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    Educating God’s Way to Wisdom - APA Does the American educational grading system meet God’s standards? Will a grading system earn Christians a place in heaven? Public and Christian educational institutes across America follow the core grading structure in hope to distinguish an individual’s learning level of achievement. Yes, American’s are fervent about giving marks or just merely dividing people into groups. Unfortunately, students across America join the race to win a good mark as if life…

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    First, she was a daughter of Zeus but she didn’t have two parents like the other gods she was born out of Zeus mind. She was the god of wisdom and knowledge she helped gods when they were in trouble. This goddess thought us an important theme that in war strategy comes first. You need a strategy for winning the war not only violence. For example, in the Trojan War Athena was helping the Greeks and after ten years of the Trojans and Greeks back and forth fighting they developed a strategy that…

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    tribe in Arizona. To the Apache people, lands are not just private properties that are bought and sold. Land to the Apache hold a great deal of influence. The land also is the greatest tie the modern Apache have with their ancestors. Throughout the Wisdom Sits in Places reading, one can learn how the Apache uses land names to tell stories, teach lessons, and acts as life’s guide to live the Apache way. The Apache people revere their land. The book gives examples how the Apache people are held…

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    To begin with, a wisdom or knowledge that one gains when he or she struggles, is the ability to deal and cope with negative emotions. In the story of Fahrenheit 45, Montag tried to have a conversation about Mildred’s suicide attempt last night, but she just ignored it like it never happened. “ ‘Last night’, Montag said again. Mildred watched his lips casually. ‘What about last night?’ ‘Don’t you remember?’ “(Montag 16). In this conversation, it demonstrates Mildred’s internal conflict inside…

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    play an important role just as wisdom in knowledge in this passage. God’s decide prophecies and prophecies decide the characters fate, whether or not to carry out this fate is partially in the characters control, their free will. These three themes are most apparent in the passage and the play, Oedipus the King. Gods and the importance of their prophecies play a major role in Oedipus the King and within this passage itself. This theme…

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    a drug for memory and wisdom” (Plato 274e). The above mentioned quote, represents the ecstaticism of Theuth, an Egyptian God, on the medium of writing. Thamus, the King of Egypt, however viewed writing as a medium that brings forth a greater deal of forgetfulness, and thus not increasing one’s memory. Furthermore, once one finished reading about vast ideas, one does not think about them, and thus, Thamus notes that students of the reading will gain an “appearance of wisdom”, but, for the most…

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    For many decades, he’s been the director at the OAC and has coached pros such a Milos Raonic who is making the Canadian tennis fans very proud. He was a very popular and was known as a succeeding coach who was also the author of “Noble Tennis: The Wisdom of Sport”. I respected Tony as a person and as a coach. I felt he succeeded in being an alpha male since he was loved by everyone and he was seen as a leader everywhere. He wrote a popular book and established his own tennis academy which is…

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    I read the article Wisdom Sits in Places, about the White Mountain Apache tribe located in Eastern Arizona. The purpose of this article was describing how Anthropologist Keith Basso worked with two gentlemen from the Apache tribe in recording a topographic map of the area using Apache words. The Apache had named theses areas decades ago but the names were never recorded on a map for other tribesmen to read and learn. Mr. Basso traveled with his companions during the hot and humid…

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    The two ethnographies that will be compared are Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith H. Basso and Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture. Both contain eye-opening content of varying perspectives and information regarding communities that are right in front of our noses, and are successful at providing insight and conveying meaningful messages that have the capacity to change the manner in which readers see their own respective societies. There were several similarities that can be…

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    one may find in life. Oliver Sacks, Maggie Nelson, and Robert Thurman all suggest that one’s perception of the world, as well as the flexibility of their state of mind, directly correlates with how they exist within it. Specifically, Thurman’s work “Wisdom” claims that it is necessary for one to abandon the idea of having a fixed and strict self but rather open up one’s mind to become a flexible thinker, allowing one to create human connection. In her essay “Great to watch” Nelson argues that…

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