...Charles V Sewell English 1539 Ms. Amanda Sevella Culture Is what brings friends, and family together, as far as me, and my friends we can’t wait for someone to say cookout then it’s on getting starting out is not as easy as it seems, cause it takes work, but once it is going it is fun, so there is a person seating around doing nothing having a boring time them an idea pops into some one’s head they are tired of being bored so nine times out of ten there is a barbeque pit seating or leaning on the side of the house so we have a pit to cook on, now someone will start calling friends we know asking about food manly chicken, hamburger meat hot dogs things that would be in the refrigerator, and do you want to throw them on the grill them on saying this is saying hey we are having a cookout you want a come put something on the grill play cards, card games, watch movies and just kick it, with us, if there not doing anything would they will be down for a cookout then call someone up to see if they have some stamps to sell most of the time in the hood stamps sell for half of their worth meaning 100 dollars in stamps is worth 50 dollars cash, and so on in the hood you can always find someone selling food stamps we used the stamps to buy potatoes, corn meal, macaroni and cheese manly the cheese Velveeta all real foods what I meaning I prefer to eat only real food not generic type food I am not rich or better them anybody else but I like Kraft foods, products, Hunts Ketchup, Nabisco...
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...BUDDHISM By Heather Alexander Dr. James Wilcox World Religion 06/06/2012 I want to first give a little background on how the Buddha came about and how Buddhism came to be. The Buddha is said to be born the son of a king. Many scholars have tried to pinpoint his birth. It is believed that he was born around 563 B.C.E. There are other sources that suggest that it may have been a century later that he was born. His given name was Siddhartha Gautama. For the next 30 years or so it is believed that the prince lived a very sheltered life. Somewhere around his 29th or 30th year he decided he wanted to see the outside world. His father was extremely against it. He wanted to protect his son from the outside world. His father finally agreed and sent out troops to remove all of the old, sick, and ugly from the route that the prince would take. According to legend he took a total of four trips out of the grounds. On each of his outings he seen one of the “four sights” that his father tried to protect him against. The “four sights” are said to be a bent old man, a dead person, a sick person, and renunciate. After coming home for the final time he decided that the life he was living wasn’t what he really wanted. Siddhartha set out on a long journey trying to find what it was that he felt was missing .He wandered around for 6 years taking whatever food was given to him. At one point he was surviving on a grain of rice and a drop of water for the day. He eventually decided...
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...This paper is a comparison between two very different religions. Specifically Christianity and Buddhism. Coming from opposite sides of the globe these two religions could not be any farther apart in any aspect. I will discuss who Christ is for Christians and who Buddha is for Buddhists. I will also get into the aspects of charity, love, and compassion in both religions and I will be looking at the individual self and how Christians see resurrection where the buddhists feel about the afterlife. One thing to keep in mind is that the two religions are very different but they seem to have a very similar underlying pattern. Both believe that there was a savior of their people, Buddha and Christ, and both believe that there is something good that happens to us when our time is done here on earth. This is a very generalized summarization but in order to go in to depth I need to explain the two religions more to fully convey this theory. The Christian religion, like all other religions has its strengths and weaknesses in our modern society. Perhaps the strengths out weight the weaknesses as this is one of the largest religions in the world. Hundreds of people follow the Catholic/Christian religion yet still a greater number follow yet other religions. Perhaps this is because they see the weaknesses or perhaps it is simply because their parents have taught them that it is a sin to follow this religion. The Christian religions do however present much more of an appealing atmosphere...
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...Gonzalez !2 Section One: Call To Family, Community & Participation Indeed, Roe v. Wade rests on such faulty reasoning that even many legal scholars in favor of abortion rights criticize the ruling. The role of the Supreme Court is to interpret the Constitution faithfully, not to create arbitrary new rights at the expense of old ones nor to adopt legislation by judicial fiat. The Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments to guarantee specific rights with specific clauses. Lacking a textual or historical basis, this right to privacy depends largely on the Court that created it. Since the Constitution fails to specify the existence or extent of a general right to privacy. Any secondary right that falls under its protection, such as abortion, must necessarily rely on the whim of the current Supreme Court majority. Whether the availability of abortion is a good or bad outcome is closely related to the legal issue but a separate question. Attitudes change. Laws change. Even constitutions change. If the national consensus is that abortion is a fundamental right that ought to be protected, then this view has numerous ways to manifest itself, whether through state legislatures, the federal government or even a constitutional amendment. Roe v. Wade has many defenders, especially among those who support its outcome making fewer restrictions on abortion access. Arguing that women should have the right to do with their own bodies as they see fit. This is a serious consideration...
