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    I am a professionally trained registered nurse with skill ensuring high standard of culturally competent care for wide variety of patients with diverse needs. Experienced registered nurse licensed with strong clinical and people skills. Responsible registered nurse with excellent communication skills demonstrated by 14 to 15 years of experience in health care. I am a detail oriented professional who has been consistently praised as detail oriented by my co-workers and management over my…

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    was taken to trial after accusing Puritan ministers and magistrates of proclaiming salvation was dependent on an individual's good works rather than on divine grace, which was contrary to Puritan teaching. She was initially charged with sedition however during the trial another charge of blasphemy became relevant. She was then banished to Providence, Rhode Island a Baptist community, and passed a few years…

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    Concerning compatibility of free will with Divine Providence, Augustine argues that God has advance knowledge of our potential choices, not of our actions, and react depending on what that choice will be. In this way, God leaves us with our free will and the personal responsibility that comes with it. We can consult God through prayer to help us choose rightly, or choose to do evil. In the latter case, we will be fully responsible for the consequences that may result. Inspired by Augustine’s…

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    What Is Religion Essay

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    A prophet’s ultimate purpose is to not only proclaim the divine promise, or God’s promise, but it is to also teach people about what it means to be a community of hope. The way prophets are able teach people about a community of hope is by emphasizing that those who live in poverty and are outcasts should never…

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    The End of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Slavery had become an extremely controversial issue among not only the religious group the Quakers, but also among political forces toward the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Before the American Revolution, slavery was widely used and accepted throughout the developed world, but afterward, people began to acknowledge the negative side of slavery. The abolition the slave trade of the United Kingdom in 1806 and 1807 paved…

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    Wealth In Judaism

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    from God and that humans are mere stewards, therefore from a Jewish perspective, the observance of God’s Commandments leads not to eternal blessings of the afterlife but to an abundance of worldly wealth while poverty and disasters are punishments of divine anger (Tamari 48). Furthermore, income…

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    Indepence from Early School Starts Times Due to the course of human events, like being forced to get out of bed outrageously early, thus having trouble focusing in class due to the extreme fatigue it has caused me, I declare my separation from the school’s early morning schedule. We stand together, defending the right to sleep in, with time to prepare for the day ahead. Actions must be taken, such as being provided with more time in the morning before school. Us, hard working students, deserve…

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    How far exactly are you willing to go to get justice from someone who has wronged you? Would your answer change if getting that justice meant losing your morals and values in the process? In the novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Alexandre Dumas, the protagonist, Edmond Dantes plans and then executes revenge on the people who threw him in jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Driven by blind rage and thirst for vengeance, Dantes abandons his naivety and innocence in pursuit for his…

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    Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine both were visionaries in their day, understanding that the world around us was more than just dirt and rock but that there was a divine infinite universe in front of us to explore and all you had to do was look up. While both of these men could be found laying the bricks for the age of enlightenment in the colonies and paving the way for a new country, free of British rule, they were also vastly different in individual temperament. Benjamin Franklin and…

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    1. Explain the three criticisms against the Spanish called the Black Legend. Describe the work of the following to refute the Black Legend: Father Jose de Anchieta in Brazil, St. Francis Solano in the Andes, the Franciscans in New Mexico, the Jesuit reductions in Paraguay, and Father Serra in California. The three criticisms that the Spanish get from the Black Legend are primarily from the English and Dutch who are known to have said that the Spanish are unusually cruel, greedy and depraved…

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