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- 1721: The Book of Mark: An Essay for Humanities Courses That Treat The Bible As A Historical Document
- The Book of Mark: An Essay for Humanities Courses That Treat The Bible As A Historical Document PART A MARK'S THEOLOGY REFLECTED IN WRITING Mark and the other evangelists used basically five ways to change, edit or enhance Jesus' sayings to reflect their own views of Christianity. According to the Five Gospels Book, plagiarism and changing of writing was not a crime, but actually very common Mark's time. Besides, Mark never knew Jesus first-hand, he somehow had to make a 'story' from basically Hearsay! Mark groups different parables and sayings of Jesus by topic; making a false impression that these things ... the Rich) & (Parable of The Camel and the Eye of a Needle). It is doubtful that these things happened at the same time; however, they are GREY in The Five Gospels anyway ... and probably didn't happen as Mark describes. This brings us to Mark's writing style. Mark seems to "tack-on" sentences to Jesus' teachings to make them more "Christian." This really changes the meaning more than any ...
- 1722: The Lexus And The Olive Trees
- ... trouble spread to one continent after another like a virus. USA Today On December 8, 1997, the government of Thailand shut down 56 of their countries finance houses. These finance houses borrowed heavily in U.S. dollars and lent those dollars out to Thai businesses for the building of hotels, office blocks, luxury apartments and factories. Almost overnight, these private banks had been bankrupted by the crash of the Thai currency, the baht. This situation caused a domino effect on other leading businesses that caused money problems. Many businesses couldn t pay the finance houses back, many finance houses couldn t repay their foreign leaders and the whole system went into gridlock putting 20,000 white-collar employees out of work. The Thai crisis triggered a general flight of capital out of practically all the ...
- 1723: Comapre Great Gatsby And Cats
- ... interpreted by what they can accept about themselves. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson is the woman with whom Tom Buchanan is having an affair. Myrtle want to be a part of Tom's life because he has a lot of money. She lets Tom push her around and treat her however he wants. She always thought she should have done better than her current husband and having an ... husband, George Wilson, is just a poor gas station owner. Myrtle would rather be treated like a dog by someone who has money instead of being cared for by someone who has no money. Myrtle's regret of marrying her husband is apparent when she is talking with Catherine on [page 59]: Myrtle: I married him because I thought he was a gentleman. I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe. Catherine: You were crazy about him for a while. Myrtle: Crazy about him! The only crazy I was, was when I married him. It is also apparent on [page ...
- 1724: Zora Neale Hurston's: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Zora Neale Hurston's: Their Eyes Were Watching God In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God", the author, Zora Neale Hurston, attempts to bring into light problems caused by prejudism. However, as she tries to show examples of inequality through various character relationships, examples of equality are revealed through other relationships. Janie, the novel's main character, encounters both inequality and equality through the treatment she receives during her three marriages. Janie's first marriage is to Logan Killicks. Logan enters the marriage with a large portion of land. However, Janie enters the marriage with practically nothing. This ends up becoming a relationship based on inequality because ...
- 1725: October Sky
- Homer Hickam was a young boy from a West Virginia mining town who hungered for his father’s approval. He knew he could earn it by following in his father’s footsteps and spending his life down in the mines. But Homer had a dream—to go to college and to devote his life to rocket technology. October Sky was the true story of the pivotal events that led Homer Hickam to move closer to his two goals of reaching for the sky and gaining his father’s respect. The title of October Sky is very significant. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, in the sky on October 5, 1997. Hence the name of the movie ...
- 1726: Early Western Civilization, Egyptian tomb
- ... which had been explored and looted decades ago. Therefore, they wanted to give way to a parking lot. However, no one would have ever known the treasure that lay only 200 ft. from King Tut's resting place which was beyond a few rubble strewn rooms that previous excavators had used to hold their debris. Dr. Kent Weeks, an Egyptologist with the American University in Cairo, wanted to be sure the new parking facility wouldn't destroy anything important. Thus, Dr. weeks embarked in 1988 on one final exploration of the old dumping ground. Eventually he was able to pry open a door blocked for thousands of years, and announced the ... 20th centuries uncovered one tomb after another. A total of 61 burial spots had been found by the time the British explorer Howard Carter opened the treasure-laden tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922. Britain's James Burton had burrowed into the site of Tomb 5 in 1820, and decided that there was nothing inside. A dismissive Carter used its entryway as a place to dump the debris he was ...
- 1727: Women’s Role in Today’s Society
- Women’s Role in Today’s Society After centuries of conforming to female stereotypes created by men, women are slowly taking control of their own image making. Image of being equal to the men and being able to face the reality of life on their own, without men’s support. Within the short story “The Harp”, written by Carol Shields, the author gives us a clear example of a woman, who is faced with the reality of life. Living away from home and ...
- 1728: Early Western Civilization
- ... which had been explored and looted decades ago. Therefore, they wanted to give way to a parking lot. However, no one would have ever known the treasure that lay only 200 ft. from King Tut’s resting place which was beyond a few rubble strewn rooms that previous excavators had used to hold their debris. Dr. Kent Weeks, an Egyptologist with the American University in Cairo, wanted to be sure the new parking facility wouldn’t destroy anything important. Thus, Dr. weeks embarked in 1988 on one final exploration of the old dumping ground. Eventually he was able to pry open a door blocked for thousands of years, and announced the ... 20th centuries uncovered one tomb after another. A total of 61 burial spots had been found by the time the British explorer Howard Carter opened the treasure-laden tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922. Britain’s James Burton had burrowed into the site of Tomb 5 in 1820, and decided that there was nothing inside. A dismissive Carter used its entryway as a place to dump the debris he was ...
- 1729: Justification of Violence
- ... some reason and their life is put in danger, they have the right to fight back to save themselves. How can a person let themselves be attacked and do nothing to help themselves survive? It's almost unreasonable to believe that. There are plenty of situations that fit this example. One of them is rape. If a woman is being attacked and sexually forced to do something she did not consent ... held at gunpoint, knife, tied or beaten by their attackers, and this is not right. Any woman under these circumstances should fight back and do what they have to do to save themselves before it's too late. Other situations which call for justifiable violence, in my opinion, are robbery at gunpoint and any other type of unprovoked violence. Other than self-defense, I do not believe violence should be tolerated at any cost. Hitting children when they do something "wrong" is not justifiable. I believe that if a child does something their parents don't want them to do, they should be taught not to do it anymore simply because their parents don't want them to do it. But, I believe that when you hit a child when ...
- 1730: The Great Depression
- ... charity just to support themselves and there families. Sometimes the people who get the charity money, clothes, and food get kind of embarrassed that they need the money and they feel ashamed that they can't afford to support themselves which is basically not their fault. The Great Depression caused lots of marriages and birth rates to decline. If you were a younger person and you didn't have a job you would delay your wedding until you have enough money to pay for it just because of the depression. Most of the time when your unemployed for a long time you lose ... contraction. Still other theories suggest that during expansion, business invest too heavily in buying. The expanded role of the federal government came to be accepted by most all Americans by the end of the 1930's. Even republicans who had bitterly opposed the new deal shifted there stance. Wendle Wilkie the republican president nominee in 1940 declared that he couldn't oppose reform such as regulation of the security markets ...
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