His Holiness

Gerard David created his oil on wood painting Virgin and Child with Four Angels from 1510 to 1515 in Bruges, Netherlands. The piece is currently located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and is found in Gallery 640 as part of the museum’s collection of European paintings. Just as the title indicates, the painting’s subject is the Blessed Virgin Mary holding her infant son Jesus Christ, the prophesied Messiah of the Old Testament, while being crowned by angels. Through the use of

actually break down the prejudices that surround snake handlers, one must learn the importance of snakes in the bible. Serpent handling churches tend to be built off one verse in the New Testament, but what about the Old Testament? People of the Holiness Pentecostal Church- the most common sect for serpent handlers- are known for heeding to the literal word of the bible more than other denominations of Christianity. The actual word serpent is used 31 times in the Old Testament (Joines, 3-4), and

the world in order to set an example for holiness and behavior among the people. Each person has an individual, intimate relationship with God. In order to maintain this relationship, and in return to God for his gracious acts, Jews keep His laws and strive to bring holiness into every aspect of their lives. In order for someone to be considered a Jew, their mother should be Jewish, not the father. The circumcision of a Jewish boy after eight days marks his entrance to the Jewish community as a Jew

represents the idea of how holiness and passionate Romeo’s love for Juliet are, through the metaphor in the quote “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” The metaphor conveys the idea of Romeo’s lips acting as pilgrims, ready to kiss Juliet tenderly. Comparing his lips to pilgrims that will worship Juliet’s lips like pilgrims who’s worship a holy place. Despite only knowing Juliet for a short period of time- still, Romeo shows his passionate love and

Distinguished as one of the greatest reflective thinkers of all time, Plato was the innovator of many written philosophical dialogues. Accompanied by his teacher, Socrates and his most notorious disciple, Aristotle, Plato set the groundworks of Western philosophy and science amid dialogues such as Apology, Euthyphro, Republic and Laws. These dialogues provided some of the earliest handlings of political inquiries from a philosophical viewpoint. In the Euthyphro, Plato composes a dialogue that transpires

Socrates had in his teachings and search of understanding. In Plato’s first work, The Allegory of the Cave, Socrates forms the understanding between appearance vs. reality and the deceptions we are subject to by the use of forms. In the cave, the prisoners’ experiences are limited to what their senses can tell them, the shadows on the walls, and their shackles; these appearances are all that they have to form their ideas. When one of the prisoners begins to question his reality he makes his way out of

the meaning of suffering, which is truly supernatural and at the same time human. It is supernatural because it is rooted in the Divine mystery of the Redemption of the world…deeply human, because in it the person discovers himself, his own humanity, his own dignity, his own mission.” The following are two reports of

Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the letter “A” to symbolize its potential for different meanings to the people of Hester’s time. Hawthorne’s symbolic “A” has three meanings: it symbolizes Hester’s shameful status as an adulterer, reminds Dimmesdale of his own adultery, guilt, and shame, and shows that Hester has abilities in the view of her townspeople. In each example the “A” connects to the idea of being forgiven for the sin that was committed: Hester is forgiven when she wears the letter “A”, Dimmesdale

into his new journey of being the 14th generation Dalai Lama buddhist monk.This ministry has gone back to 1492, when the first/second Dalai Lama was chosen. The 14th Dalai Lama was declared to be the next monk at the age of four on February 22,1940. He went by the name of 'Jamphei Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, ' in honour of the Lamas who have served him before. The current Dalai Lama is at the age of 84 years old, he has been in this ministry for 80 years and will continue it till his day

The story "Philippa's Fox Hunt" by Somerville and Martin Ross was set in Ireland. This story is about Mr. Yeats describing how marriage molded his life. In this story, we see the recently married couple evolve together, and we see them do different activities and experience new environments. This story has a lot of good imagery, symbols, and themes that give you an idea of what is going on and things you can learn from, even, if this story was written over 200 years ago. In this story, there is