...Group Assignment Discussion Director 1. How has Elijah’s thoughts of killing differ from previous times during this section “I can also see that Elijah’s tempted to take his knife to Grey Eyes’ throat”. Is it getting more severe and how will this affect events later on in the book. (pg. 144) 1. I think it is obvious that his kills were getting more severe. It started with animal killing than to enemy killing and now to potentially killing his friend. Elijah transitions very quickly throughout the story and won’t be long until he has become an actual windigo. His actions and thoughts are definitely getting more severe, which he might actually perform the action instead of just thinking it. 2. On the train,...
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...kings? The kings of Judah were mixed between doing good and evil. Out of all 20 kings of Judah, 6 were moral, 2 were mixed, and 12 were immoral. How did king Ahab go wrong? King Ahab who was the son of Omri, ruled over Israel in Samaria for over 22 years. He took over his fathers throne, and did evil in the sight of God by worshiping Baal and “did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel that were before him”. Ahab again and again proved he was brought to do evil deeds, by his continued refusal to obeys the warnings of the prophet Elijah’s. Ahab had accused Elijah of troubling Israel by the drought, but Elijah declared that it was Ahab's own sin that caused the trouble for the nation. Ahab had declared war on God by killing His prophets , and therefore God then brought the war to Ahab. The war was between the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal on one side, and Elijah on the other. When God verified Elijah’s status as His true prophet, Ahab should have repented, but he remained in his sinful rebellion, fueled by Jezebel his wicked wife. Summary of King Josiah chapters Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty one years in Jerusalem. his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. He took the throne because of the assassination of his father. In 2 Chronicles 34:3, we learn that when Josiah was 16 years of age, he began to worship the God. After that, Josiah began to destroy the places where people...
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...38 terms Terms | Definitions | Gods ultimate purpose | To unite all things in God. Things in heaven and on earth. | He opened there minds to the scripture | It means the old testament as a whole. | Fundamental obligations of a covenant. | I will be there God and they will be my people. | I will be the covenant of the people. | God declares in Isaiah. | Abrahams promise. | How is God the offspring of women. | Type | An example or symbol. Ex. The Israelites experiences in the wilderness. | a new Heaven and new earth | What does it anticipate when the OT anticipates physical prosperity and physical health. | Prophets | Bring the word of God to the people. | Kings | Bring Gods rule on the people. | Priests | Represent Gods people in Gods presence. | Why is the bible hard to understand | People often over think the bible. | Aim of good interpretation | To get the plain meaning of the text. | Enlightened common sense. | Most important ingredient one brings. | Wealth and health gospel | Gods love for you is financial and material. | Exegesis | Systematic study of scripture to find the original meaning. | No | does one have to an expert to do good exegesis. | Problem Mark 10:23 | People think it is impossible to get into heaven if you are rich but that is not true. | Historical context | Related to time, culture, geography, and topogrophy. | So we don't get ideas in your head that will confuse you. | Why should we consulting commentary be the last...
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...Malcolm X , I read the book The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alo simply take my old paper, which was research based, and fashion it into an argumentative thesis. I am now more mature as a student and my perspectives and ideas regarding both the man Malcolm X, and his autobiography, have changed. Where I once thought he was a radical, and sought to prove why his earlier ideas were dangerous and violent, I have come to grow from emotionally reacting to his ideas with volatility to accepting them with a more open mind; I now want to examine the philosophical roots and the more psychologically significant events that he underwent during his life that justify his ideas. As one set of events happened, he’d be polarized in the direction of success in c of ma, but Malcolm X underwent sets of events in his life that caused him to bounce back and forth, radically so, between two juxtaposing constants—conformity and non-conformity. Though with most of his later life and political-religious endeavors he is largely rebelliouat I will pay close attention to. I will discuss these instances and how his personality served as proverbial gunpowder to the flames that were the rauses, I will argue that, throughout his life, he has steadily been climbing toward a psychological equilibrium. As each set of events shiftedemonstrated having multiple times throughout the book with every endeavor he sought was conducive to this process of polarization. The first instance of consolidated...
