince that he must possess both traits of the fox and the lion, only Devasmita triumphs in being both animals while the nun ends up being only the lion. In Machiavelli’s The Prince, he uses the metaphor of the fox and the lion as qualities a prince…

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    Sally Anselm Massacre

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    A Missionaries of Charity nun who survived the massacre at a home for the aged in Yemen is still traumatized as she recalls how she escaped death two months ago. Sister May Sally, the lone survivor in the Yemen massacre, is reportedly now back in India but is still having a hard time coming to terms with what happened two months ago. At that time, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants stormed the establishment, slaughtered four nuns, and kidnapped Father Tom Uzhunnalil, Breitbart…

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    extraordinary story of how made it from Vietnam to Australia, Survived and became one of Australia’s best loved comedians. Throughout the book And meets Lots of People Some kind and willing to help and some mean and angry. In the book he meets Pirates, Nuns and a kind friend who helps him in every way possible. On Anh’s journey with his family to australia they meet up with a bunch of pirates who took pretty much everything that had including all their gold and valuable items they had collected…

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    Strobe Light In Macbeth

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    Romance, gore, and demonic nuns – it’s Shakespeare with a twist. Though boldly adapted for the modern viewer by Charles Roy, this bracing update of Macbeth maintains the Shakespearian aura. The Classical Theatre Project’s Macbeth perfectly portrays the guilt and the paranoia, the lies and the manipulation. The play takes place as a prophecy is foretold that Macbeth, a Scottish general, is destined to ascend to royalty. Fueled with greed, he and his wife develop a ploy riddled with violence and…

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    The Use Irony The use of irony and satire in today’s is use in many ways. Through stories, books, and media irony and satire are use every day. Irony is the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite typically for humorous or empathic. Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or voices particularly in the context of contemporary polities, and other topical issues. Through the Canterbury…

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    Chaucer Call The Monk

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    However, this nun is more concerned with how she appears to others; "She pained he way to imitate the ways of court, and to be stately all her days, and to be held worthy of reverence" (139-141). It is also interesting that the nun's rosary contains the letter A that…

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    of their carefree attitude and actions. Although as the story progresses, the wolves change and lose their cheerful spirit when the nuns try to transition them into human culture. For example, in the story, Claudette talks about how Mirabella is having trouble standing on two feet, "which the nuns had taught us to see looked unnatural and ridiculous" (241). The nuns symbolize order and control, because they force the girls to believe standing on two feet is the proper way to stand. The two…

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