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    In the excerpt “Fourth Day, Story 32 [The Woman Who Drank from Her Lover’s Skull]”, Marguerite de Navarre tells the polarizing story of an adulterous wife and her husband. The story follows the journey of Bernage Signeur, who was sent on a mission by King Charles VIII. Upon his expedition, he seeks lodging at a castle and is introduced to the castle’s master. The master invites him to dinner. At dinner, Bernage notices that the master’s wife has a shaved head and drinks from a skull. Horrified, Bernage

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    Huguenot Wedding

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    Many of the Huguenot leaders are in Paris for the wedding of Prince Henry of Navarre and Margaret of Valois. This wedding is supposed to end of the Third Huguenot War since Henry is a Huguenot and Margaret is a Catholic. Many people in Paris did not agree with the wedding and there is an attempted assassination of the Admiral. A few days later there is a riot. Philip, Claire, and Pierre are able to escape with peasant clothes on, but many other Huguenots are unlucky. The Admiral is one of the casualties

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    Structural Family Therapy Structural family therapy (SFT) is a theory that views the family as a psychosocial system embedded within a larger social system that is maintained by its’ own interactional patterns (Vetere, 2001). Within the family system are subsystems, boundaries and hierarchies (Minuchin & Fishman, 1981). For an individuals symptoms to resolve, structural changes must be made by the family (Minuchin & Fishman, 1981). The goal of SFT is to decrease symptoms as a result of dysfunction

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    The issue of ethics shrouds Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris through the moral implications that arise throughout the text as both characters and the audience exhibits different notions of moral judgment through religion and society. Marlowe’s exploration of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre may have been intentional as it was written during the period of Elizabethan rule . In this case, morals and ethics are interplaying with the wrongdoings of the Catholic faith beginning with the

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    Paplona Controversy

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    of Castilla; over the next century Pamplona and its holdings were overrun by their more powerful neighbors. Moreover, during this time period the Kingdom of Pamplona ceased to exist by name, as its kings began to style themselves as the Kings of Navarre, starting in

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    medicine, and crafts.” They experienced persecution, but despite that they continued to progress. The Calvinist movement became The Huguenots in France who were Protestants. The Huguenots wanted greater freedom in practicing religion. Prince Henry of Navarre was a Huguenot who led Huguenot forces against the Catholic League who tried to keep France a Catholic country. At this time the King of France was Henry III, the son of Catherine de Medici and Henry II, who was Catholic. The French lived by the expression

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    Tres And Garrett Murders

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    Tres Navarre, private eye and sometimes English professor, is hoping for a laid back working vacation when he accepts a summer teaching gig at the University of Texas at Austin, even if it means shacking up for six weeks with his big brother Garrett, who calls Austin home. Garrett Navarre — computer programmer extraordinaire, Jimmy Buffett fanatic, and all-around eccentric — is hoping to retire a multi-millionaire by the end of summer, thanks to a high tech start-up company he and two buddies have

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    can be patently integrated with other models to address different populations. Navarre (1998) states that SFT is a model that can be used to treat a wide variety of culturally diverse dysfunctional families. According to Navarre (1998) SFT is ideal when working with Chinese and vietnamese families due to the high levels of structure with clear generational boundaries and roles this culture holds. As stated by Navarre (1998) hispanic families such as Mexican-Americans and Cuban families hold characteristics

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    Timeline List: Karl - France John Calvin Louis XV Louis XIV Louis XIII Henry IV Henry III Henry VIII Charles IX Edict of Nantes St. Bartholomew 's Day Massacre Research: John Calvin: http://www.biography.com/people/john-calvin-9235788 Was a Theologian, and Journalist Born July 10, 1509 and died May 27, 1564 Born in Noyon, Picardy, France and died in Geneva, Switzerland studied at University of Paris, University of Orléans, University of Bourges He lived in Geneva until anti-protestant authorities

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    Marguerite de Navarre was the sister of King Francis I of France and was a significant figure in the first half of the sixteenth century. A Catholic, she befriended and protected popular French Protestant writers of whom her brother was not as tolerant. She wrote poems that dealt with philosophical and religious topics, but they have been overshadowed by the stories that make up The Heptameron. Italian culture was instrumental in the development of French culture in the time period and de Navarre had read

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