A long line of women fills up a traditional looking catholic church. One by one they are pouring into the tiny, wooden Confessional. At the bottom right corner, a box sits saying “The Axe Effect” and the image of a can of Axe body spray. The women seem to be all different ages, business women to high school ,and come from all walks of life though their faces are not showing. With their hands crossed, and heads bent at a slight angle. Hands are full, perhaps showing a crunch for time during their busy days. Crowding into the small sanctuary looks slow and tiring. Are these women reluctantly waiting to spill the beans of a night to remember or trying to get their hands on the priest who bought the wrong body wash? Their stance is tight and it reads as unclear if they feel rushed to be there or to leave. Light pours into the room like a spotlight and gives everyone's clothing muted hues. The placement of the confessional and the slope of the line of women leads the eye to the kneeling women and straight down to can of Axe. The minimalistic use of typography and graphics keeps it ...
The pain she causes herself is Mariette being the vessel of God’s grace. Mariette’s intention to suffer displays a severe ambition and pride that she has a calling for a higher purpose. This purpose is also explored through Mariette’s experience with the stigmata. Mariette suddenly appears with the wounds of Jesus Christ, and Hansen creates a disturbance of power between female and male relationships to Christ. Mariette has been chosen above the male figures of the Church, and she shares in the appearance and bleeding of Christ wounds. Hansen connects female reproduction to Christ suffering. This ideology fits with Mariette because she has the capacity to perform the transfiguration of Christ, bringing the Grace of God to the World. This feminization of Christ allows Mariette to have a deeper connection with Him and reinforces the idea she has been chosen. Mariette’s intimacy in Christ’s pain is her desire to be more than just a sister, and even more than a Saint. Mariette associates His wounds with her own wounds, thus taking His ability to redeem as her having this capability too. Hansen uses Mariette’s relationship with Christ to draw on the theological formulation of Christ’s wounds as female reproduction. This idea challenges the notion of power within the priory and Roman
These sacred pieces light the flame into the speaker’s passion for her religion in many ways. She begins to pay more attention and really contemplate why she is on earth? What is she here to do in
She closed her eyes slowly, tuning the harpies out. When she opened them, she gazed up at the ceiling, tracing the high, arcing beams that came together in a beautiful golden rosette. The church her mother-in-law had chosen for her departed son’s service was an old one, with timber walls, huge, multi-paneled stained-glass windows and enough golden gild that put together, could probably rival the weight of the Charging Bull on Wall Street.
“…is fallen in the third world was convinced the curl in her empty mouth into gold. Behold. she is alive, gasping on a gloryhole. With a throat so good she could suck a nail through wood. Keep her hands busy and her mouth full. But did you forget Mary Magdalene was once a prostitute” (0:42) This describe the difficult path this woman must choose to stay alive by falling into ways that produce easy income, thus prostitution. This person ‘accepts’ she is making by in order to survive by prostitution work, which it stated “gasping on a gloryholes”. Although prostitution is shunned upon society and that there are risks involve, she was really good at it. Harrison Ines used allusion by comparing the women to Mary Magdalene, she was a prostitute that showed great example of obedience to Jesus and that she was considered a saint among Catholics. This comparison between these two made the women less immoral, since Mary Magdalene was viewed very highly among the Catholics, the woman should be viewed the same way as well. Ines also use a lot of idiom in this part of spoken word such as “…suck a nail through wood.” and “…empty mouth into gold.” These idioms allowed us to visually and emotionally feel empathy toward this woman who work as a
The two main views of the sex industry which are expressed in “Buying Sex” are that decriminalizing prostitution will make it better and safer for prostitutes (the abolitionist). There is also the other group who thinks that decriminalizing prostitution will make it worse for the women and some men involved in prostitution. “Buying Sex” featured a lawyer with two former prostitutes and a current prostitute who worked with them to try and get Canada to abolish its laws against prostitution. It also featured another group of women who were there advocating for all those who have been abused in the sex industry. They were former sex workers, and there was a young women whose mother was a prostitute that was murdered. They were very much involved
In a normal day a European women were required to stay home all day except to go to church. The church became a place of reunions to women of the top...
Sex in today’s world can be seen anywhere. It is on billboards, radio stations, personal books, school books, magazines, peers, movies, songs, and the most famous is televisions. Commercials use seductive images, sounds, and music grabbing the attention of the audience. Movies and television are proof of the sickness of sexual addiction in society. This disease spreads across the country, infecting the way people think and live their lives. Ultimately it is destroying society and what America holds to be morally correct. Two such sources of writing, “Sic Transit Gloria…Glory Fades” and Countering the Culture of Sex, give examples of what effect culture play in the way of living. Today’s culture pumps out messages of sexual immorality and the idea of sexual relations outside of marriage are fine. Sexual immorality can destroy families and create dysfunction in the sacred vows of marriage.
