Purposes of Music of the Global Church. In it Dr. Okpebholo divides the role music plays in the global church into three different categories. The first being music’s function for praise and worship‚ the second its purpose for evangelism‚ and third its ability to serve as a catechetical function. The purpose of this paper is to contribute my own insight and account of how music has served these three purposes in the global church. The first section of Dr. Okpebholo’s paper speaks of music’s function
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Ambition is a strong desire to achieve something in life. A person without any ambition is like a boat without rudder. Having an ambition needs continuous efforts towards achieving it. One cannot achieve anything if one just day dreams and does nothing. A strong will-power and determination will carry a person forward against all obstacles. Different people have different ambitions. Some aim to become teachers‚ soldiers‚ artists‚ politicians‚ doctors‚ engineers etc. Some try to amass wealth and some
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William Shakespeare employs a range of different stylistic devices to explore the destructive nature of unchecked ambition in his 11th century tragedy‚ ‘Macbeth’. He conveys the themes of power‚ greed and good vs evil to highlight the influence that unchecked ambition has on each character. Shakespeare does this by employing literary techniques such as foreshadowing‚ repetition‚ imagery and characterisation; these techniques along with the main themes help explore the central ideas in the play of
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Ambition is often the leading force in one’s life‚ making them strive persistently to achieve something more and accomplish great things. It can be a positive force‚ but can easily become a negative one when clouds by one’s desires and greed. In Shakespeare’s play‚ Macbeth‚ blind ambition has blurred the morality of many of the characters and causes them to fall to their demise. To convey the theme as effectively as possible Shakespeare uses numerous rhetorical devices throughout the play‚ one
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Scotland. Driven by ambition‚ Macbeth puts his faith in the words of the three witches‚ and Lady Macbeth‚ who is certainly a key instrument in Macbeth’s ambition to becoming King. In the course of the play‚ Lady Macbeth is however responsible only to a certain extent for Macbeth’s destruction. It is his ambition‚ the prophecies of the three witches‚ and also his misplaced confidence in his invulnerability that causes his decline. By succumbing to committing evil acts to achieve his ambition‚ Macbeth destroys
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"Doctor Zhivago" was directed by British director David Lean in 1965. It was adapted from the novel written by the Russian poet‚ Boris Pasternak. The novel won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The film tells the story about doctor Zhivago’s love for two women. It takes place during World War I‚ the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War. Doctor Zhivago was an orphan. He was raised by his mother’s friend and grew up with her daughter Tonya. After he graduated from college‚ Zhivago became
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Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad was the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the post for 22 years from 1981 to 2003‚ being Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister and one of the longest-serving leaders in the whole Asia. Mahathir was born on the 10th July 1925 in Alor Setar‚ Kedah. He was the youngest among nine children. His dad‚ Mohamad Iskandar‚ was a schoolteacher whereas his mom‚ Wan Tampawan was a housewife. During the World War II‚ where the Japanese armies conquered the Malaya‚ Mahathir
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human race be without ambition? Beyond it’s definition of desiring success‚ it has come to mean so much more; it is the thing which keeps us all striving for greatness; it is what has brought about some of the most revolutionary‚ world-altering inventions the world has ever seen. On the other hand‚ it has also been the downfall of great leaders and societies who reached too high. In Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein‚ Victor Frankenstein is a man who finds that ambition has taken him and those
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-How does the author describe the feelings of anxiety and excitement of the boy? My Greatest Ambition is a story written by Morris Lurie in 1984 about a thirteen-year-old boy whose greatest ambition was being a comic-strip artist although at the end he grows out of it. In this text the author can easily transmit the feelings of anxiety and excitement of the main character in different ways. One of the ways Morris Lurie describes them is through the boy’s incapacity of controlling his own body
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because they fear of what would happen to them if they were indeed‚ powerless. This notorious human characteristic is fully explored in William Shakespeare’s play‚ Macbeth‚ a story of the destructive consequences a deep ambition for power can lead to. Macbeth’s paranoid sense of ambition‚ and the prodding from his “partner in greatness”‚ blind him from appreciating his more than exceptional life; apparently‚ a promotion from the king‚ a loving wife‚ and nobility status were not enough to quench Macbeth’s
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