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| OK OK! |
| 02.28.05 (8:29 pm) [edit] |
Alright Iknow I'm going to bed! Just wanted to put these pics on!
This is Banh Chung I had it at LInh's party. It is vietnamese and REALLY GOOD! I think it is some kind of grass or seaweed on the outside, then sticky rice in the middle with potatoes and spices and chicken mmmmm!
Window Clings I made (all traced!)
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| So Wohoo I'm Back |
| 02.28.05 (8:25 pm) [edit] |
Hey Everyone,
Didn't do all that much. Watched some movies, did no homework applied for jobs.
Guess what I have a plan! I'm going to go to teachers college in england and then meet and marry prince william... I watched a documentary on him and his brother on the CBC... I used to like him then I went through this phase where I thought he seemed a little posh but then seeing the footage of him in Chile... well if he is too full of himself he sure fooled me! Wow did he ever look hot scrubbing that toilet and making porage!
Anyway If that plan doesn't work out I'm sure I'll still have an exciting and wonderful life.
God this month I have viel zu viel hausaufgaben (aka much to much homework).
March 1 -2 History Mid Term
March 10 2500 word essay
March 31 (possible) revision of Essay
(not to mention all the german homework I have plus a five minute long german oral presintation!) I don't know who can talk for five minutes in german but NOT ME! Actually without german I would find my work load alot more managable but I love german to much to give it up.
Then comes april!
April 1st Penpal Day
April 8th Essay Due
The week after that 2 take home exams and history final exam
19th german exam
26 history exam
THEN I get to go home and work. I really hope I get a nice job this year!
I so got a bettie page shirt! Look for pics of it coming soon... damn it I promised myself I'd go to bed early and here it is being 12:30... lots more to talk about later!
Anyway love ya'll tons
night
- Cherry Bomb :twisted:
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| Tid Bit About Canada |
| 02.26.05 (8:27 pm) [edit] |
We use fridges to heat things up!
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In the winter we have fridges outside at gas stations to keep the pop from freezing.
- Cherry Bomb :twisted:
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| Shopping |
| 02.23.05 (12:35 pm) [edit] |
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OMG I GOT A BETTIE PAGE SHIRT FROM WINNERS! I AM SO HAPPY!
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| What Planet are you |
| 02.22.05 (5:19 pm) [edit] |
You Are From Neptune |
You are dreamy and mystical, with a natural psychic ability.
You love music, poetry, dance, and (most of all) the open sea.
Your soul is filled with possibilities, and your heart overflows with compassion.
You can be in a room full of friendly people and feel all alone.
If you don't get carried away with one idea, your spiritual nature will see you through anything.
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| ***NOTE*** |
| 02.18.05 (2:50 pm) [edit] |
No blogs for awhile... I have this sneaking suspicion no one reads them anymore anyway!
- Cherry Bomb :twisted:
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| Done |
| 02.17.05 (7:14 pm) [edit] |
And I'm flipping proud so I'm posting it here! Please don't say I am copying the information for some damn reason I can't get hte foot notes to come on but I swear I sourced the whole essay! Enjoy it's about 2500 words!
History 205 Second Essay: Medieval Heresy and the Changing Approaches to it
Heresy during medieval times has been portrayed in many ways in movies, books and other popular media forms. Most people probably do not know what exactly this term means or what it deals with. When most people think of heresy they think of inquisitions, specifically the Spanish Inquisition and torture. This has not always been the case; there are many different events and techniques on dealing with heretics that make up what heresy was during the medieval era. Before talking about heresy or the measures taken to control it by the church, one must first understand the definition of heresy. Some would define it as an unorthodox opinion of any matter, including religion, or as a complete rejection of the church by a non-believer in god. The definition of heresy used for this paper is a direct rejection of religious dogma by a professed Christian. The act of punishing heretics however changes from one century to another. Specifically focusing on just the period between 1200 and 1300 in its self there is a wide variety of examples of how heretics have been dealt with. This is the period that will be focused on for the paper. Specific factors in the way heresy was dealt with throughout the 13th century vary but all have helped shape the way heresy was dealt with. One factor is the Fourth Lateran Council. This council came together and discussed changes to the punishment of heretics. After the Lateran Council came Pope Gregory IX. Many legislations that pope Gregory IX made were increasingly violent as compared to the previous popes and definitely increased in severity. Another factor is the papal allowance of torture in 1252 and other decrees that Pope Innocent IV legislated. The final factor this paper will discuss is the crusades and the way it brought heretics to justice; specifically discussing the Albigensian crusades and its affects. The punishment of heretics drastically changed during the 13th century from the often un-violent ways of dealing with heretics in the pre to early 13th century, to the painful and cruel methods of torture in the mid to later half of the 13th century.
