John the Apostle

Laurie Halse Anderson’s Historical Fiction novel, Fever 1793, takes place in Philadelphia- a large city- during the fever epedemic. Mattie Cook lives in a coffeehouse with her Mother, Grandfather, and her cook Eliza. By the time the fever epedemic breaks out, Mattie has to be strong in order to survive. Anderson uses descriptive words and sentence varitey to show the theme of the story; bravery. The author creates this lesson to show that someones bravery can save an entire city. The theme…

After the commotion settled, Paul left his disciples and went towards Macedonia and finally ended up in Greece. He left for Macedonia again after learning that some Jews were plotting against him. He was accompanied by many people, and they sailed from Philippi after the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and 5 days later, went to Troas. On the first day of the week of bread baking, Paul told the people that he had to leave. He talked that entire night, and a man called Eutychus fell asleep and fell…

The Acts of the Apostles is a companion literary work to Luke’s Gospel. In the Gospel, the focus is on the journey towards Jerusalem (Johnson 194). In Acts, Luke’s focus on the journey from Jerusalem (Johnson 194). As Christianity spreads from Jerusalem outward, Peter remains…

Fancy Title In his 1963 essay, “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem,” philosopher Erich Fromm argues that disobedience to authority started human history and blind obedience may cause its destruction. Fromm’s view on obedience to authority is that when we obey authority, even when it goes against our own reasoning and morals, then that obedience is cowardly and destructive while any act affirming individual will and autonomy is an act of freedom. Humanity could easily destroy…

Different books can show you the importance of something that we’ve showed little attention too, or never thought of how different our lives could be without a certain thing or person. In two different books I’ve read it has showed me the importance of growing up with a father, and growing up without a father. Both books include a character that leads to success, one book also has a character that has a fallout and ends up with the opposite of success. The two books are Losing My Cool written by…

In Punished, Victor Rios examines the ways in which the discrimination of the criminal justice system and general society against poor black and Latino boys pushes them towards future criminal involvement. In Chapter 5 Rios describes the criminal actions of these young men as acts of survival or of resistance against the system which oppresses them. In a system which immediately criminalizes them, the young men are unable to get jobs or educations. Without the education and learned cultural…

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has a mission to “lead the way the world, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases”(St. Jude). They want to help children and their families to not only help they children get better but to help their families that are in need of financial help. There are many opportunities that St. Jude’s gives us to get involved. St. Jude 's wants to reach out to everyone, they want not only to help families but they want to show others how…

Borne to an ordeal of grandeur and terror, they begin. It was 1924, at the middle of a decade-long economic boom. At the age of 25, Yale graduate Philip Fitzgerald, along with his divine girlfriend, Madeleine, journey on an afternoon train from the peaceful ambiance of New Haven, to the roaring traffic of New York City. He then settles in an inexpensive apartment condo in Brooklyn. Prior to this, he and his family were in a seven-month feud about their emigration. Philip, like any other fine…

Our society would not be where it is today if not for the civil disobedience of the minority groups within our society. The laws of probability dictate that the advances would have happened eventually but if not for the actions of civil disobedience some of them could have taken significantly longer or could have even taken conflicts to resolve just like slavery did. The struggle for Women’s suffrage one such prolonged that contained numerous acts of civil disobedience. The fight to gain voting…

The way people and politics are portrayed vary greatly and not all representations are limited to manipulation as a core aspect of people and politics. This concept will be the focus of today’s conference, exploring the intricate ways Shakespeare adopts this in his historical play Henry IV: Part One. Ideas strongly evident throughout this text are the duality of human nature that comes with a lust for power or purpose, emphasising the notion of people and politics as acts of manipulation.…