The Refuge

The Mission of the Tallahassee Museum is to promote knowledge and understanding of the Big Bend’s cultural history and natural environment, inspiring people to enrich their lives and build a better community. The Tallahassee Museum is a 52-acre nonprofit outdoor Museum located on beautiful Lake Bradford where history, nature, and, wildlife intersect to tell an intriguing story about Florida’s natural and cultural heritage. This unique Museum with its 1880s farmstead, historical buildings, live…

Throughout history many factors have affected undocumented migrants to move to North America, Europe and the more developed countries of Asia. In my opinion, people tend to migrate due to economic gain, war, political refuge, or religious freedom. In 1620, The Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, America to seek religious freedom and escape those who persecuted them. The new land allowed them to settle and be the people they wanted, without fear. As the country grew and developed immigrants were…

The United States was built on the backs of immigrants, pilgrims, and refugees. Innovation generates great new ideas as thoughts come together. From the industrialization of steel to the invention of the light bulb and telephone, immigrants welcomed into the United States have improved the infrastructure and lives of all Americans. Currently, the Islamic State and civil war are displacing twelve million families from their homes. These people flee into the wilderness in mass travelling as…

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is all about changing the thoughts that a person has and their current way of thinking. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a gradual process that helps a person take incremental steps towards a behavior change. There are two steps that are generally used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The therapist begins by helping the patient identify the problematic beliefs that they have. This step is important for learning how feelings, situations, and thoughts can attribute to…

caught my attention was the Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners and the Savages of the Pacific Ocean. They both contained similarities when it came to the time period known as the neo-classicism while also differences when it comes to the meaning behind the images, and the techniques that the artists used. Even though there were more differences than similarities among the images they both were unique in their own ways. For the first painting known as Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners or in Spanish Nuestra…

good karma and ultimately enlightenment—and follow the spiritual directions displayed by the Buddha . In one of his teachings on karma, the Buddha says, “make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge” . In addition, in addressing the Brahmins and householders of a particular village, the Buddha states, “A lay-follower reflects thus: How can I inflict upon others what is unpleasant to me?…

The Current Refugee Crisis The amount of people the have immigrated or are attempting immigrate to Europe or many other countries in the world has increased drastically over the course of years. In the New York Times article, “Desperate Crossings” is a story about people from Eritrea, Africa who are trying to flee their home country and go to Italy, Greece. The authors Paolo Pellegrin, who did most of the photography, and Scott Anderson, who did the articles text, travelled with Bourbon…

hardest workers in America are illegal immigrants. Like Oksana and her family, getting to America is a challenge, or it is going to be. Another good example would be the Syrian refuges coming to The United States. There are some refuges that are actually in need of protection. Over forty percent of America is not allowing refuges into their states, and Ohio and West Virginia is included in the…

place for someone like Lennie who ignores society’s narrow values and cannot assimilate into the ideals. Lennie and his brilliant ignorance’s find peace in a world without the true ignorance by society of basic rights, and therefore can only find his refuge in…

The government had failed to properly supply them and prepare them for an event like Katrina. In result to this, bestial events were happening all throughout the Superdome that these guards failed to stop. In an article, “Trapped in the Superdome: Refuge Becomes a Hellhole”, the author Gold claims, “At least two people, including a child, have been raped as the arena darkened at night.” Other horrific events such as stealing, shooting, brawls, and unnecessary attacks had also taken place. The…