...Praying Mantis There are three stages in a Praying Mantis’s life, the Egg, the Nymph, and the Adult. A mantis can lay up to 10-400 eggs at a time, they lay their eggs in Autumn. The eggs come out in a foamy, brown case that protects them from weather and enemies. Once these eggs hatch, the praying mantis is now a Nymph. On average, a Nymph sheds 5 times until it is an adult; each time it sheds it gets bigger. The Nymphs look like adults, just smaller, brown, and without wings. The Nymphs eat small insects such as other Nymphs. Once the Praying Mantis is shedding for the final time, they grow wings and a new, green colored exoskeleton. This insect goes thru something called Incomplete Metamorphosis. This means this animal only goes thru the Egg, Nymph, and adult stages. Dragonflies, grasshoppers, and damselflies are other examples of insects that don’t go thru a complete metamorphosis. Once the insect is fully grown, it eats hummingbirds-or any nesting birds, rats/mice, they are also very good pest exterminators, which make them great for agriculture. The biggest mantis in North America Chinese Mantises brought to the United States in 1895. They brought the Mantises to North America for agriculture. The biggest Praying Mantis species throughout the world is the Tenodera and the Archimantis. The largest Mantis ever seen was of 18 inches. There is also something very interesting about Mantises, they have one ear on their stomach which picks up ultrasonic sounds...
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...The Praying Prey Steve Harpold Professor Cathy Rodriguez English 135 / DeVry University 5/14/2011 The following is a true account of what I witnessed on the slope of a bluff in Carlsbad California one evening in 1972. There are some things in this world that defy an explanation in normal terms because there lacks a common frame of reference. What is perceived by our senses must pass through the matrix of our memories which form our concepts until they settle into a paradigm that can feed back the information in a usable form to the conscious registry of our minds for examination and articulation. We often come up with thoughts like; “Does that make sense?” and the attending reply of “Hell no!” or the classic, “I can’t believe what I just saw!” For some people it’s too much to handle and they blow a 50 amp fuse, others barely notice while a few see exactly what is going on, then silently file it away. Let’s open that file. We were “Jesus People” hippie Christians, seekers rolling home to Vista from a Bible study at Captain Keno’s in Encinitas. Three Steves, an Alexis, a Bill, a Bob, a Vicky and a Nancy all stuffed inside a ’49 Chevy 2-door sedan, only because there was no back seat. The car rumbled up the coast on Hwy. 101 through a slight mist under a fairly low marine layer of about 200 ft. The moon generated a kind of glow through the cloud base and skittered on the kelp beds where the layer broke over the water. One of the guys had to pee so Steve pulled into one...
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...The Power of a praying parent. Stormie Omartian “Summary by Sugnét van Wyk” - 0834014517 Lamentations.2:19 “Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him for the life of your young children.” We can never be “perfect” parents, but we can be praying parents. 1.Lord, make me a praying parent. PRAYER Lord, I submit myself to You. I realize that parenting a child in the way You would have me to is beyond my human abilities. I know I need you to help me. I want to partner with you and partake of Your gifts of wisdom, discernment, revelation and guidance. I also need Your strength and patience, along with a generous portion of your love flowing through me. Teach me how to love the way You love. Where I needed to be healed, delivered, changed, matured, or made whole, I invite You to do that in me. Help me to walk in righteousness and integrity before You. Teach me Your ways, enable me to obey Your commandments and do only what is pleasing in Your sight. May the beauty of Your Spirit be so evident in me that I will be a godly role model. Give me the communication, teaching and nurturing skills that I must have. Make me the parent You want me to be and teach me how to pray and truly intercede for the life of this child. Lord, You said in Your Word,”Whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive”(Matthew 21:22). In Jesus’ name I ask that be so evident in me that I will be a godly role model. Give...
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...Franklin Graham Slams School Officials on Praying Coach Reverend Franklin Graham slammed a Washington school that suspended assistant coach Joe Kennedy for praying on football field. Graham says it’s a shame that the assistant coach has to watch a football game in the stands. The school told him he could go hide in the press box or somewhere no one can see him if he wants to pray. School officials had to put him on paid administrative leave because he continued to not follow the orders that he had been given. During Thursday’s game he hugged players over the fence and later went with a small group of them and prayed in front of the bleachers. Joe Kennedy is a Marine Corps veteran who fought for our countries freedom and now he has to fight...
