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On The Left Side - Online Term Papers

On The Left Side

A
When a rich man donated some money to St. Finbar's, which is a
catholic church in Conn in Ireland, some of the money was spend on
electrical wall-heaters in the right half of the church and some of it was
spend on medical aid to the people of Burundi. A missionary, Philomena
O'Halloran, was sent to Burundi and to raise money to support her mission,
a special missionary box was mounted on the counter of the grocer's. At
Christmas after twenty years O'Halloran sent a young man to Conn as a
Christmas present. When the young man, Friday, arrived people were
surprised, for he looked like O'Halloran. Friday told that he was
O'Halloran's son, and the Catholics were terrified. On Christmas Eve ...

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When Friday
returned to Burundi, only a few people in Conn kept collecting money to
help the people in Burundi, and those people were the ones that sat the
left side of the church.

B

One must always look upon things from different angles, for if
everybody were narrow-minded progress would never be made.
This short story takes place in Conn in western Ireland which means
that the inhabitants of Conn must be Catholics. Catholics have very strict
rules compared to the Protestants, and when it is revealed that O'Halloran
is no longer a virgin and that she thereby has broken an important catholic
rule, there is a devil to play in the village of Conn. People's prejudices
starts shining through e.g. the Widow Herphernan is too embarrassed to come
to church on Christmas Eve because Friday is staying at her's, and Father
O'Rourke denounce O'Halloran and Friday during the sermon.
In a Catholic society the priests have great influence on the
people because the people have great respect ...

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Added: 11/20/2005 02:45:42 AM
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