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    and ethical use of prayer including inner healing prayer‚ and Scripture in a Christian approach to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). I want to review on the “A Biblical‚ Christian Approach to CBT‚ Implicit and explicit integration in therapy‚ and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that the author has briefly described. CBT has a spiritual roots or it is more religiously-oriented especially with in Christianity and Muslim traditions. According to Tan (2007)‚ the use of prayer and sacred Scripture

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    Prayer (Salat) And be steadfast in prayer and regular in charity: And whatever good Ye send forth for your souls before you‚ ye shall find it with Allah: For Allah sees well all that ye do. (Quran 2:110) Salat‚ usually translated into English as "prayer"‚ is one of the five pillars of Islam. The other four pillars are the Declaration of Faith (Shahadah)‚ charity (Zakah)‚ fasting (Sawm)‚ and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj). Salat should be performed five times a day: daybreak (Fajr)‚ noon (Zuhr)

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    speech was; “Now‚ however‚ I have something more than a hope. And Jim Gettys -- Jim Gettys has something less than a chance. Every straw vote‚ every independent poll shows that I’ll be elected. Now I can afford to make some promises!” Some rhetorical devices found in this speech were: • Alliteration: “Now‚ however‚ I have something more than a hope. And Jim Gettys -- Jim Gettys has something less than a chance. Every straw vote‚ every independent poll shows that I’ll be elected. Now I can afford

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    5. It seems contradictory that Hitler‚ a tyrant‚ and the followers of his philosophy are “bred by” the people whom they want to enslave. However‚ this statement can be true because the Hitlers are the slaves of destruction‚ war‚ and violence. They cannot help themselves do things to hurt and destroy people. Therefore‚ there is a mutual relationship between the Hitlers and the people they want to enslave: while the innocent people are enslaved by the Hitlers‚ the Hitlers are also slaves who depend

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    A black man is whipped and beaten. Three young girls lose their father and all their money is stolen from them. Two families constantly feud and fight. They don’t even end this when they begin to lose all those who are close to them. These are all instances of people being treated unfairly. It’s man’s inhumanity to man that effects many aspects of this novel Huckleberry Finn. Whether people are treated unreasonably in financial matters‚ physical dealing with each other or people’s shallow mined racial

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    The Winter Sundays By: Robert Hayden Explication In the sonnet “Those Winter Sundays”‚ the theme is the warmth of the coal fire becomes the warmth of the love that radiates throughout the house. An adult speaker presents memories of how his father expressed love for him through his actions. In particular‚ the speaker remembers that his father rose very early on Sunday mornings to stoke the furnace fire. Only when the house was warm did he awaken his son to dress. Line 12 notes that the father

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    The political causes of the wars of religion. Throughout history in contemporary Spain before the civil war‚ violence against persons associated with the Catholic Church‚ the symbols of their religion or their interests‚ has been known for its recurrent and prolonged in time as one of the salient dimensioned Spanish anticlericalism‚ which emerged in the liberal political ideology‚ then it would be taken up by more radical republican currents and the movement of the workers. were five killings

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    Where are three metaphors in this poem? Two Ways of Seeing a River by Mark Twain What the first responder gave you are known as similes which are basically the same as metaphors (in the way that they compare two things) except they use like or as. Metaphors can be vague and open to interpretation. The river itself is clearly a metaphor‚ as to what it is a metaphor for is unclear to me. I believe that each reader will choose as to what this metaphor means for themselves (and I think that

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    Writers that have had first-hand experience of war typically tend to more efficiently protest it. First hand experience writers have the ability to do this because they have heard the murders‚ seen the destruction‚ and felt the effects. Authors who write about the negative impacts of war protest war through three important literary devices: imagery‚ irony‚ and structure. Many authors use imagery as a way to give vivid descriptions which help to protest war. In Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum

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    Johan Swift wrote a “modest proposal" to acknowledge the fact the rich people of Ireland were living comfortable while the poor were struggling and had to beg in the streets and so on to surive. Swift takes a jab at the rich by stating how they should feed the poor children to the rich. Now he speaking of this in a comical way to get people to acknowledge the suffering of the poor and how it divides the people in Ireland. The article I found revolves around todays campaign for president. My article

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