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    Civil War Thematic Essay

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    would turn in their favor “only when repentant southerners ‘become what we ought to be’” (Wesley 130). Towards the end of the War, as the final outcome became clearer, Southern Christians held on to their religious values and belief in God’s divine Providence; “It is God who has done it. Will his saints complain? Do they doubt his wisdom? Do they question his goodness?” (qtd. in Miller, Stout, and Wilson 201). Because they saw the Civil…

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    EWU Personal Statement

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    My hands are anxiously trembling, as I unopen my letter from Eastern Washington University. As I open the letter, the first words my eyes came across was "Congratulations on your acceptance to EWU Fall quarter 2014!" I remember being extremely happy. I accepted to attend EWU. In August, a month before move in day, everything changed. I wasn't going to attend EWU anymore due to financial reasons. I remember being extremely upset over this. My dreams were crushed, I was supposed to be the first…

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    The influence of historical events and various religious beliefs on English literature can be seen in almost every genre. Over time, events such as the Protestant Reformation, the Puritan Revolution , and the Enlightenment have affected works of English literature such as Grace Abounding and Robinson Crusoe. The effects of these events can also be seen in American historical documents such as the Declaration of Independence, which was written in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson. At the time it was…

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    any wrong doing with an intention to obey God's will and wishes could not hinder someone from being saved. Besides, they had faith that God’s grace and providence was present in their lives, and they only needed to have faith and believe in it. “Even before they began their voyage they said to themselves that the Lord by the work of his Providence thought these few too many for the great work He had to do.” This meant that the voyage needed the few selected, strong and profitable to fulfill…

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    If the rumors were indeed true, and the plague had resurfaced no one was safe in Bellona; not even regenerates. ~ When the palace car pulled into the first providence, people stopped walking. They stared at me as I came from the passenger door, looking around. I wasn’t entirely comfortable in my “princess skin” and preferred to stay in the palace away from public eyes. However, if it was an emergency, Annabel…

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    He decided to split the Persian Kingdom into twenty providences, and in charge of each of the providences was a person he elected called a satrap. The satrap was to be in charge of the economy, happiness, and money spending of their providence, and was to report to Darius when he were to call them. To ensure the satraps themselves did not start a revolt, Darius had several people called “The King’s Ears and Eyes” hidden all around each providence who were to report if they heard any mutinous…

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    certain natural rights, and they believed that each individual must be afford those rights to create what King called the beloved community. However, the two men differ on what rights merit concrete direct action and which should be left to the providence…

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    as Dantes seeks revenge against Caderousse, Fernand, Villefort, and Danglars. In the beginning of his quest for revenge, upon receiving Abbe Faria’s fortune, which Dantes believes is due to divine intervention, Dantes views himself as an agent of Providence, believing he is acting out God’s will in punishing each of the conspirators; however, before he even completes all four of his revenge plans, Monte Cristo begins to comprehend that his human knowledge is incomplete and “that he has gone…

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    Community Treatment Model

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    Introduction The assertive community treatment (ACT) is a service providence model to the severe mental ill patient at the grass root level. It provide the after hospital discharge or treatment services. This model based is the hypothesis of the Leonard Stein and Mary Ann Test and their colleagues in Madison, Wisconsin, and it came in the force by the team from USA in 1970. This model is giving the very positive result and after that the many developed countries had been followed to the model…

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    Stoicism Beliefs

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    Stoicism is defined as “a philosophy, based on the ideas of Zeno that held that people could only be happy when living in accordance with nature and accepting whatever happened.”(McKay et al. 138). Zeno of Citium traveled to Athens with the intent to form his own school, the Stoa, which took its namesake from the covered walkways where he preferred to teach. Stoicism instills the development of self-control and resilience to overcome “destructive emotions”, such as passion. Rather than eliminate…

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