Roman de la Rose

Carranza convoked a congress specifically to create the new constitution. It replaced the Constitution of 1857, extending the restriction on the Roman Catholic Church in the new constitution of Mexico.. Articles 3, 5, 24, 27 and 130 seriously restricted the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico. Article 3 stated that education must be free of bias meaning that religion couldn’t be taught in schools.1 Article 24 declared that "Every man is free

French Cathedral: Notre Dame de Paris. Built in the Gothic style,

La Ville Lumiere The dark specter of the cool night spread across the sky, while the alluring orange color of the sunset disappeared as nonchalantly as it came. A mixed medley of harmonious sounds streamed through the night from the violins. Music echoed from every street corner, awakening life, springing off the Eiffel Tower to Notre Dame and floating through the Arc de Triomphe. Soon, the people, scattered like trees in a desolate country, grew into a huge crowd like a lush green woodland. Noises

Metaphorically using the game of chess to describe the loss of a loved one in The Book of Duchess, Chaucer argues that love is nothing but a game and it all depends on how well you play it. We only see the mention of a chess twice in this poem, in the beginning “For me thoughte it better pley, Than pleyen either at chesse or tables” (50-51). The dreamer is making is clear that he rather read than to play chess, therefore, we get a sense that maybe our dreamer isn’t someone who either understands

representative of the Philippines to Taiwan, Cuba, and China. Starting as a proofreader for the Philippines Free Press, Joaquin rose to contributing editor and essayist under the nom de plume “Quijano de Manila” (“Manila Old-Timer”). He was well known as a historian of the brief Golden Age of Spain in the Philippines, as a writer of short stories suffused with folk Roman Catholicism, as a playwright, and as a novelist. The novel The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961) examines his country’s various heritages

Biography of Marie Antoinette Born with the name Antonia, Marie Antoinette was born in Vienna, Austria on November 2, 1755. Marie-Antoinette was one of the 16 children of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa, queen of Hungary and Bohemia. She was the youngest and most beautiful daughter of all. Marie Antoinette was brought up believing her destiny was to become queen of France. Marie Antoinette's first child was Marie Therese Charlotte(Madame Royale). Unpopular Queen Marie

denotations because they were not set or uniform among all the people. One reason for variance among the interpretation was because they created this meaning by observing many different cultures including Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, Greek, and Roman (Loy, S.2001). Each culture carried its own individual traditions, myths, and religions so the meaning behind the plants changed depending on which country carried the most influence in that particular location. In Turkey during the 1600’s the language

Kennedy is “The Sick Rose” (168). Similar to “The Blossom,” “The Sick Rose” is a two-stanza poem. Each quatrain uses an ABCB rhyme scheme. Again Blake uses personification of botanical and natural subjects to explore the roles within human gender relationships. A conventional symbol of love, lust, beauty, and “a nubile,” “modest” or ”beautiful” girl specifically in the tradition of “Le Roman de la Rose” of the 13th and 14th centuries (168), the rose is personified as the vulnerable female

“Ancestors” immigrated to the Americas while searching for game. After glaciers melted and sea levels rose, immigrants were stuck on the Americas. Corn was essential for Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America. Scandinavians indirectly discovered the Americas, quickly abandoned it. Bartholomeu Dias rounded the southernmost tip of Africa in 148, 10 years later Vasco da Gama finally reached India. Slavery was a crucial industry. Printing presses, introduced around 1450, facilitated

architectural styles were distinctive in not only the massiveness of the Romanesque monuments and the introduction of the cruciform plan but also for the introduction of the Gothic era art within the Cathedrals which included the inclusion of art the radiating Rose Window, column figures and the gargoyle among many others. Within Europe, there was a progression of architectural styles, many of which are still evident in the monuments today. The major styles are considered as Carolingian (800-900 AD); Ottonian