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    MLK was important to Civil Rights because he helped African Americans be known as people‚ not as things. Martin Luther King Jr. was famous for his “I Have a Dream” speech because it inspired black people to stand up for themselves. He said this because black people were being treated wrong and he did not respect that and the reason for that was because he was black himself. Another example is when MLK said a significant sentence that said “There is nothing greater in all the world than freedom.”

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    & Platt‚ 2014‚ p. 183). The book entitled The History of the Church covers many historical accounts of events that are important to the Christian faith‚ including the persecutions of Peter and Paul‚ the destruction of churches by Diocletian‚ the martyrdom of faithful followers‚ and the end of Christian persecution when Constantine became a follower of Christ. First‚ from an excerpt from The History of the Church‚ Eusebius writes about Emperor Nero’s many atrocities against his own family and political

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    innocent people suffer. All over the world there are people being persecuted for their own personal beliefs. The people “in charge” decide what they want everyone else to believe‚ and they enforce it with harsh punishments or even death. Martyrdom is not necessarily dying for spiritual beliefs; it is dying for anything you believe in. People everywhere are mistreated

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    The Lord of the Flies Ensures Death for All Death is inevitable. Not many people are ready for it‚ but it happens for everyone. In some cases‚ it is martyrdom. In most books‚ deaths mean more than just a character no longer appearing. The scenes contribute toward an allegory. In William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies‚ he does this with Simon. The bites‚ scratches‚ and beatings given to him until his death shines light on the real theme of Golding’s novel; without structure and rules in a society

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    John Brown‚ in 1859‚ raided and killed seven innocent people in the South while attempting to free the slaves of the area and create a haven for them. Brown was convicted of murder and hanged. While Southerners may have hated Brown for his invasion their rights to own slaves‚ he was thought to be a martyr for the abolitionist cause in the North with his self sacrifice and deep devotion‚ further separating the two in both ideals and motives of pre-Civil War 1863. However you may slice it‚ Brown’s

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    Can we Trust the Gospels?

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    Lorraine Stone NT 401-FA13-B: Life of Christ (Fall 2013 Online-Section 2) Instructor - Dr. Mark Owens Roberts‚ Mark D. Can We Trust the Gospels? Investigating the Reliability of Matthew‚ Mark‚ Luke‚ and John: Crossway Books 2007. Pp.202 Taking exception to the words of Christ could only be in blatant disagreement with Jesus the Christ himself‚ a spirit of anti-Christ. Is this an over statement as to the importance of the words of Christ

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    CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES FIFTEENTH CONGRESS Third Regular Session } H. No. 6339 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BY REPRESENTATIVES SARMIENTO (M.)‚ TEVES‚ CALIXTO-RUBIANO‚ YAP (S.)‚ CRUZ-GONZALES‚ PACQUIAO‚ BELLO‚ CLIMACO‚ RODRIGUEZ (M.)‚ NOGRALES‚ DEL MAR‚ AUMENTADO‚ MARCOLETA‚ RODRIGUEZ (R.)‚ SARMIENTO (C.)‚ TEODORO‚ ROMUALDO‚ VILLARICA‚ TAÑADA‚ ANGPING‚ GARCIA-ALBANO AND PRIMICIAS-AGABAS‚ PER COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 2255 AN ACT EXPANDING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9208‚ ENTITLED “AN ACT TO INSTITUTE POLICIES

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    Battle of Kamalpur

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    BATTLE OF KAMALPUR INTRODUCTION 1. 1971 a new country was born in the earth named “ Bangladesh ” through a nine month bloody war . Thousands of golden sons of this soil had to embrace martyrdom . Though this historical event took place in the year of 1971 but this was a long charted dream of all the Bangles since the fall freedom in the “ Battle of Palashi ” in 1957 . Bangles thought that their dream was going to be materialized

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    due to its economic costs.[148] Suicide came to be regarded as a sin in Christian Europe and was condemned at the Council of Arles in 452 as the work of the Devil. In the Middle Ages‚ the Church had drawn-out discussions as to when the desire for martyrdom was suicidal‚ as in the case of martyrs of Córdoba. Despite these disputes and

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    Courtet; Saint Miguel de Aozaraza‚ a Japanese priest; Saint Vicente Shiwozuka de la Cruz; and a lay leper Saint Lazaro of Kyoto. Ruiz and his companions left for Okinawa on 10 June 1636‚ with the aid of the Dominican fathers and Fr Giovanni Yago. Martyrdom The Tokugawa shogunate was persecuting Christians by the time Ruiz had arrived in Japan. The missionaries were arrested and thrown into prison‚ and after two years‚ they were transferred to Nagasaki to face trial by torture. He and

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