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...There is much prayerless praying. The attitude and semblance of prayer are in it, but there is no real praying, no projecting of the desires with vigor and in a flame to heaven. The form and show are seen, but the substance and being of prayer are entirely absent. Prayers have been said, the performance gone through, but no real praying has been done. As far as any real benefit is secured, the turning the crank of a praying machine would have done as well. Prayerless prayers are not only a perversion, a waste, a delusion, but they manufacture unbelievers by the score. They get no answers and produce no gracious results. They are vain performances, and others recognize their emptiness and barren results. Men hear of the prodigious benefits secured by prayer, of the matchless good promised in God’s word to prayer, and they mark at once the great gulf between the results promised and results realized… Prayerless praying lacks the essential element of true praying; it is not based on desire and is devoid of earnestness and faith. Desire burdens the chariot of prayer, and faith drives its sense of need; there is no ardency because there is no vision, strength, or glow of faith. There is no mighty pressure to pray, no holding on to God with the relentless, despairing grasp, “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.” There is no utter self-abandon, lost in the throes of a desperate, pertinacious, and consuming plea, “Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me...
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...depicting the life of the Buddha. Buddhist prayer is completely different than prayer in the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam).In the Abrahamic religions a person prays to god or some saint for insight, or forgiveness or for some action to be taken on their behalf. That is, they are praying for some supernatural being to intercede for them. In Buddhism a prayer is more like a mantra in which the person praying is reciting a lesson sutra or guideline which tells them how to behave and act. For...
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...speak with God. Adherents, most often than not, come to the Lord with legitimate requests for healing, change and/or needs.This is done more regularly than being in the presence of God, asking for forgiveness or expressing our thanks for another day of our lives, praying for those who do not have that blessing. Just as Mother Theresa quotes; “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.” What are the various forms of praying as practiced by Christians? There are three main forms of praying that are practiced within the Church by Christians. These include; Private prayer Communal prayer Liturgical prayer Private prayer is the most important part of prayer as God wants a personal relationship with each and everyone one of us. Praying in private allows adherents to strengthen their relationship with and become closer to Him. But to achieve this, they must remember not to put on a show for anyone, as this form of prayer is for God, and only Him. Communal prayer is just as important as private prayer, however, it strengthens not only our personal relationship with God, but with each other as a community. Praying as a community nourishes and sustains adherent lives, uniting in prayer which creates a oneness of mind, heart and soul. Liturgical prayer is seemingly the same as Communal prayer, though follows prescribed ritual traditions. A prayer for the salvation of the...
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...If God is allowed everywhere on earth, then what makes schools different? Why should those who wish to pray be deprived the right? There are smoking areas in schools where people can stand and smoke, so why not make a prayer room in schools and colleges for those folks who desire to pray. Prayer is a good guide for students and it can make them feel great while they are getting educated in schools and they can make better decisions throughout the year. Prayer in school must be allowed in order to expose the youth of upcoming generations the diversity of different religious beliefs, thereby increasing cultural tolerance. Prayer is very significant for all the students and when learners start praying in school it can prepare them for being more...
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...Importance of Prayer First let’s examine what prayer is. According to the dictionary, it is a solemn request for help or expression of thanks expressed to God or an object of worship. Usually when there is something bad happening in our life, this is when we pray. A family member suddenly becomes ill, the request for prayers are heard. In order to have effective prayer, we should not wait till something bad happens, rather we should be praying daily, John 15:7 says God responds to our prayers when we are abiding in Christ and the Word of God. I remember something my grandmother used to tell me all the time when I was troubled. She would say “turn it over to God, if you are worrying, then you are not praying, and if you are praying, then there is no need to worry.” The act of praying builds your personal relationship with God according to Towns. Part of becoming a Christian involves developing yourself to be more Christ like. It is so easy with our busy lifestyles to forget to pray during the good times. To become an obedient Christian, I must practice praying on a daily basis, not just when things are bad, but also to express thanks. Part Two – Bible Study Now let’s look at the purpose of studying the Bible. John MacArthur wrote, “you should have a basic understanding of what the Bible says, and what it means.” In reading Towns, we learned, the Bible is God’s book to reveal himself to the human race. Each book of the Bible is his Word. To be a good Christian once again our goal...
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...wonderful name that the Islam people speaks of and you have to believe whole-heartedly that he is the one God to be call a Muslim. Not only believe that he is God but have to know how to pronounce it correctly. Practice and repeated as often as necessary until you can say it correctly. This will prove that you are sincere about your faith in God. The second pillar of Islam is the canonical, prayer is the hardest part of being a Muslim. Muslim faith requires to in constant prayer as you live open this earth. As a prayer is made , it every day, thinking that giving thanks to the creator is the bases of prayer in our life but what we don’t realize is that it the only the outer surface of praying, it goes deeper than that. Praying for the world when someone is sick or someone is in jail. Praying continually everyday till you have satisfied your God. The question comes up, how many times a day does a devout Muslim will pray. That is a question that was left up to Muhammad to negotiate with Moses about how many times one should pray. The proper prayer that should be sufficient would be 50 times a day and then as negotiating was made it came all the way down to 5 times a day even at that the people was unsatisfied with that, they told Muhammad to negotiate more, but with his shame of his people he refuse to negotiate any more. Now the standard time to pray is...