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...prison for larceny and breaking and entering. While in prison, Malcolm X became a member of the Nation of Islam, and after his parole in 1952, quickly rose to become one of the organization's most influential leaders. He served as the public face of the controversial group for a dozen years. In his autobiography, Malcolm X wrote proudly of some of the Nation's social achievements made while he was a member, particularly its free drug rehabilitation program. In keeping with the Nation's teachings, he promoted black supremacy, advocated the separation of black and white Americans, and rejected the civil rights movement for their emphasis on integration. By March 1964, Malcolm X had grown disillusioned with the Nation of Islam and its leader Elijah Muhammad. Expressing many regrets about his time with them, which he had come to regard as largely wasted, he embraced Sunni Islam. After a period of travel in Africa and the Middle East, which included completing the Hajj, he repudiated the Nation of Islam, disavowed racism and founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. He continued...
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...Introduction Elijah Heart Center(EHC) is a full service cardiac hospital with 140 beds available to patient care. EHC is a New York community based hospital that also provides the full spectrum of outpatient services as well as rehabilitation. While EHC has had no problem with the number of patients that comes in to use their services as well as the revenue that is produced they are realizing that the profitability has been steadily dropping. In this paper I will discuss short term alternative financial sources that EHC can use to increase its revenue. Short Term financings The first step in getting EHC finances back in order is to first assess where cuts can be made over a short and long period of time. The first cost cut that I feel will help increase revenue is to cut the cost of wages given to contract nurses. If EHC looks to employee within their own area this will help employee locals and help the community as well as cut cost on bring nurses in from other states on a contractible bases. This will also help to cut cost because not only was EHC paying the nurses nearly twice as much as their own nurses but they also had to pay the contracting company and the nursing manager. These were fees that were easily cut and did not have an effect on the patient’s because it does not interfere with the hospital normal staff that keeps the hospital going and knows how the hospital should conduct itself. The second way to increase revenue is to hire nurse’s assistant’s while this...
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...The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, is an elongated monologue by Malcolm X in which he tells his life story, and reveals the astronomic transformations that materialized in his ways of life and his thinking. The autobiography explained Malcolm's early life in great detail. It reveals that Malcolm's home was not stable. His father died when he was young, and his mother was placed into a mental hospital. Malcolm and his siblings would move around often and were placed in foster homes. Malcolm moved to Harlem around 1943 and it was then when he started hustling, pimping, dealing drugs, and stealing. At twenty-one years of age, Malcolm was sentenced to prison for 10 years. While serving his sentence, Malcolm depicts the changes...
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...According to Merriam and Webster the definition of a person who is involved, as an activist is a doctrine or practice that emphasizes direct vigorous action especially in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue. Malcolm X as a civil rights activist is a man to be thanked by many, because of his courageous actions. By standing up to an issue with such force as a black man in such a color driven society, he shall be among the greats in history. In The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964), Malcolm X was able to be such an influential man and leader because he learned much from his father’s death, his experiences and time in prison, and also becoming a leader of Islam. Malcolm X’s father’s death had a great significance on his adult life and the way he interacted within societies norms. His father, Earl Little was a man that had strong feelings for black pride among African Americans in his day, and this probably rubbed off onto Malcolm X, also known then as Malcolm Little. One day his father came home and was already irritated with the threats of Black Legion, dinner had to be cooked so Earl grabbed a rabbit out of the pen of which they raised rabbits to be sold, and began to twist the neck off of this rabbit. Malcolm’s mother, Louise Little started to cry and made Earl so upset and angry that he stormed out of the house and marched off up the road. Supposively Louise had a vision of something horrible happening to her husband. So she tried to run after him...
