Tarsus

Religion has always been a topic of discussion because everyone identifies themselves with one or none. The religion everyone identifies with is the guide for their morality and how they should live their life. The most known religions are Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism. Although they are different, they all sprung up from similar teachings and ideas. Christianity is one of the most popular religion today, however, it had a rough start like many other religions…

Philippians The book of Philippians was written by Paul and ministered Philippi. During Paul’s second three month missionary journey. Paul brought faith into the city Troas to the people who would form the heart of the thriving congregation of the city. It was likely that Paul wrote Philippians last of all of the four Prison Epistles. The other three Prison Epistles were Colossians, Ephesians and Philemon. The letter of the Philippians was delivered by Epaphroditus. Philippians is so important…

Speech v.s. Letter What would you respond to more? A message that provokes your emotions or appeals to logic, MLK uses both so he can appeal to both people, but in his speech he changes how much of logos and pathos he uses for different crowds. In the letter that Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) sent to the 8 white clergymen he wrote about their criticism towards his protesting for black people’s rights In the letter that MLK wrote in the margins of a newspaper to the 8 white clergymen he used…

Alexius Sparkman Dr. Ernest Williamson III English Composition II 1 February 2017 Letter from Birmingham Jail Analysis Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere: many minorities would feel this to be true. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963 while he was imprisoned for being a participant in a nonviolent protest against segregation. In his letter, Dr. King defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to violence. In this rhetorical…

hand. God has a sense of irony that I just love. In order to open Saul’s eyes and let him see the truth he blinds him for three days. The Lord tells Ananias to “go over to Straight Street, to the house of Judas. When you get there ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying to me right now.” In this one verse there is so much evidence of the truth of the Bible. The book of Acts was written between 60 and 64 AD by Luke so, at the time of the writing, there would have been hundreds of…

“When everything seemed lost, the heirs of the house of Ptolemy would suddenly have almost put within their grasp a dominion stretching not only over the lost ancestral lands, but over wider territories than Ptolemy I or Ptolemy II or Ptolemy III had ever dreamed of. Those kings, being men, had based their dominion on the power of their arms; but now, when the military power of Egypt would bring to the contest power of a wholly different kind-the power of a fascinating woman.” E.R. Bevan, The…

city of Roman, Jew, Gentile classes of people. For one to become a Roman citizen was an important step in being among the privileged. Birth determined citizenship, or one could buy their citizenship. Apostle Paul was a Jew born in a Roman city, Tarsus, and was granted Roman citizenship. One could serve in the Roman military for twenty or more years and be granted the privilege. Not all people in Corinth were classes as Roman citizens and to be classed as a Roman citizen carried with it many…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) wrote the Letter from the Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963. He addressed this letter to the eight clergymen who had criticized his actions and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). This happened during the protests in Birmingham, Alabama. During the letter he used a professional tone explaining the civil rights movement. This professional tone shows that King is an educated individual and the claim that his actions are “unwise and untimely” is…

Birds were captured to be weighed and measured their tarsus and fourth primary pin feather length twice a year. During breeding season, researchers observed individuals weekly to monitor survival, group membership, and nesting. At nestling stage, four variables for 459 nestlings in 195 broods in three breeding…

Before Cleopatra was born, Egypt was not the greatest country in the world. The Egyptian king, Ptolemy XII, depended on the Romans for a lot of heavy lifting. They need them for things like money, architectural ideas, etc. After Ptolemy XII died, Ptolemy XIII rose to power. Around 70 BC, Cleopatra VII emerged from Cleopatra V Tryphaena, who was Ptolemy XIII Aulete's wife and could've possibly been his half-sister. Back in these times it did not matter if you were a part of the same genealogy or…