Essays on Bible

The Article provides a comprehensive account of marketing. Author has portrayed how employees of various divisions misunderstand the concept of marketing when they consider it as responsibility of the marketing department only. Marketing is the joint effort of all the departments of an organization and every department plays important role at different stages and contributes significantly in the whole process. Mr. George beautifully describes different functions and responsibilities of various departments. The development of a new product starts from identification of new opportunities by marketing team. Market research team helps in analyzing feasibility of the product, sales and revenue forecast, ...

Management has been termed by scholars to be kind of management whose paradigms are in continual transition. The environment in which business management operates is faced by new challenges as the world adopts new methods of doing business. Economic and technological changes have significantly altered the business patterns and practice around the globe today Globalization has introduced new technology and procedures such as outsourcing and social marketing to meet new business requirements. Additionally, human based marketing practices have been replaced by the internet to reach as many people as possible. Hence, adapting to this new environment is vital and ...

New technologies have brought social collaboration a new face. Gone are the days when you have to wait months for a snail mail to arrive before hearing the good news about your cousins wedding or the bad news about the death of your grandmother. Gone are the days when one has to fill three pages of stationery just to update a friend of the day’s activities. Today, you can instantly update friends, families or co-workers with whatever you are doing; actually send them a picture of the event or video with the availability of several electronic collaboration technologies. For example, through instant ...

Given the social nature of human beings and their need to communicate with each other (Rogers et al., 2007), collaboration devices have been developed to enable people to communicate in a more interactive and collaborative way despite being separated by distance.

As such, experts continue to come up with new technologies to further advance and improve the capabilities of collaboration devices and the user experience they offer.

The following are the new paradigms that have been identified for use in future technologies in the Collaborative Working Environments for Europe (CWE), as reported in the 5th Collaboration@Work Expert Group Report ( ...

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Abstract In recent times, the evolution of health management plans has included novel services which include long term managed care. This health management plan is not perfect; it has some advantages and disadvantages. This paper would examine some of these positive sides and the negative aspects.

Introduction The concept of long term managed care has had to change from time to time ...

Modernism, as its manifestly obvious name suggests, represents an idea, thought, movement or character that is modern. This term “modern” exemplifies different cultural tendencies and related intellectual movements taking place during the late 19th and early 20th century, roughly dating from 1860s to 1970s. It surfaced as rebellious angst struggling against the overly conservative realism, sternly rejecting tradition and endeavoring to create a new form of already existing artistic and intellectual modes of human existence, with rewriting, reevaluating and recapitalizing human certainty of existence. It gave birth to self-conscious authors whose physical existence was marred by the newly emerging technology, ...

With the advent of new technologies, several new devices that aims in providing support to the different groups of people also arises. New devices intended to provide better services of classrooms, offices and other sectors are some of these new devices. One such device is the computer. A computer is basically “a programmable machine that can respond to a programmed list of instructions”. Computers are very commonly used today in classrooms, offices, homes, and even during travel. Although computers are very commonly used today, there are still a lot of people who are afraid of using them because they lack knowledge ...

1. What do you make of Steel’s behavior? Do you think his actions were unethical? Which ones specifically and why? Steel’s behavior is more of the petty-type than it is damaging to personnel and or company image. Much of it has to do with managing a former CEO with a different style and the CEO’s crony (for lack of a better word). His methods are abrasive to Sharp and Block because they are used to having power. Being phased out is never easy unless you’re in total agreement with your replacement.

Steel has vision that does not ...

FreshDirect is an online grocery store, which is specialized in delivering fresh products to the New York City and some of the areas around it. Due to the high reliance on IT in the business operations and the aggressive growth strategy, FreshDirect initiated an IT infrastructure revamp in 2004. The new infrastructure aimed to achieve high availability for the continuously expanding customer base and to improve Web site response time. These modifications were essential for supporting the current company expansion strategy and the aspiration to improve customer experience. 1. What type of technology is FreshDirect using – disruptive or ...

Sensory perception in human beings is far from being perfect. Human eye cannot see beyond the rainbow spectrum of colours (VIBGYOR), even though they are capable of discerning a single colour from several millions of them arranged together. The ear is capable of picking up sounds at frequencies of twenty thousand cycles per second, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t sounds at higher frequencies. Unlike some animals, we cannot sense electric or magnetic fields in our surroundings, but in addition to the five traditional senses, we can also motion and balance, temperature and the relative position of the ...

