...A Universe Within A Universe: The Traditional Skidi Pawnee Earth Lodge Among the most proficient star watchers in North America were the members of the Skidi Band of the Pawnee Tribe. The Skidi Pawnee originally lived in the Great Plains region of the Platte River, Loup River and the Republican Rivers located in Nebraska. The Skidi were keenly aware of the stars and the planets. They watched them nightly for guidance throughout all their lives. Furthermore, the stories of the stars and the oral traditions of the people instructed them on the rituals of planting, hunting, harvest and worship. The movement of the stars and their positions in the sky directed Skidi’s day-to-day lives. Consequently, the stars were their timekeepers and served as a calendar. The Skidi relied on them entirely to keep track of time for sacred star ceremonies and events. In addition, their existence revolved around the organization of the cosmos. Thus, the Skidi Pawnee traditions included myths and rituals that linked the earth and the sky and creation of all ("Skidi Pawnee Indians - True Star People - One Of The Best Sky Watchers Of Ancient Times."). The Skidi worldview was established upon their observation of nature, including the sky and the stars, and contributed richly to their religion. Because of the tremendous importance assigned to the observation of the cosmos, the traditional Skidi earth lodge dwelling functioned not only as a residence, but also, as a place in which to examine the heavens...
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...to Byzantium” William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and author born in Dublin in 1865. As he lived during a period of political, economic and even social turmoil, his poetic style went through five periods that adapted to the current situation not only in Ireland, but all over Europe. Yeats’ special interest in the Celtic Revival Movement led him to become one of the founding members of the National Theatre of Ireland in 1904, which became the flagship for Irish playwrights and actors. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation”. “Sailing to Byzantium,” written in 1926 and included in the collection The Tower, can be interpreted both as a journey taken by the speaker’s aged soul and as the process of transcendence of his own mortality by means of art. “Sailing to Byzantium,” consisting of a four eight-line stanza poem, is metered in iambic pentameter with two trios of alternating rhyme followed by a couplet. Having neither characters nor plot “Sailing to Byzantium” refers to the agony of old age and the work required to remain a vital individual. Byzantium is mainly a trading city: a center of power, knowledge and art, where “monuments of unageing intellect” (8) can be found. In the speaker’s view, Byzantium is “no country for old man” (1), but a city crowded by younger generations. Yeats thinks of aged men as “paltry thing[s]” (9) and “tattered...
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...or struggle. The story first opens up by describing the father’s struggles pertaining to taking care of all of his kids. It goes on to say that he is confused and doesn’t know what to do, so he goes to the highway. In this piece the highway is used as a place where the father turns to because he’s desperate. He feels as if there is nothing else he can do and goes there in his time of need. There he meets three people on his quest to give his child a better life. During hard times, these “people” or beings are who/what people eventually turn to during hard times. In this story the symbolic meaning of the highway is Peoples 2 similar to its literal meaning. Either way it’s used, it takes him someplace, bringing him to God, the Devil, and Death. It adds to the story by serving as the connection to the child and his godfather both symbolically and literally. Without the highway, in it’s symbolic meaning; the father would have never needed help. There would have been no time of trouble for him because he...
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...Dilemma at Devils Den Allan R Cohen Abstract This paper explores the case study Dilemma at Devils Den, which was created by Allan R. Cohen from Babson College (2004), and focuses on a fictional student named Susan and an experience with a few problems that she has at her college’s campus snack bar, the Devil’s Den. This paper aims to discuss Susan’s problems that she has identified with the night operations at the Devil’s Den, and whether or not the night shift managerial team performs strategy execution processes adequately. Introduction Susan identifies that the main problem mainly has to do with the night shift operations at the Devil’s Den. She points out that she had been noticing the fact that many of the employees at the snack bar were simply allowing their friends to take snacks without having to pay for them at all. Susan also points out those employees were also taking the snacks for free themselves. While ordinarily this is not a problem, the employees are only allowed to take snacks when they are on duty, and it has become a common situation where the employees simply leave with food. According to Susan, it has gotten so bad that employees will take food in front of the customers, who then think it would be okay to take food without paying as well, leading to this becoming a problem as well. Another problem that Susan identifies is the fact that the employees were not doing anything to stop or challenge the customers from taking the snacks from the Den. Susan...
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...interview with someone of this faith? | I think the most interesting thing about the interview will be opening up to the facts about the religion and remaining open-minded about it. | What difficulties do you anticipate in conducting an interview with someone of this faith? | Keeping an open mind and trying to understand why she picked this religion to practice. | 1 Point for Each Appropriate Question Create a list of 10 questions you would like to ask during the interview. | 1. I know you do not believe in God, so does that mean you believe in Satan? 2. Do all people who practice Wicca think they are Witches? 3. Why do you cast spells and use potions? Are they for good or evil? 4. Why do use the Pentegram? Isn’t it a sign of the Devil? 5. Do you all sacrifice animals or do other negative sacrifices? 6. What are your overall views and beliefs? 7. Who do you believe in if you do not believe in God? 8. What is your religions ultimate goal? 9. Do you all practice black magic? 10. Why did you choose Wicca as your religion? | In addition to the questions listed...
