Saint Barbara

“Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations” (Deuteronomy 7:9). Through all generations of my family leading up to today, my family, on my mother and father’s sides, all practice the same faith. All of my family is Catholic, most of my friends growing up were catholic, and everywhere I looked, my faith was an important part of my life. I went to private school for

hear the word “Saint” they immediately categorize that person as someone who has always done good and to be very blunt is basically some holy prude. For many saints this is not the case at all. Some saints were prostitutes or even murderers before their conversion, these people eventually changed their ways and embraced their religion and did penance for their sins. Even though this is not the case for my saint, it proves the point that anyone can be a saint. The saint I chose is Saint Sarah of Laughter

everyone who has toured coastal California is familiar with the Santa Inez Mountains that form the striking backdrop for the city of Santa Barbara. But not everyone has been in (or on) those mountains, and that’s where the true magnificence lies. Have you? One such journey begins on Gibraltar Road near the upper edge of the city, just above the Santa Barbara Mission. The trip is breathtaking as it winds its way through several different climate and flora zones on its way to La Cumbre Peak, a pine

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver is a romance novel that takes place in the late 1900s. It captures the journey of Taylor Greer from Pittman County, Kentucky all the way to Tucson, Arizona. Along the way, Taylor gains a young Indian toddler that was forced into her car while she was leaving a bar in Oklahoma. Taylor decides to keep the child once she recognizes the abuse the toddler experienced in her old home, she names her Turtle. Through thecharacterization of Taylor, Turtle, and Esperanza

all countries of the Middle East celebrate a day called Eid Il Burbara, annually on December 4th. Eid Il Burbara is quite uniform to the American tradition of Halloween. Eid Il burbara, or Saint Barbara day has been celebrated for many years in honor of the Christian saint and martyr Saint Barbara. Saint Barbara was known for disguising herself to elude the Romans from persecuting her. On December 4th in Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan, children dress up in 'disguise' going from door to door. Instead

In her article "What Abu Ghraib Taught Me", Barbara Ehrenreich recounts her the process by which she became disillusioned with the notion of female moral superiority. Despite claiming that she "never believed that women were inherently gentler and less aggressive than men", Ehrenreich divulges her

In Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich tells a powerful and gritty story of daily survival. Her tale transcends the gap that exists between rich and poor and relays a powerful accounting of the dark corners that lie somewhere beyond the popular portrayal of American prosperity. Throughout this book the reader will be intimately introduced to the world of the “working poor”, a place unfamiliar to the vast majority of affluent and middle-class Americans. What makes

throughout history, though not all of these heroic (or courageous) adventures have been shown in any way.  Some of women’s heroic and courageous adventures are portrayed through short stories, books, and movies.  Eudora Welty’s short story “A Worn Path,” Barbara Kingsolver’s book The Bean Trees, Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women, Zora Neale Hurston’s story “How It Feels To Be Colored Me,” and the movie “The Piano” all show women going through their own amazing and heroic adventures.  In these stories

Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich is a political/social journalist and writer. She is a best-selling author with a dozen book credits to her name. Her works include Blood Rites, The Worst Years of Our Lives, and Fear of Falling. She also has written articles for Time, Harpers, The New Republic, The Nation, and The New York Time Magazine. Her Ph.D. in biology endows her with the experience and discipline to approach as a scientific experiment

Ed Fleming Rhetorical Analysis Paper English 102 Thurs Hybrid In Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by In America" we read about a middle aged journalist undertaking a social experiment of the greatest magnitude. The journalist is Ehrenreich herself and the experiment was to find out how a woman, recently removed from welfare, due to policy reform, would make it on a six or seven dollar an hour wage. The experiment itself started out as just a question in the