...James version it was like Yoda was talking, or like reading Shakespeare. In the Living Bible it was much easier for me to understand it was written like how we speak now. When the Samaritan gave the inn keeper money the King James version used the word pence where as the Living Bible used the terminology of two 20 dollar bills. I feel that the Living Bible makes more sense for me to understand. What is the historical context of the story. In other words, why is it important that the hero of the story is a Samaritan (who is a Samaritan?) The historical context of the story is to teach people how to be a Christian or how to be more Christ like in their ways, and to follow moses' law. I think it was so important that the hero of the story was a Samaritan because, of the history and the dislike or as the bible describes it despising each other between Jews and Samaritans. It was a Jew that got beat up and left on the side of the road for death, when a Jewish priest walked by and ignored the man. Then a Levite (a Jewish temple assistant) walked by and ignored him to. It was then that the Samaritan walked by picked up the man brought him to an inn and nursed him throughout the night and paid the inn keeper to look after him and said if it wasn't enough money that he would pay the inn keeper back. Samaritans today are a religious group they are located in Palestine. They believe they are descendents of the people who lived in Samaria, which is the centre of the Northern Kingdom of...
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...In the film The Mission, Father Gabriel, the Guarani people, and eventually Rodrigo Mendoza illustrate Jesus’ teaching to love your neighbor as yourself. In Matthew 22:34-40 and Luke 10:25-28, Jesus says one of the greatest commandments is to love your neighbor as yourself. In Luke 10:29-37, a scholar of the law asks who one’s neighbor is, and Jesus responds with the Parable of the Good Samaritan. In the parable, a man traveling from Jerusalem is robbed, beaten, and left on the roadside. A priest, Levite, and Samaritan all see the man, but only the Samaritan stops to help. Samaritans and Jews had a bad relationship, and it was possible the man was a Jew since he was coming from Jerusalem. However, the Samaritan did not care whether the man was a Jew; he only saw a man needing help. The scholar identifies the one who showed mercy as the neighbor, and Jesus tells him to go do the same. Jesus demonstrates his teaching of helping and loving everyone by caring for the poor, oppressed, and marginalized of society. In Luke 7:28-50, he allows a sinner to wash and anoint his feet; in Luke 10:38-42, he teaches a woman, which was considered unacceptable....
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...Katzlyn Princess M. Bayaua The Healing of a Centurian’s Servant Luke 7:1-10 After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death. When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant. When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy for you to do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us." Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof. Therefore I didn’t even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it." When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel." Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick was well. The Man Born Blind John 9:1-12 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born...
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...possible by the International Care Ministries (ICM) who helped raise funds for 1.7 million people who are scattered in 17 provinces of the Philippines. The ICM board chairperson, David Sutherland, said that the underlying cause of poverty is rooted on fatalism and the antidote to fatalism is hope. I can relate this news to our previous lesson in our religion subject which is about the Good Samaritan. As most of us know, there are a lot of people in Hong Kong who hate on us, Filipinos. It can be clearly seen in the news nowadays how some people in Hong Kong treat our fellow Filipinos who work there. Most of the stories were usually abusing and harassing the Filipinos. I can relate this to the story of The Good Samaritan because in the story, the Samaritans and Jews were not in good terms or they generally despised each other. Yet, a Samaritan helped a Jew who got beaten up and was left almost lifeless. I can see this story in the news I chose because no matter how some of the people in Hong Kong hate the Filipinos, there are still good-hearted men out there, who I consider as Good Samaritans, who just wants peace and everything better. They see that there is fatalism going on in our country and they go out of their way just to help those who are in need in our country. They are the ones who reminded us that there is still hope and that we should just keep hoping to help eradicate the...
