Humanities Today Monique Berry HUM/102 October 4‚ 2011 Sharon Worley Humanities Today Humanities are defined as the study or investigation of the natural human processes and social relationships. Many world events transpired in earlier centuries that created what the world is now. The purpose of this paper is to define the term humanities‚ and also distinguish them from other modes of human inquiry and expression. A list of current examples of Art‚ Music‚ Architecture‚ Philosophy‚ and Literature
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Sparse Humanity To start this off‚ I would like to tell you that the future is great. That itś some sort of golden age. Honestly‚ I would like to‚ but I can´t. In fact‚ the future is practically the opposite. Humanity has destroyed itself in war. Nuclear War. The war decimated the population. It also affected the environment. No‚ not the ¨global warming¨ idea. The creatures that humanity once knew are mutated. The remnant of Humanity from the war stay in groups and move around‚ Or they stay in fort-towns
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THEIR COUNTRY:THE CLIMATE‚ EVERGREEN SURROUNDINGS‚ FRINEDLY PEOPLE‚ RAINS‚ SUNSHINE AND THE FRUITS WHICH THEY AHVE IN PLENTY. IT IS ALSO THEIR FAMILY‚ RELATIVES AND NEIGHBOURS WHO ARE VERY LOVABLE AND KIND‚ ETC... HOWEVER‚ WE CANT DENY A THING THAT STUDYING ABROAD IS A VERY GOOD OPPORTUNITY AND A BRILLIANT FUTURE LEADING TO THE SUCCESS. WHEN WE STUDY IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES‚ WE CAN SEE A WIDER WORLD BECAUSE WE CAN AFFORD TO TAKE VACATIONA AND TRAVEL TO BEAUTY SPOTS WHERE WE NEVER COME TO. IN ADDITION‚
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service organization) I choose to research Habitat for Humanity for a “faith-based” social service organization. I was much uninformed of this organization‚ but thought I knew the services they provided. For example‚ I thought this organization gave away houses‚ but instead they provide reasonable mortgage loans. I also didn’t know this organization was Christian based. This organization also receives funding from the government. Habitat for Humanity provides many families with roofs over their heads
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The program Habitat for Humanity was brought to life by Clarence Jordan in Americus Alabama. On the Koinonia Farm‚ Millard and Linda Fuller dreamt up the idea of “partnership housing”. Partnership Housing is where someone who needs shelter works with other volunteers to build affordable housing that is also cosmetically and structurally appealing. The very first family involved with the program was a couple named Beau and Emma with their five children. They previously lived in a hobble that was not
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various organizations with my chorus class also volunteering at Buffalo’s chicken wing festival. The project‚ which I enjoyed most though‚ was volunteering for Habitat for Humanity and helping rebuild a home. The house which Fisher Price employees and I helped rebuild was located in South buffalo. The organization Habitat for humanity is a nonprofit‚ ecumenical Christian housing ministry. That seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world‚ and to make decent shelter a matter of
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religious belief. Genetic studies have recently been done that even suggest that religion evolved with humanity. Through all this time‚ religion has had its uses. It has a binding factor that allows subjugated people to band together against their oppressors (or against the forces of nature)‚ and can be useful in distributing help to those who need it most. However‚ it currently hinders humanity more than it helps. Governments have replaced religious charity with social welfare‚ and democracy has
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The birth of Habitat for Humanity started with both Millard and Linda fuller’s visit to Koinonia Farm in 1965. Just outside Americus Georgia one of the most poverty stricken cities in the United states. Biblical scholar Clarence Jordan founded this small christian community farm. Here the Fuller’s learned the concept of partnership housing‚ a tool that habitat uses to create simple decent homes by working with volunteers. Milliard Fuller would leave his comfortable life as a young millionaire and
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Hitchcock’s abovementioned statement clearly reflects a God not in relationship with humanity‚ a God that is not only distant but above and ultimately beyond humanity and creation. Such an understanding fails to recognize‚ for example‚ liberation theology’s belief that we are called to be agents‚ conduits‚ of the loving and transformative presence and action of the sacred in
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Lust for Power; Destruction of Humanity “Power”‚ the literal meaning of this word is “control”. Unfortunately‚ we are living in a world where the lust for power has resulted in the destruction of humanity. From the lower class clerks to the industrialists of the highest class‚ everyone is involved in a race‚ a race to get to the top. And they are willing to use any means to get there. Leg pulling has become a culture now a days‚ no one can digest anyone else’s success. Everybody is blinded by this
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