The Fourth Lateran Council probably had the greatest impact on heresy during the 13th century. The reigning pope at the time, Innocent III, declared a meeting of all religious cannons at his palace in Rome. The cannons were made up of bishops, priests and representatives of all the princes of Europe. The use of this council was a regular way of deciding upon Christian matters during the 12th and 13th centuries. The actual purpose of the council was to create a code for all of Christian society. Laws began to take affect that told ordinary citizens how to be “good Christians” and groups such as Muslims and Jews were heavily discriminated against. There were two crucial things on the agenda of the council that changed life for heretics. One was an exact outline of religious doctrine. This defined exactly what it was to be a heretic. Once the Dogma was outlined it could be properly policed. There were two ways of policing heresy. One was setting up a “police like” force with in the church to catch people in the act of heresy. This was called “denuntiatio”. The second way was called “accusatio”. This form of policing was laid mostly on the shoulders of the civilians and was largely what the church relied on however there was poor motivation because if the civilians could not prove their case correctly against their neighbours then they were doomed to face the defendants’ punishment(s). The second was an outline of punishments that heretics were to receive. This council mostly reiterated punishments from the council at Verona that took place in 1184. The punishment for heretics as decided at the Lateran Council was to receive an imperial ban. This decree was still in the realms of the Carolingian Sendgericht however. The imperial ban included exile, confiscation of property, houses raised to the ground and prohibition of holding public office. The council also made it quite clear that the churches should be obliged to carry out the punishment on all heretics. One difference at the Lateran council that was not seen before is that Pope Innocent III did not call for death but he did not condone it as was seen before at all the other councils. This leads one to believe the church was not suggesting it as a means of punishment for heretics. It will later be addressed that torture was once again condoned during the reign of Innocent IV. The Fourth Lateran Council was a huge influence on heresy and the way heretics were punished. It however did not stop heresy all together and some different groups still thrived.
Pope Gregory IX was even more severe than the Lateran Council toward heretics. In February of 1231 Pope Gregory IX assigned a new constitution called “Excommunicamus”. It provided very systematic legislation on how to deal with heretics at the time. Some of the highlights of this constitution are the surrendering of heretics to secular arm, excommunication of certain groups such as Cathars and Waldensians, suspected heretics who do not come forward are automatically assumed heretics, imprisonment of heretics, no right for heretics to appeal, suspected heretics could have no lawyers, no parents suspected of heresy could see their child, “exhumation” of heretics who have not yet been punished and finally the demolishing of heretics homes. These policies, although put into place, where not immediately followed. Gregory did however see heresy as an important issue to deal with. During Gregory’s reign a great number of deaths occurred in Flanders. Several people were burnt at the stake and the pope did nothing to stop it, although, he did not sanction it either. Gregory IX wrote many epistles yet only a few were devoted to heresy. One of these epistles was written specifically to establish the inquisition. Heresy was not seen as a great enough threat by the papal institution to focus much effort on and the inquisition was not seen on a large scale until pope Innocent IV one reason for this is that they had no way to force a confession from people. Pope Gregory IX followed in Pope Innocent III’s footsteps by following much of already existing law patterns to deal with heresy while not adding many new foreign legislations to canon law. One inquisitor under Gregory was Conrad of Marburg. He was a German inquisitor who was said to take no mercy on even the innocent. Anyone who claimed they would be innocent would be burnt at the stake, their only comfort was knowing that they would be heroes in heaven. He also made people shave their heads. These types of punishments were not widely used against heretics but still existed. Later on Marburg was let go from the inquisition. Marburg was let go from the inquisition because of his murderous zeal that was not commonly seen during the reign of pope Gregory IX, with the rise of pope Innocent IV the kinds of punishments Marburg used would be quite widely accepted.
