...Q. How should Christian Youth Dress? Ans: In today’s society cloths and dresses play an important role. We often look a person and form an opinion from the way he/she is dressed. Everybody knows that we Are judge by our looks and how we dress a so we try to look as attractive as possible. Most of as fell good when we are dress well and uncomfortable when we are not. I believe everything we do reflects our inner values and attitudes. Therefore our dress will surely reflect what we are. A sincere Christian Youth will not want to wear clothes that are too tight or that expose more of the body or which is not right outfit. Now a days, many young people seem to forget how to dress for Church. They dress for church as if like they are going for evening parties or discos. Some girls wear very tight and short skirts that they are unable to sit comfortably and some of the youth go to church to advertise their latest fashionable wear. It is always better as a Christian youth to reflect the image of Jesus Christ not the actors or the actresses or the fashion modellers. I am not saying that we should not wear our dress in style. It is important that we should dress in style but modestly. Being dress appropriately for church is a good practice. Shabby dress is no mark of humanity or wearing high fashionable cloths is no mark of being proud. But wearing appropriate dress for the occasion and looking our best in the presence of God really matters. I am not giving...
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...Q. How should a Christian Youth dress? Ans: In today's society cloths and dresses play an important role. We often look at a person and form an opinion from the way he/she is dressed.Everybody knows that we are judged by our looks and how we dressed and so we try to look as attractive as possible.Most of us feel good when we are dressed well and uncomfortable when we are not.I believed everything we do reflects our inner values and attitudes.Therefore our dress will surely reflects what we are.A sincere christian youth will not want to wear cloths that are too tight or that expose more of the body or which is not right outfit. Now a days many young people seem to forget how to dress for church.The dress for church as if like they are going for evening parties or discos.Some girls wear very tight and short skirts that they are unable to sit comfortably and some of the youth go to church to advertised their latest fashionable wear.It is always better as a christian youth to reflects the image of Jesus Christ not the actors and actresses or fashion modelers. I am not saying that we should not wear our dress in style.It is important that we should dress in style but modestly.Being dress appropriately for church is a good practice.Shabby dress is no mark of humanity or wearing high fashionable cloths is no mark of being proud.But wearing appropriate dress for the occasion and looking our best in the presence of God really matters. I am not giving you...
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...information regarding the artwork. It was created in the mid fourteenth century, making it a quattrocento, and utilizes the styles of renascence art. The group of three men in the foreground contains the main theme of the painting that is the Christian acceptance and Jewish rejection of Jesus as the messiah and how that created a divide in theological beliefs between the two groups. Through a visual analysis it is apparent that this image is unlike almost any other Christian depiction of the life of Jesus. In this representation of the Flagellation Jesus is not the main focus; rather he is confined to the background of the image. This is an unprecedented reversal of Jesus and surrounding figures in Christian artwork. The main focus is of a group of three men in the foreground. This is apparent due to their location relative to the location of Jesus. It is easily seen that the group of three men are in the foreground due to the artist’s clear lines on the floor that creates a three-dimensional scene. Although there is distance between the groups, there is a clear connection between them. Jesus and his group of tormentors reflect the first triad. This is further supported by the similarities between the posture of Jesus and the middle youth in the foreground. The fact that the two groups are connected shows that Piero’s main point lies in the foreground, but is heavily supported by the flagellation. The three men composing the foreground appear to be somewhat prominent due to...
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...In retrospect, a quinceanera is just like a mini wedding especially with all the planning you need to keep in mind. The girl’s parents and godparents play a huge role in planning the ritual. Actual preparations for the ritual may take anywhere from six months to a year and a half because dances have to be learned, decorations decided upon, cakes ordered, decide on the court of honour, and dresses must be decided on. The young girl wears a special dress in pastel colors or bold colors.There are traditional customs that vary but may include; receiving a church blessing which includes the mass held in honor of the young girl in front of her community, having 14 male and female attendants and escorts, called damas and chambelanes, to represent the previous 14 years of life, presenting a doll to a younger sister to symbolize leaving her childhood behind, by changing from flats into high-heeled shoes represents her transforming from a young lady to a young woman, and she starts the second part of her celebration by dancing the first dance with her...
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...reduction due to increase in the wages and employment rate in the participative developing countries, improved healthcare provision due to the registered decline in the maternal and infant mortality rates, the provision of better educational standards, in line with the global millennium developmental goals. However globalization has also been viewed as a key in increasing the unemployment rates in the third world countries due to massive sacking of workers, high poverty rates and low income generation among the working populace, poor education and health policies that do not support the growth of the economy. The young people are considered as the major parameter of determining a country’s economic and social progress. The state of the youth in a country highlights the country’s economic trends and prowess. In Australia, the effects of globalization are felt far and wide in the country and deeply affect...
