Lazarus

Lazarus was a Jew living in New York during the late 19th century. Her ancestors had been expelled from Spain in 1492 under the Spanish monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon. Once in the United States her family became more secular but still practiced the main Jewish holidays. In her poem In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport, Lazarus reflects on what life in the new world means to her, her family, and other Jews that have also become more secular over the…

Many teachers experience intense episodes of work-related stress. Elmore (2002) found that teachers are being asked to do something that most people currently working in schools today were not hired to do; they have not been prepared for experiential learning, meeting standards, and/or customized learning (p. 4). Teachers obey representatives from the nation’s capital to the school principal, even when they believe that these mandates and reform initiatives are not in the best interest of…

Appraisal theory arose from Arnold and Lazarus who emphasized that there must be an appraisal of significant meaning for an emotional arousing stimulus. That is, our current goals along with past experiences determine the significance of an event and our connection to it during appraisal. The significance of the event by appraisal determines the type of emotional response exhibited. Early skeptics to appraisal theory made mention that appraisals do not bring forth awareness and likely occur in…

In this first miracle of John’s account, Jesus and His disciples attended a wedding feast at Cana of Galilee, and during the course of the celebration, the wine supply ran out. Mary approached her son Jesus and said, “They have no wine” (John 2:3). Jesus directed the servants to fill six large stone waterpots with water and then commanded the servants to “draw out” the contents of the jars and serve it to the governor of the feast (see John 2:8). At some point between the filling and the drawing…

controlled at a safe level. There just aren’t as many chemicals on the organic produce. “That means produce that hasn’t been drenched in pesticides, chicken and beef hasn’t been pumped full of antibiotics, milk with even more nutritional value.”(Lazarus). There will still probably be pesticides on the organic food, it just doesn’t have as many or as much. Organic food isn’t necessarily better for you. There have been many studies on the nutritional differences between organic and…

ten thousand dollars a year, we are wealthier than 84 percent of the world.” There is almost a sense of guilt rather than conviction involving the issues of possessions. The author goes further when he implies that the rich man, in the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man, was condemned simply because he was stingy, not because he was not of God and showed that through his stinginess. Continuing on, he implies the rich man who met Jesus was condemned for his stinginess rather than the fact he was…

Organic foods are consumed more today in America than they ever have been before. Do you eat organic foods? If you do, have you ever thought about if they are actually better for your health, or if they are just an excuse for you to pay more money?. Organic foods also cost a lot more than foods that are full of pesticides, but they are better for your health. Organic foods are better for your health. According to Rachel Cernansky in the passage, “Organic Food Starts to Prove It's Worth”,…

“Ariel” Sylvia Plath’s Ariel is one of the most renowned collections of poetry from the twentieth century. These poems were written during the last years of Plath’s life before she committed suicide and gives us a unique insight into the inner workings of her mind. Her estranged husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, published Ariel in 1965 after Plath’s suicide. In these poems Plath transcends to become her true self; the tone is cool, amused, bitter, and unnervingly charming. This collection is…

This ‘famished Road” totally sparked me. Its an African tale filled with tradition, and creatures of the spiritual world. The story traces the life of Lazarus, a boy gifted with the power to see and engage in the African spirit world. The author takes his audience on the journey with Lazarus, as walks a very hungry road that is Nigeria filled with poverty, corruption and diseases yet also rich in many other ways. This book was filled with, surreal magical creatures, which made it interesting for…

There are many physical materials / Conditions and intellectual ideas that influence literature. Most of the time it is intellectual ideas that influence literature and in the case of the novel Crime and Punishment it is intellectual ideas that influences the author Fyodor Dostoevsky and the work itself. In Crime and Punishment the author draws out influence from sources such as poverty, the Bible and Nihilism. And these intellectual ideas and the physical condition affect the characters, the…