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...Ethical Scrapbook: Part II Anthony D Thomas 2016/01/18 Kristopher Crowley CJS/211 Upon completion of the initial scrapbook assignment, My eyes were wide open about Ethics in our society, and how each and every person contributes to the solution; as well as problem. The different topics that the assignment consisted of; touched on nearly every aspect of society that need be discussed. Ranging on subjects from being a “Good Samaritan” to “Professionals that commit criminal offenses knowingly”. The only question after completion of this assignment was, “why weren’t there any further topics to research and search for?” Well not really, but it was an interesting assignment to complete none the less. Each topic discussed consisted of 3 examples that took me different places on the web that I never even considered looking at. The first topic that initiated the research, was that of the “Good Samaritan”. The first example slide presented, involved a New York Police officer giving a homeless man a new pair of boots and socks during a winter period. During these times whereas most of America sees Officers as self-interest low lives, an act as such, surely boosted confidence somewhat in the big Apple. I could definitely see myself aiding in a situation as such. Especially, the way I see that it gets freezing cold around the later parts of the year. Also too; simply knowing that there’s a person in need helps out with that decision, easily. The next example used within the PowerPoint...
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...its origins from the 2009 Law Reform Commission consultation paper which essentially outlined a framework for the drafting of legislation. Furthermore analysing case law and statue from our jurisdiction and abroad, which was applied in the only real substantive case in Ireland to date, O’Neill v Dunnes Stores Ltd To determine the position of the rescuer in Ireland several factors were considered by the LRC such as the moral versus legal question of a duty to intervene, how intervention affects society and with an increasing level of litigation in modern Ireland, how the courts should view subsequent cases for and against Good Samaritans and Voluntary organisations. LRC Consultation Paper The recognition and protection of persons providing voluntary assistance has been addressed by the LRC Consultation Paper on Civil Liability of Good Samaritans and Volunteers, which proposes the introduction of a statute restricting the liability of such persons who intervene as rescuers. The recommendations in the paper essentially aimed to clarify the confusing position of rescuers in Ireland through the implementation of statute. Section 5.01 of the recommendations states “The Commission recommends that there should be no reform of the law to impose a duty on citizens in general” Historically, common law countries have hesitated to a positive duty to intervene, McMahon and Binchy note that common law has been completely opposed to the imposition of affirmative duties, in particular...
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...be a nurses aide, by the Good Samaritan Center located in Lovington, New Mexico. While working at the Good Samaritan center, Mitchell was given additional duties of handing out medications. There started to be issues with Mitchell not following the dress code, singing and not wanting to hand out medications. Mrs. Mitchell (appellee) was terminated on June 4, 1974 from Lovington Good Samaritan Center, INC. for alleged misconduct. June 12, 1974 Mrs. Mitchell applied for unemployment compensation benefits and was denied her benefits. July 24 1974, Mrs. Mitchell applied for an appeal. The issue of this case is whether the petitioner’s actions constituted misconduct if so as to disqualify her from certain unemployment compensation benefits. Under s 59-9-5(b), N.M.S.A.1953 The term “misconduct” is not defined in unemployment law for New Mexico. New Mexico adopted Wisconsin's 259-60,296 N.W. 636, 640 (1941) term for “misconduct”. The final decision was to reinstate Mitchells Commission due to the fact that her conduct was never severe enough to utilize the “last straw” doctrine. Using the “last straw” method an employer can rely on the doctrine for terminating an employee, where the termination is justified by a series of incidents of poor performance, followed by a final incident showing a blatant disregard for the employer's interests. In this case the Source: Kaplan University PA205 Unit 3 assignment case Mitchell v. Lovington Good Samaritan center Inc.,1976 Mitchell v...
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...Contemporary version of the Good Samaritan There was an poor, uneducated, immigrant Arabic woman who was hired at a local restaurant that was located in an upper-class, well-educated neighborhood that catered primarily to those who reflected that demographic. Those who lived in this particular community were satisfied with having only those who were educated with financial means to live in this community and work in this particular restaurant that was frequented by many of the community residents. The Arabic woman was hired to help serve meals and to occasionally wash dishes. However, she had difficulty speaking and clearly understanding English. She understood some key words and phrases but very little. This greatly annoyed the other employees, many who lived in the community. Many were very impatient with her and spoke ill and ridiculed her. Each day at work, they made fun of her and were unwilling to help her assimilate into the environment. Even those in management refused to yield time to help her understand what was fully expected of her. They avoided and ignored her when she requested for help. The waiters and waitresses, those who despised her being hired in the first place refused to help her as well, and would stand back and laugh when she would get something wrong or make a mistake. Finally, just as the Arabic woman was about to quit her job, sobbing tremendously, after having been bruised, taunted and abandoned by everyone else because she was an immigrant who...
