Faith Reports Samples For Students

Interview and Report about Hinduism

A. I was born Hindu and been practicing the religion for as long as I can RememberQ. Are you a serious practitioner of your faith or are you just a nominal believer in your religion?
A. I am a serious practitioner and believer of my faith.

Q. What are your main beliefs and practices that are important to you?

A. I believe in the power of the deities and that they are represented by various phenomena in the world.Q. What misunderstandings do you think others around you have about your beliefs and practices? Clarify.A. Other people believe that we worship gods and that there is no superior being but that is nit trueQ. What ...

INTRODUCTION

When Pope John Paul XXIII proclaimed there would be a Vatican Council in January of 1959, he set the world on its heels. John Paul had only been elected three months prior to his announcement and there had not been a council of this nature in nearly a century. Its purpose was for the Church to possibly embrace a path that much was much more in keeping with modern day society rather than relying on the previous trail of a literal interpretation of the Bible.
Held in St. Peter’s Basilica on October 11, 1962, the conclave hosted up to 2,500 bishops, ...

Mary Rowlandson had a particularly difficult experience in maintaining her Puritanism and womanhood, as she was captured by Indians and lived with them for some time. Her experiences, as depicted in the narrative itself, directly challenge Puritan religious beliefs, as well as her understanding of her moral superiority over the Indians who capture her. Mary believes that God has a central role in her life, due to her Puritanism, and so she believes that there is a reason that she was attacked and captured. The book itself informs us of the Puritans' belief in the supremacy of God, particularly through Mary's examinations ...

In Athanasius’ On the Incarnation of the Word, Athanasius speaks of Christ as a figure who was intended to provide salvation to all, and restore harmony to humanity. Christ was an incarnation of the Word of God, and therefore, he was God. First, Athanius discusses the fact that Man is made in God’s image. Man is connected very strongly to the word of God, particularly through its incarnation into Jesus Christ. At the same time, man quickly turned to sin and debauchery, due to a rejection of the contemplation of God.

This led to a marring of God’s name, it ...

The basis of faith in the Lutheran tradition is sustained and spread through rituals and ceremonies of worshiping the word of God in the daily life and in church. There are vast manifestations of faith performed through various rituals, and one such ritual is the confirmation ceremony. The confirmation reaffirms individuals’ faith in God and in the Lutheran tradition, from an early age, usually during the adolescence period.
The confirmation ritual in the Lutheran tradition gathers the youngsters who will go through the confirmation ceremony, along with regular parishioners, for witnessing their entrance into the community. The young Lutheran ...

Historical Theology

Religion has been for a very long time in a very difficult situation to discern what is good and what is bad, in real sence there is no bad or good thing, to me it depends with how one understands his real self and his relationship with our heavenly father who is absolute and unchanging. Some philosophers and great sages have tried to explain this.

CALVIN ON PREDESTINATION

Theology controversy over predestination has caused great confusion in the religious lives of many People. Let us begin by examining the sources of this controversy. In the bible, we find several passages which are often interpreted ...

Introduction

Myths and legends played a vital role in the progression of culture of the great civilizations of in the ancient world. In today’s ideological contemporaries, the role of myths to a specific culture fascinated scholars for ages and several theoretical approaches were attributed to understanding the context of myths. In this discussion Eastern mythology will be explored specifically the myth of the creation of the universe and Japan. Exploring the mythological context of creation employs the feminist and anthropological theoretical underpinnings. In addition, referencing other literatures to explain how the Japanese society makes use of the myth, its ...

I. Introduction of the religion

I am particularly fascinated by the religion Buddhism and this report is about this significant world religion. Talking about Buddhism, one is reminded of zen. It is a perfect state of peace and I relate it to the experience of being with God or seeing God. The most fascinating thing about Buddhism is that is represents the most graphic state of this bliss. The controversy here lies in the practical sense that Buddhism does not believe in the existence of God. According to Keown (2000), the Buddhists do not believe in a Supreme Being or in a personal soul. In this religion, ...

Do Organizations have a Right to tell their Employees how to Dress or Groom?