Andy Warhol was an American painter. He was a leading influence in the development of Pop Art. Warhol’s original name was Andrew Warhola, and he was born in Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania. Early in the 1960s, Warhol started experimenting with artistic representations of various media, including adverts, newsprint headlines and other images from popular culture in the US. In 1962, he started working on his series of Pop Art portraits of Marilyn Monroe. He also worked, in a similar style, on portraits of other celebrities including Elvis Presley (News History, 2012). Also in 1962, Warhol partook in the New Realists ...

The Enlightenment is an intellectual movement which is related to the new thoughts, old beliefs, reason and nature. This movement got an extension in the European society during the seventeenth and eighteenth century though the process was commenced a long time ago. This movement is known for several reasons and naming itself was a unique feature of this movement. Several scholars, thinkers participated in this process of enlightenment which affected the thoughts of the people, religious beliefs and the society in a larger perspective. When cities were developed and they became the hub of commercial activities mainly because of industrialization, people ...

1. Abstract With eth advent of computing devices, there has been a phenomenal growth in the adoption of electronic displays. There has been adoption of electronic displays in these environments. Even as the evolution of electronic devices is seen to be on the increase, there is a need to ensure that the electronic display devices are friendly to the environment and efficient for personal use. Emphasis is seen to be put on safety and green computing. There is also an emergence of hand-held devices which are being adopted at a fast rate and the use of electronic displays is highly adopted ...

For the purposes of my research, I wish to understand exactly how an education experience can be enhanced through the use of different techniques. The varying factors that make up a satisfying and effective language acquisition course should be understood through the research that I perform. At the same time, the practical purposes of this research are to accomplish effective means of enhancing these classroom experiences; learning Arabic should be made easier, and it should be done by creating a new type of curriculum. With the help of the suggested language interventions, I wish to be able to create a better learning ...

The lesson that was picked by our group was US history in famous events. The target audience for this lesson are English Language learners who are in the fifth grade. The objectives of the lesson are to improve the language use of the students in terms of vocabulary use, oratory skills and written communication. The lesson also seeks to impart full knowledge of US history in famous events for the students so as to shore up their knowledge of American history and to enable them relate the same to their experiences and understanding of everyday American society. ...

A database is a collection of logically related data that is organized for the purpose of ease of access, management and update. Databases are classified according to their organizational approach. There are various categories of databases which include relational databases, tabular in nature and there is a clear definition of data so that they can be easily reorganized and accessed in different ways. There is also distributed database where it can be distributed in different points in a network. The last category is an object oriented-oriented programming database where it is congruent with the data which is defined in object classes and ...

Every single religion in the world enjoys a history that rolls back for centuries and ages hence. These histories help to identify a people and distinguish them from all he others. It is not just the history that matters but it is the legacy behind the story that gives a people the pride for their history. As it is commonly agreed, it is difficult to tell where we are headed if we cannot tell where we come from. Everyone and everything starts somewhere and it is only necessary to identify this source, so that we can predict the future. As it is ...

Over the past few years, supermarkets have shown to utilize technology in order to increase Return on Investments. The industry is operating at narrow profit margins and so the organizations operating in the same industry have to work hard to survive market competition (Lichtenstein, 2010). In this regard solutions need to be developed to avert these issues so as to increase amount of sales and revenues, and cut down the operation expenses. There are technologies that have been developed to promote the client’s experience in the store, for example a quicker checkout or means to offer extra information to ...

Why was there a great debate in the 1920’s about the future? Who won it, the modernists or the fundamentalists? Would you characterize this period primarily as the Age of Jazz or as the Age of Prohibition? The 1920’s could be seen as a defining point in history for a number of reasons. First of all after the end of the First World war, the old order was collapsing and society became more open with the world of landed gentry and suchlike vanishing off the face of the earth as if it never existed. Consequentially life began changing even ...

Director: Ajay Naidu Country/Year: US, 2010 Running Time: 77 mins Language: In English Format: Digital Movie 2 Movie 2: "Better Luck Tomorrow" by Justin Lin, 99 min, narrative, 2002 My thesis is that Asian Americans are depicted as the bad guys in several films and this is the stereotype which emerges from these films albeit with a positive stance. The first film focuses on ashes (which is short for Ashish) who is a small time New York City pot dealer. Apart from also being a caregiver for his mentally ill brother he also dabbles ...

