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This paper uses historiography to examine the roles of the Jesuits in New France and their role in European expansion into the New World. It discusses various explanations of the transformation of Jesuit missionary activity to provide for the religious needs of French explorers and settlers. The author also examines the conversion of Native Americans.

Tags:Jesuits, colonialism, New France, missionaries

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This paper paper projects how the Jesuit Martyrs might have responded to the horrific events of September 11th. Would they have responded in the same truth-telling ways they responded to their own crisis in El Salvador. It appears the Jesuits would not seek to change the social or political order, but they would choose to change the hearts of those who were the oppressors.

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"Following the tragic events of September 11th America was faced with an important decision. How can the United States affect change; through an understanding of love and compassion for the enemy or through self-directed, self-serving solutions? America had the opportunity and power to create great change by resisting evil and making an effort to reshape relations between the Western world and the Middle East. In many ways the future peace of the Middle East was at the mercy of U.S. officials and politicians."

Tags:11th, 2001, attacks, christian, conflict, east, ellacuria, evil, hegemony, ignacio, jesuit, martyrs, middle, muslim, non, resistance, salvador, september, states, terrorist, united, violence, world

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Paper responds to assigned questions to do with identity and changed identities, as scholars now discuss them, in the 17th century setting of the "Jesuit Relations". Paper argues that of course the Jesuits and the Aboriginals who knew them were altered by their contact, and also, the horrible experiences they shared led by epidemics after 1637; reflections on Jesuit/Ignatian theology that fully expected the 'identity' of a missionary priest to change, indeed his training prepared him to Become One with the people he met and to serve them. Comment on PC view of missionary encounters in New World that can reflect limited exploration.

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DRUGS AS A THEME IN FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAW VEGAS Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson is a book about drugs, and a great deal more. Drugs are something of a theme, and something of a constant in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Little else can be said of a book in which the author very early announces: The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt-shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers, . . . and

Tags:jesuit relations, french/native, critical paper

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"This research will examine the Jesuit educational philosophy and mission and ways in which they are or can be integrated into the everyday world. The plan of the research will be to set forth the Jesuit educational philosophy and mission in general terms and then to discuss the pattern of ideas informing them as well as the practical means by which they are or may be identified, integrated, and applied in the structure of education.

To discuss the Jesuit educational philosophy and mission is very much to discuss Catholic education and moral philosophy more generally. However, there is a specific history attached to Jesuit education, inasmuch as its traditions emanate from the origins of the Society of Jesus in the 16th century. The founder of the Society, Ignatius Loyola, initially established Jesuit schools as seminaries, for the training of the Order's..."

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In this article, the writer discusses the views that Jesuit education was part of an evolutionary educational movement in Europe and merely re- used already established educational practices, and the view that Jesuit educational practices were truly innovative and so made the Society appealing, popular, and made young men want to study at their schools. Also other general factors such as the changing nature of the society at the time are looked into along with the general growth of education among both Catholic and Protestant schools during this period and the keen interest among some educational writers of reforming the education system. The writer concludes that the main reason for the success of the Jesuit educational practices is that the Jesuit system of education was the first truly ordered, disciplined and highly organised educational system that the early modern world had come into contact with and that it was designed in such a way as to be responsive to the emerging needs of early modern European societies.

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"Town councils in Europe during the 16th century realised that it was very expensive to run a school if it was run by lay people because such people needed a salary of some substance baring in mind that often these people had families that they needed to support. Members of religious orders did not however have families to support baring in mind that their members were often chaste, especially in the case of the Jesuits whose whole mantra stipulated that once you became of a member of the society you were to give up all family ties and relations that you had and that your new family would be the order itself. This directly appealed to many city councils in Europe and resulted in the popularity of Jesuit schools as a whole.
"To answer the question of whether the Jesuit educational system's success was a result of innovation or was a result of the re-use of already established educational practices, one must look at the Ratio Studiorum, which was the Jesuits educational handbook."