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...Religion Research MSB Religion Research Islam is one of the world’s largest religions with estimates of around 1.6 billion practitioners worldwide. (The Future of the Global Muslim Population, 2011, para. 1) The Islam religion is a monotheistic religion that actually shares some of the same beliefs and even texts as Christianity and Judaism. Even though Islam is considered by many to be the religion of terrorists the actual religious texts preach kindness and compassion to all creatures of the earth. The main tenants of the religion are the five pillars of Islam which include, (1) Testimony of faith; saying with conviction “there is no true god but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger”. (2) Prayer; all Muslims are required to pray toward Mecca five times a day. (3) Giving to the needy. (4) Fasting; Muslims are required to fast during the holy month of Ramadan from sunrise till sunset unless medically unable or traveling soldiers engaged in war are also exempt. (5) Pilgrimage; any Muslim who is physically and financially is obligated to make the pilgrimage or Hajj to Mecca at least once in their lifetime. (A Brief Guide to Understanding Islam website, n.d., Chapter 3) The biggest belief of the Muslim religion is that there is only one God, this is the one major point of contention that it has with Christianity. Muslims acknowledge Jesus as being a great profit and even acknowledge his birth to the Virgin Mary but deny that he is the son of God because if this were true...
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...Religion has played a vital role in the formulation and understanding of gender in society. Many religions which we are conscious and know off are primarily male oriented and male driven. This essay will discuss the role and understanding of gender in Catholic Christian church. The essay will be concerned with women in these churches, and how different gender theories conform with the observations witnessed during my visit. In this essay, I look at the prevalence of male centrism during the Sunday mass in the Catholic church I visited to, using Mary Daly’s theory of patriarchy in religion and how women are being oppressed due to a male God and conclude the ways in which we know of Christianity of being a heavily patriarchal religion. Secondly in this essay I will also look at the use of language in the church and how language can be deciphered as symbolic and reflect gendered perspectives using Luce Irigaray’s theory of symbolism to conclude how the use of language reflect a gender biases and how it is one sided. When I visited the church on Sunday I was amazed to see the statues and images of Jesus in the entrance area. Once, inside the main area there is a huge crucifix in the altar where I could see the the image of Jesus. There were other statues of Jesus in the church and then there was the one statue of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. Before the service began, there were male announcers who gave short speeches on the recent doings of the church and related matters...
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...Religion: Eastern and Wester HUM/130 January 26, 2014 Religion: Eastern and Western Different people have different morals and teachings that they live by. These morals and teachings, referred to as central beliefs, are influenced by their religion and religious practices. Many of these teachings are still alive in today’s world. Two major religions that are growing rapidly throughout the world are Christianity and Islam. History teaches that they both have similar teachings being that they are monotheistic religions. The evolution of Christianity and Islam religions have spread all around the continent in support of two influential prophets. Jesus Christ and Muhammad were leaders that stressed the importance of their faiths and practices in everyday life. Christianity’s faith was established from the life, teachings, death and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus was born a Jew in the land of Israel as the son of God. His mother was Mary and her husband’s name was Joseph. As a virgin, Mary conceived Him by the Holy Spirit which, according to the Christian doctrine, He is considered to be the reincarnation of God born as “flesh” into a human being (Fisher. P., 2014). God sent His son so that there would be life. Jesus’s baptism by John the Baptist was merely an announcement that the Messiah had arrived. This is when His ministry began. Jesus taught his followers that in order to follow Him they would have to leave worldly things and self-centered thinking behind...