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...1959, when Haley wrote an article about the Nation of Islam for Reader's Digest, and again when Haley interviewed Malcolm X for Playboy in 1962.[14] In 1963 the Doubleday publishing company asked Haley to write a book about the life of Malcolm X. American writer and literary critic Harold Bloom writes, "When Haley approached Malcolm with the idea, Malcolm gave him a startled look ..."[15] Haley recalls, "It was one of the few times I have ever seen him uncertain."[15] After Malcolm X was granted permission from Elijah Muhammad, he and Haley commenced work on the Autobiography, a process which began as two-and three-hour interview sessions at Haley's studio in Greenwich Village.[15] Bloom writes, "Malcolm was critical of Haley's middle-class status, as well as his Christian beliefs and twenty years of service in the U.S. Military."[15] When work on the Autobiography began in early 1963, Haley grew frustrated with Malcolm X's tendency to speak only about Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. Haley reminded him that the book was supposed to be about Malcolm X, not Muhammad or the Nation of Islam, a comment which angered Malcolm X. Haley eventually shifted the focus of the interviews toward the life of his subject when he asked Malcolm X about his mother:[16] I said, 'Mr. Malcolm, could you tell me something about your mother?' And I will never, ever forget how he stopped almost as if he was suspended like a marionette. And he said, 'I remember the kind of dresses she...
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...Paper #2 – Origins of Islam in America Trevor Pace A00763129 It seems that when it comes to the first Muslims in America it is a little unclear, however several sources that I found believe that it was first in the 12th century and ties in with the voyage of Columbus. “The Navigator of Columbus, who during the famous voyage, brought along a copy of a travel narrative written by Portuguese Muslims who had sailed to the New World in the 12th century. The narrative by al-Idrisi was called "The Sea of Tears"”. (Ahari, 1998) Next during the 14th century with Muslims that came from the Senegabian region of Africa, “It is believed they were Moors, expelled from Spain, who made their way to the Caribbean and possibly to the Gulf of Mexico” (Cowan, 2006) Then with the 16th century with Istafan, the Arab, “who was a guide for the Spanish that wished to settle the area that would later be called Arizona in 1539”. (Ahari, 1998) The next major instance of Islam in America happened with slavery in the 18th century. This is the first real wave of Muslims in America as it is said that “Historians estimate that between 15 to 30 percent of all enslaved African men, and less than 15 percent of the enslaved African women, were Muslims” (Samuel S. Hill, 2005). Next in the late 19th and early 20th century Muslim immigrants from the Middle East, particularly from Syria and Lebanon, arrived in large numbers. “Many were settling in Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and even the Dakotas. Like most other migrants...
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...“Braveheart” and “The Lord of the Rings,” the main characters, Mel Gibson and Elijah Wood, go to the ends of the earth to achieve their goals and bring freedom to the people within their society. The two main plots emphasize the concept that no matter what nation you live under, any man or woman will fight to defend their right to freedom. In “Braveheart”, Mel Gibson, plays William Wallace. In the movie his wife is brutally killed by one of the English kings. Before the death of his wife, Wallace also experiences the death of his brother and father by the hands of the same aggressor when he was a child. After this he decides that any aggressive action against those he holds dear will not be left unavenged. The day of his wife’s death, William waited for his wife at a secret hiding place and when he finds out she isn’t coming because she was killed, he takes the ways of the law into his own hands. When William becomes a revolutionary he leads the Scottish people to an uprising against the English government. William then begins to de-thrown all the kings in the English region. He loses all sense of inhibition while pursuing his desire to avenge his loved ones’ death and brings freedom to his people. “The Lord of the Rings” is a movie about the plight of mankind while defending itself against a great evil of a supernatural kind. In this movie, the main character, Frodo Baggins, played by Elijah Woods, must protect the ring of power on an arduous journey across the country...
