Church of Christ, Scientist

one of the official signer of the United States Constitution of 1787, Declaration of Independence, and of the Paris Peace Commission. He was one of the very first United States Postmaster’s General, a big figure in the American Enlightenment and a scientist.”(History) He kept himself busy and involved with society. Franklin facilitated and founded many of the “civic organizations, the American Philosophical Society, the Union Fire Company, University…

Christianity is my top aspect of my identity because it is the one thing that I consider as most valuable. Christianity has truly shaped and molded me into the young woman that I have become today. My mother reared me in the church from six months of age. We went to church faithfully every Wednesday for bible studies and every Sunday morning and evening. Although many children…

American environmentalists of the late 1800s served as environmental steward role models for people in the following generations. The thoughtfulness, passion, and original ideas in the written works of people like H. H. Bennett and John Muir are still famous inspirational messages. In the wooded area of Walden Pond State Park, for example, Thoreau’s quote, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it…

There are many illusions we see in the world. We are taught to see them early on in life and have been blindly following these things without question. My research paper will be about Atoms and the laws of nature, religion, and the way we see the world. I will be talking through these subjects and showing you how it is all an illusion. What are we, what are we made out of? One way we can find out is if we cut something apart. So let’s say we’re cutting a human. We cut it in half and you see a…

INTRODUCTION This book initially began as a commentary on my Facebook page, entitled, “Do Animals Go to Heaven?” It was the product of a question asked of me by our church youth. Several within the adult congregation disagreed with me. However I presented scripture as well as sound teachings. When I asked what their scriptural denial to my stance was, the reply I received was, “It’s in there somewhere,” referring to the Bible. Their incorrectly held beliefs were based on personal “feelings” and…

His father was a country lawyer. For education he attended Westminster School in London, and was later transferred to Christ Church, Oxford. From there he later achieved his bachelors in medicine in the year 1674. Later, Locke started to come up with ideas of the social contract between the people and the ruler of the people as he stated “We give up our right to ourselves exact…

A trend that is seen in modern society’s altering views towards consumption commonly thought of as harmful substances. Slowly, we are being coaxed by medical studies and word of mouth that what is unhealthy for us could in reality benefit us. Wine, in particular red wine, has risen in popularity as an alcoholic drink that could benefit the heart and cardiovascular system. But while this buzz claim has been studied and small potential benefits may exist, as of yet is not uniformly supported by…

judge personal beliefs because of all the different forces that affect a person and how they view religion. Thirdly, of all the different aspects of modernization, science will be the most important factor in the process of secularization. However, scientists are as about religious than any other person, and any connection of science and secularization seems mythical. The fourth thing to notice is that secularization is regarded to as an irreversible state, that once achieved, religion will be…

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) there is not a single definition of Hate Crime. The FBI keeps track of hate crimes which are committed by the reports of the incidents they receive from local law enforcements agencies. Hate crimes are defined as a criminal act that are motivated wholly or partly by criminals because of race, religion, ethnicity, disability or sexual orientation. Hate crimes are committed against people, against property and against society. Each state…

Political: In the City of Edinburg, politics split into three parts, 68.920% Democratic, 30.290% Republican, and 0.796% independent. Economic: Edinburg Economic Development Corporation’s Executive Director, Ramiro Garza Jr., Reports that Edinburg has generated over $1.14 million in local sales taxes for the month of April 2009. This figure is up 11% compared to $1,033,765.77 produced in the same month in 2008. The local sales taxes generated by the city’s one and a half cent local sales…