An Unseen Enemy

disciple and an evangelist of God gives me a different view toward people. I’m able to understand why people are facing hardship everyday and know what they need in life the most. I’m also able to fight against the spiritual battle by knowing who my enemy is and who my command-in-chief is. The second rule of ‘knowing who God is to me’ allows me to focus to whom shall I go when hardship kicks in my life. The desire to know him more and to be more intimate makes me have biblical decisions and…

Surrounded on all sides by worldly kingdoms, the small states of Israel and Judaea felt perpetually threatened by their powerful neighbours. Yet, miraculously, the Old Confederacy 's peasant militia repeatedly emerged victorious over its numerous enemies…..Accordingly, the status of their warrior god, Yahweh, ascended to great heights and sacrifices began to be offered to him. As Yahweh continued in later epochs to lead the Old Confederacy 's army of noble warlords to victory over the…

Lost but not loser: The assessment of the claim that the Soviet Union lost the Cold War Introduction With the disintegration of Soviet Union, the Cold War era, which lasted as long as 40 years, had come to an end. The last Soviet Premier Gorbachev, ironically, been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after his failed reformation and governance in Soviet Union, which, to put it the other way round, could been seen as affirmation for his struggle to pave the way for nuclear agreement and open the…

They did not have the visions of Heaven and Hell as we do now. Specifically, the idea that living a good life will lead one to a pleasant afterlife and that living a bad or immoral life will lead one to an unpleasant afterlife. The ancient Greeks saw life after death as something only attainable through glory in their present lives. As Achilles said in the Iliad (1997 trans.), “If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy, my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies. If I voyage back to the…

Because of being a women, Malyne is required to follow the order given to her. Granted, life back then was not simple. Food preparation was not like it is today, but because John and Aleyne decided to spend the night, Malyne was summoned to prepare an unseen amount of work along with “rosted hem a goos” (4137). This food preparation would take hours on end, first she would have to prep the goose, defeather, and then cook this meal, all within a reasonable…

Ruben Martinez’s Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail follows Martinez as he gathers stories from those in the village of Cherán after the death of the three Chávez brothers: Benjamin, Jaime, and Salvador. Through this, Martinez collects stories of the families in Cheran, a small village in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. Through the collection of these stories, Martinez states in the end of the first part of the novel a prophecy: the cultural hybridization of the Mexicans in the…

The origins of such a conflict are cloudy. The first anti-drug laws were passed well before Richard Nixon declared drugs public enemy number one, but for a completely different reason then what you may think. The earliest anti-opium laws were passed in the 1870s. You may ask yourself why they would only target opium, and the answer to this question has everything to do with race. These early drug laws were aimed more towards the Chinese immigrants entering the country than the opium that they…

In Batwoman Elegy, by Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams, Kate Kane is aware that there is a set of rules she has to follow in taking up the bat moniker, however, she also uses her military experience, paternal mentor, and cunning to alter the rules to her advantage. Batwoman is, in essence, a part of the bat family and therefore must fit into the Bat-mythology. Kate Kane adheres to many aspects of Batman's code, she does not kill, seeks for the triumph of good over evil, and will go to nearly any end…

Religion was huge in America when it was first starting out in the early 1600s. Religious practice was more-so apart of daily life in New England than anywhere else in the colonies. One of the first strictly religious settlements would be the one of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Plymouth settlements. The strong roots of Christianity would resonate throughout American history and engrain itself into an early American’s everyday life. For example, Joseph Fish (father of Mary Fish) grew up in a…

Jon cuts through numerous foes, but always seems surprised by the next Bolton falling upon him. On more than one occasion, he’s saved from imminent death by the fortuitous advent of another battle knocking through him, or an ally taking down an unseen enemy, or another volley of indiscriminate arrows from Ramsay’s archers taking out both friends and foes around them. Jon has never seemed more vulnerable, more mortal than in this moment, despite having actually died in the last season – even…