The article starts with a story of a rental tower which has introduced charging stations for electric cars a few years ago. Although this still does not bring much profit, the owners like to think that they are going green. The number of charging stations in Manhattan alone has grown to over 50 this year and they will keep on growing. Many car companies will be producing electric cars and hybrids and so the demand for charging stations will grow. There is now even an application for mobile phones which can help quickly locate the nearest station. This can also be done ...

Gold (chemical symbol Au and atomic number 79) is a shiny, dense, soft, ductile and malleable metal. In its pure state, gold is bright yellow in color with a luster considered traditionally and to date as attractive. It is an element of group 11of the periodic table under the transitional metals. Gold is among the least reactive chemical elements and does not oxidize in water or air. It therefore occurs as a free element in most cases in forms of grains or nuggets in rocks, in alluvial deposits, and in veins. Gold also occurs, though rarely, as gold compound e.g. with tellurium. ...

Terrain influenced surveillance in that the large coverage of a plateau which made the allied troops to easily survey the New York town closely and arrange for an attack. This type of terrain encouraged direct fire since there were no places for hideouts and this caused massive deaths and injuries to both troops. The solders engaged indirect fire in the battle since some parts of the landscape were forested and this offered strategic bases for redoubt making the fighting forces to be always on lookout of their enemies. Such landscape hindered direct fire hence the soldiers resolved to indirect ...

This novel is a superb concoction of several themes which affected the Japanese nation after the Second World War and how some characters in particular especially those Japanese who opted to leave their ravaged country and search for a new life abroad. The autobiographical sense of the novel is also an intrinsic part of it as Endo was actually the first Japanese to study abroad after the war and that surely changed his life. However the most important part of the book, at least to my knowledge is the continual conflict between Japanese culture and the influx of other western cultures ...

Over the 20th Century the New York Yankees have proven to be the most successful franchise in professional sports because their dominating players and their overall work ethic to success. The Yankees have made immense contributions to sports. Over the years, the Yankees have continued to remain relevant and even after their demise, their legacy still lives on. Among the most celebrated Yankees are Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe Dimaggio, Marino Rivera, and Derek Jeter. Below are biographies of these baseball players.

Ruth was born on February 6, 1895, in Baltimore. Only Ruth and one sister survived infancy. His ...

It can be simply said of as the ability to exercise authority, control, influence, and rule over living and non-living things altogether. This is the act of influencing things to happen or go in a particular way. The power at hand may be for the benefit of one or many people around the person with authority. We are informed of how God used his power to manipulate the existence of the living and non-living things both on earth and in heaven. These things he created were for the benefit of himself and the community of mankind he had created ...

The 20th century, in contradiction to the Secularization Thesis that was exceedingly popular in the end of the 19th-first half of the 20th century, was not marked by total disappearance of religion as a power significantly influencing human life. All the other way, not only traditional world religions like Christianity and Islam continue to play an important role in human society, but scores of new religions and cults, or new religious movements as they are usually called now, keep on appearing, finding their followers, merging, dividing and borrowing elements one from another and so on. In such an atmosphere it ...

The expansion of the American railroad system in the 19th century brought with it unprecedented economic and cultural change – which also happened at an unprecedented pace. It is almost impossible for us, in the early 21st century, to conceive the complete transformation that the railroad was responsible for – both directly and indirectly. Westland and Clark (12) compare the impact of the railroad on ordinary life with the impact of the internet on our generation. Indeed, in 1900 the railroad was responsible for 15% of American GDP – roughly equivalent to the internet’s impact on the American economy. Early in ...

Macro environment analysis Economic The pharmaceutical industry is now globalized which has opened the company to more research and development at a lesser coat. This is possible in the third world countries and the market gets wider for the company. The only danger posed by this globalization is that other countries such as India can also produce generic drugs in large quantities and at lower prices.

A new legislation by the federal government of America is that the pharmaceutical companies have been obliged to disclose to the public the grants that they have made to groups and physicians. ...

William Faulkner is considered to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, through his implementation of the Southern gothic in his novels and short stories, through exploring the great Southern heritage, especially in his works whose action takes place in his imaginary Yoknapatawpha county, which was based on a place where he spent most of his childhood, called the Lafayette county. Faulkner was influenced greatly by his family origin and it shows in his imaginary setting in a most prolific manner, despite his drinking problems and extramarital affairs. The birth of William Cuthbert Falkner, it was only ...

Hip hop culture began in the early 1970s. This occurred when a Jamaican artist, Clive Campbell also known as DJ Kool Herc moved from Kingston to the West Bronx, New York. In West Bronx, Campbell tried to incorporate his Jamaican style of Djaying into the music systems of the Americans. His style involved reciting improvised rhymes over the dub versions of his reggae records. During his initial performances in the city, he tried to adapt his style over the chanting over the percussion sections in the pop songs during that time. With the help of other Clarke Kent and Coke ...

