...The history of the Amish began in Switzerland. Amish live in various regions of the United States, but the largest and oldest Amish settlement is in Wisconsin. Sixty- Four percent Amish in Wisconsin have dairy herds on their farms. The religion the Amish practice is Anabaptist. William Fischel (2012) explains the Amish religion by stating, “Adult baptism must be freely chosen by both men and women, and the choice is usually made in their late teens. Baptism is not just a covenant between the deity and the person who chooses it. Those who accept baptism agree to submit to the congregation’s ordinances and understandings that are collectively known as the ordnung”. (p.110) This explains how Anabaptist is different than Baptist. According to Fischel (2012), the ordnung is what states “Amish may not own automobiles but may ride in vehicles operated by a non-Amish drives” (p.110). This also helps to...
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...The Souls in Purgatory IV – GOLD Narrator: There was once an old lady who had raised a niece since she was a tiny baby. She had taught the girl to be good, obedient, and industrious, especially the souls in purgatory. As the girl grew older and very beautiful, the old woman began to worry that when she died on her niece would be left all alone in the world, a world which her niece saw only through innocent eyes. Old Lady: Dear Lord, as I daily prayed to all saint’s in heaven for our intercession in heaven to You that You might send some good man who would fall in love with my niece and marry her… then I could die in peace. Narrator: As it happens, the old woman did chores for a comadre who had a rooming house. Among her tenants there was a seemingly rich merchant who one day said: Rich Merchant: I would like to get married. If I could find a niece quiet girl who knew to keep the house tidy, and to be a good wife and mother to our children when they came. (As the old lady heard the rich merchant, her eyes opened and began to smile and scheme to her mind, for she could imagine her niece married to the niece gentleman.) (The old lady told something to the merchant) Old Lady: You could find all that you are looking for in my niece, who is a jewel, a piece of gold, and so gifted that she could even catch birds while they were flying. (The gentleman became interested) Rich Merchant (Gentleman): Hmmmm… I would like to meet your niece, may I go to your house tomorrow...
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...Most unprofessional hairdresser I've ever been to. I was coming home from college and needed my hair done desperately. I reached out to her to see if she would notify me if she had any spots to open up because she was booked. She told me that she was cancelling someone's appointment who didn't call to confirm and that I could have their 3:00 spot. I texted her the night before to let her know I had arrived in Atlanta and that I would still be coming. The day of, I called 15 minutes in advance to tell her I was coming. When I got there my mother had spoken to her to see what the time wait was. She also asked if there was any specials for college students. I was getting a basic sew-in, which is listed online as $100 including shampooas a service,...
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...Strategic Management Process Paper Strategic management refers to a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-run performance of a corporation (Wheelen & Hunger, 2008, p. 3). It includes environmental scanning, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and evaluation and control. The content of this paper will describe the components of a strategic management process and indicate why strategic management is needed in a company, furthermore, a description of how General Electric (GE) uses strategic management process in their company. Components of a Strategic Management Process The first component is environmental scanning, which is basically gathering information from external and internal environments to key people within the corporation. Its purpose is to identify strategic factors that will establish the future of a corporation. An easy way of predicting the future of a corporation is through a SWOT Analysis. SWOT is used to describe the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for a specific company. The external environment consists of opportunities and threats (Wheelen & Hunger, 2008, p. 11). These variables happen outside the organization, which management has no control over. For instance, one company does not have the right to prevent another company of marketing the same product or service. Company A must strive to become better than other competitors. On the other hand, the internal environment consists of strengths...
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...demonstration speech are to: • Demonstrate a process • Give the audience information • Use visual aids There are 4 types of demonstration speeches: 1. Show how to do something 2. Show how something is done 3. Show how to make something 4. Show how something works For your next speech, your task is to choose a topic that accomplishes the goals above and meets the criteria for one of the speeches. Follow the steps to plan your speech: STEP 1: Consider your audience of high school students. What are their interests? What are their needs? What can you teach them that would be valuable? STEP 2: Choose a topic. It is best to choose something that you know how to do and/or can easily lend itself to visual aids. Check out the list of suggested topics on the back if you are drawing a blank. What is your topic? __________________________________ STEP 3: Plan your speech by filling out the short outline provided. STEP 4: Storyboard your demonstration on the handout provided. Make sure that you don’t skip any vital steps! Your storyboard needs to be in color! STEP 5: Write the final version of your speech and create any visuals or plan to bring materials. Your speech needs to fit into the 3-7 minute time range. [pic] Demonstration Speech Topic Ideas: How to… |create a Halloween mask |Frame a picture | ...
