The Pilgrimage

In The Sacred Quest, University of Notre Dame professor Lawrence Cunningham attempts the search for a coherent definition of religion. While he doesn’t strive for a one-sentence interpretation of what indicates a real, organized religion, he arrives on several elements and functions to give meaning to his definition. To Cunningham, there are five elements that make up a religion: belief, feeling, action, individual and community aspects, and values. Cunningham argues that these five elements exists in order to explain what could not otherwise be explained, enable people to sustain hope in the face of difficult experiences, and provide ways of thinking that provide goals and respond to “great problems” in life (158). All of these aspects work

Have you ever been hesitant to share a true story because you suspected that it would appear as a fabricated anecdote to your audience? Well, most of the time we add bunch of things or change a true story to make it sound genuine to our audience. We live in a judgmental and complex world where lying has become a part of our daily lives. Because of this habit, it is hard to differentiate the truth from a fabricated lie. Since I was a child, my parents always talked about battle of Adwa and many events that took place centuries ago. It is always amusing to listen to those stories because it is about heroic act that most of the kings of Ethiopia accomplished. Although I heard different versions of these stories, I always tend to believe my parents’ version. The reason is not simply the credibility of my parents’, but the way it was presented. According to the short story, “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’ Brien, a true war story is hard to accept as true because some of the most agonizing parts are true, while some of the natural parts are not. Tim O’Brien’s narrative shows that a storyteller has the power to shape listeners’ views. We can change our perception because of the story teller, and neglect the fact that we are avoiding the actuality. Therefore by listening to different versions of a story, it will actually help the reader find greater truth of the story.

The author, argues how in the face of having anxiety on 9-11 fear, people should re-evaluate and re-consider with their thoughts based on actual experience. In fact, the entirety of what we see, hear or read isn't actuality becaise by travelling, we tend to realize what these invidials are living through and how worng society makes it

The Pilgrimage of Grace was a religious uprising in York, England which started in late 1536 and finished in early 1537, where people lead by Yorkshire lawyer Robert Aske staged protests and demonstrations in opposition to King Henry VIII’s dissolution of monasteries and break from the Catholic Church. This rebellion was mostly aimed at Thomas Cromwell, who was Henry’s High Chancellor; and many of these marchers influenced Cromwell’s policies. The participants of the Pilgrimage of Grace had a goal to reinstate the Catholic Church, and a concern of the economic impacts caused by losing monasteries; those who opposed the movement had a goal to punish leaders and anyone associated with the movement and a political concern of losing power for

My long walk to Forgiveness: One writers voyage of discovery on the Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage by Sonia Choquette.

The purpose of the reading was to implant the idea that what is said to be true is not necessarily the case. Trouillot writes about history and power and their correlation; he speaks of the importance of the production of narratives and the advantage the winning party has in writing history (Trouillot, 1995). Who the narrator is greatly affects how the story is told, and rarely does the loser have a voice. Trouillot also addresses the four moments where silencing might occur: fact creation, fact assembly, fact retrieval, and retrospective significance. In relation to the Argentinian military dictatorship many were silenced and others remained silent, whether it be from fear or from personal interest; those who spoke up lost. The film, “The Official Story” alludes to the three types of people in history: those silenced, Ana, the naïve, Alicia, and those who have power but remain silent,

The Quest of the Holy Grail is an exciting tale that follows the adventures of King Arthur's knights as they scour the countryside for the legendary Holy Grail. Throughout their journeys, the knights engage in many exciting jousts and sword fights with a variety of enemies. The author of The Quest of the Holy Grail intends for the story to be more than just entertainment: the knights' search for the Holy Grail is analogous to the pursuit of morality and spiritual chivalry, showing success through asceticism, confession, chastity, and faith.

At times I was feeling as I was walking that blurry boundary between facts and illusion and that I could fall if I make any wrong step. But, what was right and what was wrong in that hall of mirrors... Comparing daily my opinions and comments with the rest of the media brought me that uneasy feeling that I don’t belong there anymore, that there was broadening a significant gap between me and the majority of my friends in that profession. We greeted each other occasionally, but we choose the sides. My side was quite lonely - few groups of intellectuals, university professors, journalists, artists; all of them wonderful people, professionals in their fields, but stripped of their influence. Another side was vast and strong, built carefully during the time authoritarian, populist leader

Faithful is just a guy who, like Christian, escapes his past life and pursues a life that is down the straight and narrow path of Christianity. A Righteous man, ridiculed, tortured, and finally burnt at the stake for his faith, Faithful lives up to his name and is the martyr of The Pilgrim's Progress—the one who suffers and dies for what he believes in. Before Christian meets Faithful on the road from the Palace Beautiful, Christian seems to be the only real pilgrim on the journey to the Celestial City. The others pilgrims he has met on his journey (Formalist and Hypocrisy, Mr. Worldly-Wiseman, Mr. Pliable) have either abandoned the journey for its extreme struggles or for being shown the hollowness of their faith. But Faithful is different unlike his friends he did not have a hollow faith so when he faced the trials and tribulations he did not deal with them because of his strong faith in the Lord.

that Mary told Bernadette to find a spring. She did and in 1862 it was

Exploring the tension between truth and illusion is a frequent preoccupation of twentieth century American literature. Compare and contrast the treatment of this theme in `Tender is the Night' and at least one other relevant text you have encountered.

Readers may find difficulties in identifying what the story is about at the first place and the images created by the author does not illustrate centralizing conception. On the other hand, author used ambiguity which is new criticism and seems tried to give the idea of looking through the glass from the other side. Complexity is in great extent in the story, especially when the writer switches and focuses on Carlos Argentino describing him as an unimpressive and an authoritative individual, therefore this leaves the reader in a confusion state as the essay tries to combine different issues in one understanding (Borges, 1945). The author seems to turn his attention to Carlos as he tries and the reader feels no underpinning or interlocking of the meaning reinforcing the paraphrase expected to be made also the association of the properties in the essay sounds complex for one to comprehend. The most impressive part of the story is ironic how the author views Daneri’s work; he suggests that the work did not lay in poetry but in his invention of reasons for admiring

“A Journey” is a short story written by Colm Tóibín in 2006. The story follows Mary who picks up her twenty-year-old son David from a hospital. The car ride home is not only a journey in itself but becomes a ride of memories. A ride that through flashbacks shows Mary her journey of life which gets her to start reflecting on the decisions and choices she has made in the past. It is about acceptance. Accepting your life as it is or turned out without looking back and that is the key to start looking forward instead.

Just as they say life is a journey, the same could be said for English Composition 1.

The Road to Mecca is the story of Helen, an artist trying to survivor in an isolated community, and her two friends; Marius, the local Minster and Elsa, a progressive school teacher from the city. Helen is feeling alone and unable to complete her work, in a state of depression, she writes a letter pleading for help to her long time friend Elsa, Both women have much in common; both are rebels against social conventions. Elsa teaches radical material to her colored students, and Helen’s exotic artwork defies traditional notions of art encompassing her entire house and garden, this is her own homemade Mecca.