Religion played various roles in the lives of the characters in Jubilee. Discuss the role of religion in the novel. How did different characters or groups of characters shape or reshape religion to meet their needs? What parts of the bible did each group emphasize? Religion takes two major contrasting roles in this novel. To one group, the white people, it is a justification of superiority over the black people, while for the black people; it is a source of hope and a place of refuge. The novel jubilee written by Margaret Walker depicts the African American history in three ...

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” This quote by Vince Lombardi, one of the greatest football coaches in the world, became my inspiration. In my life I had challenges that hindered me from achieving my goals albeit I never lost motivation to go forward. Right now my dream is to enter a university and get a degree, so I can succeed and bring positive difference to my country. Walt Disney once said: “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're ...

This essay relates view points of Phillip Jenkins ‘The New face of Christianity’ and David. Aikman, “Jesus in Beijing” in discussing the influence of missionary Christian theology from two different cultural contexts. Jenkins’ themes include, “Poor and rich, old and new, good and evil, persecution and vindication, women and men, north and south.” (Jenkins, 2006). Aikman( 2003) takes a more socio-political approach in interpreting the benefits of Christianity to China.

Missionary Christian theology when observed within its political context seeks always to Christianize and liberate people of Eastern cultures. Often they are perceived as pagan within their native religion. Jenkins ...

Riordan Manufacturing is a global company that has facilities in the USA and China. Nowadays we are one of the leading plastic manufacturers with earnings that exceed $46 million, so this brings us a need to improve our operations and drive strategic growth on the market. Our current focus is to deliver best quality products. This is achieved by implementing a leading edge “six sigma approach”, innovative R&D and constant track of quality according to ISO 9000 standards. After analyzing our processes and operations, I have concluded that we need to introduce a new SCM philosophy to acquire new competitive advantages.

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For the purpose of understanding the evolution of Keynesian Theory in the US economy, it is eminent to understand Keynesian economics. Keynesian economics is based on the ideas the English economist John Maynard Keynes. According to Keynesian economics, private sector decision leads to inefficient macroeconomics and thus argues actively in favor of policy made by the government, specially the actions by the central banks and the fiscal policy measures by the central government. Keynesian theory was more of a socialist one and fanatically defending the free markets as the same time. Keynesian economics warns against the practice of ...

For those who consider the disputed 2000 Presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore to have been controversial, the story that takes place just before the opening of Sophocles’ Antigone must seem downright barbaric. If you consider the chaos that the previous year or so had brought down on Thebes, Antigone’s wrath could just as well be considered the bellowing of an entire city, weary of its rulers’ drama. Oedipus had died after blinding and exiling himself, on the heels of discovering that he actually had fulfilled the Oracle’s prophecy of killing his father and ...

Warner bros. entertainment is an American company that works in the field of creation, distribution, production of films and television entertainment. The company is a global leader in its segment and caters a number of entertainment options that allures the audiences. The company has a strong interfere in almost every aspect of the entertainment industry. Headquarter of the Warner bros. entertainment is in Burbank, California and New York, America. The company has a long history of working in this industry and was founded in the year 1923 by four brothers, since its establishment the company is working in the entertainment sector and has made ...

Apple Inc. is one of the best internationally known computer companies that specialize in designing and creating iPads, iPods, iTunes, Macintosh desktops and laptop and operating systems like the OS X. The Company has embraced the revolutionary technology and has ventured in the manufacturing of iPhone. Apple is a brand that actively competes with others in the market. According Linzmayer (2004) the brand is very competitive even in the very competitive markets, in the PC market it is well represented by its highly reputed Macintosh computers and accompanying and related programs and software. In the electronics industry and market, Apple ...

For this paper I interviewed Anna Davtyan. She is 34 years old woman of Armenian origin. Being relatively young she managed to live and study in five different countries as well as gain almost 10 years of work experience. Anna has Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with majors in Corporate Finance and Portfolio Management. She is also married, has 8 y. o. son and is working full time as PR events and sponsorship coordinator at Orange (mobile operator). During our conversation I tried to understand her views about the cultural diversity, relations between different races and minorities. ...