Another event that shaped heresy and the punishment of heretics was the papal allowance of torture in 1252 by Innocent IV and other bulls that he made. This was quite possibly one of the greatest weapons the church had against the common citizens. They could force a confession out of almost anyone and this seemingly helped their cause. The papal bull that allowed torture was called “Ad extirpanda” and although torture had been seen in both Roman and Barbarian law it was foreign to Canon law. Canon law had recognized flogging for penance but torture as a new form of punishment was an entirely new concept. Definitely if torture was used prior to 1252 it was not for extorting a confession from a person but merely as a form of punishment. The bull decreed that, “… any sort of torment short of mutilation was to be utilized in order to obtain confessions and information.” Even in 1252 the Ad extirpanda only allowed towns in Italy to practice torture. Torture was not allowed to be used anywhere else in Europe until Pope Alexander IV, Innocent IV’s successor. At first torture was a secular task but the church found this difficult to carry out and therefore torture became even more widespread after 1256 when Pope Alexander IV gave the non-secular inquisitors permission to absolve one another. Another problem for the inquisitors was that you could only torture a person once. However they got around this by saying that they were “continuing” a session of torture not repeating it, but in 1291 Philip the Fair tried to intervene and stop torture. Later in 1301 it was greatly inhibited when Pope Clement V made it so only the Bishop of the Diocese could perform the act of torture. Another decree that came from Pope Innocent IV was the rules on what to do once someone was decided to be a heretic. He stated that they would be removed, “… from the statutes of the commune all contrary laws under penalty of deprivation from office, a fine and prosecution for perjury.” After this was carried out a council of 12 men chosen by the local bishop was set off to seize the suspected heretic. The men are then dismissed by the “podestà” (or ruler) and it is then his duty to carry out the means to obtain a confession from the suspected heretic. Pope Innocent IV also made it impossible for the heretics to ever find out who accused them of being a heretic. This was the first pope to do this and therefore stripped away the heretics’ rights even further. Ad extirpanda did more for the church than just allowing torture it basically turned Italy into a police state making it harder for heretics. He also unlike his predecessor, Innocent III, condoned burning at the stake for relapsed heretics. Death at the stake was also a new allowance in 1952 under canon law. The bull also did not only strip heretics of property but it stripped their heirs of rights to their property as well. All of pope Innocent IV’s legislations during his reign led to the expansion of the inquisition and finally it’s operation on a large scale. These new legislations brought in during the middle of the 13th century show the every increasing severity of the punishment towards heretics. Violent punishments were suggested by the pope while pre 13th century they were looked down upon and most importantly pope Innocent IV’s new reforms led to the inquisition in a new and terrifying way.
The Albigensian crusades were another case of increased violence during the 13th century. There were many other crusades along with the Albigensian crusades but this crusade is the most prominent during the 13th century. The crusade in itself was a way to capture and punish heretics. The heretic group that the church was after were the Cathars. They were seen as a Christian group going directly against the church and rejected the dogma widely considered to be the true answer to religion. The first crusade started in 1209 and it was fought by international European forces. It ended in 1255 right after the papal allowance of torture. The Albigensian crusades were an early example of brutality in the 13th century. They were seen as the most successful attempt at abolishing heresy because of their wide scale massacres. The pope at the time gave crusaders that went to the holy land and fight forgiveness of past sins, martyrdom status and indulgences. This helped persuade men to fight for the religious cause. In the crusade first crusade 7000 people were massacred in just one town yet it had the effect of scattering heretics deeper throughout Europe. The pope, Innocent III, was called a failure at home and the people thought stricter measures against he heretics should be taken. The purging of the Cathars from Italy was a slow process with many numbers of people being burnt at the stake in 1233 and 1240. During the raid the pope decided that he would either wipe out or convert all Cathars to Catholicism. The Cathars in the Albigensian crusades put up with a lot more violence than any other heretic group during this time period. They were subjugated to massacres and mass burnings while other heretics received in comparison minor sentences of lost status, property and exile. All of these methods however were seen as a way to destroy and defeat enemies to Catholicism.
From the beginning of the 13th century on, one will see a progression of the methods of dealing with heretics become more violent throughout. In the beginning of the 13th century pope Innocent III held the Fourth Lateran Council. This council helped in shaping the punishment for heretics. Although the punishments mostly reiterated a previous conference it still shows the anti-violent tactics that were used. Next came the legislations from pope Gregory IX. Although his legislation was not widely adopted it still demonstrated the start to an increase in violent acts to punish heretics. Then came Pope Innocent IV. His papal allowance of torture in 1252 and many other decrees made by him were the final tools the church needed in order to carry out large scale inquisitions and violence against people thought to be heretics. The Albigensian crusade against the Cathars, although at the beginning of the 13th century, demonstrated some pretty powerful tactics that the church decided to use and attack heretics with in the 13th century. The crusades lasted until the mid 13th century. Violence in the 13th century grew greatly. From the beginning of the 13th century, were the pope was against torture and ultimately the punishment of death, to the middle and later half of the 13th century were there was a full blown inquisition that tortured and killed thousands daily. These violent acts were not always widely practiced but the acceptance of them especially with in the church and in cannon law grew immensely over the 13th century. When people think of the inquisition and mediaeval heresy they often think of the Spanish inquisition and brutal confessions of prisoners on the rack. The rack was not even a widely used source of torture. They would have more than likely burnt them at the stake or buried them alive. However, there is much more to heresy than torture. Families lost thousands of dollars worth of properties and children lost parents. The search and ultimate purging of heretics was a violence that should definitely not be repeated.
