19.04.2012 - 00:29
sunshine666999

Freundchen!
Gib mal ein Lebenszeichen von Dir! :)
Grüße
Wilhelm

01.02.2008 - 12:52
Max_maximus

TKC!
In which role can I see myself in 10 years?

In my last few months here in Pinecrest Academy I thought a lot about this question. However, I haven’t found an answer yet. Nevertheless our Lord provided many gifts with which he nourished me throughout those last months of questioning. I have learned a lot through my time with all these great people that God sent me here in this great place, and one of these things is being patient. Patience always means a little suffering, which is simply a part of love.
But, and this will always be the main principle in my life, I will always try to act on what the catechism tells me what my life is about: to know, love and serve God. And I am sure that no matter which Job God is going to give me, which role I am going to play in his plan, if I follow those three things, make them the principal, philosophy of my life, I am good to go.
However, I know what the lord has given me and can thus try to think of jobs in which I can see myself in ten years.
I know that I am charismatic. I am a young man that tries to stick with what he says and promises. Furthermore I can stand in who I am, what I believe in and what I do (good or bad). I know that I can lead people with my example and I am willing to give my life fully to God. I am open to everything Christ provides for my, for I know that everything God gives to me is a deed of his never ending, greatest fatherly Love.
In case that God wants me to become a priest, I am going to become a priest. To check out my Vocation, I will thus go to an apostolic school for my last school year.

01.02.2008 - 12:52
Max_maximus

TKC!
In which role can I see myself in 10 years?

In my last few months here in Pinecrest Academy I thought a lot about this question. However, I haven’t found an answer yet. Nevertheless our Lord provided many gifts with which he nourished me throughout those last months of questioning. I have learned a lot through my time with all these great people that God sent me here in this great place, and one of these things is being patient. Patience always means a little suffering, which is simply a part of love.
But, and this will always be the main principle in my life, I will always try to act on what the catechism tells me what my life is about: to know, love and serve God. And I am sure that no matter which Job God is going to give me, which role I am going to play in his plan, if I follow those three things, make them the principal, philosophy of my life, I am good to go.
However, I know what the lord has given me and can thus try to think of jobs in which I can see myself in ten years.
I know that I am charismatic. I am a young man that tries to stick with what he says and promises. Furthermore I can stand in who I am, what I believe in and what I do (good or bad). I know that I can lead people with my example and I am willing to give my life fully to God. I am open to everything Christ provides for my, for I know that everything God gives to me is a deed of his never ending, greatest fatherly Love.
In case that God wants me to become a priest, I am going to become a priest. To check out my Vocation, I will thus go to an apostolic school for my last school year.

11.12.2007 - 12:51
Max_maximus

II. Since I wanted the hand as a symbol of prayer to be dominant in the 3D-picture, I cut the hand out of a separate piece of clay and put it on the top of the clay that should be the bible. I started defining the hand more and more, from making the edges round to carving wrinkles into the hand. I finished the hand with making the stigma by carving a hole into the hand, using the clay from the hole to define the flesh and blood around the wound. Then I formed the shape of the book, rounded the edges and carved the illusion of letters on the pages. I finished my artwork with carving in the most sacred heart of Jesus with a bright cross on its top on the bottom of the right page.

III. A) The elements that are most noticeable in my work are on the one hand the contrast between the rough surface of the hand and the smooth one of the book pages. On the other hand the unity of the both together as ways in which God talks to us is emphasized.
B) The most successful part of my piece are the two book pages. Although they are pretty detailed they don’t draw the attention to themselves, but rather focus the attention on the center of the work, the hand.

