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- 301: The Roman Catholic Church
- ... sin and is born again at a spiritual level. During penance people repent of the sins they have committed and reconcile. To take part in the Eucharist a person must first be given classes and teaching of the meaning and significance of taking the bread and wine. When they complete these classes they do their first communion; here they take the body of Christ (the bread) and his blood (the wine ... our obedience and love, combined with our faith, will be rewarded with eternal life (Rom. 2:7, Gal. 6:8-9). Roman Catholics that want to be saved know what they must do. Through the teaching they have learned what is essential for those who want to be saved. And that the purpose for their existence is to know God, to love God, and to serve God.
- 302: Ralph Waldo Emerson 2
- ... mother, Ruth, was left as a widow having to take care of five sons. However, Ralph's life seemed to carry on smoothly. He would end up attending Harvard College and pursue a job of teaching full time. While teaching as a junior pastor of Boston's Second Church, his life gained more meaning when he married Ellen Louisa Tucker. Journal entries and love letters he wrote at that time expressed lots of feelings and ...
- 303: 3 Lessons Learned Bird Sings
- ... get saved by our elders and without them we would be scrap metal, but like most elders, Mrs. Flower in the book I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, help out this troubled person by teaching her 3 lessons about way of life. The troubled person Marguerite has a trouble that she can t speak because she got assaulted 5 years ago. It is awful that a stranger raped a young ... talk. But if she had talked, she first would not have learned any lesson from Mrs. Flower, because each of them tie in to each other. An other person who wasn t very good at teaching this common sense was her granny. She always used to harass her. What kind of grandma would do that? Another way where she could have learned mother wit earlier. In conclusion, there are still many ...
- 304: T.S. Eliot
- ... arms as he prayed. In the way that the Magi and Simeon were witnesses I think that T.S.Eliot would have seen himself as someone who could bear witness to the truth of Christian teaching. His search reached fulfilment when he embraced this teaching and was formally received into the Anglican church in 1927. In both the Ariel poems Eliot uses images that are significant for someone exploring the Christian faith. These images are also prophetic because the y ...
- 305: Sophist Teachings
- ... is primary importance. Material success shoudl be the purpose of life. Don't spend your time worryigna bout the questions of the universe, find the physical evidence of life itself and learn about it. These teaching seem to tie in with Existentialist beliefs. Existentialism professes one concrete individual existence, and the absolute freedome for that individual to choose. It bucks the Platonic tradition that hte highest good is the same for ... individual action in determining questionings of truth, morality, and faith. Feredrich Nietzsche contended taht the individual must decide for himself, exactly which situations are of moral improtance. Thsi seems a direct result of the Sophist teaching that each man has his own existence, therefore his own reality. The Christian Bible contains many stories and proverbs. God has given most humans a mind capable of ascertaining at least relative truth. With so ...
- 306: 1984 Ignorance Is Strength
- ... the party allows us to know. They control all areas of communication (the telescreen for example), education and organization, such as youth groups, unions, clubs, and churches. The Party takes the role of the parents, teaching the children how to think like a Party member. An example of this is the Spies, a group which all children were involved in, in 1984. They were taught to go so far as to ... children did to him. Ultimately, indoctrination is used to limit, or repress our range of thought. Today, our governors and premiers are successfully limiting the minds of students, which cuts off our potential for improvement. Teaching students how to think is the most important factor in the future of society. The less we think, the more ignorant we become. The more ignorant we become, the stronger leaders get. This repression is ...
- 307: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... he seemed hardly a gentleman (Alexander Graham Bell An inventive life, 16). After they got married Bell wanted to devote even more of himself to the deaf so he started to private visible speech lessons teaching deaf mutes to communicate with ease. The Second of many reasons Bell was an excellent man was that He made a phenomenal contribution to the communication world. When he was young and just got in ... fear of him dying so they moved to Canada when there he spent a lot of time by himself outside and became friends with some native people and soon was with them all the time teaching them how to play chess, also he made a cove by a river and he would go there for days at a time and just think. All of the fresh air brought Bell to good ...
- 308: Utopia, 1984 Comparison
- ... any other man. This example shows how Soma once again is used to brainwash the society, because Lenina resolves to taking Soma to solve her problems over her ‘₯odd‘¦ feelings for John. Soma and sleep teaching are all methods used by the Controllers, to eliminate love and loyalty from the World State. In Utopia, love is by far one of the societies most profound feelings. The society in Utopia feels that ... the brainwashing and is the only one that is able to express and experience real emotions. In the World State, the society has been completely brainwashed through the use of superior scientific technology. Soma, sleep-teaching, all are methods that are used to maintain public stability and happiness. John is the only character in the novel that actually experiences love, in which he feels for Lenina. The effects of the brain ...
- 309: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He went to Canada in 1870 and to the United States in 1871. In the United States he began teaching deaf-mutes, publicizing a system called visible speech. The system, which was made by his father, the Scottish teacher Alexander Melville Bell, shows how the lips, tongue, and throat are used in the articulation of ... you." The demonstration at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania introduced the telephone to the world and led to the organization of the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Six Major Events 1871 Bell started teaching deaf students in Boston. 1874-75 he began work on his great invention. Bells attorney had applied for a patent on February 14, 1876 1880 Bell received the French government s Volta price for the ...
- 310: Creationism
- ... also very secular, where Christianity has the power (Sullivan 63). One great example of this would be the Scopes Monkey Trial, in Dayton, Tennessee where in 1952, a man was found guilty and fined for teaching evolution (Sullivan 63). Just as there is a ban on school prayer, the teaching of evolution is just in fact a theory, which means it isnt exactly a law therefore it isnt something set in stone that should be allowed to be taught in the public school ...
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