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...In rural regions near the Appalachian Mountains small communities of people worship in churches known for handling deadly serpents as part of everyday rituals. The practice of serpent handling is justified using a passage found in the King James Bible: And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. (Mark 16:17-18) Other Christians dismiss these practices by saying the passage is not to be taken literally. They consider the people following all of the signs mentioned by Mark as foolish, and claim it only leads to the premature deaths of the worshippers. However, this view does not take any sort of phenomenological approach. It does not attempt to interpret why the people worship in this way, nor what it means for them to worship in this way. This view only attempts to refute the practice of handling serpents altogether because of the potential risk of death that accompanies it. Therefore, it is necessary to interpret their actions from a less biased approach, in order to be more encompassing of a practice that is not always fully understood. It is my belief that the people participating in these serpent handling rituals know the element of danger that exists, but that the purpose, reaffirming their connection to God, is greater than the risk to their individual...
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...Shaniqua S. Boyd February 6, 2015 THEO 104 Reflection Paper #1 Prayer Do you love to pray like I love to pray? When I pray I take out the time during many parts of my day to pray to my higher power. Prayer is communication with you and Jesus. In order to develop what prayer really is, you must have a clear definition of god. God is so personal being to us and when we pry we can interact with him. To understand it all I will help you understand what prayer is and what is not prayer. What is Prayer: For me prayer is a most important part of my communication process. When we pray we worship and seeks god attention because we know he is there and he listens to us. It might sound crazy but some people think that you just supposed to pray when you wake up and when you lie down to go to bed. Truth be told, there is no limit on when you can pray to your all mighty savior. I talk to him all the time. When I wake up in the morning I’m praying and thanking the lord that he woke me and my family up to see another day. As I am driving to work and asking him to let me and everybody in the world make it to see another day and to get to their destination safe and sound. When I am working I am praying for my co-workers and patients. I pray all the time because I need my blessings all the time. When you pray it do not always have to be that you are asking god for something. It could be that you want to confess to him of something or just praise him for all that he had done for you. Just...
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...2 Timothy 1:1-7: The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. 2 Therefore an overseer[a] must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,[b] sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, 5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7 Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil. The theme of the year for me is cultivating character. My lifegroup is called the Realest. We're striving to be real with ourselves, God, and one another, to be real in our Relationship with God, Evangelism, Awareness of ourselves, and Love for one another. At undergrad retreat, my favorite analogy was P Jimmy's iceberg analogy on Sunday. An iceberg is 10% exposed above water, 90% hidden underwater. Similarly, our lives are 10% exposed in our actions and behavior, but 90% hidden in our inner character that drives those actions actions and behaviors. This is my senior year. I'm graduating in 31 days, and my last exam of undergrad is in 34 days. Next semester I'll be interning at PwC. Summer is uncertain (missions hopefully)...
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...Emmanuel Avila 9/14/14 Per. 2 Childhood Narrative It was a cold winter day in New Mexico 2008. It was snowing and I can feel the snow getting into my shoes and melting. It made my feet a wrinkly after I took my shoes off. We were visiting a family friend and they had a big back yard. While everyone was inside I went to the backyard to play. Then I met this kid… I forgot his name but, lets just call him devil child. I don’t what in God’s name was wrong with this child but he had the worst attitude, and temper. I don’t remember what I did to devil kid but he was mad hell. I was sitting on a old dog house that looked like it was going to break any moment. It smelled like crap and it gave me a splinter when I touched it. But I still sat on it. Back to the devil child he was mad as hell. He got so mad until the point when he threw the closest thing he could find at me. At first I thought it was a stick but while it was in the air, coming at me that’s when I realized it wasn’t a stick. It was a full-length fixed blade knife. I can still remember that knife like the back of my hand. It had a polished wooden handle with a stainless steel, razor sharp, blade. It struck me on my bottom left lip. The blade sliced my lip leaving it hanging. I fell off the doghouse but it felt like falling of a cliff. I landed hard on the soft white snow. My mum took me to the hospital where I got six stiches on my lip. I fucking hate that kid still to this...
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...Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe Prologue * Chorus comes on and tells audience that the play isn’t going to be about war, valiant deeds, or love, but all about the fortunes of some guy named Faustus * Faustus was born in a town called Roda in Germany and was raised by relatives in Wittenberg * He excels at his studies of Theology, so much that he’s very quickly given the title of doctor of divinity and can out debate anyone * Faustus’s pride is a serious problem * Because Faustus is so proud he’s not happy being a mere theologian, so he opts instead to study magic Act 1 Scene 1 * Meet Faustus, he’s busy figuring out what he wants to do with his life – he mulls over the options: philosophy, medicine, law – he rejects them all for being too boring and too pointless * Every time he reads the Bible Faustus can’t help but conclude that man’s sins give him no hope of heaven anyways * Faustus decides to study magic because a magician is almost like a god * He tells his servant Wagner to fetch Valdes and Cornelius, his friends, who happen to be a couple of magicians * Before they stop by the Good Angel enters and tells Faustus to lay the books of magic aside and to read the scriptures instead * Bad Angel disagrees & thinks Faust should go ahead with his plan because he’ll be godlike * Faustus is convinced and begins to wax poetic about all the thing he’ll do once he masters magic – especially excited about the whole...