Tags:church, teachings, religious, practices

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The Jesuit Volunteer Corps or "JVC" is a volunteer corps, designed around a four principled concept in an effort to assist those troubled by life's twists and turns. The paper covers the workings of this Christian charity organization. It also contains an interview with a member of the organization.

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"Spirituality is the tie to the religious portions and beliefs of the JVC. By having the volunteers work closely with local churches it allows them to spread God's word on a first-hand basis with those who are in need. By providing their respective communities with opportunities for religious retreats and getaways fosters a spirit and a sense of togetherness in each community. "Ignatian spirituality is an apostolic spirituality, one of service to the Church and to the world."(Jesuit Volunteer Corps [JVC], 2005)"

Tags:spirituality, community, Jack, Morris

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The writer describes an opportunity he had in school to utilize his critical thinking. The writer relates that when an instructor indicated she believed the gun culture in America to be a modern-day creation and that people were being misled by the National Rifle Association, he knew that there was something amiss about this instructor's contention. The writer further relates that he became very wary of her willingness to use the classroom as a bully pulpit for her political views. The writer describes how he politely mentioned this in class.

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"Several years ago, I found myself in a situation that demanded critical thinking. The occasion came during one of my history classes in school when an instructor indicated that she believed the gun culture in America to be a modern-day creation and that people were being misled by the National Rifle Association. While I am neither a supporter nor a denouncer of the National Rifle Association, I knew that there was something amiss about my instructor's contention; after all, only a few years ago a former professional historian named Michael A. Bellesiles was caught fabricating information in order to build his case that America was not a nation, at..."

Tags:critical, jesuit, education

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This paper will examine the role of the Jesuits in American Catholic history. In a nation that is predominantly Protestant, the basis of much of the Jesuit activity has been in serving the immigrant Catholic communities from Ireland, Germany and Latin America. As will be seen, the Society of Jesus in the United States has reflected the metamorphic tendencies of the Jesuit order in general. However, in the late twentieth century American Jesuits began a process of disengagement or "dialogue" with the global Church and papal authority in general. The final outcome of this "dialogue" remains to be seen.

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This paper discusses the French Jesuit missionaries in Canada and how they viewed the Huron Indians of Ontario, whom they tried to convert to Christianity. In particular, the writer focuses on Jean de Brebeuf, a priest who lived most of his life among the Huron, not only as a missionary who successfully influenced them, but also as a keen observer of their way of life. Brebeuf established an intimate relationship with the Huron and, unlike the Jesuits before him, attempted to support the freedom of the Huron, and their customs and their trading. The writer describes how the Jesuit mission eventually came to an end due to the Iroquois waging war on the Huron, and how Brebeuf died by torture at the hands of the Iroquois. The paper concludes that even though Brebeuf labeled them as barbarians, he also was generous of spirit in perceiving that some of their customs were aligned with the best of a Christian-like life.

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"Much of the information that is recorded in history about the French missionaries and their relationship with the Huron has been passed down through the writings of a publication known as the Relations. The Relations were accounts recorded by the French missionaries and sent back home to confirm and justify their endeavors in creating European-controlled settlements and in converting what they referred to as heathen Indians to Christianity. Often, because of these justifications and rationalizations about being superior to the Indians, the French missionaries depended heavily on a Franciscan missionary policy that made use of the Indian people as laborers. The Huron were never forced to endure this labor practice because they suffered through adverse circumstances that damaged the survival of their tribe."

Tags:religious, mission, baptism, ritual, savage, tribal, spirituality, gospel

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"The traditional view of Western influences on Chinese painting has been that the first influences derived from Chinese artists' observation of the work of European artists in China in the eighteenth century. These influences have not been regarded as being of much significance and, in fact, were usually just dismissed as the aberrations of a few painters who placed themselves outside the long Chinese tradition. James Cahill and others have proposed, however, that earlier influences of a more substantial kind are to be found in the work of landscape painters of the late Ming and early Ch'ing periods. An examination of Cahill's claims shows how the European influence was integrated into the work of certain painters and eventually passed on to others who followed them. These influences do not include outright changes in subject matter or blatant alterations..."