...The 2,000-Year-Old Wonder Drug 1. If aspirin truly is the wonder drug that the author claims it is. Would you support requiring all those for whom it is not dangerous to take it? Why or why not? In opinion, I will support it. Researchers have proved that patients who take aspirin gave a good result. 2. The author clearly approves of Mayor Bloomberg’s restrictions on sodas and trans fats. However, others feel that Bloomberg has gone too far in restricting these item. Where do you stand on this issue? I think his restrictions in the health code when a too far. I think every person is responsible of their own health. As an adult person we are responsible of what we consumed and having restrictions of what we really like, I think will make it worse. 3. Referring to our right to smoke and to not wear a seat belt, the author quotes Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart: “There is a big difference between what we have the right to do and what is right to do”, but that aren’t “right to do”? make a list and then compare your list with your classmates’ lists. What conclusions can you draw from these lists? Smoking in not just design areas , or another right to do is advocate for your rights at school with students with disabilities. 4. I definitely agree with the author about our responsibilities in our health. We know that some foods are nothing healthy for us but we still eating, even thought we know that we may have some health issues later on. My opinion is if someone has health...
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...George Fredrick Müller (German: Georg Friedrich Müller) (September 27, 1805 – March 10, 1898), a Christian evangelist and Director of orphanages in Bristol, England, cared for 10,024 orphans in his life[1]. He was well-known for providing an education to the children under his care, to the point where he was accused of raising the poor above their natural station in life. Contents [hide] • 1 Youth • 2 Early work • 3 Orphanages • 4 Evangelism • 5 Theology • 6 The George Müller Charitable Trust • 7 Video • 8 See also • 9 References • 10 Notes • 11 External links [edit] Youth Müller was born in Kroppenstaedt, a village near Halberstadt in the Kingdom of Prussia. His early life was not marked by righteousness—on the contrary, he was a thief, a liar and a gambler. While his mother was dying, he, at 14 years of age, was playing cards with friends and drinking. Müller's father hoped to provide him with a religious education that would allow him to take a lucrative position as a clergyman in the state church. He studied divinity in the University of Halle, and there met a fellow student (Beta) who invited him to a Christian prayer meeting. There he was welcomed, and he began regularly reading the Bible and discussing Christianity with the others who attended the meetings.After seeing a man praying to God on his knees, He was saved. As soon as he got home He went to his bed and knelt and prayed. He asked God to help him in his life and to bless him wherever he went and...
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...Dear Brother, First accept my Salaam and good wishes. You may have read my website: www.vegetarianmuslim.org. You advocate the slaughtering of animals and eating its flesh while I condemn slaughtering of animals or eating its flesh. Very few Muslims would favour me for what I write and preach. It does not come as a surprise to me, for I am learned and enlightened while most of you do not know your religion or may never have read the Holy Quran with its deep meanings. I have nothing against you. Ultimately, we have to pay for our karma or deeds, sometime, somewhere, and somehow until we die. But it is my duty to let you know the reasons why I preach vegetarianism, why I am against slaughtering or eating of animal flesh, it may be a bird, a four legged animals, fish or any kind of eggs. Even honey and undue use of milk is avoided by me. WHY? IS THE QUESTION Brother, my reasons are as under: 1. Islam was introduced to us by our Holy Prophet Mohammed(peace will always be upon him). He was a hardcore vegetarian. Even small children who read the life history of the Prophet knows , when the Holy Prophet moved away from Mecca to Medina, he did this under great hardship for several days through the dessert and the jungles and on the way he lived on cooked leaves. He never slaughtered any animals during this transit period. He cautioned everyone that meat of animals are intoxicating like wine and also told his followers that they should not turn their stomach into a grave of dead animals...
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...Analyse a religious tradition(s) in New Zealand The New Zealand society has undergone many significant changes over the past 50 years, especially those involving the religious expression and teachings of the Catholic Church. Both educational and cultural changes have affected the positioning of religion in our society and as a consequence to this the amount of citizens who claim to be Christian does not match the amount of people who actually live in New Zealand. This is evolving New Zealand from being a country known as Christian to be known as a religiously diverse. This is evident through the census data. A census taken in 2006 shows that 55.6 percent of the people who answered the religious affiliation questions claimed to be within the Christian religion. This is compared to the 2001 Census which shows that 60.6 percent of people claimed to be Christian. From this census data it is becoming more obvious that religious expression in New Zealand is becoming more and more diverse. As the numbers of immigrants continue to rise the diversity of New Zealand continues to change dramatically. It is now common to find other religious groups such as Buddhists and Muslims in New Zealand and due to this the traditional religions, especially the Catholic Church, have seen fallen numbers. From this census data shown above, it states that the overall number of people who claim to be Catholic has dropped. Although the amount of people who claim to be Hindi, Muslim and Sikh have all...
