Their Eyes Were Watching God

you have when God is tugging at your heart waiting for you to let him in. I desired that connection, I wanted that more than anything. Couple of years past and I slowly started drifting away from my church until I just stopped going altogether. Things were getting tough, like my parents fighting, speaking of divorce. To me, that ripped me from edge to edge. Our family was getting even more distant everyday. I was literally watching my whole life fall apart right before my eyes and all I…

“GOD FORGIVES WE DON’T” Will Change the Way You View Wars By: Ebony Bellamy Thought-provoking and difficult to watch at times, GOD FORGIVES WE DON’T shows you the hardships people have to go through when they are drafted to fight in a war. Wars are inevitable despite what we think. When nations want to declare war on one another, all we can do is sit back and hope for the best as a number of us watch our loved ones go defend the country. But there comes a time, when there aren’t enough soldiers…

Nanny, Janie’s grandma, is accused of carrying the slave house owner’s baby because Nanny’s baby looked white which was only possible if the father were to be white, like the slave house owner. The slave house master’s wife threatens to give her “one hundred lashes wid a raw-hide on yo’ bare back. Ah’ll have you whipped till de blood run down to yo’ heels!” (18) which was sadly very common to see in…

Shlomo were forced to work while his mother and younger sister were killed. Throughout the memoir, Elie writes about the famine and nasty treatment Jews faced while in concentration…

at the time, literature from the Harlem Renaissance “became the voice of the educated Negro pleading with white America for justice” (Source F). Though at first unintentional, the Harlem Renaissance was meant to show the dissatisfaction that blacks were feeling because of inequality, and in turn advance their community towards full citizenship. Zora Neale Hurston portrays this inequality in her novel, the day after the hurricane hits the town that Janie and Tea Cake are in. Hurston shows a…

gospel of Mark was to tell the reader that Jesus is the son of God and he’s the Messiah. The God sent it his son to save mankind from the sins by letting him suffer to help the human being. According to Bible Mark is one of the historians in a New Testament who came witness the life of Jesus. Mark story started by describing the adulthood life of Jesus and establishing it with the words “The beginning of the life of Jesus Christ the son of God”. The main theme of the gospel of Mark was…

stomach. "Oh." The young one look toward the sky. His eyes fixed on the blazing rock that would surely cost their lives. "The stegosaurus said it's 'cuz of that thing in the sky. She said it'll hurt us. Hurt us real bad" Her son said, his innocence saving him from what that really meant.…

When the trials of Jesus and Joan of Arc were going on thousands of years ago the public did not play as much of a role in trails. Yes, we see in Jesus 's case where Pilate supposedly let the pubic choose to free Jesus or the criminal Barabbas. All of three of these trials played a very important role in society and at that time and the whole surrounding world was watching by to see the verdicts. In the case of both the Jesus ' trial and Joan of Arc 's they were charged for going against the…

of the American dream and that if we become very wealthy and successful that we will automatically be happy and content with life. Some of the more prominent symbols that help us better understand this idea throughout the book are the mansions the eyes of T.J Eckleburg and the green light at the end of the Buchanans dock. The green light is one of the symbols on the book that has multiple meanings and helps the reader to be more able to interpret many themes including gatsby's love for daisy…

Me, to hallow (to sanctify) Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”Moses struck the rock instead of speaking to the rock, as being a case of his unbelief. Moses apparently had a problem with speaking to an inanimate (lifeless or non living) object and expecting anything to happen from just your spoken words. I’ll bet you a lot of Christians are still like Moses today. God was trying to teach His servant…