Archive for January, 2007

WEEK 1

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007: 1176 words

So, far I believe the class to be going as expected. I’m actually surprised with some of the information that I am learning about the Bible and the studies and stories that pertain to it. I expect the experience of learning new and interesting things in this course to continue. I assume the weekly [...]

My Project

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007: 243 words

For this project, I plan on working with Habitat for Humanity to fight the problem of poverty in the world. Though I am not useful with my hands for building a stable house, I am able to work hand and hand with the organization to retrieve living necessities for the families to be comfortable in [...]

Blog #2: Three Problems

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007: 1056 words

Three major problems facing the world today are poverty, violence and the lack of leaders. These three problems are destroying our society as the days pass us by. These problems are only making things worse. Each problem is affecting each other in one way or another. Violence is the result of so many people living [...]

Week 04

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007: 332 words

I made comments on the following people’s postings:
Christian Cade
Kimberly Granvel
Brittney Williams
Gerald Smith
Henry Tran
Stephen Becnel
David Roy
Janelle Snoddy
Andrea Rance
Thao Nguyen
Both the Enuma Elish and the Book of Genesis are creation stories. Creation stories exist because people like concrete things, humans are curious and like explanations. Creation stories help validate present social and political order. The Enuma Elish [...]

week 3 WHAT I’M GOING TO DO FOR MY PROJECT!

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007: 92 words

What I can do to help the hunger? I can start a can food drive on our Xavier campus and post signs and balloons up to get student attention for contributions and donations. The sign will say “help the hunger and the homeless, bring all the can foods you have! ANYTHING WILL BE [...]

week three Project

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007: 1027 words

I address three major problems in the world today. These consisted of air pollution, world hunger, and sex before marriage. I realized that there are numerous people out there that are more concerned about the problem than me, and that they are already in the process of demanding to solve the problem. Air pollution has [...]

My Project

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007: 145 words

My project involves helping people get the necessary information about health care that is needed to help them to better their health. It involves having health professions come out and speak to people about the issues that are having a huge effect on their community or they could give suggestions on the various ways [...]

Week 3

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007: 1027 words

The alphabet can democratize civilization because it gives the civilization a chance to have formal communication with each other. It gives them some type of means to communicate with other people as well. By being able write, they can come up with laws and rules that govern the people. Everything that makes [...]

Week 2

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007: 1111 words

The three biggest problems facing American today are; health care, education and American politics, I agree that religion plays apart in the lives of most people, but I do not agree that it should play apart in American politics. There was a reason why the founders of the nation stated that state and church [...]

Week 3 Blog

Monday, January 29th, 2007: 1008 words

The Alaphabet, one of man’s greatest creations, is a tool that has been used to democratize several thousands societies in today’s and yesterday’s world. Before we got the gift of the Alphabet, many ancient socities had formed some system of writing, but as simple writing matured the Alphabet emerged. Many of the first writings [...]

week 2, the world’s biggest problems

Monday, January 29th, 2007: 1405 words

I see that there are too many problems we are facing in this world but one of the main problems the world is facing is poverty. Millions of people all over the world are suffering from hunger. We see advertisements on television commercials showing how people are suffering from lack of food and nutrients. Striking [...]

Week one - My hurricane story

Monday, January 29th, 2007: 1039 words

I must admit, just the mention of “Theology” brings chills down my spine. It is definitely an intimidating subject for me. However, there is good news to this. I am ready for a challenge, so I have a positive attitude entering Biblical Studies. I basically registered for this class to fulfill [...]

Week 1

Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 657 words

My hurricane story I guess in a way is pretty typical from what most displaced students went through but I won’t mind sharing my story for another time. I was born and raised in New Orleans but just recently moved to LaPlace (30 to 45 minutes away) going on six years ago. Being [...]

Week 2

Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 949 words

Well that’s really a hard topic to just narrow it down to just 3 major problems. One of the main problems of the world today, or to be more specific, in the USA, is how our President is handling the matters of affairs over in Iraq and the fact that it just seems as though [...]

Week 3: My Project

Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 55 words

For my project I plan to do something that will help with coastal restoration. I plan to find a local project that I could take part in, and I also plan on making a youtube video that would inform people of what is happening and how they can contribute the restoring Louisiana’s coast.

Shauntell’s Week 3 Blog

Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1010 words

The alphabet is one of the best, if not the best, invention that has ever been made. The alphabet gives people who speak different languages the ability to read and learn about other cultures. It was created by a Semitic person in Egypt and it quickly spread to all other nations. The alphabet democratized civilization.
The [...]

Jamie’s project

Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 428 words

Things go on in the world that we can’t do anything about, but some things that go on is because of us as a people and we can change it. With my project i plan on helping out with poverty. Poverty has more than just people that are poor. With poverty comes sickness, homelessness, and [...]

week 3 blog - world healthcare

Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1071 words

My project for this semester will be to try to improve the quality of health care around the world. I know this seems kind of impossible, but one would be surprised what great benefits he or she can provide without much effort. Many pharmacists and [...]

My Project week 3 blog

Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 96 words

My project for this semester will be to try to improve the quality of health care around the world. To solve some of these problems, I would try to encourage doctors and pharmacist to become more involved in foreign world assistance by participating in medical mission trips. My goal is to convince individuals [...]

My project

Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 122 words

When I think of the South, sad images pop into my head. I see a history of struggles and pain among my people. Although the South has come a long way since the Jim Crow days, I’m determined to find if people still hold those pre-historic ideologies, and if they have passed them on to [...]