Potter's field

disciplines of medicine and science. Eric Fischl emphasizes the time period and cleverly uses fictional characters in the novel to give the reader an overall impression of science at the time. Elements of alchemy and war medicine are incorporated in Dr. Potter’s Medicine Show, which allows Fischl to portray the shift in scientific thought and advances made during the 1800’s. At the time of the Civil War, military medicine was just beginning to improve. High mortality and infection rates made…

Does Premeditated Murder Justly Deserve Premeditative Execution? Since the beginning of history, humankind has been entangled in a barbaric love affair with human sacrifice. The practices of which can be traced back to biblical texts in the new testament where the “eye for an eye” ideology takes root. An ideology that has been universally referenced to support that retribution alone makes the killing of another an acceptable punishment. Or, has its biblical substance been misinterpreted?…

Hinnom Valley is a deep, narrow ravine separating Mount Zion from the so-called Hill of Evil Counsel. It forms the southern border of ancient Jerusalem and is mentioned several times in the Bible. It's original Hebrew name is Gei ben-Hinnom which means Valley of Son of Hinnom. Nobody really knows who Hinnom or his son were but the name stuck through the ages. The earliest mention of the valley of Hinnom is in the Book of Joshua 15:8, where the boundary line between the tribes of Judah and…

Newsom sings “Interred with other daughters, / in dirt in other potters' fields / above them, parades / mark the passing of days / through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel, / where all of the twenty-thousand attending your foot fall / and the cause that they died for are lost in the idling bird calls, / and…

My Topic is about something you may have not heard about before. But if you did you would be found with a look of disgust and sadness possibly anger. Because you would see what they did to a man name Will Brown. In Omaha, the trouble began on September 25, when a white woman, Agnes Loebeck, reported that she was assaulted by a black man. "The most daring attack on a white woman ever perpetrated in Omaha occurred one block south of Bancroft Street near Scenic Avenue in Gibson last night. This is…

various acts of kindness and graciousness throughout the book. Being the other home of ghosts gives him the acute empathy needed to relate to and comfort other characters in the novel reason that ostracized for one or another, like the witch in the potter’s field or the…

Matthew chapter 27 records the trial and death of Christ. Needless to say, Jesus’ death was a monumental event in history. There were several things in the events of his arrest, trial, and death that are very noteworthy. Also, the theological significance of His death is worthy of review and contemplation. The arrest of Jesus Christ is a tale of deep betrayal. Judas Iscariot, a member of the original twelve disciples, was contacted by Caiaphas the high priest. Judas was contracted for thirty…

up at the old Park Theater, where he introduced his Jim Crow act, impersonating a negro slave. His character dressed in rags, battered hat and torn shoes. Rice blackened his face and hands and impersonated a very nimble and irreverently witty black field hand who sang, ‘Turn about and wheel about, and do just so. And every time I turn about I Jump Jim Crow.’” This started a very racist practice known as dressing up in blackface. The intention was to dehumanize as well as degrade black men and…

Death and the Afterlife Traditional Roman beliefs on Death and the Afterlife: Ancient Roman people had very specific ideas and beliefs about death and the afterlife. Romans often had traditions that would help a person’s spirit travel form earth to the underworld. Mostly of very high importance was ensuring a proper burial. Along with this other steps were taken such as a coin being placed of the mouth of the deceased, as payment to the demon boatman they believed carried the dead across the…

Sumer is known as one of the first recorded civilizations in human history. It was established in ancient Mesopotamia, in what is known today as modern day Iraq. Sumer was nestled in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Fertile Crescent. This stretch of land was completely isolated, with dry desert sands surrounding it in all directions. The date when this civilization was established is still unknown, and secular sources believe that it was between 6000-4000 BC. Many Christians…