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poverty lose hope for their future, and just give up. Can you blame them if the shoe was on the other foot? If everywhere you turned people ignored you, and looked down on you, because of your situation, what hope is there? But Proverbs 28:27 (New Kings James Version), explains that God wants us to identify with the needy, not ignore them. If we help others when they are in trouble God will bless us, and supply all our needs. Based on the spiritual view, and social work values a Christian social…

Faith that Leads to Fear In Nathaniel Hawthorn’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorn used different writing techniques like mystery and suspense to get his readers’ attention. When reading the story from the beginning to the end, the author leaves readers with many different questions. The question that I primarily considered was “what does all of this witchcraft, mysticism and the lifestyles of the characters really mean?” Hawthorn did not want his readers to simply view “Young Goodman…

support herself and also her descendant. In 1952, Maya Angelou married Anastasias Angelopoulos, A Greek sailor. Maya Angelou took her professional name ("Maya Angelou") from her husband. Her name was a blend of her childhood nickname and a shortened version of her husband's last name. In the mid-1950s, her career as a performer began to take flight. She got a role in a tutoring production of Porgy and Bess, later she appeared in an off-Broadway production entitled Calypso Heat Wave in 1957. Maya…

time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!" (NewLiving Translation). While focusing on the verb "come" within this verse, other interpretations of the Bible should be reviewed. For example, in the King James Version it states, "And saying, the time is fulfilled , and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel" (Modern King James Version of the Holy Bible, 1962, pg. 47). In this case "fulfilled" means that it is in the past…

religions (Kizziah, “King James Bible Statistics”; “Ramayana: Organization”). The Christian Bible, an ancient religious text consisting of both the Old and New Testaments, uses multiple narratives and parables to convey important values and themes. Christianity follows the teachings of the Old Testament, which contains the account of Israel becoming a nation and its adherence to the Law of Moses, and the New Testament in which Christ came to fulfill the Law and taught His sermons. The New…

foundation of another of the world’s great empires. Under Muslim rulers the ideas of ancient civilizations tutored the nascent Spanish nation. A new Abd-al-Rahman, the third, reigned from 912-961. Abd-al-Rahman III was the first Muslim ruler to completely unite…

In the novel of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce a künstlerroman written in a modernist style, we see the religious and intellectual awakening of the fictional alter ego of James Joyce named Stephen Dedalus. We see the struggles Stephen are faced with as he grows up and these struggles are his family, morality, religion and nationality. As these struggles between Stephen and the above issues progresses Stephen reaches a point in his life where he decides to reject the…

English Regular 11B 1/1/2015 Historicity of King Arthur Almost everyone’s childhood is filled with some kind of magical and heroic tales of the legendary King Arthur. These tales come in various versions from different time periods of our history. Some are passed down through folktales and some are specially crafted by poets for purposes such as moral lessons or tourism. Due to the varieties of the tales about King Arthur, scholars have been debating whether King Arthur was a real person or…

The objective of this assignment is to reflect on three of the articles within The Encourager. The writer will expound on new obtained views shared by the author, as well as reaffirmed views, methods and practices that has been revealed in the past. The first article was entitled “Growing through Grief”. The title itself speaks volumes of what I believe the reasoning behind the purpose of having to endure the grief process in the first place. To grow us spirituality. The author spoke of his…

if not the greatest guitar players of all time lives on along with his music. Jimi was born in Seattle, Washington on November 27, 1942. His parents were Lucile and Al Hendrix. He was born Johnny Allen Hendrix, but his father changed his name to James Marshall for unknown reasons. (Biography.com, n.d.) Jimi showed an interest in music from a young age, and his brother recounts a story of when they were both young and Jimi took apart the family radio, when asked why he said he was trying to…