...dysfunctional behaviors that leaves me wondering how I got as far as I have. Although the statistics are astounding, regarding the outcome of victimized children, I for one, realized the misconduct of the abuser, and focused on me and how I could make my life better. However, the road to my victory of overcoming the victim of circumstance was not without failure. My earliest memory draws me back to when I was a mere five years of age. The incident occurred on a Sunday morning when I was unable to find my “going-to-church shoes.” My father was big on church and was never late for the morning sermon. I was ready, as was my mom but I could not find my shoes. I sought out my shoes as if they were an important mission sent out by God himself, but to no avail. My father took notice of my unfortunate distress and chased me from behind as if to somehow frighten me, even more than I already was, into finding the elusive shoes that much quicker. After a short period of time, my mother’s tenacious limitations soon fell short and I could hear the rattle of one of my father’s mighty belts. I remember as if it was yesterday. I wished that I could magically shrink in size and hide within the cracks of our marble tiled floor. However, but my childish...
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...Mass shooter, 21 year old, Dylann Roof, proclaimed earlier on that he had wished to spark a race war and wanted to bring back the act of segregation, in which several people did not take seriously. Alan Fox then ties in FBI Director James Comey’s error at his own agency; if Comey would have completed the full background check of Roof, he would have found that Roof would’ve been prohibited to buy a gun in the first place because of his drug possession. Roof was therefore not prevented from buying the gun eventually linked to the church shooting. Fox highlights that we need to keep close tabs on prospective buyers and examine their backgrounds before going through with the transaction. He believes that in order to successfully maintain gun control, the system also needs to be extended to online and gun shows transactions. The author emphasizes that although we may think gun regulations will decrease mass murders, we must realize that mass killers are tenacious, meticulous, and set out to do the work at all costs. He describes that mass killers will find any way to get the job done, no matter what laws are set in stone. Finally, Fox notes that expanding and improving background checks won’t stop mass shootings and that no matter what gun control regulations are put in place, there will still be several people that will still find ways to mass murder. ...
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...He was lanky, but, muscular, moody, yet personable. He was skilled with the ax, made friends easily, and kept them close by. He spoke with a backwoods accent, walked with a long stride, and was known as Honest Abe. He assisted his father in clearing and fencing the new farm. During this year, on March thirtieth, the Lincoln family packs up to migrate to Illinois. Lincoln started working as a flat-boatman. He voyaged the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1832, the Black Hawk War began and Abraham volunteered to fight. He was elected the Captain of the company. While young Lincoln never truly joined a church, he attended a Presbyterian church. Abraham also enjoyed poems, from Lord Byron and Robert Burns. He was amused by comics such as Petroleum V. Nasby, Orpheus C. Kerr, Artemus Ward, and pop theatre. His favorite verse originated from William Knox, but he also respected Shakespeare, John Stuart Mill, and the Bible. Even though Abraham Lincoln was a brilliant man, he held a dislike toward metaphysical...
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...Buddhism in this picture. You can notice that there is a picture of Buddha hanging on the wall, Buddhists should pray in front of the picture in order to show devotedness. Picture 3: In this picture, many plants set around this monk. I want to emphasis that in Buddhism’s concepts, close to nature is very important. In fact, in ancient time, killing poultry and eating meat as well as getting married are strictly prohibited in Buddhism, which means all Buddhists are vegetarians and single. Although this rule is not that strict nowadays, a group of devoted Buddhists still follow this rule. Picture 4: The logo of BBAC is a Lotus. In fact, lotus has a special meaning in Buddhism, or even in the East World. Lotus represents cleanness and tenacious. Buddhism usually use lotus to praise follower’s prominent morality. In addition, BBAC can also use lotus describe itself, because Buddhism in Columbus is just at the initial stage which means it may face many troubles and difficulties. Since BBAC defeats these obstacles, Buddhism’s situation in Columbus...
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...As a child, I learned significantly early to care for myself and reach out for assistance from those willing to help. My job was to acquire a means to school, the store, and any other errand that necessary to be accomplished for my family. During my middle school years, I was drawn to a local church, and it was there I learned what it meant to be persistent in pursuit of every endeavor desired. Beginning to sing in the adult choir my sixth-grade year, and taking a leadership role leading worship before students in middle and high school, I discovered an outlet to which I invested numerous hours of practice and preparation. Though only fourteen, my persistence and dedication for leadership allowed for growth and maturation. Shortly after my junior year began, I lost my mother to her devastating addiction and various health problems. Resiliency proved to be crucial for my future; moreover, my diligence in achieving betterment for myself resulted in gaining a new family where I could finally function as an adolescent. The certain or determined...