The present paper uses a problem solving model in order to present a solution to the existing crisis within Classic Airlines. After analyzing both the internal and the external factors that are currently generating the crisis, the solution is presented, along with key elements related to the correct and efficient implementation of it. The paper focuses on the importance of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), not only in a crisis situation, but as a continuous working tool, due to the increased demands of customers and due to the value represented over time by loyal clients versus new ones.

Marketing nowadays has a very difficult task ...

There are many reasons why I have chosen to pursue a degree in business; both my personal and professional experience, as well as my own desires, have led me to this point. From my birth, to my own talents, and even my volunteer and employed work, I have been fervently working towards the pursuit of a career in business; I have done many things up to this point to prepare me for this path.

I grew up in a single family; my parents divorced when I was five years old. Following their divorce, I grew apart from my father, having not seen ...

An entrepreneur is a person who undertakes an innovation in economics and business expertise in an effort to change modernism into financial goods. Entrepreneurship results in invigorating an organization or may result into a new association. Currently, the most common type of entrepreneurship involves starting a new business which includes the political and social forms of free enterprise activity (Hess 93). The main source of finance available to an entrepreneur is personal saving, bank loan, family and friends and credit cards. The entrepreneurship actions are significantly different depending on the inventiveness and organization concerned. They range from small projects to higher project ...

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt was born on 27 October 1858 and grew up to be the 26th President of the United States of America between the years 1901 and 1909. He was born to a wealthy ‘half Dutch half Irish ’family and was lucky to be the son to the man who read to the public the Declaration of Independence at Georgia. As a boy, Teddy was sickly suffering from asthma and due to this condition he stayed home and studied History. He was also near sighted. Roosevelt joined Harvard college in 1876 and was known to study avidly even without the ...

There is no city in the whole world which was so powerfully influential to the automobile world than Detroit, Michigan. Detroit was a city without a specialization till the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1900, Detroit’s population was 285000 and was only the thirteenth largest city of the US. It was something like a Jack-of-all-trades city at the end of the 19th century, with its people being engaged in industries as diverse as tobacco products, food manufacture, drugs and chemicals, stove manufacture, ore processing and food production. There has never been another city to command the world of automobiles as ...

A leader must have a passion for whatever course or vision they are leading. This deep passion is what is then transferred to the followers and also acts as a motivation to work for the goals even when times are tough. For example in the Bible, the prophet Nehemiah heard about the destruction of Jerusalem’s wall and was filled with grief of how his people had been disgraced by their enemies (Nehemiah 1:4). It is cause of this passion that Nehemiah asked for permission from the King Artaxerxes to go and rebuild the wall of Jerusalem. This passion motivated both ...

The article represents a critique of the work Media and the American Mind by Daniel J. Czitrom published in 1982 which is considered revolutionary insight in journalism of nineteenth century because it “was linked to a tidy history of thought and research about the media” (Park, 2007, p.466).

The Czitrom’s book is notable for several significant ideas but the factor which set this work apart from other studies is the author’s choice of media theorists to analyze. The author’s goal was to give a critical estimation of Media and the American Mind and analyze the contribution of the ...

Creativity within an organization can often be the lifeblood of that organization - the output that is gleaned from those individuals and employees responsible for creative provide the signature appeal of an organization. New ideas, new markets and new innovations are the things that prevent stagnation; it is one of the most important concepts inherent to an organization. However, creativity cannot be forced; new methods and strategies have to be implemented in order to guide creativity and inspire innovation - otherwise, creative staff becomes complacent, lazy or overstressed with the pressure of creating ideas out of thin air. This ...

Innovation can be defined as exploiting new ways of doing things for the primary reason of formulating new processes, services, and products. It involves formulation of an idea, introducing it into the market, executing the idea, and exploiting it in a way that new processes, services or products that add value to an organization and also improve on quality are established. Organization in organizations involves transformation of a business’ technological resource and also a restructuring of its management. Innovation in the business context may also involve new technology exploitation and adoption of an out-of-the-box approach to initiate considerable changes within the organization. ...

William LeMessurier was the big brain behind the Citicorp building’s architecture built in downtown Manhattan in 1977. He innovatively solved the problem of constructing the structure on a land owned by a church by building it above the church. So Citicorp’s first floor was nine equivalent floors above ground level and it remained supported by four tall columns placed not at the corners of the building but instead at the center of each side of the building. Satisfying all the New York building code requirements, the Citicorp building was a success. After a concerned phone call from a student in June ...

