Barney & Friends

suits (this one was a matte black, it would be invisible in the night sky) appeared out of a panel in the wall and assembled itself around him as he stood holding Loki’s gaze, smiling slightly. “Stand behind me, put your arms around my neck,” Tony instructed. Loki did, and a moment later they were flying. Tony was flying slower than usual, since he had an unarmored companion on his back, but still they were whipping through the sky, almost silently around the mostly-quiet, mostly-dark…

An Analysis of the Plainness of the Quaker Aesthetic: The Artistic Resolution of the Inward Light and the Material World The major focus of the Quaker aesthetic will be defined through the conflicting expression of art as a form of “plainness” in the spiritual building of the material world. The spiritual process of artistic expression in the Quaker community was based on the conflict of spiritual principles, which sought to minimize the corruption and debasement of the material world. This…

James F. White is a researcher in liturgical studies who wrote notable books related to Christian worship such as Documents of Christian Worship, Introduction to Christian Worship and Protestant Worship: Traditions in Transition. This work is an analysis of Protestant worship where the author elucidates the main worship traditions of nine specific traditional segments of the church that shaped the history of Protestant worship in Europe and North America. These evangelical institutions are…

Who would you think would be a more sympathetic character, a habitual criminal or a renown member of the justice system? In the novel Great Expectations, the answer is not the one you would necessarily choose. This novel by Charles Dickens is centered around a poor boy named Pip who comes into great expectations of wealth by a mysterious benefactor, who turns out to be a lifer exiled to the new colonies named Magwitch. Because of this revelation, Pip struggles with the predicament of protecting…

Lauren and Destiny were sitting in Destiny’s bedroom. Lauren and Destiny have been friends for so long. They tell each other everything. Although they just went through a rough patch. Lauren and Destiny just broke up from a six month relationship. Lauren still had tons of emotions left for Destiny, but Destiny just told Lauren that she wanted to be with someone else. The girl that Destiny wanted to be with was named Rain. She was beautiful and perfect. Lauren was always jealous of Rain, she had…

discovering her six year old watching “Happy Tree Friends.” The name “Happy Tree Friends” might sound like a show that means no harm to children although kids are being exposed to inappropriate and violent scenes. UCLA neuroscientist Macro Iacoboni argues that children often mimic what they see after seeing the same thing several times. Katherine goes on discussing her interview with the creators of the show “Happy Tree…

on the life of one man named Pip, as of the time he was seven years old until he was in his mid-thirties. Pip shows us imperative actions in his life that formed who he became. While developing he acquires a collection of different connections and friends that influence him in his decisions and goals for his life. This is a novel of development ,therefore understanding Pip and his evolution is key in developing an understanding of this novel (Grogan,2014).One of the major themes in this novel…

The novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens revolves around the life of a young boy in Victorian era of England named Pip. When Pip is a young boy, he meets the rich and secluded Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham introduces Pip to her young adoptive daughter, named Estella. She raises Estella to not love, for she is intent on saving Estella from heartbreak. While she does this, she also trains her to break the hearts of others, much as her heart was broken by a man in her youth. She eventually…

school, his father didn’t approve of this and beat him for it. Penn joined the Religious Society five years later known as the Quaker religion. While participating, he went to jail several times for resisting the Church of England. At that time, Friends, commonly called "Quakers," were subject to official persecution which is what landed him in jail. In 1647 the religion Quaker was established for those who were tired of being taught about Christ through a church or minister. The…

branch in Canada. The Friends, as they call their members settled in the Niagara region in 1786 many from New Jersey in Sussex County, the same county in which Hannah was born. As Quaker’s they disavowed anything to do with violence and hence took no active part in the Revolutionary War. This stance of neutrality had members suffer double taxation and the loss of some civil rights – and not just during the war, for many sanctions continued after the war as well. Many Friends could see the…