Throughout history saints have been greatly recognized and honored for their pious devotion to God. This degree of religious devotion can often take a great deal of years. However, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, being as devout as she was, exhibited this to a very high degree in very little time. Often to a very high degree, she chose to willingly suffer and readily desired to perform penances. I believe this degree of devotion is what ultimately led to her canonization into…
Katie Makanya and Florence Nightingale both contrast the modern phenomenon of urban life with traditional life in the countryside. In Katie Makanya, Margaret McCord portrays the black South African life that Katie lives and how she has to adapt to the European culture during the years of colonization. Around the time of Katie Makanya’s childhood, South Africa was beginning to change rapidly due to the discovery of diamonds, which kept bringing Europeans into their territory causing their cultures and race to blend together.…
On the day of Lena's evaluation, she almost gets trampled by a herd of cows that was supposedly sent by an invalid boy who but was never actually comforted in the book. This is a very significant moment in the novel because the invalid is actually Alex and that is the first time Lena saw him, and he left a impression winking at her.…
A person described as ‘moral’ is a person who ‘confirms to the rules of right conduct’. The word ‘depravity’ has a complete opposite meaning, and refers to someone who is ‘evil’ or ‘wicked’ in nature. (dictionary.com)…
Black students throughout the U.S. have been making headlines with their multiple acceptances at top colleges and universities. The latest high school senior to make the news for being wanted by several elite schools is a Canarsie teen, Nina Uziogwe.…
Kate The Great by Meg Cabot, Jenny learns that growing up is a challenge but everyone goes through it.…
Around the time of Katie Makanya’s childhood, South Africa was beginning to change rapidly due to the discovery of diamonds, which ultimately kept bringing Europeans into their territory causing their cultures and race to blend together. This book illustrates the black South African life that Katie lives and how she uneasily adapts to the incoming European culture during those years of colonization.…
In the 1950’s women were brought up to believe that they are strong leaders passing along their families’ traditions, values and faith in order to keep the beliefs of their culture ongoing. From their Native American ancestors, they inherited the belief that women are wise and powerful offering their unique and valuable contributions…
Mary Jemison’s anxiety was gone and she could now fully experience the Native American lifestyle. A Native American woman’s daily routine was not much different from a white woman; cooking, planting and hoeing. She has now taken the identity of a Native American woman, and she enjoys being with them. She allowed her identity to change within, becoming one of their sisters, becoming family. Mary could have just given up and hated all the people around her but instead she was forgiving towards all of them. Trust was very important during the Native American time, they hat to trust one another and also trust the men to keep them safe from outsiders. Native Americans lived their life in fear never knowing what was coming next.…
Devoted to values such as the importance of family and the need for human courage and dignity, she created strong female characters whose sort of strength and determination had previously been attributed to only men.…
With the base human needs and safety almost assured by cities, and civilization, one can fulfill more needs and can focus their motivation on moral issues. The problem with a moral saint of this nature is the commitment to morality that must be made in order for a person to be considered a moral saint. Again, the entirety of the moral saint’s existence is to be as morally good as possible and whose actions are morally good all the time. A single moral saint would not be able to attend school, or even if attending, would not be able to succeed because in order to further ones education, one must forego helping others to have an interest of their…
Another example of such reverence for women is unveiled in the representation of the earth goddess, Ani. Ani is described a playing "a greater part in the life of the people than any other deity. She was the ultimate judge of morality and conduct. d in Chapter fourteen, when Okonkwo returns to his mother's clan after being exiled from the Ibo village. Uchendu, reproaching Okonkwo for his sorrow about having to come to live with his mother's clan, explains:…
Lermentov's most iconic novel, A Hero of Our Time tells the tale of a wandering soldier, Pechorin. Pechorin encounters many transformative women throughout his journey. A fateful prophecy about his death shapes all his interaction with these women. "When I was still a child, an old woman told my fortune to my mother. She predicted of me "death from a wicked wife"" (137). In A Hero of Our Time, Lermentov's hero tries to escape his fate through women when, ironically, they are his fate.…
terms of what her specific social role, and purpose is within society in relation to men, and their use in the world.…
Like all people they want to be remembered, some go by fame, money, knowledge, but the one that gets overlooked the most is the greater good. You could be thinking though, what is the greater good? Well, it’s when you care more about others than yourself and are going to go through great lengths just to accomplish it. Many women throughout history have done an abundance of things for the greater good but many people overlook women.…