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For years gladiator battles and chariot races took place in Colosseums in Ancient Rome. It was a great time for entertainment. People loved the blood and gore of the gladiator battles. Stallions rode around the arena pulling their warriors behind them as the rider cracked his whip. Swords swiped, shields clashed, men fought for their lives. A man could die based on the attitude of one man.With the flip of the emperor's thumb, a man could die. These were the famous events that all the Romans…

Final Hermeneutics Paper (Matthew 5:38-42) The genre of the New Testament is Gospel Narrative. There are a few important interpretive principles when reading books in the New Testament. We must emphasize the broader context when reading these passages. Background information must also be researched. The focus of the Gospels is on Jesus, not us. There must be comparison between the Gospel accounts. The primary goals of the Gospel is to prove that Jesus is the Messiah; It is not trying to…

The New Testament records the timeline of the early first century about a man by the name of Jesus who claimed to be the Messiah "Son of God". Jesus ' coming was through the calling of offering eternal salvation through the faith and grace of God 's mercy. The establishment of the early church covenant was offered to all who believed and desired to understand God and his will. The writers of the books of the New Testament intended to for the Scriptures to be serviceable to all followers of…

“Deus Veult!"- God wills it! cried Pope Urban II’s audience in 1095 at The Council of Clermont. This Papal sanction supposedly initiated the beginning of the First Crusade; a holy war designed to recapture Jerusalem in August 1096. Byzantine Emperor of Constantinople; Alexios I Komnenos appealed to Urban to request aid to resist the Seljuk Turks who occupied Antolia and the majority of Asian Minor. Pope Urban’s unusually secular desire for a legacy may have been a partial motivation for his…

Living in America, I live in what is known as the melting pot. The melting pot is a unique blend of different cultures and ethnic groups. By being together, people get a chance to learn about other ethnic groups, cultures and so on. This unique blend and closeness has resulted in people having open minds and accepting hearts. However this does not always happen. Because there is so much diversity often times great minds clash. The influences that will be talked later on in this paper will…

The Proclamation of John the Baptist 1 The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 2 As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, “See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way; 3 the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” 4 John the baptizer appeared[e] in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5 And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the…

Annotated Bibliography Keough, Trent. "The Dystopia Factor: Industrial Capitalism in Sybil and The Grapes of Wrath." Utopian Studies 4.1 (1993): 38-54. Keough criticizes industrial capitalism by discussing two novels “Sybil” and “The Grapes of Wrath.” He describes that these two novels are socio-political that document “the spiritual disintegration” and “ideological failure” of industrial societies. This novel moves from reflecting social problems and the difficult lives of…

triggers, must be closely monitored in order to fully benefit from sandtray use. There is the potential for the client to quickly go too deep into their buried emotions while using a sandtray, (personal communication, Cary McAdams-Hamilton, Faculty, Antioch University Seattle, October 15, 2016). According to Kestly (2014), human brains were able to sense danger through the process of neuroception (p 18). The trauma my clients experienced conditioned their brains to be hypervigilant, an increased…

During the 15th century A.D., a French peasant girl rose up and aided the French fighting forces during the 100 Year’s War. Born in the year 1412, in Domrémy-la-Pucelle, France, to a simple peasant tenant farmer, Joan of Arc would become a hero for her native France. Growing up on the farm, Joan learned to ride horses, use tools, grow strong of body and mind, and many other skills that would become useful later in life, and on the battlefield. A traditional education, as a woman, especially…

To be straightforward, the Olympic Games are an international sports competition in which more than 13,000 athletes from over 200 countries compete in a variety of events. But when the history behind the Games, the entertainment witnessed by the spectators, and the dedication of the athletes are taken into consideration, the Games become more than just the greatest athletes competing on the world’s largest stage, they transform into a place for unity, sportsmanship, and extreme competition. For…