Esther

reminds the church of their duty to give recognition to others who demonstrate similar levels of service and sacrifice (1 Corinthians 16:15-18). In the story of Esther, when the king was reminded of Mordecai’s faithful service and informed that no one had honored Mordecai, the king took decisive action to correct the oversight (Esther 6:1-10); understanding that only the service leaders recognize is guaranteed to be…

Josephine Esther Mentzer wanted her makeup products including her foundation to make women have more confidence in feeling beautiful inside and out. Today in 2015 Estee Lauder is sold all around the world and is helping every woman one product at a time. Estee Lauder…

come from the Blankenship Family and the Kuglin Family. My great-grandparents on my father’s side were fascinating to me, however little information was found about them. My great-grandfather, Clarence Blankenship, was a soldier in WWI. His wife, Esther Blankenship, was a stay at…

Steinbeck in Salinas, California. He was the third child of Olive Hamilton and John Ernst Steinbeck. His mother worked as a school teacher, while his father a manager at a flour mill. He has two older sisters and a younger sister. Their names were Esther, Beth, and Mary. Throughout his childhood until he went to Stanford in 1919, he experienced a normal and what could be considered a comfortable childhood with setbacks just as every family has. He had a few inspirations for his work early on in…

The Judaic religion is one of the most ancient in the world. Judaism is rooted in the ancient near-eastern region of Canaan and originated nearly four thousand years ago. Judaism has about 14,000,000 followers. Judaism started with an important man named Abraham. Abraham is sometimes called the father of monotheism, God promised Abraham to give him many descendants. Another important man in the Judaica religion was Moses. Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, received the Ten Commandments, and…

During the 1970s, when transgender women were publishing their personal narratives, cultural anthropologist Esther Newton published her seminal work, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America. Credited as one of the first interdisciplinary works to focus on queer culture, Mother Camp examines female impersonators in the Midwest by breaking down the many forms of cross-dressing such as those who did so as a living (labor), those who did so strictly for sex, and those who did so for their own…

For Winston, this is Julia, and for Ishmael, this is both Esther and Laura. Winston struggles in the beginning of the novel because he feels alone. He feels as though everyone believes the Party except him so he has no one to talk to about his opposition against the government without being turned into the thoughtpolice…

understand how the poor behave in order to create better governmental anti-poverty policies in the Kingdom of Cambodia. To this end, I outline how poor populations make decisions regarding food, health, and education as put forth by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo in Poor Economics. After looking at Cambodia’s poverty data and its Education Strategic Plan for 2014-2018, I will make two recommendations towards reducing secondary-school dropout rates, which is vital for future productive…

group of manuscripts which were a thousand years older than any previously found scrolls which made them the oldest known Hebrew texts of the Bibles. Fragments of every book of the Old Testament, The Torah, have been discovered except for the book of Esther. Prophecies by Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Daniel which are not found in the Bible were found among the Scrolls. In the Scrolls are found never before seen psalms attributed to King David and…

The concept of foster care and adoption can be traced as far back as the Old Testament. The book of Esther tells the story of a young girl who was taken in, after her parents died, by her cousin and became queen of Persia. Although Esther’s story has a happy ending, many of the children in today’s foster care system do not. The teenagers who are aging out of foster care has the steepest hill to climb. The system is set up to be a temporary solution until they can locate a permanent home for the…