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...Human trafficking An annotated bibliography Web Links Anti-Slavery International http://www.antislavery.org/ Anti-Slavery International's Trafficking Programme comprises three elements: campaigning to end human trafficking, lobbying for victim protection, and research on measures governments take to protect victims of trafficking, especially those who act as witnesses. The web site provides information about both current and historical slavery operations. The UN Global Programme Against Trafficking in Human Beings <http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/index.html> The Global Programme against Trafficking in Human Beings (GPAT) assists Member States in their efforts to combat trafficking in human beings. It highlights the involvement of organized criminal groups in human trafficking and promotes the development of effective ways of cracking down on perpetrators. The GPAT's' overarching objective is to bring to the foreground the involvement of organized criminal groups in human trafficking and to promote the development of effective criminal justice-related responses. UNICEF <http://www.unicef.org/protection/> UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and strives to establish children's rights as enduring ethical principles...
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...see better what William Wallace’s feeling and emotions were than in the book. I believe in all movies that are based off of books, the audiences are always given a better sense of who the character is. I will also tell you what is false in the movie Braveheart. I have some conflicting issues with movies because they do provide false information also. This is a little background information on William Wallace. (2012, September 20. lordsandladies.org Alchin, L.K.) William was born at Ellerslie (now Elderslie), in Paisley, Parish in 1272, and he was exicuted in Smithfield in 1305. The name Braveheart was given to him as a nickname, for he was nicknamed this because of his character he showed to others; brave, charismatic, stubborn, and tenacious. He was born into a lower social class, as his dad was a small land owner with a small farm. William was knighted Guardian of Scotland after he led the victorious battle in Stirling. Wallace was heroic outlaw, for he was a hero and legend all over Scotland, but the English despised his rebellious actions against the king, Edward I. (The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, pg. 431) “May foul things befall you, since one has put all of you to confusion”. In this quote, the English lord was talking to his soldiers. His soldiers had ran into William Wallace and a couple of his men. They explain how large Wallace was and how terrified they were of him, but not any of his other men. Wallace was a “giant” for his time period, standing about...
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...J. Carpenter 1 Sociological Perspectives on Religion By John Carpenter Sociology B1 CRN 12345 John Carpenter January 1, 2012 J. Carpenter 2 Emile Durkheim (1995: Original 1912) defined religion as a unified system of beliefs, rituals, and practices that define and express the nature of sacred things in relationship to the profane things of the world and, from a sociological perspective, the importance of religion as a social institution cannot be overstated. Consider the fact that literally all major world religions promote a standard of behavior in keeping with the tenets of their particular system of belief. And, with few exceptions, this behavior is motivated by an individual desire for a positive experience in this life and hopeful expectations of an eternal life to come. This individual standard of behavior is shared by a community of believers and practised as a group within the context of the larger society. As a result, religion can have a considerable degree of influence over every other social institution and the nature of the various beliefs, rituals, and practices acquire a cultural significance. Functionalism In support of the functionalist perspective, and in keeping with a macro approach to sociology, Durkheim (1995: Original 1912) placed a far greater emphasis on the collective life or community than he did on the individual. The nature of individual behavior was always considered in relationship to the degree of influence held by...
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...Sarp Yanki Kalfa Yankee ENGLISH 15 April 25, 2013 The Lives We Left Behind There are moments in our lives that will someday define us. It is not the gravity of the choices we make but the impression they leave on us that will one day define us as individuals. Had I known how drastically my life would change as a result of the choice I made one day when I was fifteen, my life would surely be very different. When my father first asked if I had any interest in going to France, the question passed through my mind as fleetingly as a spring breeze, but had I known that this decision would one day define me as a man, I might have answered differently. Today I have only God to thank, because for some reason on that day the winds of fate led me on one of the greatest adventures I could ever imagine. This is my story. As I stepped off of the plane in Lyon France there was a kind of electricity in the air, the kind you only feel when you leave your past behind to begin anew. Jacque must have thought me strange just standing there in the cold September air with nothing but a coat and a small brief case. As he strode over to me I was struck by an eerie sense of familiarity as if I’d known him for years, which was only compounded by the casual almost jovial tone he took as he introduced himself to me. Had I known the gravity of what our relationship would mean to me as a man, I might have made an effort to pay more attention to the rambling tales he had of his home...
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...the opera productions of Mozart, it is obviously that both Don Giovanni and the Marriage of Figaro have several similarities. First of all, the count in the Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni are aristocrats, who uses their privileged position in classes and social to achieve sexual license in both features: in Figaro, the count is disloyal with his countess to convince Susanna to accompany him to a trip before her wedding; in Don Giovanni, the main character tries to control everyone, especially women he encounters, without fear and moral. Unfortunately, both female characters in these two feature reject the males’ requests: Susanna rejects the count’s advice and helps him back to his countess tactfully; Donna Anna also tenacious resist Don Giovanni’s violence and finally unite Donna Elvira and Don Ottavio to against Don Giovanni. Moreover, both operas uses similar voice types to express different characters’ characteristics. For example, countess, Donna Anna and Zerlina are soprano, count and Don Giovanni...
