Life After The Flood Research Paper

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Before the flooding, Rodney was always on my case. Why don’t I clean? I mean, his view was, once I quit working, the house should be immaculate. And for me, I never wanted to be a house wife ever. So, okay, I’ll do a little cleaning. I’ll do a little housewife stuff, and I’ll do stuff with cooking. So before the flood he was like “can’t we get this place a little cleaner?” and very since the flood, I’m downstairs cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, and he’s been on my case “can you stop cleaning?”

In this quote, there are a lot of things we can learn from this family during the recovery part of the flood. Sociologically, Louis was not very engaged to play her role in the household, and she does not want to be a women who works full time in the
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We’re very spiritual. There are spiritual people, and there are religious people. There are people who need their church. But you are supposed to be have a connection to God, not through other people. I don’t believe one religion is better than another. I realize bad things happen, and that brings people closer. So the flood had nothing to with our faith for us. If the Church is gone, that doesn’t mean that God is not there for you. Should your faith be an hour in church every week or should it be every minute of your life” I thinking Kimberlee quote prove that she is a spirituality woman because a person who is a religious speak like her. I think the flood was not the reason that it could strengthen her faith or making difference in her spirituality. Kimberlee perspective is that it is not bad to have a church, but you can’t lean to hundred percent in your church, and you need to have a personal relationship with God, and also God must be the number of your life. A spiritual person don’t need run to people or church, but must be run to God because He holds all the answers. Kimberlee showed how she was mature in her faith, and she did not have to ask God question why but the religious people are those who always ask God questions why the flood destroyed my house or whatever because they don’t know God is sovereign. Personally as a Christian there is one thing that I hate is to questioning God. I think Kimberlee has built her

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