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The Bible narrative story I chose was Joshua 2:1-24. The Bible story is about a woman named Rahab. The Bible story begins when Joshua secretly sends two spies to go to the land of Jericho. When the two spies got to Jericho they entered a house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. However, the king of Jericho was told about the two spies from Israel that entered the house of the prostitute named Rahab. The king was angry and mad. Then, the king of Jericho sent a message to Rahab and said…

The Mediterranean was heavily influenced by numerous waves of colonization during the Archaic Greek through Roman periods (c. 750BCE-AD400). Frequent voyages over land and sea meant that different social groups were beginning to interacting with one another. One group that ushered in an age of colonization in the Mediterranean region were the Greeks, who prior to exploration were cultivators of the land (Wilson, 2006:27). However, because their homeland was mountainous prime regions for…

The Bronze bow is a very religious and political book written by Elizabeth George Speare. The Bronze Bow takes place in Palestine where you are introduced to Daniel bar Jamin who is the main character and a Zealot. Daniel has a lot of conflicting emotions throughout this entire book. You see him battling with himself trying to figure who he is. He has a lot rage, impulsive decisions, but he is also brave too. The reason why he is battling with himself is because when he was a Zealot he wanted to…

summer Olympics. The Olympic Games don’t just bring in the competing athlete’s, but it also brings in the family members and the fans from all over the world to enjoy the competition of all the sports. Athletes come in hope to win a gold, silver or bronze medal, but they also come to honor their country. What makes olympians a culture you might ask? Well, it’s the fact that every four years people from every nationality,…

Counterfactual thinking and living in imagination is another aspect of life that distracts adults and children from their realities. These individuals get captured in their thoughts of how life should be or how things should go. By adults and children carefully planning out their future’s and how certain things should happen, it causes misery when their “blueprint” does not go as planned. In Jeanette Winterson’s essay “The World and Other Places”, she introduces characters who live their lives…

Donatello’s bronze David is now his most famous work, and was the first known free standing nude statue produced. Lots have perceived the David statue as having many homo-erotic qualities, and liked to argue that it reflected the artist's own orientation. When Cosimo was exiled from Florence; Donatello went to Rome until 1433. There were two works that testified his presence in the city, the Tomb of Giovanni Crivelli at Santa Maria in Aracoeli, and the Ciborium at St. Peter’s Basilica. His…

China really only started coming to the Olympics in the early 90’s and wasn 't really known for anything athletic before then. In 2008 China ranked #1 overall in the Olympics finishing with 51 gold medals, 21 silver medals, and 28 bronze medals. China 's best sports at the Summer Olympics are badminton, diving, gymnastics, shooting, table tennis, and weightlifting. China is known for soaring in table tennis and has won 23 of 27 gold medals for table tennis in the Olympics. Although…

from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, and the invention of writing. Had these three changes not occurred, mankind would, without question, not be in the same place it is today. Before humans mastered the art of agriculture, their way of living was primitive. They survived by hunting and gathering and never staying in one place for too long. When humans realized that they could harvest food and domesticate animals such as sheep, dogs, and pigs,…

Title: Intent of the Heart This project will be based on Tom Lee “the bronze statue” that depicts a black man reaching out to save a helpless drowning white man from a steamboat wreck, the M. E. Norman. The statue is located on Riverside Dr. west of downtown Memphis overlooking the Mississippi River “The Tom Lee Park”. I proposed to introduce and offer a different view of Tom Lee’s jester of an outreach hand. In spite of Memphis daily broadcast of killing in the news, show how Memphian offers…

Have you ever thought what if I had tried harder then I would have succeeded? Most likely you have and that is known as counterfactual thinking. Counterfactual thinking is the theory of what could have been. We tend to correlate our failures with counterfactual thinking. For example, if we had studied harder on that test and not gone out that night we might have gotten an A on the test not a B. We can also look at counterfactual thinking in a positive way and how that helps us in our lives. In…