Archive for May, 2006

Kristin’s Third Week Project and Alphabet

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006: 1534 words

For my project in this theology class it will consist of me going to local pharmacies and many health stores in the city of New Orleans, seeing if their customer enrollment is high when wanting to purchase weigh loss supplements. In today’s society it is popular to be skinny but at what particular cost. Is [...]

Blog 4- Comments, Creation Myths, Etiologies

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006: 855 words

I commented to the Projects of following Students:
1) Renita Clark
2) Ashley Bickham
3) Ebony Cook
4) Sonya Gray
5) Shemika Sample
6) Nhi Tran
7) Tristan Davis
Dorthea Dixon
9) Michael Hooker
10) Brittany Scott
The Theology of Memphis, Enuma Elish, Theogony of Hesoid and Creation by Atum are four creation accounts or myths that were created in ancient Near Easter. These [...]

10 Comments

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006: 29 words

I commented on blogs for the following people…
Candice Claiborne
Nicole Gonzales
Christine Hamilton
Sharde Hendrix
Alexandria Goins
Zachary Scott
Lauren Williamson
Kameron Moore- Mitchell
Brianna Pulliam
Allen Rochelle

Week 3 Blog: Alphabet

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006: 780 words

Writing in its earliest form was in the form of pictures. For example, the ancient Egyptian writings were in the form of hieroglyphics and the writings of the Sumerians were cuneifom. When one looks at artifacts from ancient civilizations of the Western Hemisphere such as the Mayan, Aztec, and the Incan civilizations also [...]

Week 4-Comments and Blog

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006: 819 words

The 10 blogs that I commented on were by the following people:
1. Georgenna Blake
2. Krystal Cansler
3. Asya Hayes
4. Thao Hoang
5. Corneleius Kennedy
6. Ashley Reeves
7. Sandra Brown
8. Terin Lewis
9. Pilar Hamilton
10. Dominique Tomlinson

The creation myths that we have read class have had many things in common. They were all produced in order to validate present [...]

Student comments and creation myths

Monday, May 29th, 2006: 1211 words

I have provided comments to the following list of students:
1. Shandrell Briscoe
2. Candice Claiborne
3. Britney Dooley
4. Zachary Scott
5. Christine Hamilton
6 .John Paul Ogbuokiri
7. Carlos Jenkins
8. Lauren Williamson
9. Allen Rochelle
10. Cong Tran
All of the creation myths that we have studied have different things that relate them to one another. In all of the stories there is [...]

Week 4 #2 Creation Myths

Monday, May 29th, 2006: 1038 words

There is a conscious awareness that is derived from one’s acknowledgement of his roots and what other ways would prove more prudent to do this, other than narating one’s creation story. This is just one of the numerous reasons why human beings engage in ceveloping a creation story that is, most times , suitable to [...]

Week #4 Comments/ Creation Myth

Monday, May 29th, 2006: 971 words

The ten people blogs who I’ve commented on were:
Sonya Gray
Alexis Brown
Jocelyn Bunton
Andera Lee
Frederick Hudnall
Samantha Witherspoon
Renita Clark
Tristan Dixon
Shemika Sample
Brittany Scott.
It was a pleasure to read all you guys blogs. It’s good to know the several different ways you plan on improving our world. Good luck to you all!

Readings:
What do all of the creation myths that you [...]

Week 1 Project

Monday, May 29th, 2006: 569 words

The Friday before Katrina I distinctively remember waking up and seeing that the storm was suppose to curve around and make a second landfall in Florida, but when I came home at 1pm that day things had changed. Instead of the storm moving northwest it was moving south-southwest and when I came home from school [...]

week 4

Monday, May 29th, 2006: 351 words

The ten people i commented to are:
1.sandra brown
2.ajrochel
3.jayerv
4.dominiquetomilson
5.ntran3
6.seneranetrinh
7.zachariahmscott
8.tlewis
9.mphma3
10. cjjenkins
In most mythologies and religinons, an account of the origin of the world, as well as of the human race and all the other creatures on Earth. There is a remarkable similarity in the creation stories as recounted in the holy books of major religions, and in [...]

Creation Myths and Flood Stories

Sunday, May 28th, 2006: 1050 words

The creation myths all have a few things in common. One thing the stories have in common is that most of them involve one powerful person who creates the entire world. In the Enuma Elish, Anshar creates the first begetter, Apsu or sweet water and then Tiamat, the bitter water. In the [...]

Week 4: Project Comment List

Sunday, May 28th, 2006: 35 words

My Project Comments:
Aarielle Gentry (51 words)
Tuan Tran (142 words)
Tin Tran (129 words)
Millicent Taylor (130 words)
Pilar Hamilton (100 words)
Georgenna Blakes (87 words)
Jasmine Ervin (97 words)
Laci Johnson (60 words)
Ashley Reeves (74 words)
Ngoc Le (67 words)
(Total: 937 words)

Week Four! Cretion and related.#1

Sunday, May 28th, 2006: 398 words

The huge collection of creation stories that has throughout time immemorial, been an identifying factor to reckon one’s origin and roots from has several parrallel ideas that has crystallized with time. The myths as told, from the creation of life by “Chukwu” as told by the igbo tribe of Nigeria in North Western Africa [...]

My comments

Sunday, May 28th, 2006: 32 words

I have made costructive comments on the works of my following classmates;
Christine Hamilton
Lauren Williamson
Brianna Pulliam
Britney Dooley
Joseph Bragg
Allen Rochelle
Christine HAmilton
David Nguyen
Carlos Jenkins
Candice Clairborne

~My Project~

Sunday, May 28th, 2006: 208 words

The problem that I’ve decided to work on is Starvation. This problem seemed like it would be the most practical to accomplish. As stated in my week two blog. People die from starvation everyday. Www.thinkquest.org Says that every year 15 million children die of hunger, in Asian, African and Latin American countries well [...]

Week 4

Sunday, May 28th, 2006: 30 words

These are the ten people that I have commented.
1. Allen Rochelle
2. Joseph Bargg
3. Nicole Gonzales
4. Kameron Moore Mitchell
5. Sharde Hendrix
6. Cong Tran
7. Trenise Jones
8. Minh-Tam Nguyen
9. Chrisine Hamilton
10. Shandrell Briscoe

Week 4 Creations Myths

Sunday, May 28th, 2006: 770 words

Creation myths were written for a number of reasons. They were written out of curiosity. Humans have a natural sense of curiosity that needs to be satisfied and this was a means to do so. Myths were written as a way to try and make sense of the world. This is [...]

My project

Sunday, May 28th, 2006: 157 words

My project can and could impact many people with the effectiveness of my method in creating deeds that can be carried out from person to person in any situation. I am addressing problems from any situation that needs to be addressed and can only be acted on upon a deed from someone who knows whats [...]

week 4: Readings/Lecture/Discussion

Sunday, May 28th, 2006: 852 words

Creation myths differ from location to time period, but they all have one thing in common and that is how the world we live in came into existence. The egyptian creation myth, Enuma Elish is a Babylonian creation story. It dates back to the time of Hammarabi the Great about [...]

Week 4 Blog: Creation

Saturday, May 27th, 2006: 756 words

The creation myths that I have read have had some kind of destruction or speaking the creation into existence. First, I will talk about destruction. In Enuma Elish, Tiamat and Apsu are parents of many children. The children are keep up so much noise that they could not sleep. Apsu wants [...]