05.12.2007 - 02:54
Max_maximus

Nobody likes to stand in for his or her wrongdoings. Rather, people usually prefer to keep silence over their mistakes, hoping that nobody will ever find out about it. One of the worst punishments for a crime is thus the public exposition, the presentation of a criminal on a scaffold. This practice, used since the middle ages, was used for several reasons. Firstly, the exposition and often also the execution of a person should be a warning to the people. At the same time, it should also be an attraction for the public, which is a sadistic act against the humanity of the person on the scaffold. Therefore, the scaffold is usually a symbol of suffering, of dishonor, of the breaking of a human character. For Arthur Dimmesdale, the Reverend of a small town and one of the main characters in ‘The Scarlet letter’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne, however, the scaffold will become a symbol of loss and suffering, but finally a great triumph over his own weaknesses, which will be discussed in this article.
The first time the reader learns about Dimmesdale is in the third chapter of the book when Hester, holding her newborn child Pearl in her hands, is exposed on the scaffold for her crime of Adultery that she committed with the Reverend. Neither townspeople nor reader know about him as the father at that moment. The only thing that the reader knows about Dimmesdale is that he is an eloquent, intelligent and melancholic looking Alumni of Oxford University. But simply the fact that Dimmesdale didn’t confess having committed this crime suggests that Dimmesdale is a weak character, not a person that stands in for his wrongdoings. His speech on the marketplace, however, can be interpreted as a pretty direct cry for help to Hester, as he pleads her “to speak out the name of thy fellow sinner and fellow-sufferer!”(Hawthorne, 63) He uses many metaphors in his speech, f. ex as he says that even if it was necessary that someone “were to step down from a high place” (he gives his speech from a balcony), it may be so, to point him out as the one. His intention, Hester unmasking him as the father of her child, the result of their relationship, fails, as Hester doesn’t give in and keeps the secret. The townspeople, on the other hand, are just too blind to understand the Reverend’s words.
What follows on this circumstance is very drastic. While Hester starts a life of public penance and remorse, the Reverend suffers in secret. His psychological disorder embodies itself in a physical weakening. The Reverend starts to torture himself, fasts and doesn’t sleep, meditating on his sin throughout the nights.
During one of these vigils, Dimmesdale seizes on an idea for what he believes may be a remedy to his pain. He decides to hold a vigil on the scaffold where, years before, Hester suffered for her sin. In the pain of his heart the Reverend screams out loud, but his wish, to be seen on the scaffold and as the sinner he is, doesn’t get fulfilled. In his delirium Dimmesdale laughs, and it is answered by his daughter’s laugh, which is coming back from the deathbed of the Governor Winthrop with her mother Hester. Dimmesdale asks them to stand with him on the scaffold, and the three hold hands, forming an “electric chain”(139). The minister feels energized and warmed by their presence. Pearl innocently asks, “Wilt thou stand here with Mother and me, tomorrow noontide?” and challenges the Reverend at his weakest point. The latter, however, is still not able to defeat his weakness and replies, “Not now, child, but at another time.”(139). When she presses him to name that time, he answers, “At the great judgment day.” This shows the reader that Dimmesdale is not even planning to confess his wrongdoing during his lifetime. But his crime follows him. Although he is not confessing his sin, there is always the letter A (for Adultery), being engraved over his heart, that reminds him of his sin. As they’re now standing on the scaffold the Letter A even appears in form of a meteor on the sky. At this moment several climaxes considering Dimmesdale get stressed more and more: On the one hand Dimmesdale grows more and more as a character, is now at least under favor of night able to stand on the scaffold and so to his sin. On the other hand, Dimmesdale’s health gets worse and worse, and the letter literally starts chasing him through his life. The anticlimax of his health makes clear that it can’t get much more escalated. The only possible escalation is the death of the Reverend. The latter, on the other hand, knows that his time is running out. After a few weeks of intense suffer Dimmesdale makes the decision to confess his sin in public. Whether his decision to do so is in the beginning greatly influenced by the idea to flee to Europe is assumable, but again the book doesn’t make a clear statement about it. Is doesn’t either on the question whether Dimmesdale wanted to confess his sin during his sermon on the New England Holiday. But the ways in which the Reverend is going into the church, erected, with “such energy as (…) the air” (213) and out of it, bend, and weaker than ever before, after a sermon in which he didn’t directly speak about his crime, lead to the guess that he really wanted to confess and again, now almost facing death, was not able to. But at this moment, as the Reverend is walking in the procession and out of the church, the climaxes considering him elevate to their only possible end: Dimmesdale now realizes that he will have to face death in a short period of time, and that Hester’s and his plan, the escape to Europe, is not realistic. In this circumstance, being physically weaker than ever before, the Reverend finally has the courage and willpower to go up on the Scaffold, to bare his chest with the letter A on it and tell the whole town what crime he has committed to die in peace.
The scaffold, usually a symbol of torture and shame, becomes so a symbol of psychological growth and finally even Dimmesdale’s redemption. For his townspeople, Dimmesdale becomes even more of an icon than he was in life. Many believe his confession was a symbolic act, while others believe Dimmesdale’s fate was an example of divine judgment. But probably every one of them shared one thought: that it is never too late to stand in for a wrongdoing.