The Christian belief is that life is sacred and therefore they have a responsibility to others throughout their life.
Francesca Tredway AO1 The Christian belief is that life is sacred and therefore they have a responsibility to others throughout their life. "Respect your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land I have given you. "Do not commit murder." (Exodus 20.13) Because Christians believe in the sacredness of life they believe that all people should be treated with respect and that they should offer help to anyone in need. "Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body even though it is made up of different parts. In the same way all of us, whether Jews or gentiles, whether slaves or free, have been baptised into one body by the same spirit, and we have all been given the one spirit to drink." (1Corinthians ch12) this teaching by Saint Paul means that we are all responsible for each other as we are one being with many thoughts we should be there for each other. There are many examples in the bible of Jesus responding to those in need "as he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, "rabbi, who sinned this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" "Neither this man nor his parents sinned."...Having said this, he spat on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the mans eyes. "Go" he told him "wash in the pool of Siloam." So the man went and washed and came home seeing" (John 9)
Explain how the Christians today live out these teachings, in the modern world.
Q. Explain how the Christians today live out these teachings, in the modern world. A perfect example of a Christian that lived out the teachings in the modern world was Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa accepted her calling from God without question and has through her faith helped thousands of sick and dying men, women and children. In 1952 Mother Teresa set up a care home for the poor and needy; after seeing the poverty in the streets of Calcutta and wanting to do something about it. Her and the Sisters of Charity searched all through the suburbs of Calcutta, and brought the ailing and dying to their care home, and no matter how filthy or disease ridden they seemed they were shown love. Although the medical treatment provided to the sick was not the greatest, Mother Teresa gave all she possibly could into helping the dying patients. Even if she knew they going to die, she would stay by them until the end just so their death would not be a lonely one. In doing all she had done, she lived out Gods greatest commandment; 'to love thy neighbour'. She showed others the true way by setting an example like the lamp on the stand and displaying her faith for all to see, which causes the faith to be spread further like the mustard seed. Her work did not go without recognition, in 1979 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize In the midst of the US funded war Archbishop Oscar Romero fought
Comparison of "Prayer of a Black boy" and "Telephone Conversation".
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Describe and assess the social position of a minority ethnic group in any one society and the extent to which racism has influenced the social position of its members.
Describe and assess the social position of a minority ethnic group in any one society and the extent to which racism has influenced the social position of its members. A minority ethnic group is a community whose members share common cultural traditions existing as a minority in a much larger society. We can find inequalities with a racial or ethnic dimension around the world. But there are great variations in the nature and significance of such inequalities. In Europe, racial divisions have emerged out of a colonial past and recent history of inward labour migration. Whereas, patterns of racial and ethnic disadvantage have very different flavours in the 'melting pot' societies of U.S.A and Australia. It is argued that these varied divisions are not the natural and inevitable product of something called race but instead are socially constructed. So, it follows that they can only be understood in their particular historical and political contexts. This argument will be developed through a discussion of race inequalities in one such context - contemporary Britain. Discussions of race in Britain since the 1950s have focused on the consequences of mass migration of people from the New Commonwealth (India, Pakistan and West Indies) but British history is full of other sizeable influxes of migrants. During the 1800s, for example, large numbers of people from Ireland settled in
Dear Mr. Annan.
Micheal Gibson ` 10 Radford drive Braunstone Leicester LE3 3DR 15/01/2004 Bosworth Community College Leicester Lane Desford Leicestershire LE9 9JL Dear Mr. Annan I wish to complain about your recent decision to impose an embarrassing school uniform upon the students of Bosworth College, which is supposed to be a school where expression is encouraged. Yet imposing a school uniform will shatter the students self expression. As a student of the college I am shocked at the thought of being told what to wear. Isn't enough that we are told what to do, what not to do, where to go, and when to go, but making the students wear what they are told to will induce more people trying to revolt against the school. Yes I understand the arguments for a uniform: it reduces discrimination, gives students less things to worry about, it gives people a sense of unity and equality to the students. I also know that 83% of parents prefer uniform because it is smarter and cheaper then the designer clothes the students always want to wear, and is more suitable and sensible then the low cut, revealing clothes that the teenage girls want to wear and the over expensive clothes which have a brand name plastered over them all what the teenage lads want to wear all the time. The uniforms would make students look more organised especially to the teachers, and would give the students an
Their Eyes Were Watching God is an interesting book. To me it is the story of a woman named Janie who is a born survivor. Although her life is a constant struggle against poverty, racism, and sexism
Their Eyes Were Watching God Theme: Essential Self-Centerdness-A Story of Survival Their Eyes Were Watching God is an interesting book. To me it is the story of a woman named Janie who is a born survivor. Although her life is a constant struggle against poverty, racism, and sexism, she remains true to herself. Some might consider being self-centered as being mean but Janie considered it survival. She is not afraid to pick up and leave a situation that tries to pull her down. She proves that again and again. When her grandmother, Nanny, urges her to marry Logan, she resists. He is too old for her and she knows nothing about marriage. Nanny is worried that Janie will have no one to protect her when she dies and Janie finally consents, hoping to find love. Logan's pride in his young bride fades and he demands that she help with his chores. He says she is spoiled and not too good to chop wood. Janie stands up to him and says, "Ah'm just as stiff as you is stout. If you can stand not to chop and tote wood Ah reckon you can stand not to git no dinner. 'Scuse mah freezolity, Mist' Killicks, but Ah don't mean to chop de first chip." Logan later says he is going to town to get another mule so she can work the fields with him. While he is gone she meets Joe (Jody) Starks. He tells her a pretty woman's place is on the porch, fanning herself, not behind a plow. "You
Racism will stay on our earth, until we can educate every single person in this world
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How are Racial Issues Such as Stereotyping, centrality and stocking reflected in the Olympics?
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With the poem, Still I Rise, by Maya Angelou, she describes the basic feelings and descriptions of a person that does not need loathing or people to try and lift her up. She shows us that she and all those oppressed in general are strong.
4/2/2003 Still I Rise Maya Angelou M.R. Hargreaves With the poem, Still I Rise, by Maya Angelou, she describes the basic feelings and descriptions of a person that does not need loathing or people to try and lift her up. She shows us that she and all those oppressed in general are strong. We are shown some of the thoughts and feelings people have displayed against her, but the reality is she won't let them get her down. Her moral opulence allows her to rise above where her ancestors fell to slavery, carrying herself as a strong woman. Her ancestors' dream was to have a life in society without fear of what might happen (to them). The author is portrayed as this dream - this gift - her ancestors imagined. Still I Rise is a sublime, straightforward poem that acknowledges that we need not depend upon anyone else's opinion but our own. Maya expresses not only her good qualities, but also her unfavourable ones, yet even these are turned into positive ideas. This poem can only be read by us now because she has confidence in herself, her writing, and can express it so freely. I believe this poem can be interpreted as a call to assertiveness and pride for coloured people. It is an outcry to the humiliation, prejudice, and constant drubbing this group was subjected to. Parallels can be seen between (black) slavery, drug addicts, racism and other groups that face constant
According to the teachings of Christianity and Islam what is their attitude towards sexism
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