Our story takes place in a land of forests and fields, towns and villages, rolling hills and brooks. The old and powerful Church of New Rose, which ruled the lands for six centuries, aims to establish total control over her domains. The Dukes and Kings who ruled these lands sought to gain independence from the church's iron grasp. ___ was one such of these Dukes seeking to gain independence from the church. Being the most influential of the movement, the church sent private soldiers under the cover of darkness to assassinate ___. As the church's spies learned more of the scheming of the Dukes, the church made their decision to gather a force and assert their authority over their domains. Forming a huge army of ___, Druids, and mercenaries, the church …show more content…
Seeing the incoming army, ___ watched in horror as the church's army neared the bridge of ___. As if in perfect timing, the rough, tall, and wild men of the north charged out of hiding into the lines of ___, Druids, and mercenaries with a vengeful vigor. Crushing the churches lines, ___ sent out her soldiers and joined the fight as a united front. Together they plowed into the center formations where the high monks and clerics were and struck down ___, ninth of the monks. In quick succession, three more monks were struck down and the mercenaries began to loose their motivation and strength to fight. In a quick act of desperation, the only remaining monks gather what few clerics and able fighters are left and flee into the catacombs of the chapel in the holy city of ___. ___ then illegalizes every religious activity and orders for every chapel and temple to be demolished to wipe away every memory of the church. Many years of peace follow this bloody war, but deep in the catacombs of ___, ___ continues to secretly gather a force who eagerly awaits the order to charge above ground and resume the war of reinstating the church as a true power of the
Raymond of Aguilers on the fall of Jerusalem, is a first-hand account on the siege of Jerusalem which reveals an insight into the war-tactics of the Christians, the overall violence of the event that took place, and the religious fanaticism of the Crusaders. While the text supplies many details on these features, from the perspective of Raymond of Aguilers, a chaplain who participated in the event,1 this paper will argue that the text overall is inaccurate as a historical account, and rather simply an exaggerated interpretation of what occurred. Based on the notion of the Crusader’s superiority as Christians, and the belief that their actions were sanctioned by God2 this paper will attempt to prove that the description is un-objective and biased.
A crusade has gone terribly wrong, almost a whole army killed by the hand of Turkish soldiers. The crusade consisted of peasants and soldiers led by Peter the Hermit. Calling
This annotated bibliography is designed to give the readers comprehensive understand of how the theme of feminism is manifested in William Faulkner short story A Rose for Emily. The information gathered about the story was mainly taken from scholarly journals and credible internet sources. The information gathered on the primary text gives and in-depth and critical look on the topic feminism. Through ongoing secondary research literary critics have a wide interpretations of the primary sources. In relation to the topic feminism, literary critics say that feminism can be seen in the story. Issues that literary critics emphases on are the reason behind the feminism theme. Some say it is because of the author personality, while others say it is just the writer expressing what he sees around him during the time that the story was written. These interpretation by literary critics have influenced me not only to look at the words in story but also to look at the author. Further research on the author would be useful, which will give me a full understand of who he is and what was going on when the story was written.
While one of the most traditional interpretations of “A Rose for Emily” is the variety of meanings for the “rose” presented in the title and how the “rose” fits in with the story. Laura Getty states in her article many varied perspectives that many could ponder when identifying what the “rose” stands for. She states many possible theories that depict what the “rose” means, including theories of other writers that help support her own theory and also that adds another way that most might not consider at first. Most of the interpretations of the rose are all focused on the “internal elements” (Getty 231) rather than the actual rose itself. Getty theorizes about certain characters, buildings, anything that symbolizes a rose in the story as
How can someone pursue a personal desire if they spent their life trying to conform? Alden Nowlan’s short story, “The Glass Roses” explores this through the protagonist, Stephen. Stephen’s personal desire to feel accepted conflicts with his feeling of having to become like the pulp cutters because he is not mentally or physically ready to fit in with grown men. This results in Chris finding a way to become his own person. Stephen’s journey to pursue his personal desire is shown through setting, character development, and symbolism.
Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a warrior in the holy wars? Well, you mightn’t want to. These wars included lots of torment and bloodshed of the religious leaders. These oppositions of religion were entirely wrong. Religious leaders showed hatred and anger to other religions, resulting in them having wars.