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...1Intersection of lit and religion: the story is "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." Read the part about the grandma telling the misfit he should pray to jesus. Its the part of the story. The grandma tells the misfit (when he's about to kill her) that he's a good man deep down and that jesus will save him and he should pray to jesus. The misfit become teary and the grandma calls him one of her children and leans to touch his shoulder (she sees it as his weak point and wants to use it to save herself) the misfit replies by shooting her 3times. In a part of the story, the misfit says the only pleasure in life is meaness; being mean. But when he kills the grandma and one of his buddies comment on the fact that it is pleasurable, he says it is no real pleasure in life. So althought throughout his conversation with the grandma about religion (which you will read in the last part of the story) the misfit seemed against jesus and religion, in the end he showed a bit of grace, which is what religion is all about, grace. He showed this by saying that killing is no real pleasure in life. How lit illustrates and challenges gender roles: At the beginning of the play "A Doll's House," Nora is clearly shown as the silly housewife whose only concern is clothes, housekeeping, and caring for her 3 children while her husband Trovald is shown as the strong in-control husband who is the "man of the house." These are the gender roles we continuously see in societies as well as much of old literature...
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...Paganism VS Christianity Paganism VS Christianity Jeff Pierce University Of Phoenix Online (Axia) Frank Muller February 25, 2012 World religions have become a great debate in the last hundred years. People push their religion on any one that is willing to listen to the person that is explaining their belief system that they practice. The religion for this paper is Paganism. Paganism or Neo-Paganism is a newer version of the old religion of Paganism. Paganism is a religion that has really no temples other than Mother Nature and father sky. Pagans believe in the world around them and worship everything. There may have been temples for the religion long ago but they have been ether forgotten or fade into the annals of history. Pagans were one of the first organized religions of the world. The fact of the matter is that Paganism is one of the few oldest religions that are still practiced. The interviewee for this paper is Mrs. Cassella. Mrs. Cassella has been practicing Paganism since the age of fifteen. The method for this interview was over the phone on at Saturday at my place of residence. There was no particular site do to the fact that her religion is primarily practiced in the outdoors. Her child hood was open as far as religion was concerned. Her father jumped around from religion to religion no really settling on one. At the age of fifteen she was introduced to Paganism from a child hood friend who...
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...What the professor said: The parable took place on the Sabbath Being that it was Sabbath the priest left him there not to dirty his clothes Being that it was Sabbath the Levite also did the same as the priest A Samaritan with a horse and sword and a bag of money carries the man on his horse The Samaritan pays his stay in an inn and any extra expense The point the professor made: That you have to love yourself first in order to help others. That the Good Samaritan had set himself up for success in order to be able to help others. The real story: Luke 10:25-37 A priest walks by on the other side of the road going around him A Levite does the same as the priest A Samaritan comes down the road and bandages and cleans his wounds with oil and wine, and then puts him on his donkey. He then stays the night with him and takes care of him, and pays his stay and any additional cost he may acquire. The reason Jesus told the story: To show that all people that we come in contact with are our neighbors. That the other people ignored the man and put themselves first. That we are to love everyone, even those that are not a part of your community or beliefs. Commentary: Why was the adjustments or alterations made to the parable? A sword? A horse? A bag of money? The Sabbath? Closer look: The Levite and Priest would also have had money with them; they may have even had donkey or other. Hope: The class looks up Luke 10:25-37 and reads for them selfs. Reality: The...
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...INTERVIEW AND UNDERSTANDING OF ISLAMIC RELIGION April 20, 2013 HUMN130 Religions of the World Interview and Understanding of the Islamic Religion First I wanted to get a general understanding of the exact religion and people who practice Islamic Faith. I learned that a Muslim is a person who practices Islam. Islam is the name of the religion. Muslims sometimes claim that there is no Muslim culture, only a Muslim religion. However, people in today's society do not acknowledge this distinction since we view religion as one aspect of one's culture. Muslim culture generally includes all the practices which have developed around the religion of Islam. Muslims are obligated to follow the practices of Islam in every detail in daily life. These practices are dictated by the Qur'an of Koran. The Muslim's sacred book, which is considered to be the final word of God. These practices are reported to be the practices and sayings of the prophet Muhammad. There are several cultural aspects of the Islam religion that Muslims practice. For example, there are five major tenets (pillars) in the Islam religion a Muslim is expected to follow. The first is "There is only on God (Allah) and Muhammad is the Messenger of God". The other four are the practical obligations of daily prayer, fasting, paying annual money to be distributed among the poor, and making the pilgrimage to Mecca. Islam is considered the fastest growing religion in the world. There are approximately 1.3 billion...
