Biblical Magi

The Day before His Birth The Opening of the “Journey of the Magi” described a cold night of winter where the author used as an imagination to describe how it was like for the three kings or Wiseman to journey east to witness a birth of a child. As the narrator informed the reader hardship and difficulties the three kings faced throughout their journey. Such as spirituality, emotion, and physical. The “Journey of the Magi” poem tells us from different approach the meaning of the birth of Christ. One this I realized from the beginning of the poem, was the fact the author was quoting from somewhere else, which cause to conclude as I said earlier “ the three kings or Wiseman. We all know how’s the winter like. Imaging you going on adventure in the desert not knowing where to go. You are frustrating, angry, and even discourage to continue but you still move on your journey. That’s the picture the author…

Introduction The struggle is real, in the” Journey of the Magi,” by T. S. Elliot, written in 1927. Elliot expresses the long journey through the dessert. He conveys how the journey of mankind in the natural is similar to that of a man who decides to leave his sinful lusts, lays down his life and picks up his cross to follow Jesus Christ. Although, the death of the old man is a struggle, laborious, and painful, it opens to a birth of a new creation, it is that death to the flesh which brings new…

he Future is determined by one’s action in the present, So when given a chance to look at the future, people will want to come back to the present, and change their actions for a better future. In the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge, the main character, is a wicked and grumpy man to start with. As four ghost visits him, with the ghost of future as the most influential, Scrooge becomes a caring, joyful man. While the all the ghosts are important in the development of…

Love is like a cupid arrow, it can end up in many places. “The Gift of the Magi” a short story by O. Henery, models a theme through direct and indirect characterization with two characters, Della and Jim Dillingham Young, who reveal the everlasting theme of love. When we are first introduced to Della through direct characterization, she gets an idea that could her more cash to buy her Jim a worthy present she has been struggling to find for Christmas Eve; selling her breathtaking hair to Madame…

For this final lab, I decided to interview my mother. I thought this would be a great opportunity to learn a little more about the Latino and Salvadorian culture. I asked my mother about traditions that are celebrated in El Salvador, the types foods that are served, housing, and more. Through the things that I would learn through the interview, I was able to point out differences between the Salvadoran and American cultures. This final lab also allowed me to analyze how I will use my Spanish and…

‘Performances mark identities, bend time, reshape and adorn the body, and tell stories’ – Richard Schechner, Performance Studies: An Introduction. Human life is drenched nowadays with ritual and traditions and Christmas Day comes under that very heavily, it is a greatly celebrated event, especially in our Western society. Naturally, we will adopt restored behaviour and focus into our ‘second reality’. Schechner’s ‘Performance Studies: An Introduction’ gives an insight to the various concepts…

Epiphany celebrates the arrival of the Magi (the Three Kings, named Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar) at the site of Jesus' birth, so it is also called El Día de los Reyes Magos ("Three Kings' Day") in Spanish-speaking countries such as Panama. The day also commemorates his divinity as manifested to the Magi, who brought him gifts. On this day Panamanian families awake to open the gifts left by the Three Kings, and families and friends gather for the celebrations. While the children play with…

Does being wealthy necessarily mean you’re rich? “One selfless act can positively impact the lives of many.”(Unknown) Today in our world selfless acts are becoming more and more scarce. People in our world are becoming really selfish. In the story The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, the characters Della and Jim do some really selfless acts to buy each other gifts they really wanted. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers, Lemon teaches Greg that treasure isn’t always worth…

women “were generally regarded as inferior participants in the worshipping community” (2). As the social status of women can be viewed as subordinate to males, they can too be regarded as items of trade, used to barter for goods and money. Although the authority of women is present in the homes and domestic responsibilities, the men were noted to have more social power and social responsibility. Because the Bible is often viewed as a patriarchal text, many feminists and scholars refuse to…

Young Earth creationism is the belief where the world was created in 6, 24-hour days, and the age of the world is approximately 6000 years old. The Young Earth creationism uses the great flood to show how it makes sense. Making the world and everything on it young. This ideal that the earth is young is not a new ideal and has been around since between 700 and 735 AD, when a monk by the name of Venerable Bede claimed the creation of the world was in 3952 BC. Many other people have placed the…