Northwest Passage

The pericope occurred in Capernaum, part of the Galilee region of Palestine under the occupation of the Roman Empire. At the very start of the occupation the ruler Hyrcanus was placed as the highest leader of the land. He was a weak an ineffectual man, thus allowing the eventual usurpation of Herod Antipater. This event installed the Herodian dynasty which culminated in the rule of Herod Antipas at the time of Jesus. The area became a veritable battleground of political unrest as the nation had…

Balthasar, Hans Urs Von, and Brian McNeil. Explorations in Theology: Creator Spirit. Vol. III. San Francisco, Calif: Ignatius, 1993. Print. In section II, chapters two and seven of Explorations in Theology: Creator Spirit, Balthasar provides us with a particular Johannine oriented pneumatology. The bulk of his argument seems to be situating the Holy Spirit within an understanding of the Holy Trinity, which establishes the Spirit as truly divine, rejecting any notions to just reduce the Holy…

century during the American period of continental expansion. During this time, there was constant debate over the admission of states; most notably, whether those states would be considered free or slave states. Fehrenbacher takes readers from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 until the legislators finally decide the issue must be heard by the court. Though, he notes that this path to the court is not…

fertile lands of the Eastern Americas. Accomplishing such a daunting task meant the country potentially could have an abundant population to spread Christianity towards, discover new riches as the Spanish previously had done, and maybe uncover the Northwest passage providing a direct route to the Indies. To the country’s dismay, however, the desperate attempt seemed to have posed multiple flaws as the colony struggled. Lack of experience and data about these foreign lands meant their attempt at…

conversely, bottled water?? Hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Finally, some bottled water is sourced directly from city water?? In other words, it’s merely tap water that someone has put in a bottle. The following questions are based on this passage? 26. Which of the following is the author's intent? A. To provide information about the use of bottled water. B. To convince readers that tap water tastes better than bottled water. C. To persuade readers to consider tap water rather…

Did you know that over 500,000 people traveled the Oregon Trail? The Oregon trail had a effected America in many ways, including the population change, manifest destiny and the beginning of land expansion. The Oregon Trail was an insanely hard Trail to complete. About 20,000 people died trying to complete it. Some common diseases that were caught in the Oregon Trail were Typhoid, Mountain fever, Cholera, the flu, measles, and smallpox. About one out of ten who set off didn’t survive.…

President Thomas Jefferson sent William Clark and Meriwether Lewis as envoys to survey the territory gained after the Louisiana Purchase. He wanted them to not only make maps and learn about the residing Native Americans but also find the “Northwest Passage,” which was a rumored pathway that joined the Atlantic and Pacific oceans together. The pair named their expedition the “Corps of Discovery” and gathered many skilled people to create a team. However, the most significant among these people…

see a black cat on a leash, a bird on the son’s lap and birds in the sky. It can be assumed, its spring since the father and son are wearing long sleeves. Also, the trees look full and the sky is somewhat clear with the sunlight shining from the northwest so it 's daytime. Bingham painted tree as though they were shadows to help create the illusion of near and far. The father and son are displayed as near with their vibrant red and blue color shirt and the cat is also displayed as nearby it’s…

On his way to home unfortunately the World War I broke out, so he decided to stay in England to help them. In 1919 Mahatma organized a campaign of passive resistance toward the Parliament’s passage of the Rowlatt Acts. The Rowlatt Acts gave the authorites the opportunity to stop any protesting activities. Mahatma called out his followers of the satyagraha campaign to perform peaceful protests and strikes. This resulted in the broke out of violence…

Treuer (2010) explains: The trouble began when Pierre Faultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Vérendrye, was commissioned by the government of New France to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific. La Vérendrye’s son, Jean Baptiste, was adopted by the Cree at the French post in Rainy Lake and accompanied a joint Cree-Assiniboine war expedition against the Dakota and their Nakota brothers at Red Lake, Minnesota. (p. 20) The…