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...The Good Samaritan Sometimes in life you will meet someone who is in need of your help. In some cases you might not even know the person; you just happen to be the one in a million who is at the right place at the right time. Most likely you will try to figure out at once how you might possibly be able to help the person in need. Concerning the level of the needed help you will find the answer more or less simple, but nonetheless it is quite a decision to let someone into your life in order to help them. Your decision may be influenced by your principles, moral and conscience, and in some cases you know that whatever you decide to do the decision will probably affect somebody’s life for ages if not the rest of their life. Steward Dunlop’s short-story “The Good Samaritan” takes up the theme of being helpful to a person in need as the narrator finds herself in this particular kind of situation when she meets Laylor in a lavatory of the National Portrait Gallery. She is a Londoner. This being the first thing she tells about herself means that obviously it is a rather central part of her character. By stamping herself as a characteristic Londoner she implies that she is quite withdrawn from her surroundings: “I am not in the habit of making friends of strangers. I’m a Londoner. Not even little grey-haired old ladies passing comment on the weather can shame a response from me. I’m a Londoner – aloof sweats from my pores.” (p.1 l.l.1-3) She even repeats that she is a Londoner to emphasize...
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...Different people may have different opinions, life, and even different ideas. In Martin Luther king speech “The dimensions of a complete life”; he debates what is really needed in order to reach self-actualization. These three dimensions of a complete life are: length, breadth, and height. He defines the length inner anxiety for the well-being, the breadth as the exterior disquiet for the well-being of others, and the height as the amount of good deeds to gain God's satisfaction. In this article, I will refer to only two points which I agree on and those are length and breadth. In Martin Luther king speech, I agree with him when he begins to speak about the length of the life and defined it as the inner power of the people, which we must all be concerned with ourselves. “If one is not concerned about himself he cannot be totally concerned about other selves", (pg. 1)"sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well", (pg. 1), in these two phrases I strongly agree with author point of view, in believing once on him/herself and do not concerned what other people will think about you. He also declared everyone to have a high expectation in life; and acknowledged that creativity and excellence can be exercised in any and every type of our lawful work. And he demonstrated the idea that there should not be big differences between people. In comparison to that, our world today has...
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...The Good Samaritan The Good Samaritan Sometimes in life you will meet someone who is in need of your help. In some cases you might not even know the person; you just happen to be the one in a million who is at the right place at the right time. Most likely you will try to figure out at once how you might possibly be able to help the person in need. Concerning the level of the needed help you will find the answer more or less simple, but nonetheless it is quite a decision to let someone into your life in order to help them. Your decision may be influenced by your principles, moral and conscience, and in some cases you know that whatever you decide to do the decision will probably affect somebody’s life for ages if not the rest of their life. Steward Dunlop’s short-story “The Good Samaritan” takes up the theme of being helpful to a person in need as the narrator finds herself in this particular kind of situation when she meets Laylor in a lavatory of the National Portrait Gallery. She is a Londoner. This being the first thing she tells about herself means that obviously it is a rather central part of her character. By stamping herself as a characteristic Londoner she implies that she is quite withdrawn from her surroundings: “I am not in the habit of making friends of strangers. I’m a Londoner. Not even little grey-haired old ladies passing comment on the weather can shame a response from me. I’m a Londoner – aloof sweats from my pores.” (p.1 l.l.1-3) She even repeats that...
