Ezra

A wise man once said, “ One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others’ feelings and courteous in his behavior.”-(Ezra Taft Benson). Although his words are true, they are often not displayed in the behavior of our peers, especially during high school. I learned the hard way, through witnessing a misunderstanding that led to discriminatory actions. Prejudice against my friend, Emma, brought her to tears because she felt alone and rejected, much like Boo Radley…

Famous Russian author and poet, Boris Pasternak once said, “Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary” (Literature Quotes). In other words, literature is an important art form in which something average can become much more. This is completely accurate in the case of classic literature, especially the novel, The Awakening, written by 19th Century feminist writer, Kate Chopin. Classic literature is…

wanderlust years, in western China he meet a Taoist mystic named Ssu Ma Ch’eng-cheng, who takes Li Bai as his student. He becomes associated and a well-known practitioner of Taoism and embodies it through his poetry. At age twenty-nine in 730 A.D., he makes the first of four marriages and lives in Hupei. Li Bai was born free and his vision in life was to be free. He wanted to be great, but in his own personal path. “ Li Po was an obscure person who greatest hope of advancement lay in convincing…

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” That speech was spoken by Patrick Henry to the citizens of the city of colonial Williamsburg. Now, colonial Williamsburg is a great place for anybody to go to learn about the historical significance of the city during the times of the revolutionary war. One of the many historic buildings in…

SYNOPTIC GOSPELS Study on the Gospel of Luke “Luke 19:1-10” Submitted by Finny Achankunju Submitted to Pr. Parimal Christian Jameson School of Theology A Study on Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus - “The Tax Collector” The passage for today’s thought is from Luke 19: 1 to 10 Background – Gospel of Luke The Gospel of Luke is one of four Gospels in the Holy Bible and is the third book presented in the New Testament. The author of this Gospel, Luke, was an associate of the Apostle Paul and…

This essay will discuss Malachi 3:1-7 and the Indictment against Israel. I will further discuss how it’s the last book before four hundred years of silence and how no prophetic word was spoken to the prophets again until John the Baptist. I will further discuss how the prophets before him looked forward to God’s emergence. I will elaborate on how the transitional nature of Malachi makes the book interesting to any individual concerned with the relationship between Judaism and Christianity as…

Mr. Lapidoth is a Christian character that has kidnapped his daughter, Mirah, from his Jewish wife. Mirah tells Mrs. Meyricks that her Christian father has often mocked the Jewish people. ’’I said, Father, you ought not to mimic our own people before Christians mock them: would it not be bad if I mimicked you, that they might mock you? But he only shrugged his shoulders and pinched my chin and said, you couldn’t do it my dear’’ (Eliot, 2003, 117). As discussed above, because of the Jews’…

The Three Brothers Several people have many curiosities about the greek gods and what they did. I have been wondering about Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades the most. These three brothers had to “draw straws” to see who would rule the sky, the underworld, and the water. The luckiest god, Zeus, pick the sky first. Poseidon picked next. He thought that Zeus was dumb for picking the sky because there is nothing there. Poseidon picked the sea. Hades, the unluckiest god, was forced to be the god of the…

It borders with the Dead Sea, a brook, and the Mediterrain Sea. Abraham moved to Canaan after God told him to. Canaan is found in multiple parts of the bible including Genesis, Exodus. Numbers, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 Chronicles, Ezra, Psalms, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Obadiah, and Zephaniah. There have been different religions in Canaan including the practice of animal sacrificing of donkeys.There were many different Gods that were worshiped in the Canaan history. By the time Jesus…

Walt Whitman was born in eighteen nineteen in West Hills, New York. The second of nine kids, which would eventually fall to seven, his family suffered tremendous financial difficulties. While his father was a gifted builder and craftsman, their rural location, and their financially struggling neighbors, made it nearly impossible to maintain a steady income. Ultimately, at eleven, Whitman was forced to leave school to work in printing. Often, Whitman described his childhood as ‘miserable’ because…