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...non-existent but for the fact that they equally want freedom and women’s rights. The differences are almost tenfold greater. Although there are many differences between the women of Egypt and the women of the U.S., the most outstanding distinctions are in their manner of dress, their role in society, and in their treatment by men. One of the common distinctions in women living in the United States and women living in Egypt is in their styles of clothing. Most Muslim women in Egypt veil themselves, covering everything from their head down to their toes, sometimes even wearing gloves to cover their hands and heavy veils over the eyes. By law, the Christian women and “modern Muslim” women are required to dress modestly, whether it be summer or winter. They wear long, loose skirts or pants, and shirts with sleeves no shorter than a few inches above the elbows. It is a daily struggle for these women, risking being harassed or molested in the streets. The veiled women in particular have victoriously won the freedom of painting the nails on their exposed fingers, and wearing open-toe shoes or sandals. Conversely, women of the United States have the freedom to dress however they please. They also dress appropriately to the season, with no laws or regulations stating how long sleeves should be or how loose their pants should be worn. In the United States, there is no such thing as the “Fashion Police” to enforce those non-existent rules and hand out tickets along with harsh...
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...sadomasochism and bestiality.... Other lyrics glamorize drug and alcohol use, and glorify death and violent rebellion” (Betz, 2004, p. 1). Music is and always has been a major influence on teenagers around the world. Is music today taking it a step too far? According to Smilkstein (1999), violence occurs in 57% of rap and rock videos and sexual intimacy in 75%. Of videos with violence, 81% also contained sexual references, (p. 1). Music has been around for centuries and affecting teens in all sorts of different ways. Violence and bad situations are not the only thing that comes out of music. Christian music affects religious listeners in a much different way than rap music would affect a teen today. This paper will deal with all the effects, positive and negative, of music and teenagers. The music being discussed will be rap, rock and roll, heavy metal, country, and Christian. Each section of music will be thoroughly explored and how each individual aspect affects teenagers will be brought into light. “Teens who spend more time watching the sex and violence depicted in the ‘reel’ life of ‘gangsta’ rap music videos are more likely to practice these behaviors in real life” (Kerchheimer, 2003, p. 1). Five hundred and twenty two black girls between the ages of 14 to 18, all who listened to rap and watched rap videos, were studied. Compared to girls that rarely or never watched the videos, the 522 girls were far more likely to put themselves in bad situations. According...
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...Empowering Youth Focusing on Salvation and Service Missions Leadership Discipleship Evangelism Prepared by the General Conference Youth Department Layout by Ludi Leito A General Conference Youth Department publication. Please specify title when re-ordering. This material may be translated, printed, or photocopied by any Seventh-day Adventist entity without securing further permission. Republished documents must include the credit line: “Youth Department, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, used by permission. © 2001 General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists 12501 Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring, MD 20904, USA Contents Introduction...................................5 Introduction Chapter 1 Salvation and Service for All Ages ............................9 Chapter 2 OUTCOMES.....................................13 OUTCOMES Chapter 3 Discipleship Chapter 4 Leadership Chapter 5 Mission Chapter 6 Evangelism Strategies.................21 Strategies Strategies Strategies...................31 Strategies.........................37 Strategies Strategies..................41 Strategies “With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Savior might be carried to the whole world!” (Education, p. 271). 4 Introduction It’s probably Ellen White’s best-known statement about...
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...THE AMISH The Amish are a society in North America that follow a very strict interpretation of the bible, and are devout Christians. They seek to be more in tune with familial values and religion versus anything else. How they live is quite different from Western culture. Though the Amish are technically a part of Western society, the two cultures are quite diverse. They have chosen to forsake most modern conveniences for a more traditional way of life. Their primary mode of subsistence is horticulturalists and agriculturalists, because they live off of everything hand grown, whether livestock or vegetables. In this paper, we will explore the way of life for the Amish: beliefs and values, gender relation, and social organization. The Amish religion requires them to abide by the rules of their bible, just like many other religions follow the rules of their bibles as well. The Amish culture originated in the early 1600’s in Bern, Switzerland, and southwestern region of Germany. The word "Amish" comes from the name of the man who formed the sect Jakob Ammann. “Amman maintained a stricter interpretation of Anabaptist doctrine and advocated foot washing and Meidung or the strict social avoidance (shunning) of the excommunicated unfaithful. When other Anabaptist leaders refused to agree to the strict interpretation of the Miedung, Amman forced a split, in about 1693, which resulted in the creation of the Amish”(Byers, 2008). Members of the Amish sect migrated to Pennsylvania...
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...circus sideshow is just one click of your remote control away. What’s even more concerning is that our children can work the remote better than we can. Former President George Bush Jr. once said, “We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.”(qtd. in Alexis 247) .The connection between the desensitized youth of our nation and the American mass media is undeniable. American Children spend more than fifty-three hours a week watching TV or using video games, cellphones, and computers (Kaiser Family Foundation). That is an incredible amount of time for anyone, let alone a child. Sociologists believe that the media is used as a means to educate youth in regards to beliefs and values. Youth are shown that their lives can be better or more exciting by taking part in a certain behavior, which in-turn could lead to unrealistic expectations and problems later on down the road (Basirico 44). Television depicts violence as a means to solve problems, whether it is on a cartoon or in an action TV show. The message is in most cases the same; hurt the person making you angry. “ By the age of eighteen the average American has seen two hundred thousands acts of violence on television, forty...