Ordinarily, businesses are expected to hire their employees without discriminating against any applicant based on religious, gender, race, or disability grounds. However, there are cases where employers have been accused of rejecting applications from particular applicants on the same grounds. Despite the hullabaloo, organizations have a right to require their employees to dress or behave in a particular manner, especially when in the work environment.
There are many reasons why organizations require their employees to use a certain dress code or grooming behavior. For example, an organization may require its employees to have a certain, official dress code when ...

Part Four – Anthropology.

1. Man’s Creation.
a. Preliminary Considerations.
i. The fundamental difference between humans and angels, as Shedd states, is that “God created man male and female.” This implies that man is “incomplete if in isolation from one another.” However, angels are “sexless” which means that although they have been created with “reasonable and immortal souls” like man, they are not man or woman and are therefore, infinitely more complete than man.
1. This means that we must live at one with our alter-gender counterparts and consider each other equally as important. We are only whole humans ...

Introduction

Music has no boundaries and is listened by all sections of society, globally. Whether it is in English, German, French, Hindi, Mandarin, Arabic, Urdu, or any other language, music is enjoyed by one and all for its sheer power of attraction. It is not necessary that all audiences like the same kind of music, and it is also not true that all artists are liked by all. Tastes differ, and preferences are many. While some would pledge their hardcore support for the songs sung by Madonna, or a Lady Gaga, they need not necessarily have to agree that they are ...

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What is the ultimate reality? What is the source of everything?

The problem of the meaning of life - it is a problem of the desired ideal, or the truth. Her understanding of the defined purpose , direction and nature of all human activities . However, the very solution to the issue , if we essentially due to the existential -personal setting man: his freedom , his spiritual and moral condition . On the historical stage three main forces claim to address these issues: religion, philosophy and science. Summarized their responses can be expressed as follows. Religion, which refers to a complete system of beliefs, where the idea of ​​God ...

Should "Intelligent Design” Be taught in Public School?

Intelligence design is a technical program with direct affiliations to philosophy. It denotes that some universal features and of things alive have intelligent explanations rather than unintended courses. Unintended courses here could be biological, for example, natural selection (Thaxton, 1986). This program redefines science in such a crucial way as to arouse mystic justifications. Some critics call it creationism or pseudoscience. Understanding intelligence design can at times confuse one for a religious viewpoint. Although this concept does not acknowledge religious convictions, a scholar can almost certainly attribute it to faith and deistic beliefs. In essence, it tries to provide an explanation for faith ...

Healthcare has been experiencing tremendous transformations in the recent past, and this can be attributed to the changing health needs of the people. To adapt to these changes, the models of care delivery, care services, and even the personnel, have changed as well. Also, there is an increasing need to provide patient-centered and culturally sensitive care, as cultural diversity continues to pose a challenge to the delivery of holistic care. One approach of delivering care services is by focusing on a family, identifying the specific health needs of such families, and developing plans of treatment that are focused on ...

Matthew, the Evangelist, and apostle came from Capernaum. His father was Alphaeus and he was devoted to the Hebrew religion first. His birth name was Levi but he called himself Matthew. Matthew worked as a tax collector. Jesus asked him to give up his work and join Him because Levi knew human psychology well and had some good business habits that would be useful in his future missionary work. Those features of Matthew’s personality gave him an opportunity to make a way to the hearts of sinful and unfaithful people and convert them.
In Acts 1:1-15 Matthew is ...

Vision

Our vision is to create the most compliant green car rental company in Saudi Arabia in the 21st century.
Mission
Our mission is to offer our customers the most affordable green car. Customer satisfaction is an important part, to utilize available resources to make our customers satisfied with the service they receive.

Values

Our value is to make our customers satisfied with the green car rental service we will be offering in Saudi Arabia. Our core values are honesty, integrity, transparency, respect for diversity, and care for social, economy, and the environment.

Stakeholder Relations Management Guidelines

Investigations by Liu et al. (2014) suggest the ...

