...Romans 12:14-21 An Exegetical Paper on Forgiving Your Enemies Romans 12:14-21 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; never be conceited. Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble n the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends upon you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” No, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. I. Introduction In our life, there will be people we run across that will not like us no matter what we do. At that moment we will need to make a choice, payback or forgiveness. One of the most prevalent problems plaguing modern Christianity is an insincere attitude when it comes to loving our enemies. George Washington Carver said, “I will never let another man ruin my life by making me hate him.” It all comes down to our attitude. Romans 12:14 (NLT) talks about attitude and how we need to act towards people who treat us wrong. “Bless those who persecute you. Don’t curse them; pray that God will bless them”. Why is this easier said than done? Human nature we want payback or at least what we think is payback...
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...NURSE BULLYING: UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT Looking into the case on nurse bullying, a plethora of conduct violations is evident. One could make the argument that Raymond is at fault for his conceited attitude. One could also argue that he brought on the bullying of his coworkers. Should Raymond employ at conceited disposition? Most would respond with a no. Although Raymond’s behavior was perceived as a form of arrogance and not found to be so for sure, he could have altered his conduct around his coworkers to ensure the right perception. Regardless of the clarity of Raymond’s behavior and attitude, it is clear that several of Raymond’s coworkers are jealous of his knowledge and expertise. Aware of the obvious issues, the individuals mentioned in the case and those unmentioned have responsibilities in ensuring peace and compliance in the workplace which will be considered in this analysis. “The Workplace Communication website defines organizational behavior as how employees act as individuals within the company and how they interact as part of work groups” (Root III, 2015). Of the several noticeable issues in this case, the bulk of it seems to be ethical violations and accountability. There is a possibility that Raymond thinks he’s superior to his colleagues; however, they have no right to engage in inappropriate activity. Raymond’s colleagues decided to single him out to embarrass him which completely violates the principles of ethical practice in the workplace. Aside from ethical...
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...KHAI NGUYEN Ms. Lindsey Junior English, 2nd period December 5, 2011 Character Analysis of Farewell to Manzanar World was II had brought people so many pains. Jeanne, a Japanese American, who migrated to American, had to fight against prejudices during the war. That’s why Jeanne wants public to know about her internment camping time. In 1973, Jeanne wrote a realistic book about her childhood in Manzanar. Jeanne was a static character. Otherwise, Jeanne was too young to realize what was happening at that time. In the other hand, Papa, Jeanne’s father, is a dynamic character. He was not really a trouble maker but he was too conservative, and that was a reason for problems he caused. Jeanne and Papa contrasted with each other through their thought. Internment camping time was changing Jeanne’s opinions, a seven years old girl leads to a changing of a naïve girl without any definitions of internment camp into a thoughtful girl: because of so many prejudices of American for Japanese. World is not complicated as a seven years old girl’s thought, but she had been aware the real life, gradually. At that time, Jeanne was a naïve girl, and she did not understand what the internment camp was behind it. Jeanne thought the internment camping time was an adventure, and journey. Later then, Jeanne found out many unspoken prejudices. All of these small things had changed completely apart of Jeanne’s personality. Jeanne was pretty sad because the internment time...
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...The movie which I chose was Lean On Me. From this movie, a conceited and unconventional educator comes back as principal to the idyllic high school from which he had previously been sacked to discover that it has become a burrow of drug abuse, mob violence, in addition to urban misery. Ultimately his efficacious but unorthodox approaches lead to a conflict with city executives that threaten to undo all his exertions. The school located in Paterson, New Jersey, has below average basic skills test scores. Consequently, it is faced with the likelihood of being taken over by the municipal. Therefore, the mayor asks the institute administrator for help, and he proposes that they employ the scandalous Joe Clark as the school head. Clark reluctantly agrees to become its next head. And when Clark arrives, he shakes things up by recasting instructors as well as calling all of them ineffectual. And it is not long before a lot of individuals demand for his removal. However, but at the same time, Clark gains the admiration of some of the instructors and the learners when he gradually turns round the fortunes of the school. Information is exchanged for a variety of reasons and it flows both ways. Communication plays a crucial role in modeling and upholding acceptable superior-subordinate relations. There are numerous concepts at play in superior-subordinate communication. Key among them include feedback, upward influence, and trust. First, upward communication or influence refers to the...
