Boaz

If one was considered prized, then in turn valuable and able to wield more control over life’s events. This scenario played out in the story of Ruth and of Esther. Both women were seen as virtuous and good women. When it came time for Ruth to ask Boaz to be her redeemer this played an important role in Boaz’s acceptance of this responsibility. Again with Esther, the king, Ahasuerus, found Esther to be favorable and in Esther’s time of need the king listened to Esther’s plea, saving the Jews from…

Boss Lady Mae is a multi-talented force of nature. She achieved Best-Selling Author status after Book 1 of the Boss Ladies (5 Book Series) had over 45k downloads in two days. To top it all off, Boss Lady was rising to Stardom with Boss Ladies on the Move (BLOTM), the group for Forward-Thinking Women in Business that she founded. What should have been the best year of her life with two best-selling books on Amazon, all the buzz about BLOTM, and the launching of her new magazine, HBOSS ATL, but…

Do you trust your government? Most Untied States citizens do not trust the government. In the past 100 years, government trust has declined dramatically. While a majority of citizens do not trust the government, only nineteen percent of Americans can say that they trust the government all or most of the time. While some Americans trust the government, Americans should not trust the government because there is corruption, going against the constitution and because of the amount of spending…

Introduction In Luke2:1-20, we are told the “Nativity story,” or the story in which Jesus is born. The story starts out stating that Augustus has required a registration of all the people.1 This is the first registration while Quirinus was governor of Syria.2 Each then went to their own town to be registered, including Joseph. Joseph traveled with Mary, who was with child, up to the city of David, Bethlehem. While they were in Bethlehem Mary gave birth to her firstborn son, and she laid him in…

As a young child, my parents were my number one, they were everything to me. Every birthday, holiday, even every moment of happiness, sadness, and hardship were all experienced around both my parents. I loved them and they loved me, yes we did have our challenges, but at the end of the day we were happy and there was nothing in my mind that could ever take something that beautiful away from me. Although I do struggle and wish I had a happy childhood, what matters most is that my family is…

Prisoners’ rights generally reflect from the United States Constitution. According to Schmalleger and Smykia (2015), prisoners have the right to free speech, due process, personal rights, and protection to cruel and unusual punishment (p. 356). Prisoners have the right to free speech like anyone else, given that they must remain peaceful. Prisoners also have the right to a quick and speedy trial, they cannot have any unnecessary delay from trial. The prisoners also have personal rights to things…

I. AGD: Thank You, Good Afternoon. If you don’t mind me asking, how many people here are for the legalization of all drugs? Now take a second to imagine what you could do with one trillion dollars… It sure could fix a lot of problems in the world. Well, according to William Reed, president of the Business Exchange Network in his article, “Time to Repeal the War on Drugs”, one trillion dollars is how much the United States has spent on the War on Drugs since it started in 1970. And it is a…

it was infused with the spirit and worldview of the people of Israel. Their foundational experience was the Exodus on which all the other references to redemption build. In the story of Ruth, for example, we encounter the practice of the kinsman, Boaz, buying back Naomi’s property and acquiring Ruth as a wife at the same…

Introduction Mental illnesses are some of the least publicly accept illnesses being widely demonized by those who do not understand them. In the past those afflicted with mental illness locked up and hidden away from the public; patients at psychiatric hospitals were treated worst than animals. People with mental illnesses often do not receive the support that those with physical illnesses receive because their afflictions are not externally apparent. There are some who choose to believe that…

Closeness-communication bias is another burden that can hinder effective interpersonal communication among marriages. We tend to make assumptions when we collaborate with those who are closest to us because we know them so well. Boaz Kysar, a professor in psychology at the University of Chicago, stated that “People commonly believe that they communicate better with close friends than with strangers. That closeness can lead people to overestimate how well they communicate with each other”…