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In Lasallian schools the core principle of concern for the poor and social justice invites students and staff to be in solidarity with the poor and advocate for those suffering injustices. This means that people should have awareness of the poor and those who are victims of injustices and respond to their needs by means of community service and advocacy. This core principle is illustrated in the novella, “Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr” by Miguel de Unamuno. The main character, Don Emmanuel is the parson of the city of Valverde. The congregation of this parish look up to Don Emmanuel, admire him, and are overtaken by his words in mass. However, the narrator reveals that Don Emmanuel was not a man of faith. “Metamorphosis” by Kafka, presents a story of a young man who one day wakes up and is transformed into a bug. As a result of this transformation, he is mistreated by his family and considered useless in society. In the case of Saint Emmanuel the Good Martyr, there is a character that does not believe in God, yet practices concern for the poor and social justice on a daily basis. On the other hand, we have a character that yearns what Don Emmanuel gives to the citizens in Valverde, care and concern.

A fiery sunset grows larger and taller as trees alight and black fog covers the sky. An unbearable heat hits me, I wheeze as ashy smoke fills my lungs. The last thing I hear is hissing in the trees before I fade into the

In “Confirmation Names,” Mariette Lippo describes a group of girls choosing their patron saints. Through the use of irony and syntax, the author scorns the Catholic Church’s treatment towards adolescent girls and the standards they are held under. However, when using a feminist criticism, Lippo’s disdain turns into anger towards society, not just the Catholic faith alone. When under an archetypal criticism, the piece focuses more on the religious stereotypes of the harsh, reserved nun and the classic rebellious Catholic schoolgirls, and thus provokes a sense of pity for the girls and an automatic cringe-worthy distaste for the nuns. Both the close reading and literary criticisms produce new tones and shed different lights on the conflicting aspects of “Confirmation Names.”

“So much is there, so much to see, you just cannot. You are not one; you are not gifted like me. I can be free. The void will save me, I shall live free.” With that I took the extra step off the edge. Then I was falling through the thick fog down the steep cliff -

Voltaire directs this example of the Church, as it was an officer of the Inquisition who was responsible for the sentencing. The inanity of the whole situation, as well as the completely unnecessary drastic results that it had, makes the Church appear to be an authority that is unreliable to make sensible decisions, or rule over people. This irrationality is again portrayed through Pangloss and the Reverend Father. The Reverend Father bathed in front of a Musselman, unknowing “that it was a major crime for a Christian to be found naked” (105) with one, and ended up being tried for it. Pangloss was similarly tried, because he took too long to give a girl back the flowers that she had dropped. Both of these men, as a result of committing these simple wrongdoings, are beaten and forced into slavery, destined to spend the rest of their days as galley slaves. The crimes themselves were so small and nonsensical that the fact that they were punished at all, much less so harshly for them, is unjustifiable. Voltaire uses the unfairness and utter ludicrousness of the situation to challenge whether government should be trusted with the fate of its people. Voltaire accentuates traditional authority’s ignorance.

over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me . . .

In chapter one titled “The Meaning of a School,” Mara Casey Tieken begins her book and the chapter by providing a vivid account of her experience in Vanleer, Tennessee, a rural school district, and how living there influenced her as an educator. During this time, Tieken became acquainted with ‘country living’ and adapted to many lifestyle changes. Through her experience, the author challenged the written misconceptions that educators and politicians create due to their lack of knowledge regarding rural school systems. Tieken further discussed the lack of attention that rural schools received in the political and educational sphere. Unfortunately, legislative policies, politicians, and educators geared their attention towards urban school

I turned my head to see the night sky. The ocean was so calm that it appeared as though a mural of stars were in front of me, as though I could leap forward into the black blanket of white sparkles. A star that shined yellow grew bigger as time went on. I imagined it was a firefly floating over the ocean just a short distance away. Oddly enough the firefly was moving closer to me somehow. The firefly started to appear as a small cat walking down from the sky.

So at lunchtime Mai Thi went up to go and get her food and Mrs Bigio was a witch to her. Even though it was Mai Thi’s country who killed her husband she blames the whole thing on Mai Thi. “Pick it up and be glad you’re getting it. You shouldn’t even be here sitting like a queen in a refugee home while the americans boys are sitting in swamps on christmas day. They're the ones who should be here not you”.

When Jem and Scout’s nanny, Calpurnia, invites the children to her African church, Jem and Scout do not feel welcome. As they enter the church, Lula, a huge African American woman, asks Calpurnia why she would bring “white children’’ to an African church (119). Calpurnia feels disrespected as much as the children do. Although Lula trots off after Calpurnia came to Jem and Scout’s defense, the children feel hurt and violated.

“How´d you and mister jem like to come to church with me tomorrow?”(156) Calpurnia understands that the kids should go to church, but they would cause less trouble at her church. Calpurnia wants what is best for the children, even though she knows that they may not be respected because they are white and the church is for African Americans. After getting to Calpurnia’s church, the children and Calpurnia are faced by discrimination from the other church goers. ‘Lula stopped, but she said, “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here-they got their own church, we got our’n.

My eyes were filled with eagerness and my body was filled with exhilaration. Looking left and looking right, I watched teenagers play drums as if they were music prodigies; I saw horses and carriages as if we were playing a role in a fairytale Disney movie. Various colors of light flashed brightly all around me. All of it was happening at once.

The first thing I ever felt was intense wind and somehow I knew that when I opened my eyes alI I would see is blue. Light pale grey blue. Blue so light that the horizon can’t tell where the grey water ends and the sky begins. Blue that promises rain and storms and chaos. I was sitting on something. Something with scales and muscles pumping, up and down, up and down and I could only grin because I knew. When I finally opened my eyes and looked at the dragon on whose back I sat, all I could feel was peace. Peace in the air with the slate skies. The dragon pushed harder, flapping it’s wings faster. Up up up up. I thought the farther up we went, the less air there would be, but no. There was more. I felt it in my blood. It flowed in constant wind, sending us through the layers and layers of atmosphere.

Kambili’s father has raised his children believing that his way was the right and that any other way was wrong. Papa has Kambili and Jaja living on a fixed schedule that focuses on studying, prayer, and time with family. They are raised to always obey him and never to question him, no matter what. They are expected to always place first in their class, to get awards in everything that they do, he wants them to be perfect. When Kambili and Jaja visit their Aunt Ifeoma they are exposed to a life without following blind leadership. While with Aunt Ifeoma, Kambili and Jaja are surprised by how differently their father’s sister are raising their children. Aunty Ifeoma raises her children to respect authority, but to also question it when they found necessary. Aunty Ifeoma is also a devout Catholic like Papa, but she does not condemn anything that is not of her faith. She still spends time with her father, who Papa father proclaims to be a heathen, and does not reject her Nigerian culture. Papa on the other hand, punishes his children for spending time with his father and doesn’t even allow his children to speak or sing church songs in Igbo, the language of Nigeria. When Kambili and Jaja go back

Ambrosio was highly praised within the monastery and Madrid for his stainless character, and yet his hypocritical downfall exemplifies the consequences of mixing Heaven and Earth. This results in both a fall of the credibility of Catholic beliefs and a shift towards more secular viewpoints. Even at the start of The Monk, the congregation present for Ambrosio’s sermon in Madrid is full of people from “a city where superstition reigns with such despotic sway…to seek for true devotion would be a fruitless attempt,” there is evidence that corruption is already present in this society (7; vol. 1, ch. 1). But when a religious figure also falls to this level, the atmosphere of a church’s role within society drastically shifts. This shift then jeopardizes the spirituality of the common people because of the church’s influence and its representation of God on Earth. The