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...Nature of God Religion 212 Spring semester 2016 Professor Naomi Sanderovsky, Ph.D. Christy Carver Sanchez This semester in Religion I learned a lot about different religions. I learned that some of them, while they are very similar, have things that make them very different. Another thing I have learned is that all of them have a being or a deity that they look to as being their "God". In reading about some of these it really got me thinking a lot. Are our religions really all that different? So, in this paper, I will tell you about the different religions I learned about and what God or deity they believe in. in week two we talked about Hinduism and Jainism. These two religions were very interesting in the way they believe in God. You see they have two different ways of thinking but, even though they do it is still amazing to see how we can take some of their beliefs and incorporate them into our lives. The Hindus believe in Brahman as the supreme ruler or the one God. But, Brahman has three sides to him. He has the creator, the destroyer, and the preserver. They all have a name and are called by their names. You see the world has to have someone to create things and Brahman is the creators name. Then you have Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer. They believe that Brahman lives in everyone. In our lives, we believe that our God lives in us and helps to guide us . In Jainism, they do not believe in a god but they believe in evil. They believe that everyone...
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...society individuals are constantly faced with choice, uncertainty and risk. Fundamentalism offers individuals security and avoids any rational answers and solely turns to faith based ones. Although fundamentalists hate modernity they contradict themselves as they use modern methods to try get across their point to large audiences. For example they have television programmes this is known as televangelism and shows that they are crafty! Televangelism is a result of globalisation as new technology and and interconnectivity has made it possible for different beliefs from all cultures to get across to wide audiences. This could be a possible factor for church attendance figures dropping as believers do not need to go to chruch to follow their religon; they are now able to do it at home. Haynes however argues that fundamentalism is not caused by globalisation; He uses the Iran revolution as an example. Due to the country becoming Westernised, conflict in Iran increased, as did violence and oppression. The revolution began and Islamic fundamentalists gained power through the use of religion; this is known as "Cultural Defence". This example shows Fundamentalism in a positive way when opposing globalisation. The community unites through religion (traditional values) in order to protect the country from an external force; They do not want their national identity to be harmed. This suggests that the relationship between globalisation and religion differs depending on the country. In the...
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...A Comparison of the Christian and Ancient Greek Cultures Most Christians believe in the stories told in the Bible. In fact, these stories are portrayed not only as stories, but also as an actual historical time filled with important people and events to the Christian faith. Although, stories of Greek and Roman myths are ussualy looked at as untrue, fantisized stories. The idea that the Greeks viewed their religion on these "myths" seems crazy to people who belive in god and christianity. This idea seems to set a curse of wrong doing upon the Ancient Greeks. But judging your views on a dead culture may seem unimportant to much of the world, but it's important because the culture suports the history of a large portion of the world. But the Ancient Greek empire was alot bigger than current day Greece. Just as many Americans would find it insulting to have their history seen as a joke, it seems reasonable that Greeks would too. So, it is alright to try and understand that both Ancient Greeks and Ancient Christians may have had similar beliefs about the world they lived in. But, Greek myths contain unrealistic and unbelievable characters, events, and other things. Comparing both of Greek stories with different Bible stories, it is obvious that some of the stuff between the two do exist, and that the Ancient Greeks view of the world were very similar to the views of ancient Christians. They do have things in common, but the similarities are very small. Such as they begin...
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...Williamsburg. After leaving college in 1762 he studied with George Wythe. In 1767 he was admitted to the bar. Thomas married in 1772 to Martha Wayles Skelton. They had one son and five daughters but only two lived to maturity. Martha died in 1782 leaving Thomas a widow. Thomas never remarried. Writers like John Locke, Algemon Sidney, Francis Hutcheson, Henry Home, and Lord Kames had an enourmous influence on thomas's political philosphy. thomas had been raised in the Anglican Church but he developed a dirstrust of organized religon. thomas had intrest othe thatn politics such as archeology, fishing, horticultur, riding, and playing violin.Other than a political office, Thomas had other jobs like beign a lawyer. After retiring at sixty-five, Thomas divided his time between his plantations at Monticello and Poplar Forest. His major activity was guiding the creation of the Uiniversity of Virginia. He turned to music, architecture, chemical experiments, and the study of religon,...
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