...The Franciscan values that are most important to me are showing compassion for others by serving and caring for the poor and oppressed. Having a concern for social justice issues is another that is big on my list because I believe in America. Taking responsible social action plays a big part in my life. Offering unselfish service is part of who I am because I believe in offering my services to people, regardless of the circumstances. In Hill’s book, many events have contributed to horrific trends, resulting in the establishment of the nobodies. Regardless of the circumstances, I feel rewarded when I extend my services to the...
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...Running Head: KU KLUX KLAN Ku Klux Klan and the Franciscan Values Cardinal Stritch University ASB-219 Bradley Houston February 21, 2012 How does one determine if the organization known as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) either defies or embodies the Franciscan values Cardinal Stritch has in place for its students? In order to answer this question we must break down the KKK’s history and compare it to the values of the Franciscan tradition. The Ku Klux Klan is a movement that has been very controversial since the Civil War. The Klan as they call themselves was created as a result of the occupation of Federal troops in the South. The KKK’s purpose at the time was to provide the people of the south with the leadership to bring back the values of Western Civilization that was taken from them. In the 1920’s the Klan had its most popular era. At this time the KKK was the most active politically then it has ever been in history. The people who believed in movement came together against the advancement of African Americans, Jews, and other minorities. The KKK members were very violent and used harsh actions to get their point across, but their actions were supported by their strong belief in their religion and the culture in which they were brought up in. The Klan did as it believed, they did what they thought was right and for their time period and acted in the way their culture brought them up to act. The name Ku...
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...after applying “for a place where he could live in solitude and penance, and enter more fully into the spirit and discipline of Franciscan life (Huber, 1948; Dal-Gal, 1907; O’Brien, 1957). While he was there, he led a solitary life and read Mass for the lay brothers (Huber, 1948; Rigauld, 1904). Once retired and still living in Monte Paolo, a superior asked a group of Franciscan and Dominican friars to speak a few words to the assembled brethren (Huber, 1948). Due to being unprepared, all the other friars respectfully declined and did not step forward which gave the superior the authority to choose who would deliver the sermon, he chose Anthony (Huber,...
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...Ethnography Study: Personal Identities of Homeless People This paper is an ethnographic study of the personal identities of people who are homeless and living in Chicago, Illinois. People who are homeless are portrayed in and thought of in negative light. Much too often do people group homeless people into one category in terms of judging their background before meeting them; their state of homelessness has been offered as informative of who they are. Their voices and perspectives rarely contribute to broader knowledge about who they are as people. As such, the forced ‘homeless identity’ has resulted in placing them as ‘different’ than the ‘normal’ people with homes. An August 2014 analysis by Chicago Coalition for the Homeless estimates that 138,575 Chicagoans were homeless in the course of the 2013-14 school year. This is 19.4% more than the 116,042 people who were homeless a year earlier . With the recognition that homelessness is continuously increasing every year come important questions about how this happened, what could be done about it, and who are the people experiencing homelessness. This ethnography is concerned with this last question. This thesis centers on the personal identities of people experiencing homelessness. I want to understand how they see themselves on an individual level. Identities matter. Identifying people on the basis of their homelessness influences how they are thought about, and thus responded to by policy makers, service providers...
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...in Western Europe emphasized reason, analysis, and individualism rather than the traditional lines of authority. Candide is the story of a young man’s adventures throughout the world, where he witnesses much evil, disaster and sufferings. Throughout his travels, he adheres to the teaching of his tutor, believing that “all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.” Candide is Voltaire’s answer to what he saw as an absurd belief proposed by the Optimists-an easy way to rationalize evil and suffering. Throughout Candide, Voltaire uses satire as a tool to reveal his controversial views on religion. Voltaire takes aim at organized religion and other organization to prove the point that all were completely corrupt in thoughts and actions. He criticized many aspects of humanity at that time. Throughout Candide religious leaders are portrayed as hypocrites who do not live up to the religious standards that they set for others. Religious leaders ought to be the epitome of goodness and morality and are supposed to live lives worthy of emulation, but in this play, the church is found to be infested with hypocrisy and its leaders, hypocritical, greedy, and immoral. There are hypocrisies of sexual promiscuity, threat, belief in superstitions, stealing, lack of charity and oppression seen in this satire. High ranking church officials are deeply involved in sexual promiscuity. Despite his vows of celibacy as a priest and leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Urban the Tenth has...
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...Mayo Clinic Value Alignment Learning Team B Anita Duray, Genia Lewis, Lisa McNeill, Tamiko Perry, and Michael Rogerson BUS 475 July 9, 2012 Paul Gerlach In this paper Learning Team B analyzed the individual values and the organizational values as reflected by the organization’s plans and actions of the Mayo Clinic. The Learning Team B selected the Mayo Clinic because of its long history and high values. The Mayo Clinic’s founder was Dr. William Worrall Mayo and back in 1863 in Rochester, Minn. From the beginning the Mayo Clinic main focus was helping people with a more team driven practice. The clinic would request other doctors or science researchers to join them in the world’s first private group practice in medicine. This teamwork method through the Mayo Clinic continues today with more than 55,000 doctors, nurses, scientists, students, and allied health staff at locations in the Midwest, Arizona, and Florida. (“Mayo Clinic History”, 2012) With the data available about the Mayo Clinic the Learning Team B is going to analyze the evolution of the clinic’s personal and workplace values. The team will explain and analyze the alignment of the clinic’s individual and organizational values. Then finally the team will explain the differences between the individual and organizational values as reflected by the Mayo Clinic’s plans and actions. Personal and Workplace Values Mayo Clinic is a medical clinic. This medical clinic...