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| Essay |
| 02.17.05 (9:10 am) [edit] |
So I am happy I broke 1000 words on my essay only 2000 to go but I think it'll be easier. Besides i have all day and all night if I have to. I finished my german presintaiton this morning so that's all good.
Anyway I don't really have much else to write!
Love you foos
- Cherry Bomb :twisted:
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| VERY PISSED OFF |
| 02.15.05 (8:30 pm) [edit] |
Ok... Do you ever have a day that seems perfect and just really awsome then it ALL goes ot shit right at the very end? Well that happened to me today!
So I went tot he movies with myf riends... honestly it was just AWSOME! We went to see hitch. First of all I would have to say it's the best movie this year I've seen so far (2005) secondly it was definately the best comedy! I laughed SO HARD in so many places it just really lifted my spirits. Plus I haven't hung out with myf riends from SUCH a long time!
Then I come home and first of all I was looking forward to talking to Al all night but he went to bed (not his fault) but apparently some girl is moving into my house and no one even asked me... WELL THANKS FOR THE NOTICE! This is a democracy not a dictatorship we all have a right to approve or disaprove of someone living in OUR house... finally one of my room mates didn't write their letter yet for penpals. I send out an e-mail every wekk if they don't have it done it's their own fault! I'm not going to stand over them or do it for htem. Then she has the nerve to say to me "Well right now I'd really like to go to bed"... WELL GOOD GO TO BED but get that letter done!
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Time to work on my essay only 3200 words to go :roll:
- Cherry Bomb :x
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| The Weekend |
| 02.14.05 (9:05 am) [edit] |
So this weekend I went to Ottawa. It was loads of fun! I took a break from my horrible essay and sat in the hot tub. I of course still did all my german homework.
It was really nice to see my family though. They are all so awsome. We went shopping and I bought a new shirt, skirt and coat.
My sister got 4th, 6th and 7th on her different trampoline activities.
Now I have come home to work on my essay. It has to be 12 pages with 15 direct sources most of which quoted or somehow integrated into my essay. It's not THE WORST essay ever but I already find this course difficult and need a good mark on it as I want to raise my mark from 65 to at least a 70!
While I was in Ottawa my Guinea Pig died. He was definately one of my favourites! He as a very sweet little thing. We are not sure how he died but my mom thinks it'w as some kind of tumour. My cat was sick but got better and my snail is on the fritz too so hopefully they will all feel better and get better soon.
For Valentine's day Al wrote me a poem and put it on a picture I took of the two of us. I love it so much it is one of the sweetest presents ever!
Anyway I think that's all and you are definately caught up on my life!
Love
- Cherry Bomb
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
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| ***NOTE*** |
| 02.11.05 (9:51 am) [edit] |
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No posts for the weekend!
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| School |
| 02.09.05 (7:24 pm) [edit] |
I would like to take a moment to talk about an essay of mine that is bothering me.
It's about heresy in the 13th century. I sent in a proposal awhile ago adn got a fairly good mark on it but the teacher said ti seemed too descriptive aka I didn't have an argument. SO I sent one in a few weeks ago and asked to change... meanwhile I am not able to work on it until she gets back to me. Finally today she gets back to me and tells me my topic seems to "college" and that I needed more of an argument than that even. She suggested I come to her office to talk to her so that is what I'm going to be doing after class tomorrow... I really want to get a topic because this puppy is supposed to be about 12 pages with 15 sources and it's due 1 week Friday!
- Cherry Bomb :twisted:
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| The Knife |
| 02.08.05 (4:30 pm) [edit] |
So... how many of you have had a man with a knife in your house??? Well now I have! My room mate ainsley's friend came up. one of my room mates found him on the ground laying with a knife. THe he started to chase her so she locked herself in her room. Ainsley came home and found him with the knife sitting on the couch. She took him up to her room and he told her he wanted to kill himself and when she asked him for the knife he shoved it into his leg. His parents came and picked him up and dtook him home! I came home from school in the middle of this and locked myself in my room! Man my house is the place were all teh freaks hang out isn't it?
