Pastoral

individuals, nor do we have the capacity to unite as individuals equal in humanity. The community that Whitman speaks of is foreign to me, the city he mentions has familiar tinges, and the pastoral references are the only parts of America that I wish I knew. Sorry, Whitman, your America that reads borderline to a peaceful pastoral isn’t something I’ve experienced outside the solitude of my own…

P & P- Journal 4 In the Foreword section of book, The Hidden Lives of Congregations, Ronald W. Richardson mentions that pastoral leadership has the capability to “influence” people. (vi) In the Introduction, the author Israel Galindo states definition of church. (12) The author argues that the basis of working of congregations is “systemic relationships.” (1) This is more elaborated in his words about congregation as “family.” (7, 8) The purpose of introducing this understanding is to help…

Tentative Thesis for Topic #13: Sameness is a central theme in Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver. In her novel, Lowry warns the reader of the danger of conformity by creating a utopian community that operates based on the idea of sameness. This utopian society manipulated people by getting away their right of choices, their emotions, colours, memories of the past, music, and everything that makes them different from each other and makes them to notices other people’s differences. With all of this…

society that remarriage almost always followed divorce or death. When one examines remarriage according to the word of God, a Christian is permitted to remarry once they repent for breaking the covenant of marriage with their partner. But what about pastoral consideration and the support of the…

covering for chapter 9 are: adolescent fertility rate, gross national income, human development index, and literacy rate. The key terms I will be covering for chapter 10 are: agriculture, aquaculture, crop, overfishing, dietary energy consumption, and pastoral nomadism. The key terms I will be covering for chapter 11 are: Textile, vertical integration, outsourcing, and industrial revolution. Most icelandians stay in iceland but they do have colonies in both greenland and canada. Iceland has no…

just to give his characters beautiful poetry to recite but also to explore popular concepts; often this exploration used humour and satire to explore Elizabethan ideas. In Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare explores the themes of courtly love and pastoral romance once again (see As You Like It) and with more comic effect. As a dramatist Shakespeare chose his stories from diverse sources, and then fitted it into the Elizabethan English stage. His main aim was…

Written around 29 BCE; the Georgics consists of four books, and is not considered to be a pastoral poem or a narrative. Maecenas wanted him to write about agriculture, and this poem was written in response to his request. Pointed out by Jasper Griffin, “Virgil refers to the Georgics as 'your exacting command, Maecenas' ('tua, Maecenas, haud mollia…

Before Romero In many ways, El Salvador was no different than many of its South American neighbors during the 1970 's and 1980 's. The oppressive government that existed in El Salvador had much in common with the violent regimes running Argentina, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and others. Death squads, supported if not organized by the ruling governments, murdered with no fear of reprisal those they saw as enemies of the status quo. However, it was the global setting, not simply a continental…

Rational Emotive Therapy and Religion There seems to be numerous studies on Rational Emotive Therapy and religion. This is a controversial connection for some people, but I have found it to be an interesting practice to tie into counseling from a spiritual perspective. Those who do not believe in religious ideals discredit spirituality, but still believe Rational Emotive Therapy can be effective for those who practice religion. “Warnock (1989) has noted that religious practices and beliefs…

The present report is concerned with evaluating the assertions made by Warren Kirkendale with regard to the “birth” of opera, or how it truly originated. Kirkendale has written an article “The Myth of the “Birth of Opera” in the Florentine Camerata Debuked by Emilio de’ Cavalieri: A Commemorative Lecture” in effort to determine exactly where opera began and who created it. We will also compare Kirkendale’s article to Grout, Palisca, and Burkholder’s textbook “A History of Western Music” with…