Jacob Riis

This essay is based on an information accordingly to the USA Today network article by David Unze “Search Unsealed in 1989 Killing Jacob Wetterling” which describe the story of an 11th year old who was abducted “ Kidnapping”in 1989 by pedophilia while he was riding a bicycle with his brother and one of his friends in St. Cloud, Minnesota. At the beginning all the evidence where pointing at a man named Dan Raisser who was residing who his parents near to the abduction site, even the child 's…

1. When one hears the phase “Day of the Lord” there are usually a few things that run through their head. For the believers, the righteous, it is a day of hope, but for the unbeliever, the unrighteous it is a day of destruction. “The Day of the Lord”, according to J. Ed Komoszewski in his article, “A Basic Introduction to The Day of the Lord in the Old Testament Writings Prophets” is two sided in nature. It will produce both destruction and blessing to everyone on the Earth. The wicked, the ones…

Bear Valley Lectures – SEPT. 20th, 2013 MAJORING IN THE MINORS: A STUDY OF THE MINOR PROPHETS (PART ONE) HOSEA CHAPTERS 12 & 13: “REPEAT OF ISRAEL’S SIN (JUSTIFYING GOD’S JUDGEMENT)” “A Heart-Broken God” (Hosea 12-13) OUTLINE I. God Reminisces About His Honeymoon With His Bride Israel (12:1-6) II. Israel Was Breaking God’s Heart (12:7-13:3) III. God Defends Himself As a Faithful but Betrayed Husband (13:4-13) IV. Interlude: God Will Redeem His Remnant (13:14) INTRODUCTION 1. TAMPA, Fla.…

word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing. That is why I became a footnote, my story a brief detour between the well-known history of my father, Jacob, and the celebrated chronicle of Joseph, my brother. (Diamant, 1997, p. 1) This is the opening of the book The Red Tent, the story of Dinah, daughter of Leah, wife of Jacob. This starts the journey into the hidden world of ancient women, where in a male dominated society they make themselves powerful. The book makes you realize…

Jacob was possibly less desirable because of his deceitfulness with Isaac. He heard his call however after he had his dream and fought with the stranger. After accepting it, he was named Israel and was faithful to God. He married and had 12 sons. Jacob contributed to Salvation History by being faithful to God and leading Joseph on the right path. His cycle of sin appeared to be when he cheats, he is cheated. This happened when he cheated Esau but succumbed to Laben. Additionally, when he showed…

Saint Isidore of Seville is the patron saint of the internet. With his feast day being April 4th. Saint Isidore was born into a family of saints in the sixth century of Spain. 3 siblings of his, being Leander, Fulgentius, and Florentina, are seen as saints in Spain. Saint Isidore’s family was also not only a family full of saints but also a family of leaders, with both Fulgentius and Leander both being bishops and Florentina an abbess. Because of this, this didn’t make life a lot easier to…

apparitions and chilling noises that spook him, and eventually force him to acknowledge the magnitude of his sins. The first occasion on which the reader witnesses the hallucinations of Scrooge, is when he sees the ghostly face of the seven-year-deceased Jacob Marley, in the knocker of the door to his home. The image compelled Scrooge to inspect the rooms of his house, and to lock his door uncustomarily. But that did not stop Marley’s ghost from making a noisy entrance. The phantom wore a…

A Christmas Carol tells the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge a man who, despite the cheerful spirit of Christmas, turns to solitary and secrecy throughout this period. The selfish attitude Scrooge portrays correlates to the manifestation of four spirits that present themselves as a warning of what shall occur if he continues on the path of self-interest. Self-interest lives within all of us, it gives us the inclination to put ourselves in front of others. However the spirit of Christmas lives to curtail…

full to the brim with greed. He had no christmas spirit and called it a “humbug!”(Dickens 3) Now poor Ebenezer needed to be taught some very needed christmas spirit, so one christmas eve, he was visited by his old, dead, business partner’s ghost, Jacob Marley. He tells Scrooge that he will be visited by 3 ghosts that will teach him about the true meaning of christmas. the 3 ghosts names were: past, present, and future. Past was the first to come. He showed scrooge visions from the past of…

I recently read a novella, called A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Basically what this book is about is a cold-hearted man who despises Christmas. His name was Ebeneezer Scrooge. Scrooge's partner in business, Marley, died on Christmas Eve, seven years pass, and the very night Marley visits him in ghost form, is Christmas Eve. Marley says that he will be visited by three ghosts, that will help him change his ways before it is too late, the ghost of Christmas Past, the ghost of Christmas…