The fight against pathogenenic microorganisms to achieve a better life has been a continuous process. Rapid changes are seen as researches are embarking upon various forms of studies but there are certain discoveries that always seem greater. The New York Times published an article, which focus on the advancement in microbe genome sequencing technology. The article title "The new generation of microbe hunters" explored the challenges, the need, and future benefits of the new technology. This publication provides a summary of some medic's perception and discussion of the current rapid infective process of microbes on human health in a neighboring city and ...

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The paper is dedicated to issues of journalism in Australia and is particularly focused on the online journalism and the usage of the Internet by journalist themselves. The research gives the information about general advantages and disadvantages of the Internet use in media sphere and provides an insight into the specific drawbacks and benefits of using this resource of information in Australia. The paper is based on several surveys that were conducted on relevant topics: use of the internet by Australian journalists, level of trust to people of this profession and most popular online news sources in the ...

I have identified Michelle Bachman, a republican frontrunner as the leader who is written about in the media. The news article in question is from The New Yorker, and it is entitled LEAP OF FAITH: the making of a Republican Frontrunner. It is an analysis op/ed piece.

The article characterizes her in the first sentence as a ‘Tea party insurgent’ giving us a clue to her main power base which is the Republican Tea Party. She also identifies very strongly with the Christian Conservative movement. The writer notes that her appeal (to voters) is based on ‘right wing convictions, beliefs and ...

The case of Boy Scouts of America (BSA) v. Dale was a controversial case decided in 2000. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the unanimous decision by the New Jersey Court and ruled that because the Boy Scouts association was a private organization it had constitutional tight to remove openly gay persons from leadership positions. The petitioners in this case were the BSA and their Monmouth Council. The organization was a private non-profit making whose work was to instill values in the youth. This organization emphasizes that homosexuality is not consistent with the values it aims at instilling. The respondent in this case ...

America is a country of dreams and people from across the world want to migrate to this country. There are a number of reasons depending upon the circumstances of one’s native places, which drive people to migrate in America. The tendency to migrate in America is not new and is in practice for the decades. People from Asia, Africa, and Korea have happily made the America their home and are engaged in a number of businesses in their new country. Usually the people, who are not in comfortable condition in their native countries, intend to migrate at better places and ...

Introduction In his book “The World is Flat” Thomas Friedman addressed issues of contemporary global business environment and its latest changes over the past thirty years. The author analyzed the history of global business development applying the term “flat” to the world as a space for business operating and the term “flattener” for the factors influencing global business changes (Friedman, 2005). The current paper is devoted to the critical analysis of three chapters of the book. Three factors making impact on business development are reviewed using material from the second chapter of the book. An analysis of practical ...

The Book of Jubilees is an ancient religious text which is not part of the Bible but which is deemed to be an apocryphal text which actually covers most of the Ground of the Genesis book in the Bible. It does differ substantially from what we find in the authorative text and tackles certain aspects rather differently. A typical example would be the incestuous relationship that one may find between the son of Adam and Eve, Cain and his wife which is not the case in the Bible but which makes for rather interesting reading. Basically the Jubilees ...

Is public school education the right place for elementary and high school students or would private church-affiliated schools to a better job of educating students? Some see the church schools as necessary to teach education as religion sees fit offering a Bible-based lesson plan. Others say the public schools are great and offer more flexibility for teaching students to meet the challenges in the modern world.

Historically the role of public education has been to educate students to help the meet the challenges of their contemporary world. A constant problem for doing this is making sure that the public schools’ curriculum ...

Introduction There is no other dramatic turn in the Christian literature and history far greater than when the Roman Emperor, Constantine, converted to Christianity. Cohen (p. 1) described Constantine as a successful general. His father was a successful general as well and he was trained for military leadership. He led the army at the West. He inched his way to the Roman Empire by his leadership and military might. Constantine claimed to have had a vision of a Chi Ro (p. 1). This is a symbol of Christ, shining above the sun. Recognizing it as a divine sign, Constantine made his soldiers paint ...

So, you’re sitting in a church service, chafing against your uncomfortable clothes, tired of sitting in that pew. The minister is droning on in a language you can’t understand. This whole sin/forgiveness/grace thing has you confused, if not depressed, and you’re tired of being asked for money every time you come in the doors. The minister has nicer clothes than most of the people in the audience before him, and you’re sure that the profit from the items for sale out in the foyer goes at least partially to buy those fancy clothes. You feel resentment and ...

