Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. - Jonah 1 - The story of the Prophet Jonah is a flaming lesson that illustrates what happens when we put God second. God commanded Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh and cry against the people’s
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WHAT DO THE TERMS RACE & ETHNICITY MEAN TO ME? The terms race and ethnicity to me are two very different things. Race is said to be determined by your physical appearance. I believe that we are what we are. So many different things in society today have had a label put on them. If you fill out a survey they ask for your race. If you apply for a job‚ they ask for your race. I cannot seem to understand the point in all of this. Everything is said to be “equal opportunity”‚ yet every time you
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Justice means having someone adjudicated and found guilty for a crime they have committed. Laws are put in place for a reason and everyone should have to abide by them. Just having a criminal off the street is enough justice for me‚ but locking one up and “throwing away the key” will not make them better; it will probably not change them at all and eventually make their situation worse. Convicted felons need a plan of treatment. First‚ they need to realize what they have done was wrong. Next‚ they
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Although most people believe that the consequences of war will always be present in society‚ there are few who think it can be completely erased. In “Grass‚” Carl Sandburg uses personification to proclaim that the traces of war can be eliminated by nature and time. "Grass" by Carl Sandburg is a poem filled with depth and complexity. The beginning line of the poem stating‚ "Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo" (Sandburg‚ Carl line 1) shows that there were several bodies left over from
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live average and below par lives. We keep putting away the things we truly wish and dream to do and eventually find ourselves old and unable to fulfil our desires. Entire lifetimes have been wasted in this similar pattern but no one seems to realise what it is that they are repeatedly doing wrong. If you find yourself stuck in this very situation‚ it’s time to break out. Today you are going to learn how to break the chains binding you to this exasperating rut and avoid settling for mediocrity. You
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courage. Courage is standing up for something you think is/isn’t right. Uncle Hammer is someone who wants to protect his family & doesn’t think before he acts. He stands up for what he believes in/thinks is right. Uncle Hammer was a mighty man‚ but sometimes he didn’t think things through. When Cassie told Uncle Hammer what Charlie Simms did to little Cassie‚ Uncle Hammer got very mad. He said that he wanted to hurt them Simmses. Mama tried to stop
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The Great Carbuncle In The Great Carbuncle‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne creates a story that is unique. Hawthorne used a simple story of an adventure to show a flaw in society. A flaw that was expressed through the character’s goals and selfish ambitions. In this short story‚ the author created eight characters; each with their own meaning in the story. The first one introduced was named‚ The Seeker. He was a sixty year old man‚ who spent his entire life relentlessly searching for the brilliant gem. Hawthorne
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out more and more everyday by society alone. Racism alone can cause major probkems and serious consequences(in example: ferguson riots) but when you get others involved including media‚ its brought out to be bigger than what it is. I believe we all belong to one race‚ no matter what you belive in‚ the color of your skin‚ or the culture your form and thats the human race. I feel as human beings we have been unable to se and experience th uniqueness of different ethnic groupd because fear and discrimintaion
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narrator in the beginning of the story was implied to be somewhat unaware of what the real world is actually like. She was innocent when she met Sally and was told many false things about love and boys that the narrator actually believed as said in this quote “ The way they said it‚ the way it’s supposed to be‚ all the storybooks and movies”(Cisneros 1). This quote proves that she had no knowledge or was too young to understand of what really happens in this world. Later on she found out that her friend
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lack of variation and diversity that makes the life of an individual to be completely sustainable. According to Ice Cube‚ one day a person shows the entire purity that is found to be present in himself‚ but the next day‚ he becomes totally opposite of what he was before. However‚ this world thinks of a person in one way-the way he is. So
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