Introduction

The increasing convergence of global businesses across geographies has made human capital and service exchanges commonplace. By moving across physical and virtual (i.e. web) boundaries, cross-cultural encounters become increasingly a necessary requirement for effective work experiences locally and globally. This emphasis on cross-cultural competence in current business ecosystem is made more necessary in financial service industry. Indeed, of all cross-border services, financial activities are probably one most sensitive to global influence. Notably, by exchanging services via banking-based and non-banking financial systems, influence of not only provided services but also of people offering such services is well embedded in day-to-day ...

The holiday plays a role in the process of socialization of the person, the perception of his role and relationship to social groups. With its emotional background, entertainment, unconventionality, often accompanied by joy and abundance, ability to use various benefits that are unavailable in ordinary time, gifts and entertainment and deviations from the usual rules restricting the behavior of people, holiday for many centuries attracts children and young people, deeply etching into their memory. It is a very important reason to identify oneself with other people – in the days of the feast, young people, often more clearly than in ...

Financiers’ Standpoints

Being a hotel manager, the Earth Care Project may be an effective addition to monetary acts of the Kimpton’s hotels as these projects are engaged in an international problem, they may promote competitive benefit, behave eco-friendly in order to appeal clients, and advance strategic tendency and the identity of Kimpton. The promotion of an environment appears significant problem of civic. Numerous clusters of investors showed improved tendency while taking activities to advance eco-friendly trading engagements. The role of media as well showed effective outputs for organizations that are engaged in executing green procedures and assert critics on every ...

Business Model Generation: Yahoo

Business Model Generation: Yahoo
Yahoo is an internet pioneer and one of the best-known corporate names in the USA and world-wide. The future of the company, though, is very much in doubt. Revenues and profits are down, and the share price has fallen from $49 to $29 in the past twelve months. Yahoo Mail (email) crashed several times during 2015. There is an exodus of managers, and a growing morale crisis (MacMillan). Rumors abound that the company may sell its core internet businesses, including its search engine and email services as well as its news and sports sites and ...

The Qu’ran

The Qu’ran or Koran is a collection of speeches made by Mohammad considered the Messenger of ALLAH. The holy book of the followers of Islam, the Qu’ran has strict instructions for its believers. It reveals the existence of the one God, ALLAH, the evil of sin, the dos and don’ts prescribed by HIM to be a true follower and the correct way to form a new Muslim community. Divided into chapters or Surahs, the following passage is a transcription of Surah 1 and 47.
Surah one begins with an invocation to the Gracious and Merciful ALLAH, ...

Augustine’s evaluation of his own conduct starts from his childhood memories. He describes his childhood as a period where he was fascinated about learning and trying to understand the speech of his parents. He continues by giving an account of his boyhood then later his adolescent stage. Importantly, was an incident where he stole a fruit, and it remains in his head as an excellent example of malice. At Carthage he was a student, frequently visiting the theatre, was a victim of the lusts of the flesh and was a member of a gang of rowdy students. This is when he read his first ...

Part 1

Discovering myself as an authentic leader, and in fact taking necessary steps to ensure that I live up to my dream as a true leader has not been easy. To understand the meaning of an authentic leader, it is important to understand the term leader. According to my understanding, a term leader simply means someone who shows or leads the path, that is, someone who is strong enough to motivate and guide others to do the right things. Leaders easily get others engaged in a project, which they believe in.

An authentic leader is more than just an engagement in leadership. Unlike other ...

Body Cameras and Police Policies

Abstract
In the United States, significant attention has been placed on law enforcement use of body cameras. Police body cameras are small devices that are attached to the officer’s uniform or worn as a head piece that record police interaction with the public. Both supporters and opponents of the use of these cameras have cited several reasons for their stance and the issue remains controversial. This paper takes a deep look at this issue with particular focus on the importance and the role of police body worn cameras. Some of the major aspects that will be explored in the ...

Management

Manulife financial corporation: life insurance
Introduction
Manulife Financial is a Canadian based financial services company that has its principle operations in Canada, Asia and the United States. Since its inception in 1887, Manulife has built a solid global presence that provides its clients with trustworthy, reliable, strong and forward thinking solutions for some of their most significant financial decisions.
It has an international network of employees who are more than 84,000 including agents who offer clients a broad range of wealth management services and products as well as financial protection. Manulife offers commercial, personal, corporate and investment banking products ...