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...A Short Account of a Short Account In A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolomé de las Casas records numerous atrocities committed by the Spanish against the natives of the New World in an attempt to persuade the king of Spain to intercede somehow, and stop the violence. In order to persuade the king, he presents crimes in two categories: Crimes against the Spanish crown, and crimes against God and The Church. Besides violating the natives’ basic humanity, las Casas maintains, the Spaniards are guilty of a host of crimes including murder, blasphemy, and theft. In our exploration of the crimes recorded by las Casas, we will begin with those crimes which he presents as mostly against the Spanish Crown. First and foremost in A Short Account, las Casas brings to the reader’s attention the murders and wholesale slaughter of entire populations. “…killing off these poor innocents to such effect that where the native population of the island was certainly over six hundred thousand…fewer than two hundred survive…” (las Casas, 26) Because the Spanish claim the land of the new world as their own territory, as Las Casas points out when he writes, “It should be recalled that the pretext upon which the Spanish invaded each of these provinces…was purely and simply that they were making good the claim of the Spanish Crown to the territories in question.” (las Casas, 52) This amounts to the mass slaughter of Spanish subjects who are supposed to be under the protection...
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...To illustrate that point, eyewitness accounts are like the game of telephone with the players as the time passed and the message as the account: as the message travels from player to player, the inaccuracy of the message increases. In addition, Aztec culture emphasized strict memorization during their education in calmecac and telpochcalli which led to the preservation of literary works (xlvi). This strict memorization embedded in the culture makes the verbal accounts more reliable. Not only that, the Nahuatl language was written in the latin alphabet through the teachings of Franciscans who arrived in 1524 (xvi) which lead to the creation of works such as Manuscrito de Tlatelolco, Cantares Mexicanos, Florentine Codex, and other works to be recorded. These sources are advantageous...
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...with the earth. This all changed sometime around the 1850 when the “Baconian Creed” of scientific knowledge started influencing the people. As a result man began to exploit the earth through new advents in technology. White cites the invention of the eight-oxen plow as the beginning of man’s “ruthlessness” towards nature. White continues to argue that Christian Axioms fueled this newfound exploitive attitude towards earth. To White, Christianity’s story of creation and notion that “no item in the physical creation had any purpose save to serve man’s purpose (White).” only served to justify these actions and put Christianity as “the most anthropocentric religion the world has seen.” White continues to argue that simply applying more science and more technology to our ecologic crisis is not going to solve the problem. To him the issue is essentially religious. White suggests a Franciscan model towards earth and all of it inhabitants and ends by proposing Saint Francis of Assisi as a patron saint for ecologist. White proposes an interesting argument; I agree that the Bible promotes anthropocentric thought. What I don’t agree with is to the extent it influenced the ecologic crisis. It was more a matter of productivity and financial...
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...Religion and Ethnic Diversity Tracy Kimberly Mosiello ETh /125 November 17, 2013 Dr. Rochelle Holland Religious and Ethnic Groups Roman Catholic The first century of Christianity there was no "Roman Catholicism" as it is today. There was no Protestantism or Eastern Orthodoxy to differentiate it. There was the "one, holy, catholic church" confirmed in the first beliefs, which was the group of Christian followers completely over the world, unified by mutual beliefs, church structure, traditions, and worship (catholic means "universal"). During the Middle Ages, if you were a Christian, you went to the Catholic Church. Any Christianity other than the Catholic Church was an unorthodox, not a denomination. Catholic Beliefs Roman Catholic beliefs don’t vary extremely as of those of the other main divisions of Christianity - Greek Orthodoxy and Protestantism. Altogether three foremost divisions hold to the principle of the Trinity, the holiness of Christ, the inspiration of the Bible, etc. There is a strong Catholic distinctive in belief. Distinctive Roman Catholic beliefs contain the exceptional power of the pope, the capacity of saints to mediate on behalf of followers, the idea of Purgatory as an area of life after death cleansing before arriving in Heaven, and the principle of transformation. ...
