Group 3 Professor Eligah King BA 3300 4/19/2017 City Council Project This project was very insightful, we had never sat down to really think about the pressures that City Council goes through in order to pass or deny motions. In this exercise, we find ourselves needing to make a decision within a very limited time frame. We gave the community a chance to voice their ideas on the use of donated land and ways in which it would benefit…
is a region at the top of the globe consisting of Canada, the United States of America, Finland, Denmark (Greenland), Russia, Iceland, Sweden, and Norway. These countries form the Arctic council and are responsible for protecting and managing the affairs within the Arctic. The main reason that there is a Council is because it makes progress in the Arctic more productive and it is easier to manage the Arctic when there is a specific body set up to manage the Arctic. When all of the countries are…
readings one can see that Urban II used family and God to convince people to fight for their brothers and sisters in Christ, end injustice, and do for God and their ancestors what has been done for them. In the beginning of Urban II’s speech located at Council of Clermont titled Fulcher of Chartres, Urban II was speaking kindly to the audience. He did not claim that the people were far from God and were in need for someone to save…
A city council meeting is a substantial way to express considerably of Amarillo in particular’s prosperousness. The purpose of a City Council meeting is to provide a forum for members, staff and citizens to discuss various subjects related to City operations, projects, and planning. I believe it is a great system because it administrates the city with representatives elected by those who live there and more than likely participate in these meetings. Although technically Texas law does not…
Religion played a role in the origins of the Crusades or Holy War. Pope Urban ii called a meeting to deal with the religious issues, to free the Holy Land from the Turks. He form an army and head to Jerusalem, to have a Crusade. Anyone killed on this quest would go to directly to heaven. Some of the first responders were Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless, whose followers were some of the poor from Germany and France. They would soon destroy the Muslims and the Holy Land. This would…
2 Based on the Bowman reading, what are the relative pluses and minuses of a city government with a strong elected mayor versus an appointed city manager? Mayors tend to be the most prominent figures in the city government primarily because their position automatically makes them the center of attention. A strong mayor structure establishes the mayor as the sole chief executive who exercises substantive policy responsible. The more of these powers a mayor has the stronger her or his position is…
IF I WERE ELECTED MAYOR I would put policies in place to help stop the crime and hire more police to patrol high crime areas. I would also help establish better laws for the state to help us improve on how we spend money to help poor people and provide better low-income housing and help unemployed people get better jobs. I would also help improve our local schools and their facilities. This includes a better library , cafeteria, bathroom, and provide better lunches from McDonalds, Burger…
In the span of fifteen hundred years, Eastern and Western Christianity had comparatively been influenced by Jesus’ teachings. The ideology of Jesus Christ included his virginal birth, his death, and resurrection. With this in mind, some of the important reoccurring issues in understanding both concerns for the East and West are founded in the sacramental and liturgical practices. Christ’s death and “resurrection became koinonia: or communion, fellowship, or the church [p. 33, Vol. 1].” The…
and dominated by executive actors, namely the Council of Ministers and the ‘unelected bureaucrats’ in the European Commission. However, this view misunderstands how the EU decision making and legislative process now operates. The competences of the EU institutions have altered because of a series of Treaty revisions, and subsequently the political balance of power in the EU has changed. Legislative…
being the only eternal being and that Jesus the son is only a creature.Alexander (Bishop of Alexandria) response in disagreement was that Jesus is indeed a eternal being equal to God.This ultimately leads to Constantine calling the First Ecumenical Council in Nicea.Next, the controversy in 381 A.D. was meant to clear the question of the ascendancy of Jesus and the Holy Spirit.This led to the Second Ecumenical held in Constantinople in 381 A.D.Finally, in 451 A.D. Jesus is once again called into…