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...in 1968, and in Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, (September 1967), pp. 3-29; and vol. 13, no. 4 (December 1967), pp. 3-14. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE WEST INDIES THE RAS TAFARI MOVEMENT IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA. By M. G. Smith Roy Au/;ier Rex Nettleford INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1960 CONTENTS Foreword Chapter I II III Introduction History of the Movement Recent Developments 7 8 15 IV The Doctrines of the Movement V The Movement's Current Organisation VI VII What Ras Tafari Brethren Want Summary of Recommendations 22 28 33 38 Appendices I II Letter: Land Grant Letters: Ethiopian Orthodox Church 39 41 43 III Niyabingi Men IV The Creed of a Ras Tafari Man 48 20th July, 1960. My dear Premier, At the request of some prominent members of the Ras Tafari brethren, three members of the U.C.W.I. staff, Roy Augier, Rex Nettleford, and M. G. Smith, spent every day of two weeks with Ras Tafari brethren, making a survey of the movement, its organisation and its aspirations. They have produced a report, which I enclose herewith. The team has made a number of recommendations, which require urgent consideration. The movement is large, and in a state of great unrest. Its problems require priority treatment. Though the movement has no single leader, or group of leaders, it is willing to produce a small group of prominent representatives to discuss with the Government the recommendations contained in this report. I very much...
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...2,076 8,953 13,313 Church property…….. N/A $1,035,000 $2,185,000 While the figures for the Sunday schools and church property are not as clear, it remains obvious that the alliance benefited everyone greatly. During it’s first few decades, the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church represented the beginning and expansion of new, robust enthusiasm and theology among the Mennonite community. The denomination placed emphasis upon evangelism and determined outreach. Members were encouraged to embrace the concept of conversion and a warm, emotional Christian experience that highlighted piety and stronger organizational structure. It was the influence of the Methodist preaching on sanctification and holiness, as well as Methodist church organization with district superintendents and well-organized conferences. Methodism was sweeping across the nation, and many denomination had to either embrace elements or lose members. The Mennonite Brethren in Christ proved that they were stronger for the adoption of Methodist elements. “All this was in strong contrast to the slower moving, more stolid type of piety and less organized church polity of the Mennonite Church,...
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...He wants the African Americans to be trusting in god, for god will protect them in their fight for freedom. Green reminds the whites that they have the same god as the African Americans, therefore they can’t be denied their rights. Green ends his speech talking about their “oppressed brethren” living in the south, this creates a whole new incentive to go to war. African Americans won’t only be fighting for their individual rights but also for the freedom of their African American brethrens. By going to war they will defeat those opposing civil and religious freedom, therefore freeing all their oppressed brethren of the south. Green creates a sense of family and unity throughout his speech by using diction such as “Our duty, brethren” and “Let us, then, take up the sword...”. Green explains that it is their duty to destroy slavery and build a foundation for a better future. Duty, family, unity, freedom, god and patriotism are all subjects Green talks about to influence his audience. He speaks about these topics with such power and passion with the hope that he can persuade African Americans to enlist in the Army. By the end of the speech Green is unifying the African Americans and the whites, bringing them together in order to defeat a common...
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...Socialism. Altruism. Communism. The great evil of collectivism bears many names, but all are based upon the same unattainable ideal: equality. The societies that embrace these totalitarian political forms, including that of Ayn Rand’s Anthem, intend to become the paragon of parity by having their citizens sacrifice their own happiness for that of their brethren. The leaders of Anthem’s supposedly egalitarian society justify this subtly sadistic method of rule with the ideals of equality, fraternity, and selflessness. The principles that blinded Equality 7-2521’s brethren to the grim reality they faced too often imbue members of modern society, especially as these standards are broadcasted by religious, social, and governmental groups. The...
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...DeVoe Baker 12-10-2012 Getting to know about a religion and getting misconceptions of what you thought about a religion can be very interesting. It is hard to believe that someone can go to a church the majority of their lives and come to find out some of the things they were taught is not all true. Sometimes this misinformation comes from parents, which could be that they were misled as they grew up. To truly know about one’s religion, is to study and research as far back as possible of that religion. In 1968 when the Evangelical United Brethren and the Methodist church united, it created The United Methodist Church. Jacob Albright of Eastern Pennsylvania was a lay preacher who gathered followers in the early 1800s. These “Albright people” formed the Evangelical Association, later to become the Evangelical Church. The Rev. Philip Otterbein, ordained by the German Reformed Church, started the United Brethren Movement in the late 1700s. The Methodist movement began in England in the early 1700s, under Anglican Clergyman John Wesley and his followers. Wesley did not officially organize a new church but sparked a renewal movement within the Church of England. Nonetheless, Methodism spread from England to Ireland and the colonial United States. With such growth, philosophical differences and division were inevitable. In 1830, a group, largely moved by an insistence on lay representation, separated and became the Methodist Protestant Church. In the late 18th...