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...first challenged to participate and function in society on a more complex level than ever before. They must endure trials and tribulations and prepare themselves for the world ahead, including college and life after formal education. As a teacher, it would be my duty to shepherd these kids, to show them by example right from wrong, to be a role model for them; I need to exhibit the Franciscan value for Dignity of the Individual and meet them on their level to show these kids the respect that they often are never shown but crave and need like food or water. It is through a mutual respect that these kids begin to learn and listen at their best capacity. Respecting another person comes best through understanding them; being caught up in all the generalizations about kids in each level of secondary school and not making an active effort to understand them will only go so far in teaching these particular age groups, if it will go anywhere at all. The foremost thing that teachers must understand about their students is that their pupils may not have any interest in their particular subject at its face value. Quite frequently, teachers will focus on their subject alone, and teach nothing but that subject and not how it might help their pupils later in life. Throughout my own high school years, I found that I learned the most from a subject when it was NOT taught as an idea by itself, but in relation to my own life, and how it can be applied to all my other various tasks or enjoyments...
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...the truth, and that only by choosing to ignore the truths that the church provides will they be able to become productive members of society. Another aspect of the church that Voltaire viciously attacked was the immorality of those who should be exemplifying the good qualities of Christian people—the priests. While on the road to Cadiz, it is learned that a Franciscan monk, who is not supposed to have any connection to material possessions or wealth, stole Cunégonde's diamonds and pistoles, leaving them "not a single maravedi" (Chapter 10). Later in their journey while on route to Paraguay, the old woman informs Candide and Cunégonde of her true identity: she is the "daughter of Pope Urban X and the Princess of Palestrina" (Chapter 11). The most important holy figure in the church, and a man with very serious celibacy vows has a child. He is making a grave jab at the church by saying that priests, including the pope, are immoral beings that break their holy vows, which in turn makes common citizens distrust the church. This concept also ties back to the decline in the authority of the church and the increase in secular values that the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment brought. Throughout the entirety of his life, Voltaire was a huge critic on war and senseless violence in general, and he emphasizes his strong opinions in Candide by making light of the vast amount of death, and by seeming completely uninterested. In chapter three, Candide watched as the Abar and Bulgar...
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...Northern California Geolo Geology of Northern California Frank DeCourten Department of Earth Science Sierra College Standing more than 10,000 feet (3,000 m) above the surrounding terrain, Mt. Shasta is the largest volcano in northern California and symbolizes the dynamic geologic processes that have shaped a spectacular landscape. 63829_02_insidecover.qxd 11/25/08 12:53 AM Page ii ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS TO ASK Northern California.1 Introduction Ⅲ What are northern California’s physiographic provinces? Ⅲ What is the Farallon subduction zone? al Ⅲ What two types of plate boundaries exist in northern California today? th Ⅲ What are terranes, how do they originate, and why are they important in northern California? Northern California.2 The Sierra Nevada: California’s Geologic alifornia’s Ge Backbone Ⅲ What is the Sierra Nevada batholith? rra batholi Ⅲ What kinds of rocks surround the Sierra Nevada batholith? ra Ⅲ When and how was the modern Sierra Nevada uplifted? e Ⅲ What types of gold deposits occur in the Sierra Nevada? e? Ⅲ What is the Mother Lode? Northern California.3 The Klamath M Mountains t ath an Ne evada Ⅲ In what ways are the Klamath Mountains and the Sierra Nevada similar? ds ro o ath M Ⅲ What kinds of rocks comprise the ophiolites in the Klamath Mountains and what tectonic events do they signify? ineral occu th ntai Ⅲ What mineral resources occur in the Klamath Mountains? Northern California...
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...Analysis of Voltaire’s Candide: A non-satirical composition of the most satirical piece of literature By: Westley (A.K.A Nicky Flash) Allen Westley Allen AP Literature Miss Gwaltney April 29, 2013 Through literary devices such as persuasion, sarcasm, and elegant rhetorics, Voltaire successfully composes possibly the most well-known satirical pieces of literature. Mad magazine, The Simpsons, and Saturday Night Live, examples of some of the comical staples that satiate our desire for humor. In our society, satire is among the most prevalent of comedic forms. This was not always true. Before the 18th century, satire was not a fully developed form. Satire, however, rose out of necessity; writers and artists needed a way to ambiguously criticize their governments, their churches, and their aristocrats. By the 18th century, satire was hugely popular. “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own”. (Swift) Satire as an art form has its roots in the classics, especially in the writings of Voltaire. Satire as it was originally proposed was a form of literature using sarcasm, irony, and wit, to bring about a change in society, but in the eighteenth century Voltaire, Jonathan Swift and William Hogarth expanded satire to include politics, as well as art. The political climate of the time was one of tension. Any criticism of government would bring harsh punishments, sometimes exile or death. In order to voice opinions without...
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...the abusive friars and the power hungry politics that plagued the local government. This gives rise to the common misconception is that Rizal yearned for independence from our Spanish colonizers. There is no doubt that Rizal loved his country which begs the question “Why wouldn’t he want independence?” Well Rizal was a well educated man who lived most of his adulthood in Spain. During his stay there, he saw the potential of the Philippines to prosper as a nation with the help of our colonizers. He thought that the Philippines was not ready to govern itself at the time so instead, he wanted the Filipino people to have rights equal to the Spanish before the law. He wanted the Filipino priests instead of Spanish Augustinians, Dominicans or Franciscans. He wanted the...
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