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...mentions “They pray in Spanish to an Anglo God with a Jewish heritage.” Meaning that these women have to pray to a God that is not like them. She characterizes the women’s God as a “Great White Father” and not as a Spanish one. It may be a representation of the American culture. They don’t speak the same language, they don’t share the same culture, indicating that the women are worshipping a being unlike themselves. They pray to a God that doesn’t understand what they are saying. Despite those differences the women keep praying to him with hope that someday they might understand each other. “Imperturbable in his marble pedestal looks down upon his brown daughters”, implies that even after all that praying these Latina women do, God sits calmly upon his pedestal and not impressed by all the prayers and candles lite up for him. He greets his women with a down look star. He is deaf to his followers from another culture. These women are blindly devoting themselves and praying to a God who is “unmoved by their persistent prayers”...
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...so he continued his journey without Scholastica. When he got to Subiaco a man greeted him he said he was a monk from a near by monastery Benedict told him he was going to be a hermit and the monk said I will bring the food you need to stay alive then Benedict thanked him afterwords he found a cave and lived there praying to God and receiving his meal from his friend the ,monk, but one day the monk died so Benedict had to forge for food. Benedict started preaching to small groups about God. He started to become famous again but he loved preaching about God. Benedict started preaching a lot so he got some men that were willing and they started to build a monastery Soon it became popular and more people wanted to help build the monastery When it was done it became filled with monks and Benedict started preaching to hundreds of people about the holy rule, gospels,and they all would pray together. Benedict left Subiaco and went to Monte Cassino to build another monastery there. When they were building Monte Cassino a man was building a wall when the devil made it collapse he was crushed and died the monks got Benedict and Benedict spent a lot of time praying for the dead man soon the man awoke from his death Benedict performed another miracle. Benedict was very selfless he cared for everyone a lot and spent time...
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...By having Parris care more about his reputation than his daughter, to naively assisting the court for the sole purpose of retaining his integrity, and by praying with the remaining innocent to protect himself and his self worth, he distinctly shows how important his reputation is to him. Reverend Parris is the prime example of the theme of reputation that is constantly reappearing in The Crucible, which further amplifies the theme that Arthur Miller is trying to get across to his...
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...its fervor. Twain’s essay discusses imperialism and its consequences. Twain uses two very different characters, a priest and a stranger, to contrast pro-imperialism and anti-imperialism. Ultimately, Twain’s essay reveals to readers that praying for success in war is also praying for the defeat of another nation. Twain reveals the brutality of imperialism in The War Prayer through effective use of irony, purposeful word choice, and a powerful final sentence. The War Prayer uses irony to convey Twain’s theme, as it takes place in a church. Members of a town gather every Sunday at church to pray for their soldiers. Their prayers mention their hopes to “drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded,” and “go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe.” The prayers of the townspeople wish for no mercy on the enemy, however, they are said in the very place they are taught to love all people, a church. Twain’s setting is ironic because the people pray for destruction in a place of peace. The irony of the setting causes readers to question exactly what the people are praying for. Though it appears they pray for their soldiers’ safety, with closer reading, it becomes apparent they are praying for destruction of another civilization. The setting effectively reveals Twain’s theme, the true brutality of imperialism, as it describes the harsh prayers ironically...
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...soul. And yet, Lewis tells this story as if it ends terribly and only gets worse from the beginning. Screwtape, a wise, elder demon corresponds, in thirty-one letters, with his young apprentice nephew, Wormwood; he gives him advice about how to go about stealing the soul of a British man from his first conversion to his redemption. Lewis raises major ethical points by fleshing out the mistakes and every day succumbing to sin of Christians. Lewis gives more than a few examples of this ordinary everyday Christian man giving into the temptation of sin, without even knowing it; thus, giving an extremely real insight to the reader’s own life and the decisions they, themselves, make. From judging people based off looks in his second letter to praying in his third letter to worrying about the future in his fifteenth letter, Screwtape endorses the very things the reader recognizes in his or her own actions in a scary, ‘is-there-a-demon-behind-me’ kind of way. Lewis points out major flaws in the Church on several different occasions, but one in which the “Church of England might have become a positive hotbed of charity and humility” (85) had it not been for the demons’ relentless labor to oppose such outcomes. Screwtape tells Wormwood that if he cannot keep his client out of church at all than he should attach him to a ‘party church’, which is to say, churches who faction themselves off and forget the true reasoning of the congregation for lesser, meaningless reasons, such as the faceoff...
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