The church external appearance was quite different than other churches that I have seen. It was basically a big white stucco block with a gold dome on top and four decorated spikes on each corner of the building that surrounded the dome. The people of course were all Greek and were very well dressed. Most of the men and boys all wore suits, and If not they had some kind of vest on. I don’t know if this was some kind of rule or tradition, but it mostly seemed as a respect to God. The women all wore the basic dresses, and all the skirts fell down below the knee. Everybody was proper and ordered. As I walked in the church I entered a lobby of some kind. What I saw hear was something like social hour. Everybody was in there. They were all speaking Greek, and I felt as if I was in a family reunion party. The children were all together; the adults talked together and the young adults all were together. The way they all socialize is when someone comes up to say hello, they give each other a kiss on the cheek and a hug. These people are all very close to each other. It seems as if the church is the center of their lives. I admire that trait as well. To enter the auditorium you must enter this little room, which has a piece of garment from St. Constantine and St. Helen. Also there were candles lit. As they walked through this little room they lit a candle and knelt down for a moment to pray, and then touched each garment and made a cross over their chest.
Perhaps, this little girl goes to a church? Maybe my idea of her waiting on school bus was wrong.” This changed my thought of her going to school, instead she may be waiting for church. She got dressed for church, since people usually dress nice and formal for Sunday church. Then on second thought, maybe she is going to school because some countries or places has school operating on Sundays. However, the going to church idea was more reasonable since the title supported it. In contrast to going to school, the girl does not have a backpack on. Thus, my second thought was more convincing. Does her white color dress mean purity? My mind went from a neutral into religion
Sex is everywhere in our society. It is on TV, magazines, radio, billboards, and basically anywhere you look today. People cannot get away from sex in advertising because so many companies use it. Sex appeals are used in advertising all the time, and people love to look at it because 'Sometimes people listen better with their eyes' (Steel 137). Sex in advertising is an effective technique that is used today. It helps companies successfully sell their product in our market. Of course it has to be directed at the right audience, and sold at the right places in order for it to work.
The picture is a scale in which the female side is higher than the male side. Women have always been since as less than a man, an outlook that can be traced all the way back to the bible. According to the bible, Eve was created from Adams rib, which was supposed to be construed as his loving her because she was made of his flesh has been corrupted that women are less than a man. Even the United States, the pioneer of freedom and rights, still pays a woman less than a man. A women’s opinion is still doubted or in some cases not even listened to especially when they hold positions of power. In third world countries, if a woman is attacked or raped it is her fault, just because she is a woman. Infanticide, the killing of female babies, is still predominant in areas all over the world. Mothers rid themselves of girl children so that they don’t have to worry about dishonor or providing a dowry. This killing of females is also represented in the art. This artwork should remain on Tejon Street as a reminder as how far we have come as women and how we have much work ahead of us in order to get true
The communal values evolve around religious events, having family honor and virginity. Even though the church’s betrayal is versatile, when the bishop arrives, it emphasizes the failure clearer. The people of the town, including the prie...
The opening images are glorifying and romanticising the church of christ, the cross, virgin mary baby jesus and beautiful evocative music in the church and the altar. The camera portrays the man from behind on a low angle making the later feel grandiose and powerful compared to his infantasamally smaller presence. More so, he is praying and kneeling down in front of the altar to juxtapose the idea of his smallness in the presence of God. We begin by seeing him confront his sins in the church unknowingly of his prior actions. Yet, when his sin in form of a woman as well as her demons is directly confronting him we see him symbolically and physically running away from them.
Westley admits to lying about “going to Jesus” then goes on to sit surrounded by “sisters and deacons praying.” This image represents believers who pretend to have faith, but have hidden motives in themselves. The little girls who immediately jump up to be saved when the preacher mentions it seem to represent the people who are easily guide hence follow religious practices without any question or understanding of what it means to be. He also said that “Old women with jet-black faces and braided hair, old men with work-gnarled hands” ( 17 hughes). Hughes supplies imagery of the physical characteristics of the congregation of the church which is similar to the characteristics of people in the hell. He tell that people are looking so startle here and they all kneel around us and look similar to the people in the hell. He use another imagery, “All moans and shouts and lonely cries and dire pictures of hell”. Hughes uses the reaction of people in hell to help paint a picture of what was going on at the revival. He gave us a picture that people were crying in the same way at the congregation as people crying in the Hell.Westley and I were surrounded by sisters and deacons prayers." ???
It was magnificent. The first thing to catch my eye was a monstrous chandelier that hung from the 50 foot ceiling. It was awe inspiring. As my eyes surveyed the room, it was hard to miss the antique maple pews that provided seats for approximately 300 people. Plush emerald green carpet was the grounding to the room. It's path led directly up to the stage which was home to a variety of items. The band, pulpit, arid baptismal were the most obvious. Above the stage was a huge dome, it was colored in shades of blue, mauve, white, and several other soft accents. A bright light was right in the center of its point. Our gazing was soon interrupted when the official greeter returned. This time she was quick and to the point. She collected our cards and informed us that service was about to begin. Within a matter of minutes, a middle-aged man stepped up to the pulpit and asked us to stand.