Thomas the Apostle

After the commotion settled, Paul left his disciples and went towards Macedonia and finally ended up in Greece. He left for Macedonia again after learning that some Jews were plotting against him. He was accompanied by many people, and they sailed from Philippi after the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and 5 days later, went to Troas. On the first day of the week of bread baking, Paul told the people that he had to leave. He talked that entire night, and a man called Eutychus fell asleep and fell…

The Acts of the Apostles is a companion literary work to Luke’s Gospel. In the Gospel, the focus is on the journey towards Jerusalem (Johnson 194). In Acts, Luke’s focus on the journey from Jerusalem (Johnson 194). As Christianity spreads from Jerusalem outward, Peter remains…

Fancy Title In his 1963 essay, “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem,” philosopher Erich Fromm argues that disobedience to authority started human history and blind obedience may cause its destruction. Fromm’s view on obedience to authority is that when we obey authority, even when it goes against our own reasoning and morals, then that obedience is cowardly and destructive while any act affirming individual will and autonomy is an act of freedom. Humanity could easily destroy…

In Punished, Victor Rios examines the ways in which the discrimination of the criminal justice system and general society against poor black and Latino boys pushes them towards future criminal involvement. In Chapter 5 Rios describes the criminal actions of these young men as acts of survival or of resistance against the system which oppresses them. In a system which immediately criminalizes them, the young men are unable to get jobs or educations. Without the education and learned cultural…

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has a mission to “lead the way the world, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases”(St. Jude). They want to help children and their families to not only help they children get better but to help their families that are in need of financial help. There are many opportunities that St. Jude’s gives us to get involved. St. Jude 's wants to reach out to everyone, they want not only to help families but they want to show others how…

Borne to an ordeal of grandeur and terror, they begin. It was 1924, at the middle of a decade-long economic boom. At the age of 25, Yale graduate Philip Fitzgerald, along with his divine girlfriend, Madeleine, journey on an afternoon train from the peaceful ambiance of New Haven, to the roaring traffic of New York City. He then settles in an inexpensive apartment condo in Brooklyn. Prior to this, he and his family were in a seven-month feud about their emigration. Philip, like any other fine…

Our society would not be where it is today if not for the civil disobedience of the minority groups within our society. The laws of probability dictate that the advances would have happened eventually but if not for the actions of civil disobedience some of them could have taken significantly longer or could have even taken conflicts to resolve just like slavery did. The struggle for Women’s suffrage one such prolonged that contained numerous acts of civil disobedience. The fight to gain voting…

The way people and politics are portrayed vary greatly and not all representations are limited to manipulation as a core aspect of people and politics. This concept will be the focus of today’s conference, exploring the intricate ways Shakespeare adopts this in his historical play Henry IV: Part One. Ideas strongly evident throughout this text are the duality of human nature that comes with a lust for power or purpose, emphasising the notion of people and politics as acts of manipulation.…

You look out your window and see a small child running with a rifle larger than them. You see them put the scope up to their eye and doesn't hesitate to put their finger on the trigger and pull. You see a soldier fall down and the child scurry away. Child soldiers are one of the major society our world has today. These child soldiers should receive amnesty, because they were threatened,drugged, and deserve justice. One reason why these children should receive amnesty is because they were…

Introduction There are a great many things that can motivate a person to do any number of things out there. Motivation itself is the desire of someone to do something or steps to achieve their ultimate goal. Terrorism holds no difference in this sense. It is an act that is carried out by those motivated for what they view as something bigger in their eyes. There are various opinions and views on the acts of terrorism. Some are in understanding while others are in outrage and view this topic as…