Reading the article by Dr. R. Rhodes, I found many interesting thoughts and evidences which corresponded to my personal observations. Fortunately, I am not into New Age philosophy. My interpretation of angels is conservatively-Christian, meaning I consider them as God messengers, who help but also punish. From strictly scientific perspective, meaning studying of the ancient texts of Hebrew, I see angels more as creatures to be afraid of rather than to attract. After all, Satan and demons are also angels with the different color of wings. Subsequently, my perception is far from New Age interpretation. Concerning the perception of ...

The movement of existentialism and the revival of religion were carried out following the collapse of civil values in the twentieth century in several ways. Different philosophers came up with different views towards extentialism. The aspect of extentialism became associated with the cultural movement. Formerly, people used to perceive extentialism as a term used to describe existence. However, following the postwar era, there was extensive dissemination of the philosophical and literary postwar output. This lead to exchange of ideas among the philosophers and the academic elites. As a result, there was development of new theories that could justify the aspect of ...

Eusebius of Caesarea is widely recognized as the most important chronicler of the early Christian church. His History of the Church is unparalleled as a comprehensive account of the formative events and individuals of the early Christian epoch. It is all the more remarkable in that he was evidently the first to ever embark on such an endeavor, a daunting challenge that required the location an organization of a massive amount of information about dates, events and persons covering a period of 300 years. Not one to boast, Eusebius confessed to feeling overwhelmed in the introduction to his great work. “I feel inadequate ...

The different versions of David’s sculpture are all based on the Christian Bible, Old Testament. According to the Bible, David was young man who had the courage to face the gigantic Goliath and killed him during a war. In Florence, David was seen as a political and religious symbol. Different arts men were commissioned to make of statues of David. Each of the works had certain distinctive features. Donatello was commissioned to make a statue of David in 1408. His first piece was made of marble. Later, in 1440, Donatello made another statue using bronze. It was a first of its ...

Me My teenage daughter became pregnant for a young gentleman who lied about his age, associations, immigration status, social life as well as his place of residence. I was never comfortable with this relationship since some of his values conflict with the Christian principles she was taught and the ones I am trying to uphold. As such, the pregnancy was devastating to me. I felt violated as a parent from the perspective that this should not be happening to us. We love God; she grew up knowing the principles of truth and was offered perfect examples to make better ...

Actually, there are many religious beliefs in the world. Mosaic faith, refers to the belief in the laws that God gave to the people of Israel through his Hebrew prophet Moses. Mosaic Law is set out in the first five books of the holy bible in the Old Testament (Torah). In fact, it is part of religion in the ancient time of Hebrews as well as their offspring’s the Jews. According to W. Anderson (pg, 98-100), the three main aspects of the Mosaic faith are, The God of History, The Covenant Relationship, and You Shall Have No ...

In Tom Paine’s “What I Believe,” he uses a number of rhetorical devices to get his audience to agree with him on his point that tolerance must be lent to those who share different religious beliefs. These devices convince the audience of Paine’s authority and the validity of his arguments. At the same time, Stanton’s “The Book of Genesis from The Women’s Bible” creates a much more extreme argument, using rhetoric to claim that her opinion is more valid than the opinion of her opponents. In this paper, we will examine both rhetorical techniques and determine the ...

It is not often that one takes the time to retrospect, introspect and prospect since with pressures of daily living according to the Caribbean Reggae Legend, the late Bob Marley (1981), we are all caught up the mighty Rat Race of life, which has indeed infected the human race. ‘(Marley, 1981). As such, this is an awesome privilege for me to seriously embrace where I was, where I am and more importantly, where I am heading, especially, in this new professional practice. With some degree of nostalgia, inevitably I must first withdraw sentiments expressed through Thomas Hardy’s ( ...

Martin Luther born in 1843 at Eisleben, Germany was a priest and a theologian who is considered the father of the protestant reformation. He schooled in Magdenburg before excelling in his academics and proceeding to Erfut University in 1501 where he also joined the Augustina Monastery in Erfut to become a priest. Five years later he became a teacher at Wittenburg University. His reformation teachings began in 1517 at Wittenberg where the Catholic Church had sent Johann Tetzel to sell documents called indulgences (Gustav 23). The indulgences were supposed to pardon sins of people and the proceeds would be used to repair St. ...

Abortion refers to the “termination of pregnancy before fetal viability” (Littleton and Engebretson 508). In this definition, a ‘viable fetus’ refers to one that has thrived for at least twenty weeks after conception. Abortion can broadly be classified into two categories: 1. Spontaneous Abortion: Also known as a miscarriage, this type of abortion refers to the termination of pregnancy without human interference (naturally) (Littleton and Engebretson 508). 2. Induced Abortion: This refers to “termination of pregnancy before fetal viability by medical or surgical intervention” (Littleton and Engebretson 508). This category can further be subdivided into two subcategories: (i) Therapeutic ...