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...on modern concepts. The view of Akhouri point that “entrepreneur as a character who combines innovativeness, readiness to take risk, sensing opportunities, identifying and mobilizing potential resources, concern for excellence, and who is persistent in achieving the goal.”(Mohanty, 2005) Hence, successful entrepreneurs should have the following characteristics: leadership, originality ability and self-confidence, the traits are independents, individuality and optimism, innovate, creative, flexible and leadership behaviour, they always task-oriented and future-oriented, and play role of risk bearer. From these characteristics, I can find some of the characteristics which I have or not, so in order to impact my ability, I will critic and analysis those characteristics by two parts which are three areas sufficiently developed and three areas require further development. 1. Three areas sufficiently developed (1)High-achievement motivation For my personal view that the "desire" driven entrepreneurs to face all challenging, and supporting me decide the ways of do things. Sometimes, people often evade some problems and tasks which are they may think difficult to solution. But I always prefer to solve those difficult problems. Although sometimes the outcome cannot achieve expect of...
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...highlight the necessity of individuality and resistance to conformity. While Milgram’s analysis seems to serve as an intellectual means to present data collected from his experiment, his objective perspective and scientific evidence provide insight into Fromm’s discussion of the reasons why individuals feel the need to obey authority. The results shown in Milgram’s psychological trial enhance Fromm’s assertion that the blind desire for compliance to power, which stems from both the hunger for protection from one's own responsibility and placing absolute trust in the judgement of another, could be the ultimate self-terminating act of mankind. Throughout their essays, Fromm and Milgram maintain that one of the many reasons humans willingly conform to the rules mandated by authority is that people seek to protect themselves from the consequences of their own actions. Fromm establishes that individuals often follow commands in order to avoid punishment. Due to this, he believes that when an immoral order is authorized by a figure of power, people eagerly obey. Fromm contends that when others submit to a central power, they do it because “as long as [they are] obedient to the power of the State, the Church, or public opinion, [they] feel safe and protected” (127). In essence, when authority figures hold all control, the implementation of their rules can bring safety for their followers. It becomes easier for one to blindly submit to authority when they are promised protection from the outcomes...
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...Shun Tak Fraternal Association Cheng Yu Tung Secondary School Testimonial Reference ABILITY outstanding excellent very good good able average inconsistent poor weak BEHAVIOUR helpful considerate well-behaved responsible thoughtless inconsiderate disruptive naughty problematic MATURITY confidential mature sensible self- motivated selfish shy childish immature lacks confidence PERSONALITY well developed all-round is interested in everything one-sided uneven lacks curiosity is dependent on others ATTITUDE positive enthusiastic eager motivated keen unmotivated passive lazy VERY QUITE NOT = = = HIGHLY FAIRLY NOT AT ALL = = = EXTREMELY SOMEWHAT NOT VERY List of adjectives describing personal qualities 1. General Conduct & Personal Characteristics a. Temperament:: warm, calm, serene, composed, gentle, mild pleasant, charming, delightful, jovial, cheerful, jolly, hearty, serious, matured, natural; impressionable, impassionate, spirited, excitable, imperturbable, staid, grave, sedate, demure, resigned, playful, unaffected; affected, quick, ferocious, acute, cutting, incisive, fiery, hysterical, impetuous, heady, hot, sentimental, mettlesome, over-sensitive, mercurial, restless, boisterous, impulsive, volcanic, stoical, morose, glommy, moody, melancholic, sharp, caustic, cheerless, pensive, flashy, nervous, hot-headed, emotionally stable, fussy, impulsive, cynical, sophisticated, mature. Energy: alert, energetic, active, quick, industrious, diligent, indefatigable, laborious...
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...Jack Saindon English 201-046 Essay #2: Poetry Analysis In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” (154), he talks about his father whom he never appreciated as a child, but looks back now to understand the depth of his love. The story entails the author speaking of his past as a child, where his father would light all the fires in the house, early in the morning after a tough work week. He says, “then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather” (154). This went unappreciated by anyone in the family, including the author; “No one ever thanked him” (154). Once the rooms were warm, his father would call him, only for the author to return not the thanks he properly deserved. In his poem, Hayden uses contrast to illustrate the relationship between him and his father. The temperature of the house and outside, symbolize their relationship. His father goes out in the “blueback cold” to make the house warmer, to make “banked fires blaze” so that his child can wake up in a nice warm temperature. He says, “I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking”(154). Despite his effort, the author treats his father with just as much coldness as the climate they live in, even at the sight of his shoes cleaned. Hayden writes, “Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well.” (154). His father created literal warmth for him, but he did not warm up his father’s heart emotionally in return with love. In the last two lines...
