Advent

Throughout history natural reproduction allowed for the populations to increase and prosper. The culture surrounding pregnancies is staggeringly different than in the past. Females in their teen years during the 1700’s found it normal to be married and become pregnant at a young age. Life expectancy were shorter and in some regions children were used for help. Families also had many children since deaths were common. Even in the 1800’s the women of the United States had an average of six…

Michelangelo’s Last Judgement Michelangelo’s Last Judgement on the Sistine Chapel altar wall was finished in 1541, and depicts the second advent of Jesus Christ, as well as the final judgement of humanity during the second coming. Marcia B. Hall, and Leo Steinberg offer their views on what Michelangelo’s Last Judgement depicts. Both use a variety of resources to dissect the Last Judgement to determine what Michelangelo was trying to depict in his fresco scene. Marcia B. Hall argues in her…

“My boyfriend suffers from Muscular Dystrophy.” said 27-year-old Jessica, as she tried fighting tears rolling up in her eyes while I sat beside her hospital bed at Mayo Clinic, listening to her unfolding of symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. “He has done more for me than my family and friends ever did. My family and friends thought I was faking my symptoms, but only my boyfriend understood what I was going through. The pain, fatigue, and spasms are the worst ones. I try to handle headaches and…

With the advent of the nineteenth century was the birth of a new era-- the progressivism era, which was a reform movement that swayed across the nation. It was a period of growth that had given a voice to the common man who was lying in the heap of helplessness and misery because of the greed and corruption of a few elite businessmen. The roots of the era can be traced back to the Gilded age in the late 1800s when consolidate corporations, monopolies and industries acquired substantial power,…

God and see His face. With God in heaven are likewise the souls of the just (2 Corinthians 5:1; Matthew 5:3, 12). Hontheim, J. (1910), Heaven. In The Catholic Encyclopedia, Robert Appleton Company, New York, U.S.A. Retrieved March 1, 2018 from New Advent: (-- removed HTML --) The concept of heaven is firmly fixed in the developing theology of the early Christian church, with the word “heaven” being found 238 times in the New Testament alone. Heaven is the place where God dwells. It is a…

saying this and describing the birth pangs, Jesus is not telling his disciples when He would come back. Also, although many want to automatically apply these birth pangs and subsequent signs and wonders to the very last days prior to Jesus’ second advent, it is clear from the text and from history that these pangs occurred during 66-70 AD. We will briefly look at these pangs within the context of history. For a more in-depth study of this time period in the 1st century, I would recommend you…

While the inflationary policies of the early 1920s had disillusioned “much of the middle class,” the advent of the Great Depression proved most consequential in engendering widespread disaffection with Weimar democracy. As the financial panic transformed into a production crisis, thousands of industrial laborers were laid off as market demand for goods “collapsed” as unemployment peaked at roughly 40%. The collapse of industry in the cities, meant that urban dwellers had less money to spend on…

of the 1850s and 1860s, employers recognized early that competitive gains came from producing goods at lower wages. Conversely, labor wanted wages excluded from competition (Holley, Jennings & Wolter, 2012). Post industrial revolution through the advent of the modern labor union, English common law prevented workers from organizing together to “pressuring their employer to improve wages” (Holley, et.al, pg.40, 2012). Fortunately, modern labor law put in place in the early to mid-1900s…

Rwanda has been known as a place of major improvement in Africa in the past decade. It is a country seen by western society as a place that is prospering among many that appear hopeless. Rwanda has not always been this way, and in many ways, it is still struggling. In the past century this nation has gone through struggle after struggle. Rwanda was initially colonized by Germany in 1884 and remained a colony until 1919. After Germany’s defeat in World War I, the country was forced to…

cooperation. Wrangham’s hypothesis provides answers for these and other questions throughout his book. Wrangham opens his book pondering a deep question: what made us human? He then states that the Homo genus “stemmed from the control of fire and the advent…