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... In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Theology 350 __________________ by Tirsa Woodson July 3, 2015 The Hell Debate The debate over the nature of hell is one that can bring out the best and the worst in biblical exegesis. Everyone nowadays is concerned about the enemy (Satan) and delete hell existence. The beginning signs that Jesus is coming soon, frightens the human race. We were taught when God returns, it will be judgment day. John reveals this judgement will take pace during the last days, when God will conquer all who have and would defy him and to rescue the righteous. Judgment meant the outcome of an individual, will they go to heaven with God or to hell with the devil. There are many misconceptions about Hell, rather the lost will burn forever or annihilated. Hell is real. Universalism believes everyone will eventually be saved, while Christian believe we all will be judged for the deeds we have done. First, the Annihilationist believe that the unrighteous will not suffer eternal torment, but that they will, after being justly punished according to their deeds, be annihilated and cease to exist. Also they believe that hell is eternal in consequence, not duration the wicked shall be no more (Boyd & Eddy). Secondly the classical view states that the wicked will be cast into hell that supports the traditional view they will suffer unending torment The Bible uses a number of expressions to identify...
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...be jointed twice and have one foot, and each foot five toes,” (13) In contemporary Christian religion, the Bible sets out certain expectations as well. For example, God expects his people to obey the Ten Commandments, to be good Samaritans, to show kindness to the poor, and to accept and love those who are different. In both societies the bible has been around for thousands of years. “And only the Bible has survived from the time of the Old People themselves.” (39) The Old People were those who lived before Waknuk’s God sent the Tribulation and those are the ones who had the Bible. Secondly, Waknuk’s religion and contemporary Christianity warns us about the devil and to avoid him. The Waknukians believe that “the devil is the father of deviation.” (18) In contemporary society, Christians believe that the devil is the father of lies. In both...
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... In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards, Edwards describes in this sermon God's fury towards those who do not following the religion. To do this, Edwards is required to use man rhetorical devices. Some of those devices are Imagery,Connotation, and Personification. Edwards uses Imagery to allow his audience to visualize how near God is with his wrath. He states, "There are the black clouds of God's wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm and big with thunder..." This allows the audience to imagine the proximity of Gods wrath. He uses, "black clouds", to describe how dark Gods wrath is. These clouds are right over the audiences head to allow them to visualize that is only a matter of time until God releases his fury upon them. But he also goes on to state, "full of dreadful storm and big with thunder..." to describe the darkness of the clouds, but to also allow them to get an idea of some the items that are held within the dark cloud. Edwards uses imagery to all his audience to visualize the proximity of Gods wrath, but to also allow them to imagine the horrific events that follow if God decides to release his wrath. Edwards gives God a good connotation, soon after he describes Gods dark clouds over the audiences heads. He states,"...were it not for the restraining hand of God; it would immediately burst forth upon you." God is not allowing the dark clouds of his wrath to unleash upon the audience.He states,"It not...
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...Arnold Friend potentially tends to be a beast. In the story, it argues whether Arnold Friend represents Satan or not. I think he does, because he represents a devil figure for the main reason of tricking Connie to ride off with him. Arnold is portrayed of having shaggy black hair and drives a convertible jalopy painted gold. Arnold is not a teenager when Connie realizes the features, such as the painted eyelashes, wig structure, and his stuffed boots. Those features led to her thinking that he wasn’t a teenager, who he isn’t and he’s way much older actually. Oates portrays Arnold to be a psychopathic stalker, but never states the value of his role. She asks him how does he knows her name, and his response was he knows a lot about her. He begins to tell Connie all her friends’ names and tells her where her parents are. The passage below paints a picture of Arnold’s character. But I know what it is. I know your name and all about you, lots of things, Arnold Friend said. He had not moved yet but stood still leaning back against the side of his jalopy. I took a special interest in you, such a pretty girl, and found out all about you—like I know your parents and sister are gone somewhere and I know where and how long they're going to be gone, and I know who you were with last night, and your best girl...
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...Romans 16:17-20 HOW TO HANDLE TROUBLEMAKERS IN THE CHURCH Introduction: Ever since the church was formed, it has been plagued by troublemakers. These people have desired to either see the church destroyed, or to see it shaped to their own will. This should not have been a surprise. After all, Jesus Himself predicted the rise of troublemakers in the church, Matt. 7:15, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." Even in the early days of the fledgling church, the Apostle Paul said this, "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.", Acts 20:29-30. After 2,000 years, the troublemakers are still with us. There are still those within and without the church who work against the plan of God and seek to mold the church to their likeness. I. THE DEEDS OF THE TROUBLEMAKERS Paul tells us that there are some tale tell signs associated with those who would cause trouble in the church. Their deeds prove them to be just what they are. Remember what Jesus said, "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Matt. 7:20. A. They Are Divisive - Paul uses two words here that describe what the troublemakers so in the house of God. The first is the word "divisions". It means "to splinter of cause dissensions." The other word is "offences", it means "to lay a trap...
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