After granting many of those accused pardon after their confessions, the author learns the rituals and practices of the Christians. After hearing the descriptions of their meetings and assemblies without a direct causation to crime or disloyalty within community and proceeding to torture two deaconesses, the author concludes that such assemblies are “ordinary and innocent” and that their beliefs are only “depraved, excessive superstition” (4). Here, we not only see evidence of the aggressive sentiments of Roman authorities towards Christians, but also observe the Christians responsiveness from direct orders from the author. Due to the author’s forbiddance of “political associations,” the Christians no longer eat
The history of religion has been pervaded by offensive and aggressive wars even before the birth of Jesus Christ as the messiah of Christian eschatology. Yet, Jesus brought another dimension to the faith that was more pacifist as evident in his preaching and examples. Looking at the Gospels and the interpretation of Jesus’ teachings in the letters of Saint Paul to the different churches, there exist numerous references of justified violence in relation to Jesus and the expansion of the church on earth. This evidence represents a paradox, since it presents a messiah who is predominantly pacifist but condones or incites violence in some cases. The problem is therefore
" Dimitri ! Release me ! " . she yelled once more . It had been two days already and there where barely any signs of improvement in her condition . I was getting worried but I believed in her . She was so strong , I knew she would snap out of it . I remained silent and simply moved closer to take (1)her (2)hand . Or at least try to take (3)her (4)hand she wouldn't let me touch her since she had gone into this state . Every time I would come close or try to touch her she would try her best to move away , showing disgust through her eyes . It was painful for me to see but I knew this wasn't her . This was the darkness . However I couldn't help but think that the darkness was revealing what she never dared to tell me . Which is that she never saw me the same
Though many believe that receiving a single rose is extremely cliche, I found it to be the most thoughtful, yet riskiest, gift I have ever gotten. With strict parents, it is especially difficult to have any interaction with boys while simultaneously trying to avoid their condemnation. Because of this, all the males at my school would purposely distance themselves away from me, for the benefit of both themselves and myself from being confronted by my parents. This isolation from boys continued until my sophomore year of high school when one of my peers, who has admired me for quite a while, knocked on my door and handed me a single rose on my birthday. He not only remembered the most special day of my life, but also sacrificed himself to a verbal
Briar Rose spent the next several weeks learning more of healing than she'd even brushed upon before the war had broken out.
Corruption in the church ranged from the papacy to the local priests. The Great Schism weakened the papacy, and councils fought each other. Monastic discipline and scholastic excellence declined into lax rigor. Local priests were uneducated and positions of leadership bought by nobility for illegitimate children (González, 7-8). Europe’s people were polarized between trusting the church as they had for centuries and mourning their growing lack of trust as the church’s immorality spread.
A long time ago, in a land far, far away from this land we know, there was a land called Gwyndor, a place where all kinds of life existed. Men, Dwarves, Elves and other creatures lived in this mysterious land. However, Gwyndor was not all a place of peace and prosperity, far off near the borders of the east, there was a land called Azurg, a land where the sun forbid to shine and simply setting foot in the land drains the life right out of you if you were not strong enough. Right in the center of Azurg there was a dark and gloomy empire filled with hundreds of thousands of fang bearing, fearsome creatures who crafted crude weapons out of metal they gained from fallen warriors whom they slayed, but in the center of the empire there was a lone tower, and in this tower there was a conjurer of dark magic whom no man had ever seen, for once you saw him, you never escaped with your life. This sorcerer remained nameless because no one could describe him because no one ever got a look at him before his or her time was ended. No one ever knew what that creature was doing up in his tower but one day nearly fifty years ago this good world figured it out.
False king! Liar!” The Magi would turn against me with heinous, wolf-like grins as they initiated their revenge. The Romans, oh they are the worst. I can see them now! The Senate staring at me with their beady eyes and dagger-shaped teeth waiting to tear into me with their sardonic words about my reign. Oh, the agony! “I must find that boy,” I whispered to myself as one of my nearby servants overheard. “Oh, it is nothing, my girl. Carry on.” I instructed her. My nervousness grew as if it were a ghastly shadow enclosing my life. They should be at Jerusalem by now, but I could not help but think of the time before this event to ease my mind.
embarking in this holy war. The Kingdom was more than stone upon stone in a foreign land, but