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-Secondly, there are many ways to donate, for example, raising money by making or organising different activities, like holding a rally or going on a march. But, in my opinion, the easiest and most effective way to donate is by doing voluntary work, because it is the most comfortable and fastest, besides that you can collaborate with NGOs.

In Conclusion

All Related with Charity is a Good Thing, If All the People Did Something for Charity, a Small Part of Poverty Would Disappear and We Would Make a Difference.

1. HUMAN CONCEPT – CHRISTIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAN CONCEPTION

A) HUMAN CONCEP:

- The Church sees men and women with the same images as God (‘imago dei’).

- Men and women have received a part of God’s dignity.

- The Church was the first to create a path for the human person.

- A human is capable of self-knowledge and self-possession.

- A human’s relation with God can be forgotten or ignored but it will never be Eliminated.

B) HUMAN FACULTIES:

Christian Social Doctrine (CSD):

- Is based on the conception of society.

- Is useful and understands the social visions.

- Says: “Mankind is a rational being and this is why he is similar to God. He was Created free and has power and possession of his own acts”.

Plato’s Model - two different Types of reason... Continue reading "Concept of education" »

The author of Revelations is believed to be John. The overall theme of Revelations is the end of the world and the rise of a New Earth and New Heaven.

One criticism is falling into sin and following the devil.

One complement is keeping the faith and following Christ.

Babylon represents the Roman Empire falling. The jewelry represents wealth and the color purple represents royalty. These two are allusions to powerful people. The people who are given the names that God should have, we might apply this to today by saying that people are given the name "Lord" and that should not happen.

John is referring to when people are pure and time is right, everyone will enter heaven. This is also a reference to purgatory. We see this in scripture again when... Continue reading "The Themes and Symbolism in the Book of Revelations" »

SARTRE 2

"All leaders know that anguish." The ultimate source of the anguish which informs our decisions is that there are no principles to guide us; there are no intrinsic values and no higher authority.

The only reason actions or things have value is because we choose them.

Abandonment: God does not exist. Alone in the universe, we must re-evaluate our concepts of honesty, progress, and humanity.

Without human nature, there is no determinism.

"Man is condemned to be free" [p.34]

Contra Hume's Moral Intuition: "Feeling is formed by the deeds that one does; therefore, I cannot consult it as a guide to action." [p.37]

Action informs sentiment, not vice versa.

Revenge Tragedy

Revenge Tragedy in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama-Renaissance Lit: The Revenge Plot - The Spanish Tragedy (a revenge play) follows the Senecan model:

• A secret murder, usually of a benign ruler by a bad one
• A ghostly visitation of the murder victim to a younger kinsman, generally a son
• A period of disguise, intrigue, or plotting, in which the murderer and the avenger scheme against each other, with a slowly rising body count
• An eruption of general violence at the end, often accomplished by means of a feigned masque or festivity
• A catastrophe that generally decimates the dramatis personae, including the avenger

Early Works

The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd 1582-1592), The Battle of Alcazar (George Peele c.1590), Titus Andronicus (William... Continue reading "Revenge Tragedy in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama: Themes and Context" »

-Kantian deontology: follow the rules and laws. XVIII (cathegorical/hypothetical)

Jesus' transfiguration happened here

John the Baptist's ministry took place here

They are a different kind a of Jewish sect that doesn't qualify as a Jewish sect. They were considered heretics & intermarried with non-Jews & were seen Arsenic unclean for doing so

Judea & Galilee

Greek, Latin, Aramaic, & Hebrew. It is important to know because it helps look at the historical context of the time when looking at scripture

Synagogue was where scripture was read and it was a holy place. The Temple was where sacrifices where offered to God, and God dwelled there in a special room

The Jew's liberation/escape from Egypt is celebrated on the feast of Passover. It is still celebrated today by Christians/Catholics in the form of Holy Thursday

Pentecost... Continue reading "Second temple jewish sect of laypersons who were considered "experts of the law" »