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...AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN BY: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books and histories, To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way - the children's eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man. II I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire. a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy - Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato's parable, Into the yolk and white of the one shell. III And thinking of that fit of grief or rage I look upon one child or t'other there And wonder if she stood so at that age - For even daughters of the swan can share Something of every paddler's heritage - And had that colour upon cheek or hair, And thereupon my heart is driven wild: She stands before me as a living child. IV Her present image floats into the mind - Did Quattrocento finger fashion it Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind And took a mess of shadows for its meat? And I though never of Ledaean kind Had pretty plumage once - enough of that, Better to smile on all that smile, and show There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow. V What youthful mother, a shape upon her lap Honey of generation had betrayed, And that must sleep, shriek, struggle...
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...Women were portrayed as picture perfect but not deserving or credible. They always had their hair perfectly done and their makeup, flawless. They were expected to tend to their husband's every need when he returned home from work as well as have dinner made and the house cleaned. Throughout the book Capote portrays Nancy as the picture perfect woman during this time. She taught Jolene how to make a cherry pie and helped Roxie practice her instrument (Capote, 84). Nancy was always willing to help others and pick up the slack her mother left due to her illness. She would also sew and embroider things around the house to make sure it was always looking it’s best (Capote,...
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... Introduction II. History of the Amish a. School b. Church c. Rumspringa III. Social organization d. Children e. Teenage years f. Church membership IV. Beliefs and values g. Church h. Chores i. Socialization V. Kinship j. Nuclear family k. Bands l. Large families VI. Conclusion m. Summary n. Amish throughout time The Amish live a very interesting life involving very hard work and strict religious beliefs. In this essay I will first tell you about the history of the Amish, how they became the Amish we know today, and then tell you what a day in the life of an Amish person is like. I will tell you about their education, church, and the teenage Rumspringa. I will also tell you about how the Amish spend their childhood years, teenage years and when they become an official member of the church. The next subject I will cover is beliefs and values. This will then lead me into telling you about kinship. The Amish get there name from Jakob Ammann, who believed in stronger ties to the church and faster shunning in those not using the church with everyday life. The Amish also known as plane people began to come to America in the eighteenth century. Most Amish settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania, most of which were trying to escape religious wars, poverty, and religious prosecution from the Palatinate and neighboring areas...
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...Everyday Use The text “Everyday Use” is a short story written by Alice Walker, from 1967. The story is about an African-American family, a mom and her two daughters. Maggie, the youngest daughter, is a nervous young girl and a bit of shy. “»How do I look, Mama?« Maggie says […] almost hidden by the door.” (p.10, m). The narrative, the mother, talks about the way Maggie walks. “Have you ever seen a lame animal, […] that is the way my Maggie walks.” (p. 10 m). The fire had given her scars, not only physical but also psychological. The physical scars on Maggie’s arm and legs make her feel less attractive. She looks up to her sister, Dee, even they haven’t much in case. After the mother has given the quilts to Maggie, she just sits there and smiles a real smile; there she knows that she has deserved the quilts. Dee, the oldest daughter, is opposed to Maggie; she’s almost perfect, she is good looking with nice hair and a beautiful figure. “Dee is lighter than […] though I sometimes forget.” (p. 10. b). Style is a thing Dee has too, “At sixteen she had a style […] and knew what style was.” Maggie thinks that Dee gets just what she wants and she doesn’t have the most difficult life. “She thinks her sister […] the world never learned to say to her.” (p. 9. m). When Dee is coming out of the car, the mother and Maggie see that she wearing accessories. “Earrings gold, too, […] the dress out of her armpits.” It shows us that she has success and tells that she is a strong woman, who is...
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...The Proverbs 31 Woman One Virtue At A Time Courtney Joseph www.WomenLivingWell.org Edited by Katina Miller © 2011 | All rights reserved 2 Table of Contents Is the Proverbs 31 Woman For Real?..........................................................................................5 How to be Treasure to Your Husband.......................................................................................6 Does Your Husband Trust You?.................................................................................................7 A Woman of Action......................................................................................................................8 Working With Eager Hands........................................................................................................9 Shop to the Glory of God...........................................................................................................11 The Proverbs 31 Woman Rises Very Early..............................................................................12 Do You Have a Dream?..............................................................................................................14 Vigorously Clean Your Home & Get a Bonus Workout.......................................................16 Burning the Midnight Oil..........................................................................................................18 Mundane Tasks Are a Hidden Treasure............................
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...Apache Indians The Apache Indian tribes have gone thru many changes thru the years. Most every area of their lives have been affected and changed. How, when, and where they live has changed a lot over the years. In the past, their ways were the very set, and the same for many years. Now like most Americans, their ways have changed, they are not as structured, and they have changes frequently. Many Apache Indians now live in the Midwest. They live in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, but they did not always live there. Some of the Apache Indians have had to move across the border into New Mexico. The Plains Apache Indians live in what is now Oklahoma, but their traditions are different from the other tribes. Many Plains Apaches got captured by the other Apache Indians tribes. The Apache Indian population today is about 30,000 Indians. Currently, there are 13 different Apache tribes in the U.S, in 5 different states. The Apache Indians must obey American law enforcement because they do not live on Indian reservations, which means they are legal American...
