This quote tells the listener to always be brave and to persevere through the world’s challenges as Moses did as he descended Mount Sinai. I agree that when we leave mass we should always be filled with faith and filled with strength to face the difficulties that await us in the world. This teaching still has relevance today because there are many great difficulties facing our world…
Suny Empire State College encompasses a unique variety of ways to pursue a college degree that is affordable. In 2008 I enrolled and began my undergrad studies, but my ultimate plan was to attain a bachelor’s degree. I had the flexibility of attending face to face study groups, online studies and independent studies all while being employed full time. Knowledge attained from course work in Religion, Human Development, Sociology and psychology have truly impacted how I view life. The task was…
Motivational Statement Joining the Navy in December 2012 was one of the best decisions I ever made. My days in the Navy were much more than just opportunity. Honor, courage and commitment were the core values instill in me. They continued to define who I am wherever I may find myself. In June 2014, I was honorably discharged in order to be commissioned an officer in the same branch of the military. As I seek to become a Navy Chaplain – a clergy and officer; it is my desire to serve the Sailors,…
Stanley Norman Cohen Stanley Norman Cohen is a scientist known for inventing recombinant DNA technology with Herb Boyer. Cohen was born on February 17, 1935 in a small town of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. During his childhood Cohen frequently helped his father assemble many things such as electrical fans, fluorescent mixtures and many more. Cohen developed an interest in Science from a very small age, but later switched from physics to biology and decided to become a medical doctor. Not only was…
Judaism is one of the largest and oldest religion in the world, with 14 million Jews and 3500 years of history. In its history, there have been many individuals who have been important in the Jewish religion. One of the most important is Moses, a Jewish man who was raised as an Egyptian royal, led the Israelites out of Egyptian captivity, and gave the people commandments from God. Moses was born during a time where the Egyptians had decreed that the first borns be of every Jewish family be…
when Maurice looks at Caesar’s womb, looks at the other apes, and when the apes are traveling. The director uses symbolism and lighting to show that Caesar symbolized Moses. The director had the light shining on his face like Moses when he went to Mount Sinai. The use of editing was another important element in the film. Reeve’s uses a fade in from the apes to Caesar showing him in front and his friends on the side of him. The director showed that he still had family with him. The concept of…
work when the reptile showed up about 4 p.m. The horrified nanny called 911 and the building's doorman. The doorman and two cable TV workers helped pry the snake off the boy's arm and stow it in a garbage bag, Lasry said. Police rushed Teddy to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where his parents said he spent two hours attached to a heart monitor as a precaution in case the snake was poisonous. It wasn't. Experts at the snakebite treatment center at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where cops…
Willie Prat a nineteen year old African American male from North lawndale was shot April 30th, 2016. He was shot on the South side of Central Park Avenue. Police reported that he was shot “in the chest, his side, and left leg”. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical conditions and was pronounced dead on Monday two days after the incident. Darrel Wilson a twenty four year old African American male from North lawndale was found dead on April 24, 2016 at 12:48 a.m. He was from from the…
The Torah, also known as the “Pentateuch,” consists of the first five books of the Bible to show their relations as one coherent storyline. The word, Torah, comes from Hebrew meaning “father’s law.” Though the books of the Torah are usually referred as law, it may actually be represented as the Gospel, or God’s salvation for his fallen creation. The laws that Moses has written does not save the people from their sin but the Seed of the Woman, a child born of Eve who is without sin, would take…
Christianity’s Presence in Beowulf The story of Beowulf is an epic that had been orally spoken and passed down from generation to generation before finally being written down by a group of monks. The epic of Beowulf is the story of the hero Beowulf saving the Danes from the evil Grendel who brings terror to Herot, and also how he saved his homeland of Geatland from the dragon that laid waste to his land. But, the Beowulf that was first orally spoken to the eventual epic that was finally written…