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    Mr. One Man Band Legendary guitarist Tommy Emmanuel is a two-time Grammy nominee and one of the greatest musicians in the world today. His love and dedication to the guitar, shows why he is one of the greatest players in the world. Emmanuel’s professional career has been going on for over fifty years and he continues to play over three hundred concerts a year. It is no small fact that this man is referred to as being the greatest acoustic guitar player alive with musicians such as; Steve Vai,…

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    Reality Rough Draft Sometimes in life, our memory can be influenced by the emotions we were having at that said time. We can perceive past events differently based on our feelings at the time. Whereas in reality the events may be different. For Hagar Shipley, her stubborn, and prideful attitude has had a detrimental effect on how she remembers her past life events and is why she regularly turns a blind eye toward the truth. The characters of Marvin, John, and her father Jason Currie are all…

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    Apollo 1 Failure

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    On Wednesday, November 30th, Richard Hagar discussed his time as an engineer for the NASA Apollo projects. During NASA’S heyday, Mr. Hagar moved to Florida to work at the Kennedy Space center. As a spacecraft operator, he had an important role in developing, repairing, and modifying each of the Apollo missions. Throughout his endeavors, Mr. Hagar has seen Apollo 1’s failure, helped NASA problem solve through issues,, and helped rescue the astronauts on the Apollo 13 mission. Though the highly…

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    Laurence’s novel The Stone Angel, The protagonist, Hagar Currie/Shipley is strongly influenced by her father, Jason Currie. Jason taught Hagar to be tough and tenacious. Hagar shields her weakness with her inability to help her peers. Hagar unsuccessfully plays the roles of a maiden, wife, and mother in her life. As a maiden in a patriarchal society, Hagar does not conform and refuses to offer sympathy to her family. During her time as a wife, Hagar is unable to show her husband love, and does…

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    Abram's Journey To Egypt

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    invite Abram to Egypt. Rather, he goes there, at the command of the Lord, looking to exploit resources because there are none in his country. The second phase materializes in this narrative as Abram and Sarai take Hagar and the other slaves out of Egypt to the land of Canaan. Although Hagar is of a low social status as determined by her representation as a slave, her ethnic, cultural and religious identity is rooted in the Egyptian society. Thus, not only does Abram and Sarai uproot her from…

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    Womanist Theology

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    Hagar did as she was told and submitted herself back to her owners. Soon after, predicaments began to rise for Hagar, as Sarah gave birth to Issac. The birth of Issac, caused jealous Sarah to convince her husband to send off Hagar as her son, so that her - Issac- does not have to share their inheritance with each other. As Hagar and her son struggle to achieve survival needs, Jesus helps them by provided a water-well for them to drink from. When exploring this story of Hagar, womanist would…

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    Isaac, is the legitimate heir to Abraham’s everlasting covenant with God. The painting of “Hagar’s Expulsion from the House of Abraham,” by Peter Paul Rubens, and a collection of articles discussed in class support the claim that because Sarah and Hagar never established a “sisterhood,” or resolved the hostility that surrounded their relationship,…

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    Genesis 12 Research Paper

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    included in the covenant (Gen 13:16; 15:5). Consequently, we learned in Genesis 11 v.30 that Sarai was barren. Therefore, in Genesis 16 Sarai designed a plan to deal with her inability to have children. Sarai decided to give her Egyptian slave-girl Hagar to Abram to obtain a child v.1. Moreover, in v.2 Sarai stated that God was the reason she had not given Abram a…

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    gets to know Hagar and is introduced to her as a brother. Although Reba corrects her mother by saying, “That ain’t her brother, Mama. They cousins.” But Pilate counters, “I mean what’s the difference in the way you act toward ‘em? Don’t you have to act the same way to both?” (XX). In this first encounter, the basis of Hagar’s and Milkman’s relationship is set. Pilate makes clear that family is family no matter the degree of kinship. Consequently, Pilate tries to predetermine how Hagar should…

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    sleep with her maidservant Hagar. Hagar becomes pregnant, but Sarai feels that her position has been threatened because of this. Sarai tells Abram to choose between Hagar and herself, but Abram tells her that Sarai should decide what to do with Hagar. Sarai then chooses to treat/act harshly toward Hagar. In chapter twenty-one of Genesis, Sarah, in her old age, becomes pregnant with Abraham’s son Isaac. However, after Isaac’s birth Sarah noticed Ishmael, Abraham and Hagar son. Sarah orders…

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