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...prairie fires, or possibly because they painted their moccasins black. The Black Feet are a people of great spirit and confidence in their way of life. This is what allowed them to keep the black foot tribe alive to this day. The spirit of the ‘black feet’ is due to their rich heritage, customs, beliefs, art, and stories. They have been able to fend off non-stop attacks like in the late 1800’s with the official government policy of assimilation. Assimilation was the white people believing that their way of life was the best way of life and all Indians should become more like them. The Indians made it through the easterners’ restriction on their young people like speaking their first language and forcing them to dress like whites, cut their hair and go to English schools. The white peoples life style did not appeal to the Indians due to all of the genocide, disease, war, and religion. The Indians way of life is prosperous and has been successful for thousands of years in not making for themselves the problems the white people have. The Indians like being Indians, they want to be Indians, and they will always fight to remain Indians. The black feet religiously believed in medicine bundles. There were more then 50 of them and the most popular were the beaver bundles, medicine pipe bundles, and the sun dance bundle. They believed mostly in spirits and liked to praise them with their ceremonies. Ceremonies were not always about spirits but were a social gathering for the tribes as...
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...The first time I saw my father after he died, I was in the shower, hair plastered with conditioner, when the water stuttered and turned cold. He was at the sink in front of the misted-up mirror with the tap running, his back to me. It was two weeks after his funeral. His things were all where he’d left them. ‘Them tiles would need re-grouting,’ he said, and pointed his razor at the salmon pink mould that was growing below the mirror. I stared at him through the circle I’d wiped in the shower door. ‘I didn’t know you’d be able to do that,’ I said. ‘Oh yes,’ he said, ‘any decent tradesman would sort that out for you.’ The twitch of a smile; thran as before. He looked more or less the same. When he turned his face to scrape the razor along his jaw, I could see that the scar was healing well, where the surgeon had removed the growth from the side of his nose. His skin was more yellow maybe; more so at the nicotine-stained finger tips. ‘Are they treating you well?’ I asked him. ‘So, so. The food’s not great. Nothing seems to have much of a taste.’ ‘I suppose you empty the salt cellar over it still?’ ‘What harm’s it going to do me now?’ I looked at him, at the thin white hair curling at the back of his neck from the steam in the bathroom; the earth under his fingernails. ‘I’m getting cold,’ I said. ‘Don’t worry,’ he said, bending to splash water on his face, his knees creaking, ‘I’m going now anyway,’ and away he went. The next time I saw him, I was on the train, on the...
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...believe that Christians are to be separated from the world, physical and mentally. A landscape filled with non-merchandised farms, horse-drive buggies and plainly dressed people is the world of the Amish. The Amish and their gender relations, kinship patterns, belief and values all add to their ability to maintain a distinct lifestyle without being forced into the ways of the societies surrounding them there, their culture has not been touched by the hands of time. In the Amish society the conventional marks of modern status such as education, income, occupation and material items are missing. In the Amish’s day to day life work is highly valued. The aspects of their religion are noted in all parts of their lives. From the clothes they wear to how their homes are decorated, they follow the rules of their religion. Two key concepts of understanding Amish practices are their rejection of huchmut (pride and arrogance) and the high value they place on d emut or humility or ‘gelassenheit’ (German meaning calmness, composure, and placidity) There are estimated to be eight different orders with in the Amish population Old Order Amish, New Order Amish, Andy Weaver Amish, Beachy Amish, and Swartzentruber Amish. This paper focuses primarily on Old Order Amish but mentions the other orders in small detail. Religion is the foundation of Amish culture even for their primary mode of subsistence, agriculture. All aspects of the Amish’s life is powered by unwritten rules known as ‘Ordnung’. The...
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...thick and thin. Without having a family, no person is complete and the completeness comes with good family bonding. I consider that family values is a compilation of specific events and qualities that are really important to maintain a family. And this can be seen in “Girl” by Jamaica Kinkaid, “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, and “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara. The story “Girl”, Jamaica Kincaid shows love and family togetherness by creating microcosmic images of the way mothers raise their children in order to survive. It is a guide on how live the right way. The narrative is presented as a set of life instructions to a girl by her mother to live properly in Antigua in the 1980’s. While the setting of the story is not expressly stated by the author in the narrative, the reader is able to understand the culture for which “Girl” was written. Jamaica Kincaid seems to be the passive narrator, receiving the instructions from her mother on how to live in their present social setting. The mother figure focuses on two main categories in her guidance, social manners and domesticity. First, guidance is given for a child’s stage in life, on household chores such as washing clothes and cooking fish (Kincaid 118). This indicates a social status that is probably not upper class...
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