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..."Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis focuses on Elijah Freeman, who is the first freeborn slave of Buxton, Canada. The community is for runaway slaves to start a new life and settle in. Elijah Freeman is skillful and courageous, but he is fragile. Throughout the novel, he learns about the adults' past in slavery. He matures through some of the events and learns to appreciate himself being free. In the beginning, Elijah was a fragile, gullible, and a sensitive boy. The first example that shows him being gullible was when the Preacher makes up a story about a hope snake and the tortuous things it does to its victim. Cooter and Elijah believe him and are scared by the story. According to the novel, in chapter 1, page 8, paragraph 3, it says, "Afore I knowed what was happening I was through Cooter's gate and right in the middle of a good long hard run home... Ma must've heard me screaming from a ways off 'cause she running out our front gate by the time I got there." His reaction shows that he believes in anything and will do some crazy things when he is scared. The second example that shows his sensitivity is when his mother puts a snake in the cookie jar to teach him a lesson after he put a toad frog in her knitting blanket. According to the novel, on page 19, paragraph 3 & 4, it says, "My...
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... ABSTRACT Malcolm X who was born Malcolm Little was a well known activists that had many different events that occurred in life which influenced his morals, personality and his emotional and physical development. Malcolm had both parents until his father was killed and mother was admitted to a psychiatric ward (Malcolm, 2012). After being sent to an orphanage and dropping out of school he was out on his own Malcolm turned to the streets and got into some trouble. After being incarcerated, Malcolm joined the nation of Islam becoming a spokesperson that had many followers (Lee, 1992). He was fighting for the right of equality for African Americans. Due to the departure from one of his teachers Elijah Muhammad Malcolm then began to go his own way and founded a more peaceful way of settling the racist acts. While giving his last speech Malcolm X was assassinated by three men (Malcolm, 2012). Malcolm X changes in life helped him to grow into the person he became to be. Malcolm X Life Span and Development Malcolm Little who is publicly known as Malcolm X was born May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was born to the parents of Louise and Earl Little. He was one of eight siblings (Malcolm, 2012). Malcolm is famous for being an activist and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam. Malcolm dropped his name “Little” that was considered a slave name and inherited X (Malcolm, 2012). Malcolm went through many changes in life which had a...
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...after the Civil War there has been the issue of race and equality and rights. A movement occurred and two men gained power and influence the African American community. Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X two men having experienced different things in their lives held different beliefs and morals and influenced people based upon those things. Martin Luther King Jr., came from a Baptist home with a fairly easy childhood, he was educated when he was younger and attended Morehouse College, an all black college, where he had several role models that shaped his beliefs. Malcolm X, on the other hand, experienced a hard childhood and used drugs and committed other crimes in his early adult years. While in prison he found a father figure in Elijah Muhammad and joined the Nation of Islam. There are many differences between Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X in the way they acted and influenced the African American community. This paper will look to describe their differing views and analyze their actions and their lives. In most cases a person’s childhood has a lasting affect on the rest of a person’s life. In comparing Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X this seems to be the case. Martin Luther King Jr., was born January 19, 1929 and was raised by a strong supportive family. He had a somewhat privileged life and “never experienced the feeling of not having the basic necessities of life.”[1] His father “was a community leader in Atlanta and pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist...
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...“Braveheart” and “The Lord of the Rings,” the main characters, Mel Gibson and Elijah Wood, go to the ends of the earth to achieve their goals and bring freedom to the people within their society. The two main plots emphasize the concept that no matter what nation you live under, any man or woman will fight to defend their right to freedom. In “Braveheart”, Mel Gibson, plays William Wallace. In the movie his wife is brutally killed by one of the English kings. Before the death of his wife, Wallace also experiences the death of his brother and father by the hands of the same aggressor when he was a child. After this he decides that any aggressive action against those he holds dear will not be left unavenged. The day of his wife’s death, William waited for his wife at a secret hiding place and when he finds out she isn’t coming because she was killed, he takes the ways of the law into his own hands. When William becomes a revolutionary he leads the Scottish people to an uprising against the English government. William then begins to de-thrown all the kings in the English region. He loses all sense of inhibition while pursuing his desire to avenge his loved ones’ death and brings freedom to his people. “The Lord of the Rings” is a movie about the plight of mankind while defending itself against a great evil of a supernatural kind. In this movie, the main character, Frodo Baggins, played by Elijah Woods, must protect the ring of power on an arduous journey across the country...
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