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...come to know the story of Socrates as memorialized by Plato, and the Roman age was the time of Perpetua, an early Christian woman. The fate of those individuals is the same – a death sentence handed down by the society they lived in. Although the conclusion of their respective lives is the same, the differences that lie in the reasoning of their death run deeper, with several key factors impacting their individual destiny. As we will see, these factors affect their relationship to the states and time periods they existed. Understanding the differences between Socrates and Perpetua rests in two major elements. The first one is the role of religion and understanding of deities. Their respective beliefs affected their relationship with the state that decided their deaths. Beginning with Socrates, we must first remember that Greek society was polytheistic. Standards such as monotheism in Catholic terms did not exist. There were Gods that ruled over emotions, the land, sea, and even realms outside of human reach, such as Zeus in heaven and Hades below. In Crito, the reader is not given much to know where Socrates stands in his beliefs with the plethora of Greek deities. The only hints of Greek religion are minimal, mentioned in passing of the last paragraph that “…since [death] is the way the god is leading us”, which possibly referring to the Greek equivalent to Christian Hell, Hades. His faith in Greek deities is correlated...
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...the best choices when they start engaging in sexual activities. There are many approaches to sexual education; some teach abstinence while others use scare-tactics to avoid sexual activity. This sort of sexual education follows the cultural norm of the Canadian society; grasping the idea that having sex is not taboo or forbidden until marriage. No matter what approach is used, it is important to make sure that the sexual education programs are including all ethnic groups. This paper will explore how adolescents from the Aboriginal, Iranian and East Asian ethnicities are benefiting from the sexual health education system in North America. ABORIGINAL ETHNIC GROUP By: Sabrina IRANIAN ETHNIC GROUP Teachers play an important role in the lives of our youth. They are meant to educate adolescents in order to assure that they will become active, responsible and healthy members of our society; and the importance of them receiving appropriate sexual education is crucial in this matter. It is designed to increase progressive social and sexual behaviour. Canada is...
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...UAE Although the UAE has become less dependent on natural resources as a source of revenue... petroleum and natural gas exports still play a crucial role in the development of the economy , especially in Abu Dhabi A massive increase in construction around the country, expansion of manufacturing activity and a thriving services sector are helping the UAE to make it's economy more diverse.. OPEC(Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and WTO (World Trade Organization) are the main trade organizations in the UAE with the largest trade partner being India.. Main import partners are: India,China,USA,Germany,Japan Main export partners are: India,Iran,Japan,Thailand,Singapore,South Korea Emiratization : The initiative by the government to employ its citizens in a meaningful and efficient manner in the public and private sectors The UAE is a very cosmopolitan and multicultural society , as a result there is a growing number of foreign-influenced schools, cultural center and restaurants. The primary religion of the UAE is Islam and the language being Arabic.The Emirati people are the native people that dominated the land for centuries. Arab descendants of the Bani Yas clans, Al Nahyan and Al Maktoum royal families in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, respectively, represent the leadership of Emiratis. Al Qawasim as well have played a vital role in the history of the United Arab Emirates. Many Emiratis are ethnic Persians who originate from Iran.The majority of local Emiratis in Dubai are ethnic...
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...-only medical reasons -family/personal reasons -No 4) What do you believe will happen to the people who eat pork? -They will go to hell -They will become sick easily -Nothing it’stheir personal choice 5) What is a typical example of an attire that a female will wear to a social event? -Jeans skirt with T-shirt -Anything as long as it is seen as modest -Revealing Garments 6) How does the dress code for the S.D.A affect your everyday life? -It helps us to be role models -It sets us apart from the secular society -It does not affect me 7) Do you believe that the dress code is too restrictive? -Yes -No 8) How do you believe society view S.D.A? -They are denied opportunities they are capable of doing -They see them as being positive examples -They see them as normal citizens 9) Under the guidance of your church have you ever engaged in any form of community service? -Several Occasions -Rarely -Never 10) How do you view males and females that directly break the dress code of the S.D.A? -God will punish them -We invite them to change their ways -They can do as they please it’s their body Acknowledgement The researcher would like to express his most sincere 6thanks and appreciation to all those that contributed to the successful completion of this research. Thanks to Miss Simpson who contributed in...
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...Beginning in the early 18th century, members of a conservative Christian faith began immigrating to North America to escape persecution in Europe because of their Anabaptist beliefs. The Amish, whose name is derived from that of Jacob Amman, a Swiss-German Mennonite, are among the most easily recognizable microcultures in America (Shachtman, 2006). Amish customs like dressing in a different manner, adorning beards, restricting the use of electricity, and utilizing the horse and buggy instead of automobiles definitely makes a bold statement that the Amish culture is drastically different than the mainstream macroculture. The film, Devil’s Playground, documents the struggle that Amish youth face when deciding whether or not to join the Amish church. The documentary provides an in-depth look into a muted group microculture that embraces privacy and collectivism much tighter than that of the dominant group within the United States. Devil’s Playground is a documentary focusing on Amish youth and a tradition within the Amish community called rumspringa. The film follows several teens from LaGrange County, Indiana, as they experience rumspringa and debate whether or not to join the church and become Amish. 18-year-old Faron is...
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