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...GRE VERBAL MADE EASY (MAMA EASY) Page 1 PREFACE This “made easy” has been prepared to meet the requirements of those GRE aspirants, who find it very difficult to learn isolated(unrelated) words. It is true that its very tough to learn isolated words. This guide might help you to prepare in easier way by using groups of “related” words. I prepared this to meet my own requirements during my preparation for the GRE on sep 6, 2002. My friend Balaji.R has played an EQUAL role in preparing this file. It is with his full consent that I am uploading this file on the net. This file is a result of our hard work for 47 days(Jun 01 2002 to July 17 2002)..This guide has helped me a lot. So I thought it “might” help others as well. Thats why I am uploading this. BTW, for those of you who are curious to know, My GRE score is 2200 (V-690, A-710, Q-800). Thanks goes to Prof.James of datamatics coaching centre, Chennai. Because, this file is actually a soft copy of what he teaches in class(Of course, its NOT my work. I only typed out whatever prof.James spoke.. Thats all). I know that there are some inadvertent mistakes in this file. Kindly excuse me for that. HOW TO USE THIS FILE: 1) First of all, if you are a datamatics student this file might be extremely useful. For others, it might be helpful, only if you are prepared to work very hard. 2) Please get a hard copy of this file. Print it out. Get it hard bound.(Thats what I did). This helps because you can write some sentences formed...
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...new framework of Newtonian science which allowed their application to be considered scientific. The enlightenment was a period of philosophical thought and intellectual development which began in the eighteenth century (Ritzer, 2010). The enlightenment theorists sought to combine empirical research with the developing model of Newtonian science. The theorists were convinced that the world around them could be understood using reason and research and that the institutions which governed social values and societal norms were rooted in irrationality and actually acted to inhibit human development (Ritzer, 2010). The theorist’s arguments clashed with the conjectural and traditionally espoused history of the social institutions such as the Church and the political regimes of the countries they operated in (Broadie, 2011). The theorists were not concerned with this however and sought to further their intellectual development through a ‘republic of letters’ whereby their ideas were shared with their peers in the public sphere. They were convinced that an individual’s capacity to reason would result in their ideas being accepted by society at large (Ritzer, 2010). This is personified in Kant’s motto “have...
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...Anna Kingsley, a woman of strength and determination overcame many odds not expected of an African American slave. She married a slave owner, owned land, and was once a slave herself. She was well known in a free black community she helped establish. Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley was the wife of plantation owner Zephaniah Kingsley. She was the daughter of a man of high status. Her father’s sides were descendants of the well know Njaajan Njaay, the creators of the Jolof Empire. Her father was killed in April 1806, the day she was captured. The tyeddo warriors invaded her village and collected all the villagers to be sold as slaves. That day she not only lost her freedom and her home, but also her dignity and her youth (Harvey, 41).Anna and the others were lead to a ship and they sailed from Senegal to Havana, Cuba to be sold as slaves. The Havana Market was the center of commerce of Spain’s colonies in America (Schafer, 23). Anna arrived in Florida in 1806. She was thirteen years old. Zephaniah Kinglsey Jr was a citizen of Spanish East Florida. He was born in England, but raised in Charleston, South Carolina. His father, a merchant, moved his family to Nova Scotia because he was banished from South Carolina for giving support to King George III at time of the American Revolution In 1808, Kinglsey moved to Florida, where he pledged his fidelity to Spain and imported slaves on his plantation (Schafer, 21). Once purchased, Kingsley boarded Anna on the ship Esther and they sailed to...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY THEOLOGICAL CRITIQUE: FOUR VIEWS ON HELL A THEOLOGICAL CRITIQUE SUBMITTED TO DR. ROBERT WETMORE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE THEO 530 LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BY PETER J. FILIPIAK SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................1 SUMMARY.............................................................................................................1 CRITICAL INTERACTION...................................................................................2 The Literal View...........................................................................................2 The Metaphorical View................................................................................4 The Purgatorial View....................................................................................5 The Conditional View..................................................................................6 CONCLUSION........................................................................................................7 BIBLIOGRAPHY....................................................................................................9 Introduction Four Views on Hell is a book edited by William Crockett in which...
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...Blair Roundsquare, acclaimed author of the Mystery Series, ‘Princess Molly, and Her Talking Goat Dolly, moved to Wrongberight, a rural southern town when he turned twenty-nine, to escape New York City. Usually, Blair doesn’t fraternize with the locals, however, on Sunday afternoon, he attends the Waylost Baptist Church, annual potluck just for a slice of Miss Cooler’s famous Peach Cobbler. While standing in line at the dessert table, Blair hears Sterling Gitmore ask Samuel Noseydo if he heard the news concerning Clemmie Sue Jarvis and Estelle Louise Button and their latest escapade on Saturday night. Samuel told Sterling he had and went on to say that it clearly demonstrates that those two women have less sense than Johnny Homer’s...
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