Samaritans

A woman was driving through the darkness at 1:30 a.m. in Carteret County, North Carolina, when she spotted something on the roadway ahead of her. She thought she saw a child sitting on the road, so the 33-year-old pulled up and stopped her car to help. What she didn't know was that the figure she saw was not a child who needed help, it wasn't even a human. She had been tricked into stopping her car for a dummy that was dressed to look like a kid wearing a red Field & Stream shirt. She found out…

Review of Literature: Origin Stories Across Cultures Origin stories have been prevalent for centuries and even before the religion of Christianity. Jerimiah Curtin defines origin stories as “the detailed and circumstantial account of the world and all the things and creatures contained in it” (Curtin ix). However, the Christian Bible is a primary source for it has similar correlations to many origin stories and is well-known around the world. The book of Genesis is the first of the Christian…

there can and are interpretations that do not make since when understanding the original meaning and time frame that they are in. One of the examples of this would be Augustine’s understanding of the Good Samaritan. Augustine does an allegorical interpretation where he sees Jesus is the Samaritan and the man in the ditch as a sinner needing salvation . Part of the reason that this is wrong is because this allegorical understanding leaves out the point…

What is abortion? it is a deliberate termination of a pregnancy. Removing the fetus from the mother before it is fully form. Is this something that we should consider as permissible. According to Judith J. Thomson in “A Defense of abortion”, she believes it is permissible. Throughout her whole argument she states points that people against abortion would say then she would argue against that but first, what is her argument? Thomson agrees with abortion, she feels that a mother as the right to…

The most important historical event in the history of human services profession was the development of the social welfare system and the social welfare policy that provided insurance. The system was formed to improve racial and economic discrimination. This event was support to the poor, the people who was in poverty. The landowners needed slaves or servants to work. The church was responsible for the health and welfare of these people in poverty. In 1870, A pastor knows as Rev. S. Humphreys…

Would you help someone even if it meant putting your life on the line? It may seem out of this world to think a simple human being might just walk by you if you were in need, but there are people this wicked. The bystander effect is a case where an individual may not offer any help of any kind to a victim in need. There are many scenarios where this effect has taken the life of poor victims who could have been saved by a simple phone call. Kitty Genovese a young women coming home from work on a…

It was 3 AM in New York City and this is the time when the brutal killing of Kitty Genovese. I believe that if her neighbors did not just watch and listen to her cries but if they have called the police i believe that kitty genovese would have been still alive. Kitty Genovese was murdered by a crazed man by the name of Winston Moseley. They say it took 2.5 Minutes for the police to get their and the murder had happen in a time span of 30 minutes and in those 30 minutes the killer had been drawn…

The second stage of Fowler’s, is “Intuitive-Projective Faith”. This stage occurs between ages two and six of a child’s life. During these years, I went to pre-school at the catholic school in Webster Minnesota. I couldn’t really understand what the concept of spirituality was, or what they were teaching me about God, but I followed along and listened to what my parents and teachers said. I was surrounded by other kids who were learning the same thing, so I had no one to make me question what I…

The one main view that fits my personal perspective of ethics is the religious view of ethics (Parnell, 2017). The religious view is based on personal or religious convictions. Growing up I was raised in a Christian based family that taught us that you are to treat others as the bible says in Luke 6:31 “Do to others as you would have them do to you”. The lesson states that individuals should behave in way that benefit others, treating others as they would wish to be treated (Parnell, 2017).…

Maarten received aide from Red Cross, Samaritan Purse, Royal Caribbean, Spirit Airlines and many other entities. Within less than one week of Irma’s devastation. Family physicians and pharmacies were open for those in need. In terms of public health, St. Maarten’s top priority was to ensure continuous…