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...Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Grand Canyon University Foundations of Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V April 25, 2013 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Hospitals where patients and family are not only healed physically but wholly are referred to as healing hospitals. In other words, the idea of a healing hospital is a holistic approach to treatment which includes meeting the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patients and families (Eberst, 2008). The concept of healing hospital is based on the belief dating back to ancient times that love forms the core of healing (Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, 2013). The hallmark of a healing hospital is the creation of an environment that reduces stress and other health risk factors and addressing the physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual concerns of the patients and family resulting in the healing of body, mind and soul. Unlike the traditional hospital, the healing hospital has incorporated a strong healing culture of compassionate care as well as the use of technology to assure the security and privacy of the patient and promote healing (Eberst, 2008). There are three key components to a healing hospital. First is a healing physical environment which is a combination of a beautiful and desiring environment with compassionate care (Eberst, 2008). The design of the hospital is one with quiet environment to remove stress and promote sleep which in turn promotes healing through cell regeneration. The...
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...What the professor said: The parable took place on the Sabbath Being that it was Sabbath the priest left him there not to dirty his clothes Being that it was Sabbath the Levite also did the same as the priest A Samaritan with a horse and sword and a bag of money carries the man on his horse The Samaritan pays his stay in an inn and any extra expense The point the professor made: That you have to love yourself first in order to help others. That the Good Samaritan had set himself up for success in order to be able to help others. The real story: Luke 10:25-37 A priest walks by on the other side of the road going around him A Levite does the same as the priest A Samaritan comes down the road and bandages and cleans his wounds with oil and wine, and then puts him on his donkey. He then stays the night with him and takes care of him, and pays his stay and any additional cost he may acquire. The reason Jesus told the story: To show that all people that we come in contact with are our neighbors. That the other people ignored the man and put themselves first. That we are to love everyone, even those that are not a part of your community or beliefs. Commentary: Why was the adjustments or alterations made to the parable? A sword? A horse? A bag of money? The Sabbath? Closer look: The Levite and Priest would also have had money with them; they may have even had donkey or other. Hope: The class looks up Luke 10:25-37 and reads for them selfs. Reality: The...
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...Good Samaritan A Good Samaritan is to help someone. I believe I have a few experiences of being a Good Samaritan just from the job I have and just helping out. I work at Auto Parts and we help anyone who has questions or needs help. For instance we help them with Batteries, Alternators, Diagnostics and almost anything to help them with their car. A day at work to me is helping people save lots of money and getting their car fixed. One day I had a customer ask for a battery. I got them the battery and they asked if I could install it for them. I said “Sure I can do that no problem.” There car was not starting anymore and the person who I was helping was a student at San Marcos State. She said “I really need my car to get to school and there is no other way I can get there because it’s so far.” So I took out her battery, put some special lubricant and terminal washers to help the battery life and defend against corrosion. After I installed the new batter I said “can you start it, to make sure it starts.” The car started and she was so happy that her car was running and was very thankful. Another thing that I do and everyone else I work with is help people with their diagnostics system. If your check engine light is on we offer a code user that is free to use. What it does is reads through the cars computer and pulls codes on what is wrong with the computer. They also have the option to erase the code so the check engine light is not on. We also explain to them...
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...us, not from our cultural group, racial group, or nationality etc, we have to fill ourselves with compassion and with love to treat the other right. It is just like how the Sisters chose to live with the Tapirape. Despite all the hardships that they were facing, they helped the tribe wholeheartedly by all means without expecting to have any return. The Sisters helped the tribe with their orchards, shared understanding, and endurance throughout their daily strive for food, maintain their language, culture, customs and religion. This concept is also demonstrated by Jesus. During his mission on earth, he never shared any prejudice toward the other in spite of whichever group he belongs to, either Jews or Samaritans. He even had a conversation with a Samaritan woman, and cured Samaritan lepers even though he was having a lot of criticisms. Secondly, living the bible is living humbly with others and a true worship of God, which is said in the the bible” the worship that most pleases God, is to help the poor, the widow, the orphan, the needy and not the offering of bulls and lambs, incense and...
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