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others. Jesus is portrayed as the servant of God, but he is nonetheless the leader of the people on earth by virtue of his status as a prophet. Jesus being identified as “Teacher” is also important because Mark’s audience, the Gentiles, was relatively new to the faith, and Mark wanted to stress that Jesus was a model for them to serve God before serving themselves during the persecutions. In contrast, John heavily accents his descriptions of Jesus as the true God. John uses the word “That’s me,”…

Hebrews was traditionally thought to be a letter, authored by Paul, and addressed to “the Hebrews.” This is unlikely, however. Hebrews read far more like sermon than a letter, and may be an example of early Christian preaching. The author is entirely unknown, but appears to be very knowledgable about Christianity and about the culture of his time. The author shows familiarity with Pauline theology, but is probably not Paul. The author of Hebrews writes in extremely sophisticated language which…

Whereas in the New Testament you are encouraged to ask questions then do what you have learned. This is a new view on things; you have a choice of how you live. The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of sayings and teachings of Jesus in the New Testament, and occupies chapters 5, 6 and 7 of the Gospel of Matthew, and one of the most beautiful stories of the New Testament. It focuses on love and humility rather than force. As I mentioned…

implemented the New Deal in early 1933 and created 43 government programs. These programs were aimed to give people relief, providing food, shelter and work. For example, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) hired the unemployed to work on government building projects, and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) constructed dams and power plants in a particularly depressed area. These programs also helped prevent future economic disasters, through reform and new regulations. These new…

Bandwagon is a term used to describe a group of people who participate/like a certain thing only due to the fact that it is currently popular. The towns’ people in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, may not particularly like the Lottery game they play every year; however, proceed along with this game due to the fact everyone else does. It takes a special kind of person to swim against the current and to speak out on what she/he believes. Tessie becomes alienated because she is different from…

Briann Johnson History T R 11:00 November 12, 2014 The Great Depression The Great Depression was most definitely the one of the darkest times for the economy in the U.S. The stock market crash of 1929 caused this economic downturn. When the stock market plummeted, consumer spending majorly dropped. Companies were making less and less profit, the only options were either closing down or laying off employees in hopes of being able to bring themselves out of this low spot . In 1933, the peak of…

mindset, women are constantly attempting to criticize and fulfill their unrealistic expectations of representing others portrayed in the media. Images that are projected via commercials, advertisements, television shows, news anchors; anything or anyone we see on the daily news or elsewhere tends to reflect what we see in women as they are presented in media: perfection. Granted, although self-esteem and other internal influences may be affecting a woman’s image of herself, it is also prominent…

Essay 1: Many historians in opposition to the Christian Faith try to invalidate Catholicism by claiming that the Gospels are not historically reliable. This accusation is entirely false and can logically be disproven by using the five criteria for judging the historical reliability of documents. Is there eyewitness testimony? Where the documents written within living memory of the events? Do outside, unbiased, sources agree? Do the events relayed in the documents sound ridiculously untrue? And…

A lottery ticket is a voucher for a prize but not a voucher to end a life. Normally people would be so enthusiastic if he or she had won the lottery. As for the short story, “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson is a different type of lottery; everyone is expecting to see a villager gets execute. The idea seems to be absurd by persecuting an innocent citizen but it’s a tradition to these villagers because everyone has to participate and not question about it. As for the black box itself, it…

follow. It really depends on where you search for answers in the Bible. The Old Testament is hard to assimilate when it comes to finding authoritative life lessons that could help in life. The New Testament is another story. The New Testament is closer to our era, therefore some of the passages in the New Testament can directly relate with the modern era we live…