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Rob: Thank you Don for joining us today to celebrate the Lunar New Year. I’m Rob Mailloux, the executive sponsor for the ASIAN ERG. I’d like to wish you all a happy new year. Maybe have Rob say “Happy New Year” in a few different languages. For example: Vietnamese: “Chuc Mung Nam Moi” Chinese (Cantonese): “Gong Hai Fat Choy” Bangladesh: “Shuvo noboborsho” For those of you that aren’t familiar with the Chinese Zodiac, the Monkey is actually the 9th animal in 12 Zodiac signs. Each sign in…

Many Christians focus majority of studies into the New Testament. New Testament catches many attentions because it describes the birth of the church. As people focus more on the New Testament, Old Testament is shunned away to the degree where most think Old Testament is not important to read. Christians have debated whether Old Testament is needed to be read. Many sound arguments from both sides have been posed over these years. Even so, Old Testament is vital literature needed for Christians.…

The New Deal was a plan put into place by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help strenghthen the United States Economy through the Great Depression. There were several different phases and programs to help strenghthen the economy. One program from the New Deal was the AAA, the Agricultural Adjustment Act. This is where the government would pay farmers to produce less food. They would then get more money off the food they did produce and money from the government. This really only helped…

The New Englanders desired a place where they prosper together as a community. They were more than concerned about the moral health of the whole community and would do whatever was called for to keep their community strong and happy. "This court … in the interim recommends [that] all tradesmen and laborers consider the religious end of their callings, which is that receiving such moderate profits as may enable them to serve God and their neighbors", DOC. E, this shows that they would give their…

Hope was brought to the American people with his election. In his inauguration speech, he addressed the depression by telling the nation that, “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” Roosevelt and his administration passed a series of law known as the New Deal, the New…

Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal emerged amidst the greatest depression the country had ever seen. The president’s plan to provide relief, recovery, and reform seemed, at the time, the best option to end the period of economic downfall, and with the plan came a vast amount of change. However, despite the various programs that would alter America’s Laissez Faire government by supplying employment, establishing social security, and putting plans in place for further government intervention,…

The Development of Puritan New England and the evolution of Puritan theology in New England culminating in the Half-Way Covenant. Puritans shared the Protestant belief that the bible was the only authority for Christians. Roman Catholic practices and ceremonies were discounted as being unbiblical. Their belief that Christianity was based on an individual conviction and that the church was a community of individuals that shared the same religious convictions was the backbone of their…

Simply Good News: A Response In his book, Simply Good News, N.T. Wright sets out to explain the Gospel–or the “good news”–of Jesus. However, he does so in a way that Jesus and the first century believers would have done, instead of using a modern (and dethatched) context. In so doing, Wright demonstrates the duplicity of the modern view, which renders good news into mere good advice. This is Wright’s main point; the Gospel is not mere advice, instead it is good news that should spark in us a…

The people who came to the New England and Chesapeake colonies shared England as their birthplace, but not much else. The colonies developed into two distinct societies because of the social, economic, political and religious differences among the immigrants. Religion was valued greatly by New Englanders, and not nearly as much by Chesapeake settlers. Physical climate and economic motivations had an impact on why the colonies were formed. Demography was also a key factor in forming the different…

National Recovery Administration. In result, the New Deal Coalition was formed as well as many other growing labor…