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an extra mile with the Post-New Perspective by Douglas Campbell which is rather a surprising element but offer new angles. Campbell teaches on the New Testament as a Professor and is based at Duke University. This background is an added flavour and in the introduction Michael Bird says this about him, “... he occupies a position that is a bit more difficult to describe. Campbell does not stand in any single school......we have labelled Campbell’s position as ‘Post-New Perspective on Paul” (13).…

NT2200-Week One Cultural Influences Paper The Bible gives precise and detailed information about the Apostle Paul’s heritage and cultural background. In Php 3:5 (KJV) “Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;”. And in Act 22:3 (KJV) “I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of…

Delano Roosevelt and President Barack Obama’s actions in their terms as President are comparable, especially their trademark policies: The New Deal of 1933 and The Affordable Care Act of 2010, respectively. These policies inadvertently stretched the power of the Federal government, changing the meaning of federalism, especially in government-business relations. The New Deal encompassed innovative programs designed to address the economic crisis of the Great Depression and its devastating impacts…

regimes. Quite the opposite; for the acceptance of failure brings with it a realisation to implement laws and regulations with the utmost care, and to learn from past mistakes- and there has been huge ones. One such example is the leaky homes crisis in New Zealand. The passing of the Building Act 1991 brought about over 11 billion dollars of damage and counting, due to its movement in stance to that of a more self regulating framework for builders and councils. It is still a huge ongoing…

Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, but she spent her teenage years in Rochester, New York. She also dropped out student from college, but later she graduated from Syracuse University. After she got married, she settled in Bennington, Vermont; she had a hard time with the town society. She wrote many novels for money, but “the lottery” was a short story published by the New Yorker Magazine on the June 26, 1948. The author wrote this story right after World War II ended in Europe. The…

1. Area: The community in which I live is an urban setting located in Central New York. The City of Utica is located in Oneida County. 2. Demographics: With an estimated 61,332 people in the City of Utica according to the U.S Census Bureau, the city has seen a decrease in residency since the formal census conducted in 2010 (Census Bureau). Even with the estimated decrease in population, the city is home to a multitude of races and ethnicities immigrating to the U.S from various countries…

Algeria.svg Papua New Guinea was a country that has been occupied by numerous countries in its history, including Germany, the United Kingdom, and Australia, and would gain complete independence in 1973. With its unique history, Papua New Guinea became one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world, having a variety of different languages and religions. With its distinct culture, Papua New Guinea certainly has a promising economic future.…

The people in Rick Bragg 's articles, “The Valley of Broken Hearts”, “New Development Stirs Old Case”, and “French Quarter 's Black Tapping Feet”, all experienced struggles that gave them courage and made them work to get what they thought they deserved: compensation, redemption, and freedom. It is Navajo custom to mourn for four days and then get on with life. Little Joe died from lung cancer 35 years ago, in 1980. He had taken up a job in uranium mines on Navajo land to buy things for his…

access to high speed internet of 5Mbps.[1] WHAT LED TO THIS INITIATIVE? Although New Zealand is an extensively developed country but the population is widely spread throughout. The population density (people living per square kilometer) varies comprehensively from around 500 in urban areas…

New Years’ of 2014 It all started on December 31, 2013. I had decided to bring in the year with a few friends, who at the time I thought were my true friends. Just to find out later on that they weren’t. I thought that this was going to be a great way to bring in the New Year; I was wrong. On the night of the 31st I was getting ready for the New Year’s Eve party that we have at my church every year. I’m always a part of the program, so naturally I was practicing. While I was practicing, I…