ARTIKEL 1 The International Day of Families is observed on the 15th of May every year. The Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 with resolution A/RES/47/237 and reflects the importance the international community attaches to families. The International Day provides an opportunity to promote awareness of issues relating to families and to increase knowledge of the social‚ economic and demographic processes affecting families. In its resolution‚ the General Assembly also noted
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The reading “The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity” is about the story of how these two women‚ Perpetua and Felicity‚ were martyrized and killed for being Christians. According to the reading‚ Perpetua was a young and rich 22 year-old mother of a young baby. Perpetua had learned about Christianity from Saturus‚ a deacon‚ who also became part of the calvary. She became a prisoner‚ accompanied by several of her servants Felicity‚ Revocatus‚ Saturninus and Secundulus and also Saturus. They
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All Hallows Evening is a celebrated in a lot of countries. On October 31‚ was the eve of the Western Christian feast All Hallows’ Day. It begun the three-day celebration of the time in the year that was dedicated to remembering the dead‚ including saints‚ martyrs‚ and all the faithful departed B. It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from Celtic harvest festivals which may have pagan roots‚ particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain‚ and that this festival was Christianized
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CASE ONE WHISTLE BLOWERS : SAINTS OR SINNER? 1) Do you believe that whistle-blowing is good for organizations and its members‚ or is it‚ as David Stetler believes‚ often a means to extort large financial gains from companies? Is having a strong ethics whether they are ethical or unethical practices make it easier for a person to take action than for that person to process the making of decisions and choices for today ‘s ethically working environment? I feel that in this case of Douglas Durand
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Jeffrey Manrique Eng 101-A07 Prof. Daryl Osemwota November 13‚ 2010 What reasons might a “peace-loving” man have for carrying a gun? I believe men should all carry guns. The reasons are very simple my dad always told me “Son‚ there comes a time in every man’s life when he stops busting knuckles and starts busting caps and usually it is when he becomes too old to take an ass whooping." I do not carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed.” Those words will always
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Running head: THE CATHOLIC RELIGION The Catholic Religion Karen Paterno Axia of University of Phoenix The Catholic Religion The Catholic religion is very different from my Pentecostal religion. I have never really understood this religion until I did some research on it. I found that the word Catholic (katholios from katholu – meaning ‘throughout the whole‚ universal’) occurs in the Greek classics‚ e.g.‚ in Aristotle and Polybius‚ and was freely used by the earlier catholic writers (www
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Kids around the world wake up every Christmas morning hoping to find a stack of presents under the tree‚ having no doubt that Santa is real. But‚ once their parents confess the truth about Santa Claus‚ they are devastated. It looks like parents want their children to be wounded for all the rest of their Christmas’. Instead of destroying one of the significances of Christmas‚ being truthful and kind to each one and all‚ parents should rethink before talking their children into believing the Santa
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The famous Sermon on the Mount delivered by Jesus is considered to be one of the main focal points of the entire religions moral belief system. It delivers many applicable methods to approach salvation and the lifestyles choices/fruits that come along with embracing God’s grace and sacrifice. Jesus gave this sermon at an early point during His ministry. In the previous two chapters‚ Jesus was baptized‚ gathered His disciples and gained more of a following throughout Syria. Once Jesus noticed his
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Czar Nicholas II was the last of the Romanov dynasty and the last czar to ever rule over the country of Russia. He was trained to be an army man‚ but was forced to take on the role of being the czar when his father died. Since he was never taught by his father on how to rule a country properly‚ he was easily persuaded by people such as Rasputin to do what others thought was best for Russia. Czar Nicholas II disliked being the czar at times‚ but his wife‚ Alexandra‚ and five children‚ Olga‚ Tatiana
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December of 1842 saw the birth of Prince Pyotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin to Prince of Smolensk‚ Aleksei Petrovich Kropotkin‚ of the Rurik dynasty‚ which had ruled Russia before the rise of the Romanovs‚ and Yekaterina Nikolaevna Sulima‚ the daughter of a Cossack general. Kropotkin‚ under republican teachings by French tutors‚ came to dislike the use of titles and so chose to quit using his at the age of twelve. He is remembered as rebuking anyone who referred to him with his title‚ though this was not
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