Summary Report

Chapter 3

The written language is responsible for the transformation of the world. Through using words, there is action and reflection. Words bring meaning to the concept of living. Human beings exist in the world through using words. This is achieved through dialogue. Dialogue is essential as it allows humans to be substantial in their own right and as such exercise their freedom to associate with other individuals. Dialogue is not viewed as the dominion over others rather it is the liberation of humankind as it focuses on the truth and not oppression of individuals.

Conditions or factors that contribute to the existence of Dialogue

Most importantly, for dialogue ...

Introduction

Sarbanes Oxley Act, commonly known as SOX, has come into being in 2002 and its compliance is mandatory for reporting of financial information by firms. The aim of this paper is to discuss Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, the reason of its creation and how it prevents inappropriate behaviour in financial reporting. The paper has three sections. The first section discusses what Sarbanes Oxley Act, 2002 is and the need for the creation of such an act. The second section re-establishes the role of Sarbanes Oxley Act (2002) in the prevention of fraudulent financial reporting. The third section concludes ...

Introduction

Abnormality is a physical malformation or deviation from the typical behavior. Different backgrounds such as religions, cultures and ages lead to abnormal behavior. Personality of one self is what shapes behavior. Though cultural around a person also facilitates and affects a person to start with abnormal behavior no matter the age or religion of the person. The process of differentiating abnormal and normal behavior must take into account in cultural relativism. However, a major important component of culture is religion (London, Rosenhan, & Perspectives 1968).
In every religion there are distinguished practices and customs that are unique to different cultures. There are different ...

Religious Life on Planet Earth

Religion on Earth
In order to whether people on Earth are religious, there is a need for the definition of what religion is. The most fundamental part in religion is the belief in a Supreme Being or Supreme Beings who are also referred to as God or Gods respectively. The actions and activities that are practiced relation to the God or Gods are termed as religious actions and religious activities. Religious actions and activities include prayer, pilgrimage, and holding religious meetings just to mention a few. The religious belief that believes in the existence a one God, as is the case in ...

Introduction

The issue about communication is essential for any system in organization running. The coordination between source of information and the targeted destination of the information and the channels of dispatching the information presents the management organ various range of challenges. The focus of this paper is to create a comparative analysis of various methods of communication as one of the major edges that chase capitalises on in ruling the market. The paper begins by defining different communication methods of communication used at different levels within the industry. This is followed by descriptive comparison of the resulting consequences and their implications.

Definitions and theoretical issues

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Introduction
Being a marketing manager at Lacoste, the marketing director requested a report to be prepared that describes the interlocking components of the attitudes that influence relationships between consumers’ attitudes and behaviors. In addition, the report tries to discuss some of the factors that may influence the purchasing of footwear.
According to Hoyer and Macinnis (2009), consumer behavior reflects the totality of the consumers’ decision with respect to the attainment, consumption, and nature of goods, services activities, experiences, people and ideas by human decision-making units.

Problem Statement

The main issue the report tries to illustrate is the factors that influence the ...

Poor Business Ethics

Earlier in the year Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally Financial all being big time mortgage and loan lending institutions were alleged to be engaging in illegal practices. An investigation that was carried out by New York State investigators found out that bank of America along with other financial firms did not follow the laid down procedure when creating their mortgage-backed securities as provided for in the New York state law. Bank of America is said to have flawed the mortgage banking process by failing to provide important documents to other entities. These home loans ...

Thematic analysis refers to the process of identifying data, analyzing it and at the same time reporting the patterns that are found within it. It looks into detail several research aspects in a topic.
Thematic analysis is a useful and a flexible research tool that is potentially used to get a detailed and rich but a very complex data. This method is very explicit and is majorly used in analyzing data because of its flexibility.
Thematic analysis generally is carried out after some research has been conducted in form of interviews and the data recorded to allow for the analysis to take ...