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...prejudiced views by giving lip to social equality and integration. Julian’s mother comes from a distinguished, old-money Southern family and she is accustomed to the then social mores that mandate black inferiority and racial prejudice. Julian, on the other hand, a product of the Civil Rights Movement, college-educated and broad-minded, is aghast at his mother’s prejudice and congratulates himself for being a proponent of black-white assimilation and embraces the liberalism of younger Americans. In the beginning, when the mother questions her decision to buy an expensive hat (showing how poor his family is), Julian “raised his eyes to heaven…” (40) O’Connor’s use of religious language in the introductory paragraphs humorously demonstrates how conceited Julian is for thinking so highly of himself. Julian and his mother travel by bus to the YMCA weight-loss class and at the bus stop, Julian cynically denigrates his mother’s ostentatious hat and fastidiousness as “a banner of her imaginary dignity.” (43) He pulls of his tie, agitating his mother, and she, flustered, calls him a “thug” (44). In response, Julian says, “True culture is in the mind, the mind” (44)—Julian believes that everything his mother stands for is made-up and artificial. This excuse is the only reason he can justify how much of a failure he really is—the false reality of him versus the world, and other people are ignorant and naive and fail to recognize how talented he is. His mother replies, “It’s in the heart and in...
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...MLK Letter From Birmingham Jail Rhetorical Analysis- w/ focus on Ethos “...we are now confronted by a series of demonstrations by some of our Negro citizens, directed and led in part by outsiders…” In this quote, from the third paragraph of the letter written by eight Alabama clergymen, the term outsiders is used. Early on, this creates a label for Martin Luther King, outsider. Throughout his Letter From Birmingham Jail, King is able appeal to ethos in order to refute his title of “outsider” and generate a connection with his audiences, the clergymen and the people of America. King is able to do such a thing by alluding to multiple passages from the Bible as well as the figures it contains, which is done so that he may identify with the clergymen. When not speaking in reference to the Bible, King makes allusions and references to specific points and people in American history, which allows him to connect to his larger audience, the people of America. By demonstrating his practical wisdom, through the use of allusion, King attempts to strengthen his character with a visible appeal to ethos. King alludes to the Bible multiple times throughout his Letter From Birmingham Jail. These allusions are notable in paragraph three, where king refers to the biblical figures “Jesus Christ” and “the Apostle Paul.” The context in which these two are used is to reiterate the story of Paul leaving Tarsus, which King also mentions, to spread the word of Christ. In paragraph...
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...I am working on four or five major themes, but have found amazing connections between them. Four areas of immediate concern, in reverse order, are Osama Bin Laden, the Israeli Mossad, the CIA, the Holocaust. A fifth is the racism in the US judicial system, going back to the Civil war and to the foundation of the US. As a backdrop to all of this is work I have done using Joseph Campbell's series on Mythology with Bill Moyers, specifically, the Isis/Horus/Osiris myth predating the Mary/Jesus/God myth. Intertwined with this is Nietzsche's Anti-Christ, a work which I wish you had taught when you had the chance at WVSC. Many books have led me to many conclusions that you may or may not be aware of. The one you wanted the title of the last time we talked seriously is: Was the CIA involved in the JFK assassination? by Mark Lane. It has the info about how the CIA tried to kill Fidel Castro that you referred to once in class, except it was his wife, not a 16 year old, that was going to poison him. The CIA had told her he was cheating on her. Mark Lane is an attorney who managed Kennedy's New York campaign in 1960 when he was running for President. He is still alive in Virginia, in Charlottesville. You can find his address with 411locate.com. Amazingly, it turns out that the US hired 1000s of SS/Gestapo after the World War to spy in the USSR. Allen Dulles was responsible and the Vatican helped smuggle these Nazis into the US, saying that they were...