So yeah... My chest pains went away monday but then all tonight I had them. I had to take my puffer late because of a lecture and since hten the pains have started... Hopefully though soon it'll leave.
Now all I have to do is finish my huge essay however I cna't until the teacher e-mails me.... Hope she gets on that soon!
Love: hugs and kisses
- Cherry Bomb
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| MONDAY MONDAY! |
| 02.07.05 (7:08 pm) [edit] |
So...
I woke up and went to class. Then I went to the library... WOHOO NOT! I hate the library. I was there from 2 -3 and I got out 7 books.
Then I came home and I finally phoned my old friend from Dama school. We talked for a long while. It was interesting listening to her life and how she got to where she is today and how she got on the show etc... Hopefully I'll be getting together with her soon.
So tomorrow is tuesday a BAD LONG DAY! I am definately not looking forward to it... but who does? I need to work on my essay more hopefully my questions about that will be answered.
Well that's all I have to talk about so see you another night.
- Cherry Bomb :twisted:
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| PPS |
| 02.05.05 (11:34 pm) [edit] |
Forgot to add there was an abortion protest going on at the Hospital.
I dunno why but I thought their signs were really funny. They said "Abortion Kills Babies"...
Don't get me wrong but isn't that the point of having an abortion? I mean I get what they are trying to say that you are not killing an unborn "thing" but that you are killing an actual "baby" but still I just thought it was humourous because I'm thinking yeah that is the point to kill the kid so it doesn't get in your life....
whatever maybe I am wrong!
- Cherry Bomb :twisted:
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| The All Mighty Day |
| 02.05.05 (9:26 pm) [edit] |
So the last few days nothing much has gone on that's why I wrote those odd thoughts of mine. Sometimes you just have stuff like that tumbling through your brain and you need to get it out in the open and form it into a sentence to understand it a little better or just to get it out of your system.
Thursday and Friday were decent. I was having a lot of problems though so Saturday morning I went to the hospital. It was fun. I was in and out of there VERY quickly. I went in around 10 - 10:30 and was out by at least 11:30 maybe sooner.
Basically it all has to do wtih my asthma and a cold I had. I thought my asthma was getting better but I had to increase my medication by like 90%. Hopefully though in a week or so I will be right as rain... what the hell does that mean anyway? Why is rain right?
So interesting things..... a guy drove us back from the hospital. He was a 77+ year old man who was a retired OPP. He was very nice and said "it is not everyday I get to ride around with such lovely ladies" or something along those lines.
Then later my room mate and I went to the movies. We went to see "In Good Company" with Topher Grace. It was actually REALLY good! On the way there on the bus I got to talk to a person about basketball. It was pretty kewl I learned alot of new things.
OK well I can't think of anything else to type but I'm also pretty tired.
Paris Hilton was on SNL and it was actually decent!
Have a good night!
- Cherry Bomb :twisted:
PS YAY FOR PLAIN TEXT BLOGS BEING BACK!
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| Bodies |
| 02.04.05 (8:59 pm) [edit] |
unfortunately we must treat our bodies well because although we can have a great mind it is our bodies that contain and limit us. Your mind can only soar so far... death is the ultimate equalizer between body and mind.
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| My Point |
| 02.03.05 (7:24 pm) [edit] |
Life Changes... it always has and it always will and you can't prepare yourself because you don't know what the changes will be...
When it seems like the happiest time in your life it is really the saddest becuase it certainly won't stay that way forever and it's sure only to get worse. It may be happy again for awhile but you can never hold onto it forever because there is no such thing as forever.
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| Hump Day |
| 02.02.05 (7:13 pm) [edit] |
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So............
Today I did alot of things yet nothing at the same time. I woke up did 2 loads of laundry (2 normals 1 delicate). I found a pair of socks and a shirt Al left here... ummm then I did the dishes. Then I cleaned out two fish bowls, Finished writing my valintines day cards, re-hemped partially a broken shirt, sewed the button back on my coat and then tidied up my room a little. Then I played the sims for like 4 hours... wow someone needs to steel that game away from me!
I am procrastinating though. I have a huge history paper due on the 17th and I want to go away with my family and get it done ahead of time but I just CAN'T! I feel so.... stuck... GRR! I will FORCE myself to do it tomorrow!
Anyway I need a good nights rest lots of class tomorrow nearly 5 hours.
- Cherry Bomb
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