Black Friday

came to mind are symbolism and crucifixion; these words are powerful when it comes to the piece. The painting has many bright colors of orange and yellow that is for the trees, hills, and grass. Some other colors within the painting represent in black and blue for the women’s…

While it is easy for one to give up on their goals and move on, one can truly show strength by conquering the various challenges on their way to success. Homer’s, The Odyssey, is able to depict how persistence can lead to fulfillment. Homer’s purpose in the epic poem The Odyssey is to show society that though there are setbacks in life, one can overcome them with perseverance by employing katabasis by emphasize the various struggles Odysseus faces. Homer utilizes katabasis initially to…

Zakaria Radaideh 11KM Book Review The title of this book is called Robinson Crusoe, the author is Daniel Defoe, publisher is Modern Library, the year of publication is in 1719, genre is Historical Fiction, the type of genre is an Adventure Novel and the number of pages is 198. The book is about a man named Robinson Crusoe who always had a desire for sailing and having adventures. He gets many chances but finally land up being the only survivor on a deserted island. Here he makes a life for…

The physical abuse, mental abuse and maltreatment distributed out by the Jews and the Romans, as well as the lack of food, water, and sleep, also contributed to His generally weakened state. Therefore, even before the actual crucifixion, Jesus' physical condition was at least serious and possibly critical. With the knowledge of both anatomy and ancient crucifixion practices, one may form the option, that this was indeed a slow agonizing execution. Our Lord and Savior’s contributing cause of…

Gerardo Mejia Professor Feres Religious Studies 325 17 April 2015 Retreat On Friday March 6th I embarked on a retreat until Sunday March 8th. Holy Spirit Catholic Church hosted this retreat, which is located at, 2725 55th St, San Diego, CA 92105. I was invited by one of my close friends to join her on this retreat, I knew very little about what I was getting myself into and about what I would even be doing there. All I was told was this retreat was going to take place in a different location,…

Many truly don’t know the complete meaningful definition of the word passion. Passion in the dictionary is a very vague and simple definition. The definition defines passion as a strong emotion. There are many strong emotions out there in the world that the word passion can be confused, or can be used in the wrong context. It seems like people have taking away the true meaning of passion. People have overlooked the word and substituted the definition with a definition that will never truly…

In literature, we can find different thoughts that are brought to our attention and may touch our hearts as we read it. When I read literature, I find a personal connection within it and it makes me want to read more. An Old English Poem, “The Dream of the Rood” by an unknown author, translated by E.T Donaldson is a unique poem where the narrator tells his vision from a dream he received on the crucifixion of Christ and the view from the cross perspective. The beauty of this poem goes beyond…

In the years between 30 and 33 AD Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. There was nothing special about the crucifixion of Jesus, at least historically. It was common of Romans to crucify anyone who opposed them. The Romans had many methods of crucifying a person, at the time there were three. The crux simplex, was an upright pole that was occasionally used for the purpose of crucifixion. The crux decussata (X), also called the crux Andreana, because according to tradition St. Andrew was said to have…

Good evening Ladies, Gentlemen, thank you for coming to celebrate a truly special evening for a truly special person, and to have to have all of you here to help celebrate makes it that much better. Tonight, would not have been possible without each and every one of you, all of you have played a very important role in Zac’s life so far. Tonight, is Zac’s night and we hope it will be a night that he remembers this fondly in the years to come. The past twenty-one years have flown by and seen Zac…

On March 29, 2016, I had the opportunity to tour the facilities of the Bermuda Electric Light Company, commonly known as BELCO. I chose this company because I was interested in seeing how marketing and advertising communications fits into the electrical and engineering business. I was met by Linda Smith, who is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Relations. Mrs. Smith works for BELCO’s parent company called the Ascendant Group. She is responsible for the marketing, communications and the…