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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009: 800 words
In this semester I tried to do as many things as I can to help with the huge issue that we are all facing today in our society, world poverty. I have done a couple of things this semester. I went to a food bank with one of my classmates and some of my friends [...]
Posted in Week 13: Accomplishments/pics | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009: 1300 words
Fatina- Thank you so much for your feedback, it definitely helped me and it gave me more ideas on what I should do with my project.
Blemieux- I am very much informed and concerned about world poverty and hunger because it is a very important problem nowadays. I actually have one of my classmates who are [...]
Posted in Week 11: Respond Again | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009: 1003 words
Christians always refer to the bible as a guide to help them through their life. Every Christian that believes in the bible will look at the book of Revelation and relate it to our present life as we progress through the years. Every book in the bible is a message from God on its own [...]
Posted in Week 14: Grade | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009: 322 words
A picture is worth a thousand words! and I have 3!!
Counter-cultural means to have values and behavior that opposes or counters the present culture of that time. I guess you can say that Jesus was counter-cultural during his time. He was titled the King of the Jews and everyone hated Jews back then. His followers [...]
Posted in Week 12: Related Readings | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009: 1024 words
The project is going well. Last week, I went with one of my classmates to a food bank in Chalmette. We helped pack food and we went back to the storage room and helped deliver some food to the poor. We also helped bring food to the people who came to pick it up for the [...]
Posted in Week 09: Implementation | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009: 1415 words
I choose to write my letters to a couple of important people to me because I thought they would help since they are very religious and close to God and are also able to help with a problem like that. Unfortunately I didn’t get any responses from anyone yet.
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, [...]
Posted in Week 08: Letters | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009: 800 words
I commented on the following people about their project:
1. mdeloach7
2. blemieux
3. missnay1
4. wcantrel
5. emilygray
6. mwallac1
7. dwhite9
8. Framzi
9. missnay1
10. mraiford
A prophet is one inspired by God through the Holy Spirit to deliver a message for a specific purpose. There are so many biblical prophets in Christianity, and they are all very important. Some examples of the [...]
Posted in Week 10: More Comments | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009: 1391 words
Taking a theology class at Xavier University was a great learning experience. I was very pleased to have the oppourtinity to take such a class which gave me a better insight about life and the bible that we have everyday and might ignore because of our ignorance, unfortuantely. This class, indeed, helped to understand more [...]
Posted in Class Comments, Week 15: Reflection | 1 Comment »
Sunday, April 26th, 2009: 1050 words
In this blog, I am going to do a lot of research to see the statistics in the world of world hunger and poverty. As far as I know, the statistics are pretty bad and we need to do something before it is too late. There are so many things we can do to help [...]
Posted in Week 07: Research Stats | No Comments »
Sunday, April 26th, 2009: 1062 words
I want to thank everyone for the positive feedback they gave me, and for the ideas they supported me with.
Kfreeman, thanks a lot for your comment. I really appreciate your support.
Jivory, I definitely agree with what you said, unfortunately it is true. Thanks for your help.
Leedatboy, the country definitely needs [...]
Posted in Week 05: Respond & Logo | No Comments »
Sunday, April 26th, 2009: 1046 words
I have been doing research on my project and found some statistics about the world’s poverty. It feels like every time I research on the subject, I see the percentage of poverty increase everytime, which is not very good and that pushes me more to want to help the world by trying to stop or lessen the world’s poverty as much as [...]
Posted in Week 06: Related Readings | No Comments »
Thursday, February 26th, 2009: 1109 words
People I commented on:
1- wcantrel
2- emilygray
3- mwallac1
4- jle3
5- kfreeman
6- aminias
7- yaesha
8- mdeloach7
9- jenniferpellittieri
10- hangtnguyen
The similarities and differences between Enuma Elish and Genesis is that in Genesis, the six days of creation in Genesis is parallel to the six generations of God in the Enuma Elish. The first generation of Gods in Enuma Elish is similar [...]
Posted in Week 04: 10 Comments | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 13th, 2009: 507 words
One of the main world problems that I have chosen to talk about is World Hunger. I think it is one of the biggest issues we are all facing today in the world, and it’s facing a lot of problems with it as well. One of the main reasons I chose to talk about world [...]
Posted in Week 03: Your Project | 14 Comments »
Friday, February 13th, 2009: 1180 words
I think there are a lot of problems that we are facing today in the world. You cannot count how many problems we have in the world. I think some of the big problems that we have today are Terrorism, Pollution, and World Hunger.
Terrorism is such a big problem in this world today. Terrorism [...]
Posted in Week 02: 3 Big Problems | No Comments »
Saturday, January 31st, 2009: 1016 words
Wind, storm, rain, and hurricane were not in my dictionary until I moved to the United States of America. I didn’t know the meaning of hurricane until August 29, 2005. I am originally from Egypt and I moved to New Orleans just a year before Katrina hit. It was such a scary moment for me and [...]
Posted in Week 01: Background | 1 Comment »