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    Name__Josie Sembrot_________________________________________ Mission Carnival Wrap-up and Evaluation Answer the following questions in complete sentences and in paragraph format. Answers require thought and, therefore, most questions’ answers will be about a paragraph (5-7 sentences) in length. Please type neatly and edit before you print. (15 points). TURN IN TO GOOGLE CLASSROOM BY THE DUE DATE. Why did we have the Mission Carnival? Why right before Lent and on Mardi Gras? We have Mission Carnival to donate to the less-fortunate and to celebrate. We celebrate it before Lent on Mardi Gras because of old customs. In Jesus’ day, people would need to get rid of all their dairy and meat because they had to fast during Lent. They would…

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    He even chuckled and made a joke about our “holy smoke” Walked up the center aisle slowly, raising and lowing the bowl to make more smoke, turned at walked around the congregation and took the incense outside The sermon/homily very laid back and geared towards college students Talking about busy college life, taking tests and keeping up with grades Because of Lent there was a lot of traditional “Lent Talk” What Lent means, how we celebrate the season… Ask ourselves why we were there and why…

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    Glitter is serious business. No, really. On March 1st, as the Christian world enters the holy season of Lent, LGBT and LGBT affirming clergy will be offering ashes mixed with a bit of purple glitter as a means of welcoming LGBT people who may have felt rejected by the church and as an affirmation of God’s love for all. The project is a partnership between Parity, Liz Edman, author of Queer Virtue, and Metropolitan Community Churches, and has clergy from a variety of denominations who will be…

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    Cascarones During Semana Santa (Holy Week) in some places around America, there is food, parades, celebrations, alfombras and parties. According to Catholic traditions, meat should not be eaten the Friday in Semana Santa. For the parades, the costaleros (person carrying the image on their shoulders) carry pasos (images) to the catedral (main church). Other celebrations are fallas which are burnings of ninots (sculptures made of paper mache). Alfombras (carpets) are made in Guatemala with…

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    Lent Influence On Religion

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    celebrate Lent is still unknown but as I talk to other Baptist friends, the common reasons I hear for why they do not celebrate Lent include: 1.) What is Lent? 2.) Isn't Lent Catholic? 3.) We celebrate Easter. What is Lent? Lent is the Christian season of preparation for Easter that begins on Ash Wednesday, 40 days before Easter, not including Sundays. Lent is a time when many Christians "fast" from something or add something to their spiritual formation, and focus on repentance…

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    Epiphany To Lent Analysis

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    Epiphany to Lent Read Ephesians 6 On Ash Wednesday things will change. The light of the world will become the sufferer of life. It seems too soon. On the first day of January, annually Christians and others may celebrate the birth of Mary's baby - Jesus. Now look and listen as songs have turned from praise of birth to hymns and music for a season of ministry, before death. What makes it bad or sad? Why is it that there often a madding sense of frustration that comes, after such a…

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    Level of Success When the Lent project began, at first it did not seem like too big of a challenge to give up the soda that I had become accustomed to drinking. However, it obviously was more challenging than I had thought, demonstrated by the fact that I did not succeed with the project. I was successful for the first three weeks or so. The last couple of weeks however, I fell off of the bandwagon completely. During the first couple of weeks I found this project to be in the same category as…

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    Hackett and Betz said that Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy can be used to find out the vocational inclinations of people. Career self-efficacy was noticed to be the most important factor of males’ intentions to pursue careers in female occupations. Person with high levels of self-efficacy may also have strong occupational intentions for an career. Lent, Brown, and Hackett applied self-efficacy in a social framework to explain three aspects of career development. They are the formation of…

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    Henry’s Law Henry’s Law is the title of a play written by Stacie Lents, but it stands for a gas law in chemistry formulated by a chemist named William Henry. In this play a character named Sara needs help understanding Henry’s Law and quiet smart kid named Max decides to help her. He gets caught up in a situation that other characters created and he had no control over. There was a chain of events that led up to Max committing suicide. Most of the incidents in this play occurred from…

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    1. Based on the situation, Dill should be the winner of the case. The fact that Dill lent his house to Angus means Angus should be taking care of the house, not Dill. The tornado can be foreseeable and preventable if Angus reads the news and alert his family to move out of the house. Dill should not be charged with anything since it was out of Angus work hours when the incident happened. 2. Adams can recover from the claim on a public law, since Cochran illegally using uninspected stickers for…

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