Sundown

Slavery around the world has been in play for centuries. I believe slavery goes as far back after Joseph, when he was sold into slavery in Egypt. Some slave owners were as harsh like unto Egyptian but here in the U.S. many slaves were committing suicide to get away from their cruel master. The ships sailing on The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade brought millions of African slaves. After 1808 trafficking human merchandise was no longer permitted which opened up mixed cases. African being sold and…

According to some theorists, modernity is a limiting factor of religion. Modernity is a key factor in the secularization theory. Many believe that with advances in science, technology, urbanization, and globalization, religion has no place in the modern world and that Americans are becoming increasingly secular (Lippy, 2013, p. 18). However, when I attended a Jewish Havdallah service, the “insiders” to the Jewish faith were able to use modernity to their advantage, but were still able to…

Hours upon hours of labor were placed before me on a day that seemed just as normal as any. It was a rather crisp day in the relatively non-existent Florida winter. A day in which I was asked to complete what was quite possibly one of the most incredibly difficult assignments I had ever been given. I had enlisted the help of a handful of close friends to finish the mission that was placed before me in view of the fact that there truly was no way for me to be victorious in said battle without an…

There are many opinions on athletes being good role models. Some people believe that it is good to have someone popular to look up to. Others agree that you should have a role model that you can talk to and interact with. Athletes should not be role models for many reasons including that you need to have a role model that you can talk to when you are down and when you need someone to trust. Second your role model should be your parents they will always be by your side. Some people may say that…

believe that it is the right thing for her to do. But little do she know their are a lot of good things about this town. Such as all the good history that this town holds. Also there is a lot of fun things to do here as far as going snowboarding at sundown in the winter time. Or even going out enjoying the national parks like going to the Minds Of Spain or the Aubroritom. Dubuque has a lot of great places for kids who doesn’t have the proper guidance at home to go to during the day. As far as…

My greatest accomplish, well I guess not greatest, but my favorite and the one that has marked a change in my life would have to be when I was 8-years-old and I had just moved into a new house with my grandmother, after she got me out of the foster care system. I was scared, I was surrounded by people who knew me but I didn’t know them. It was during the summer after second grade and my cousins were sleeping over at my house all summer, the house that I share with my grandmother. It was hot that…

The Puritans were a group of English Protestants during the 16th and 17th century. They had strict moral beliefs that shaped and backed up their honor code. The Puritans were hard workers. Their daily activities consisted of working from sun up to sundown, attending church, and the male children went to dame schools. The Puritans believed that the harder they worked the more they pleased God. They spent most of their time working and praying. Attending church in the Puritan society was a must.…

The author, Ruben Donato is a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder (Donato, 2007). He also wrote the book The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era. As well as the article “ Legally White, Socially Mexican”, including seven other articles. (NEPC, N/A) The majority of the work he has done is focused on the life of the Mexican American, and the struggle of not being recognized, accepted, or respected by America. How that affects the social,…

Yom Kippur is “a Jewish high holy day observed on the 10th day of the month of Tishri by abstinence from food and drink and by the day long recitation of prayers of repentance in the synagogue.” Yom Kippur is viewed as one of the most important Jewish holidays. For centuries, people of Jewish religion celebrate Yom Kippur on Tishri; the seventh month on the Jewish religious calendar. Yom Kippur is known as “A Day of Atonement” and originates from the book of “Leviticus 23:27” which states that…

example of The Five Pillars affecting a Muslims life is fasting during Ramadan. Ramadan is a Muslim festival that remembers the first revelation of the Qur’an to the prophet Muhammed. “Every year in the month of Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn until sundown, abstaining from food, drink and sexual relations” . Fasting is an example of how Islam practices peace and is connected to Christianity and Judaism because not eating makes a Muslims energy go down and they cannot do as many things such as…