My project was geared towards helping people in poverty who can not afford prescription drugs. I am volunteering at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge, La, in the Medicaid department and I am helping screen people to determine whether they are eligible for Medicaid or not. This past week was my first time volunteering and the employees whose job is to do this every day explained to me how the process of qualifying for Medicaid goes. I spoke to the three employees in that office and let them know exactly what goal I was trying to achieve in order to improve the world. They agreed that this was an area that needed improvement for the sake of those people who are living their lives below the means necessary to provide a good life for themselves and their families. I was able to watch a few interviews go on and I asked questions to make sure that I understood what exactly was taking place. The interviewer asks the interviewee questions that are prompted on a computer screen. The interviewer sends all of the information of the interviewee off to the Medicaid offices and they decide whether or not the candidate for Medicaid is eligible or not. So the only chance the candidate really has to ensure being eligible for Medicaid is through the interview, which is where I am going to help. I did not really get to do much else, I just learned about how the process takes place and what exactly I can do to help and improve the world through my project.

This class not only pertains to what I hope to do for a professional living, it also pertains to my life as a whole. I am a Christian and I do attend church on a regular basis and I could never live my life without God in it. So because this is a theology class in which I learn about the Bible and more about God, this class directly correlates with my life and my professional goals. I am definitely going to need God to help get me through Xavier University because I can already see that I am not going to be able to do it on my own. After I do finally complete my years of college, I do plan on going on to be a Pharmacist. This class will help me in my professional career by providing me with the courage to be able to do my job to the very best of my ability. Many people in the Bible doubted the things that God told them, but by being aware of these stories, I know that I can do anything through God and with His help. Because my job will be to help people medically by prescribing and distributing drugs they are in need of, I know that God will always be watching over me to make sure that I am not making any mistakes. He will make sure that I am prescribing the correct drugs and distributing them to people who actually need them for medical purposes. With God’s spiritual guidance, I feel that my career is part of the healing process. God healed many people in the Bible, so I know that he will help me to heal others as well.

Feminist Criticism seeks to expose strategies used to justify control over women and to understand how and why women accepted the subordinate position. Today, women wonder why it is a rule accepted in many societies that women are subordinate to men. The tool of feminist criticism shows that this idea has been around for many, many years, but there are some women who did not accept the subordinate position in biblical times, so we as women do not have to conform to what is most popular in society today. The story of Judith is a good example. An army shows up in her city under General Holofernes and completely destroys it. Instead of her sitting back in horror and disbelief and waiting for a man to come and take care of the situation, Judith takes matters into her own hands and says the she will save the day. She does indeed save the day by getting General Holofernes drunk and proceeding to chop off his head. This is just one example in the Bible of a woman who uses her own strength instead of relying on a man to use his.

I earned an 89 on the midterm for this class and I was partially satisfied with what I had done. I did not put as much effort as I should have into studying for this exam so I could only blame myself for the grade that I had earned. I know I could have done better had I better prepared myself. I was extremely overwhelmed by all the material that we had to know for the exam, but the exam itself actually was not as bad as I thought it would be. It was pretty hard to prepare for because some of the terms I had never heard of and they were not in my notes. And because I started studying at about eleven o’clock the night before, I did not have a chance to ask any questions. The hardest part on the exam for me I would have to say was the Bible verses where you had to say who said it, to whom it was said, and what book in the Bible it came from. I did not know how I could prepare for it and I asked someone else and she told me the Dr. Homan said there is really no way you can prepare for it. So I knew I would be screwed for that section of the test and I was right. But overall, I did not think the test was very hard, as long as you knew the study guide inside and out. There were no surprises; everything we needed to know was on the study guide. So again, I blame myself for not doing better.

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