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...idiom in English…………………………………….3 2.1.2. Definition of idiom in Vietnamese………………………………..3 2.2. Horses in English and Vietnamese idiom…………………………...3 2.2.1. The positive meaning of horses in English and Vietnamese idioms………………………………………………………………………..4 2.2.2. The negative meaning of horses in English and Vietnamese idioms………………………………………………………………………..6 III. CONCLUSION…………………………………………....8 IV.REFERENCES………...…………………………………..9 I. INTRODUCTION One of the most important things that make people are different from other animals is language. We use language everyday to communicate, studying, working… In other word, language is a tool that helps us change our lives by expressing our feelings, our ideas, our thoughts as well. However, every country has their own language so people learn other languages to be able to connect with others around the world. When we study other languages, comparison two or more than two languages is inevitable, especially when we are attending the contrastive analysis course. There are many kinds of idioms related to animals in both English and Vietnamese. Those idioms are often about dogs, cats, monkeys and so on. For example, we have idioms related to dogs like “as sick as a dog”, “like the dog with two tails” or “dog-eat-dog”. We also have some idioms about cats like “as weak as kitten” or “ cat gets one’s tongue”. Those are some typical examples that people use animals as the means of transmitting the meaning. Among the variety...
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...Destination Essay I am the head of a human resource department of a global company and would like to help my employees overcome verbal and nonverbal barriers as they travel to another country on short employment assignments. My employees will be traveling to Japan. The native Language for most people in the destination country, which is Japan, is much different from the business language English. Japan is located on Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan east of the Korean peninsula. Muslim Ummah of North America (n.d.) Japan landmarks have some of the large amount densely populated areas of the world. In addition, there is a great deal of Japan’s 125 million people live in multitude of cities along the coast. Most of Japan consists of mountains and hills. Japan has become a familiar leader in high technology electronics. Japan is an important producer of computers televisions, cameras, and audio equipment. Cultural dissimilarity effective communication has need of translating the basic values, motives, ambition, and supposition that operates across geographic lines. The Importance of Effective Communication (n.d) Therefore gave some theatrical differences across cultures in moving toward to such as time, space and privacy, the chance for mis-communication in cross-cultural situations that are abundant. ( The Importance of Effective Communication) The last visit that I made to Japan occurred while I worked...
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...Description To explore your understanding and share it with others is the purpose of an interpretation and an analysis. Yet, even though we create our own personal meanings out of a literary work, we must also learn to reach an objective understanding. You have to be able to use evidence from the text itself to support any points you are making. A literary analysis explains what you as a reader see inside a literary work. This automatically requires examples and support from various parts of the text. (Blueprint B v2.0 p. 234) Guidelines | 1. Decide on one of the two books assigned by your teacher. | | 2. Divide your book into three parts. Use one week to read each part. | | 3. Write reading logs as you read your book. There are three of them on the next page, one for each part of your book (beginning, middle, end) | | 4. Create an outline for your essay by using the template below. | | 5. Write your first draft. Follow the instructions closely, Blueprint B, pp. 234-239 | | 6. Do the ”Checkpoints for Revising” on page 239, Blueprint B. | | 7. Receive peer response from a classmate or two. Use the “Peer Response Sheet” and the ”Rubric” below. | | 8. Reflect on your progress so far and ask yourself; “How can I improve this text?” Make notes in your “Self Assessment Sheet” below. | | 9. Improve your text! Turn it into a final draft – 700-1200 words. Remember to use the ”Kulturama Manual of Style". | | 10. Complete the ”Self Assessment Sheet"...
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...Research Paper Living the Christian Life : According To Romans 8 By Randy E Brown Bible 425-D11 Presented To Prof. Jerry Hall Department of Religion Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va Date: Introduction The Christian Life, according to Romans 8, should not be based on condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Based on the fact through Christ Jesus, the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death (verse1-2). In the early Christian Practical Issues, The Apostle Paul forms the main character in relation to examining the respective entities attached to the issue. He was charged with three different assignments which were; preaching the gospel to the gentiles, providing the church leaders with the biblical instructions and encouragements, and lastly to teach the Christian community ways to live righteously in an unsaved world. Through endless efforts and dedication, Paul was able to accomplish these tasks via his ongoing missionary journeys plus the letters he wrote to various churches. It is evident that while Jesus’ life and teachings tend to offer Christianity with the required foundation...
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