There are many people living on earth today and those who passed on that could be considered ‘living a thoughtful life.’ My icon in this generation is a man by the name of Barrack Hussein Obama. His thoughtful living has phenomenally raised him to the position of being the first African- American to gain remarkable prominence in the American society.

He can be exemplified as living a thoughtful life by showing African- Americans that it is not impossible after endless years of imposed Jim Crow policies with actual apartheid in American for a person from this segregated group to gain the position of ...

Compare and contrast Mary Rowlandson’ A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration with Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl We might expect these two texts to be completely different from each other because they come from such different genres. A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration is an example of the captivity narrative genre, which was very popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and beyond – until the American frontier was finally closed towards the end of the nineteenth century. They always involved European prisoners, held captive or hostage by indigenous tribes people, before being ...

Morality has been defined as “The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct.” (thefreedictionary). The morality of capital punishment is a contested issue that frequently polarises people’s views. Nevertheless, in 2011 with the world moving towards global civilisation and human rights, it is arguable that it can never be acceptable to sentence an individual to death.

A chief argument against capital punishment is based around the value of life. Most people think human life to be of value and many abolitionists believe it to be so treasured that even the most ruthless murderers ...

This novel deals with the series of puzzling disappearances and murders of black youth in Atlanta in the late 1970s and early 1980s and was published posthumously after being edited by Toni Morrison. Bambara explores “the ways in which government power and politics, communal paranoia, and personal suffering transform the Rawls family” (Greene p.338). Because it centers on one city and one family, and real events and deals with a sensitive series of racial crimes, it has tended to be read as part of the African American tradition of fiction. Indeed at the very end of the novel Zala quotes ...

Before explaining on my moral codes, the understanding of moral codes is essential to ensure that while explaining or putting across my moral practices I understand what I am talking about in this context. Moral codes area system of morality that a particular persons or people who may be united by a common religion or practice believe in, and somehow dictates on how they envision things in life. Thus, according to the environment that I happened to be brought up in, there are certain acts that I perceive as good or bad. Consequently, according to my religious practices, there are also ...

Male love and desire for sex was a common erotic and affectional ground for males, a territory that was shared equally by men who did not have a desire for sex with female, and the rest of the male, who were having a desire for males, was a chance for them to get attracted. The traditions suggested that the excluded heterosexuality is just but a convection of latest vintage, based on the refusal of one’s own potential strength of homosexuality. There was some difference between present and past construction of men love and desire for homosexuality as it was highlighted by the Zeus and ...

One of the most fundamental principles in hydrology and ecology is the hydrologic cycle. This cycle represents the process of water circulations from the oceans, atmosphere, land and back to the ocean. The energy driving the cycle is from the solar/sun and forces of gravity. The process is continuous, and is a global wide process ensuring that every water drop on earth is part of the system (Harper et al n.d).

At the beginning of the process, water from the seas, lakes, wetlands, rivers gain energy from the sun and get transferred to the atmosphere as vapor. The sun provides ...

History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical … Published by Noah Webster is a book that begins by giving the creation account as well as men’s dispersion on their attempt in building Babel; gives a description of the ancestors , Japheth’s descendants as they were seen before the era of christianity. Saxon ancestors were briefly discussed since they conquered Britain hence improved their art life which eventually led to their reformation. The peopling of America and the aboriginals character was also put into account in this book. Puritan’s origin and cause of migrating to America was ...

To understand the concept of religion, its effects, and the role it plays in the modern society, we first of all need to get the pure non-diluted meaning of religion; not the current corrupted versions which link religion to some crazy individuals or groups of people.

Religious consciousness is experienced when “God moves towards man and of man towards God” (Odhiambo 2008). Consequently, for man to find the fulfillment of all highest aspiration he must entrust the Lord who made a personal covenant with him as man is aware he has received his existence and its physical benefits as a gift, ...

How did the church’s way of presenting the good news about Jesus to a wide audience change and not change between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages?

The time beginning in the 2nd and 8th centuries, A.D., is historically tagged as the Late Antiquity. Early Middle Ages were between the 5th and 10th centuries. These were also known as the Dark Ages. It was a time during which in Europe, specifically the Roman Empire, was faltering. There were peculiar happenings dealing with Roman Emperor Constantine. He was ...