Scribe

I took a creative writing course at the university of South Florida. The only reason I contemplated staying was a sexy Co-Ed I shared the textbook with. I thought to myself what could they teach me about writing. I became disinterested and decided to see what my fraternity brothers were doing instead in the land of Disney and three o’clock thunderstorm. Fast-forward ten years in the future. I decided to buckle down and become a writer – officially. I had been writing screenplays unsuccessfully…

Do you Believe in Werewolves? Well, the people of 1600s Bamberg, Germany did. The Werewolf of Bamberg: A Hangman’s Daughter Tale is the fifth of the six, soon to be seven, books of the novel series A Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch. Potzsch gets his inspiration for the series from the history of his ancestors on his mother’s side. He uses one of his family’s four generations of executioners, Jakob Kuisls, and his family as the main characters. Each book follows parts of Magdalena Kuisls’,…

Plato In The Republic, Plato acts as a scribe and recounts a particular evening that his teach Socrates had spent with his fellow Greeks, discussing various political topics. In the book, Plato outlines what Socrates’ thought justice was, and what a perfectly just city (the “city of speech”) would be like. One of the foundational principles in Plato’s just city is specialization. Each person does what they are best at, and don’t meddle in another’s affairs. By specializing, society is divided…

Whether in the workplace or in a classroom it is important to know how to successfully work within a team. The information within each of these chapters is important in creating a successful, well-rounded team. These chapters also focus on how to improve individually for the team. In chapter 5 of our text, it talks about how David MeClelland (1953, 1987) found that most behavior can be organized into three social motives. On a personal level, I feel that I am someone who has the affiliation…

The Myth of Thought Leadership So, the first thing that is important to know about the concept of thought leadership and the idea of being a thought leader is that it's all in your head. It's an idea. It's a concept. I don't know who the first person to call themselves a 'thought leader' was, but the concept of being a thought leader exists in concept only. According to Google trends, the term 'thought leader' is not searched enough outside of the United States for them to report. And outside…

Results. In this study of 494 participants, which consisted of 232 males and 262 females who were primarily White/European 75.1%, Asian 11.5%, Black/African-American 7.5%, Latino/Hispanic 3.2% or other racial background 2.6%. The total participants that were registered donor 19.8% or 98, 30.2% or 149 informed their family of their donation. Those who had prior experience with organ donation were 4.3% or 21 who knew of someone waiting for an organ and 23.5% or 116 knew someone living or deceased…

The Theological Differences as roots for separation between Judaism and Christianity During the second temple period, many sects emerged in Judea, among them were the followers of Jesus. The New Testament records the early stages of separation between the emerging Christianity and Judaism. The New Testament became a fundamental text on which later Christians based their beliefs. It describes the birth and teachings of Jesus. Christianity and the Judaism before were the same. Christians saw…

walls of tombs, monuments, and in religious texts. The symbols were usually animals or insects that the egyptian people were familiar with. Around 3000 bc., the faster, less detailed hieratic script was developed to be used for everyday purposes. Scribes held high positions in Egyptian society. They carved hieroglyphs into stone and wrote on papyrus with rich mineral pigments such as red ocher and black from charcoal. On one of the sides of my pyramid, I wrote above the painting using different…

great!” There it is yet again, my missing thesis With Nicholas Carr’s essay, Is Google Making Us Stupid? (Carr). I do believe that I was not connecting enough with his work because I had already formed an opinion before finishing reading the entire scribe. I found it difficult to stop with my opinion and be objective. Forming that opinion much too early on, did negatively affect me by not allowing myself a deeper understanding of the material at hand. I had to go back and reread Carr’s entire…

begins; which is filled with success in the miracles He was performing in cleansing people of various diseases while also preaching the gospel, in the midst of this Jesus also begins calling His disciples. This leads into the next chapter where the scribes accuse Jesus of blasphemy because of His ability to forgive sins and this is continued by the Pharisees questioning Him regarding the Sabbath. The controversy Jesus faces continues as His ministry widens in chapter three, within this chapter,…