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...Introduction 4 Origins 5 History 7 Beliefs 10 Rituals and Worship 12 Ethics and Community 13 Conclusion 15 Bibliography 16 Thesis Statement The Anabaptists were distinct because of their assertion of the necessity of adult baptism, rejecting the infant baptism practiced by the Roman Catholic Church, and by defining their characteristics in the belief in the separation of church and state, and the concept that the church represents the community of the saved. Introduction Four hundred seventy years ago the Anabaptist movement was launched with the inauguration of believers' baptism and the formation of the first congregation of the Swiss Brethren in Zurich, Switzerland. The movement was formed to give men and women the opportunity to follow the whole Word of God by the virtues thought by Jesus Christ. This movement also gave a significant stance of issues that were pertinent to their beliefs and the local community. In our view of such participation we would call them dominant and forceful especially when it came to the questions on slavery. This was more than just an active voice, they responded to slavery by assisting the escape efforts of slaves. Quaker and Mennonite Christians in the North helped the railroads to become an avenue for freedom. The Anabaptist was also known as the Mennonites, named after Menno Simons (1496-1561). The basic belief of the Anabaptists was...
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...forms and through many different people. Counseling could come formally through a pastor or a psychologist or informally through a friend, family member, or co-worker. When a person is deciding who to turn to for counseling for any type of situation in their life, one question they may ask is “Who is qualified to be a Biblical counselor?” This paper will attempt to answer this question and show the Biblical qualifications of a Biblical counselor. Required Qualifications Romans 15:14 says, “And I myself also am persuaded of you my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.” In this verse, Paul clearly indicates three distinct characteristics that an individual must possess to be a Biblical counselor. The first qualification that Paul indicates as a must for individuals to have is salvation. Paul shows us this with his use of ‘brethren,’ which means brother , in this verse. Paul uses brethren to signify that the people he was writing to in Rome were his brothers. These people were not physically his brothers, but they were saved so they were Paul’s brothers in Christ. The second qualification that Paul indicates in Romans 15:14 as a must for individuals to have is ‘full of goodness.’ Writers in the New Testament use three different Greek words for goodness. The word that Paul uses is this verse means moral goodness, upright, or virtuous. An individual, in order to be ‘full of goodness,’ needs to grow in Christ and...
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...Protestant Reformation. The Lutheran church helped make Protestantism a permanent part of Christianity. In 1525 a landmark took place in Amish history, in Zurich, Switzerland. A group of students and craftsmen petitioned the local church and civil authorities for change. When their appeals were rebuffed, they baptized each other in a secret meeting and the Anabaptist movement was born. Anabaptist means “re-baptize. Menno Simons was an important figure in Amish history, in the mid-1520s he began to question some of the church teachings; he decided that infant baptism was not in the Bible. Simons began to explore Swiss Brethren church. In 1535 Simon’s bother Peter along with a group of people were killed for their beliefs. Simon then cut his ties with the Catholic Church and joined the Swiss Brethren Antibaptist. Simons quickly rose to a leader of the Swiss Brethren Antibapsist. Within a decade of Simons’ baptism into the church, his followers were being identified as Mennonites. Amish history is steeped in Mennonite tradition. Even after almost a hundred years, the Antibaptists were still being killed, fined, imprisoned and deported for their beliefs. In 1648 the war caused by political ambition and conflict between the Catholic and Protestant churches ended. Many of the areas affected were devastated and the population almost...
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...Joseph lived in Hebron with his father, mother and brothers. He as the well-beloved son of his father, Jacob. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. 14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. (Genesis 37:3, 14 King James Version). Jesus was the well beloved son of His father, he lived in Heaven (place of fellowship). “5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was” (John 17:5). Joseph was against his brother’s sin “2 These are...
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...Jamaica: The Rastafarian Movement Introduction to the Rastafari Phenomenon By Nathaniel Samuel Murrell Seldom has such a relatively small cultural phenomenon as Rastafari attracted so much attention from young people, the media, and scholars in the fields of religion, anthropology, politics, and sociology. The signature long, natty dreads on the heads of Rastafarians, who fearlessly chant down Babylon (Western political and economic domination and cultural imperialism) with the help of reggae music, make Rastafari a highly visible movement and "one of the most powerful cultural forces among youths in Jamaica" and in countries around the world where one least expects to find elements of Afro-Caribbean culture. Between the 1930s and the 1950s, few people bothered to study the significance of the political and ideological concepts in Rastafarian culture. Even Jamaicans who may have understood the philosophy of the movement regarded Rastafari as another passing fad, which would die a natural death once the novelty wore off. Former Rastafarian and practicing psychologist Leahcim Tefani Semaj noted that during this phase of the movement, the dominant public opinion toward the Rastafarians was "The damn Rasta dem, wey de Rasta dem want, we just put dem in a damn boat and put dem out in the sea and sink the boat-say dem want go Africa!" Prior to the 1970s, images of the unsanitary-looking, marijuana-smoking "Natty Dread" with unkempt dreadlocks, often controlling...
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...Rhetorical Analysis Essay The Union In 1861, Africans were free, although free “African Americans still were not allowed to enlist in the army. Towards slavery during this time isn’t quite enough to convince blacks to join them in their battle against the Confederacy. So, in April 1861, Alfred M. Green delivered a speech to persuade African Americans to prepare to fight in the Civil War. Green used rhetorical devices such as pathos and repetition to prove why joining this bloodshed was important. Pathos is used to not only introduce significant material, but to also get the audience’s attention. The statement, “My country right or wrong. I love thee still” is one of the first sentences that stirs patriotic emotions. It gives the audience...
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