In “Gods at War”‚ author Kyle Idleman (2013) discusses how we reflect priorities through what we do. He should us who we are in both our personal and professional lives and in the decisions we make. Kyle had many different stories in his book that showed us setting the right priorities and making the right choices is a critical part of following God and succeeding in the jobs that He has asked us to do. After‚ reading this book it allow me to see what I have been putting before God. In the chapter
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Collins’ book Good to Great unpacks an underestimated power that helps companies‚ organizations and even churches achieve more than others. Basically‚ Collins says‚ we settled for good enough and we need to pursue greatness. He says‚ “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness‚ it turns out‚ is largely a matter of conscious choice.” It is a choice and a choice that every leader must choose. However‚ choosing great over good does not come how most people would assume. Great companies focus
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Disneyland: Not the Happiest Place On Earth George Lipsitz argues that Americans after the 1950’s wanted to delude themselves that their worries were over‚ that poverty did not exist‚ that slavery did not happen‚ and that work was never done. The creation of Disneyland reinforced this delusion because in actuality “Disneyland was a fantasyland‚” an imaginary world where Americans went to escape the realities of the world. Walt Disney wanted to create a park that “would physically block out any
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"Touching the Earth" was written by Bell Hooks. Hooks starts off his writing by saying "when we love the Earth‚ we are able to love ourselves more fully." By opening with this‚ Hooks tells the reader that he is appreciative of the Earth‚ and believes that by loving the Earth‚ a person can love themselves. Hooks recounts his childhood‚ where he watched his family grow food on their land. The sharing of tips for growing and harvesting crops between Native Americans and African people is mentioned to
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Edward Wilson wrote Half Earth: Our Plants Fight for Life as a way to propose a solution to a crisis plaguing the earth at this very moment. He separates his work into three parts: The Problem‚ The Real Living World‚ and The Solution. While Wilson does set the stage for why a solution is needed‚ his solution does not live up to the stage that was set‚ as it does not appear to be realistic. He does not describe exactly how something like this would even begin to happen. It’s easy to just give ideas
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After reading the first few pages of Strangers in their Own Land‚ I realized that my political views were similar to the authors‚ so I was interested to see what she discovered by doing some in depth research on "The Great Paradox". This is the idea that people living in extremely poor states still tend to align with republican views‚ even though they are the ones who would benefit from more government aid. Up until this point in the book‚ I am still not convinced that there is a reasonable explanation
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the production Dog Sees God confession of a teenager blockhead written by Bert V. Royal. Present at Lone Star College- North Harris and directed by John Cash Carpenter. The play starts off with the character (CB) writing a letter to his pen pal and he explaining to him that he just lost his dog who was also his best friend. CB then begin to question is there life after death. This was a very emotion play for me I laughed‚ cried and even got my heart broken. Dog sees God deals with some real life
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Book Arrangement: The God Delusion has 374 pages separated by Ten Chapters‚ each with several smaller parts. Every three to five pages‚ another issue arising from religion is addressed and proven to be a problem easily solvable by decreasing the amount of religion in the world. Each chapter commences with a quote from a famous‚ credible source introducing the main point to be discussed in the chapter. At the conclusion of the book‚ there are multiple tools to help the reader better understand the
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forbidden to cross the river. It is forbidden to got to the Place of the Gods. All these things are forbidden.” After his dad said that John recited that it is forbidden. This shows that John knew but still did what he wanted to do based on his own agenda. Theme The theme for this piece is pursuing knowledge. I say this is the theme because that caused him to go east. His father told him it is forbidden to go east. That is where the god reside and they are not to go there. The east is a mysterious and
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the passage “Earth day” by Atticot and Manning states‚”Almost half the food in the U.S. goes to waste approximately three-thousand pounds per second. And we have to build on that. If we keep recycling and saving food we could be really successful. If we disregard Earth Day it will become a non-issue‚ lots of stuff will be wasted‚ and nobody will recycle‚ which would ruin everything we accomplished. If we just get rid of Earth Day then nobody would recycle. If nobody recycles‚ then earth would just
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