HTram: Weeks 11, 12 & 13
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Charlita; I have mostly tutored my underclassmen this semester though I think I probably would have done it anyway even if I didn’t have this project to do. Anyway, PeacePlayers International seems pretty interesting. I’ll look more into it after the finals and I’ll definitely contact you if I’m interested. Thanks for the comment!
Mai; Haha, aren’t we all caught up with school. I have been trying to keep my grade point average high enough to keep my scholarship and I think I’ve put it in a really safe zone this semester so I don’t think I have to overexert myself next semester. No problem with the Organic help, though I really didn’t do much…..I really do hope you do well on your final for that course.
Sherman; I did have a lot of unused books so it seemed like the best thing to do for me, especially for someone with as little time as me. You are very right that a person can’t help others if he can’t first help himself. I hope the children enjoy the things I will be donating as well.
Johnnie; Haha, I’m glad you don’t have to take that many science courses. Some of them really are tough.
Kelly; Thanks for telling me about the book drive. I noticed one of the boxes in the NCF and I will put in my spanish textbook, spanish wookbook, and a literature text book I used in my freshman year tomorrow.
Jennifer; I too believe that it is easier for a young adult to relate to the youth. I hope I can do more than being the tutor and good Samaritan in the future as well.
Gabrielle; Thanks for the good luck. Sacrificing a bit of money to help young children with school wasn’t too much for me. I myself receive aid to attend school Xavier so it’s good to be able to give back to society.
For my project I have found many books that I am no longer have any use, which number about twenty something. I remember having to read some of the books for my classes in elementary school so I hope those books will have a use one more. Some of the books are still in very good condition and others are very old, but they are all still in one piece. I put those books into a box in my car which I will deliver to Millar Wall elementary school tomorrow along with eight issues of Readers Digest from this year, and a bunch of school supplies. I also saw some boxes on campus at Xavier for people do donate their textbooks and since I am finished with my last Spanish course I decided to give away my Spanish textbook as well as the workbook and literature book I used in my freshman year which I never got around to getting rid off.
Source criticism and textual criticism both analyze text. A scholar using source criticism on a biblical text tries to reconstruct the history of the text as well and the history of the time of its writing. The scholar will also try to determine why the writer put together the sources the way he did. An example of this is the depiction of Aaron creating the golden calf idol which was written by an author who followed the Moses priestly group during the time the Aaron priests held most control. Textual criticism focuses on the revisions of text and the removal of errors. A scholar using textual criticism tries to find text that is mostly like the original. In this case, it is usually texts that are shorter and more harder to read.
The story of Torbit is about a faithful man from the tribe of Nephthali that was taken captive by the Assyrians to Nineveh, away from Israel. Before his capture, he would journey to Jerusalem to make his offerings the priests of Aaron, and he married his wife Anna whom together they received a son whom they named Torbias. When they were held captive by the Assyrians, his brethren would eat the food of the Assyrians, but he refrained himself from doing so in order to follow the Deuteronomic dietary laws. He gained the favor of the king of Assyria, Enemessar, and during that time he gave food to the poor, clothes to the needy, and buried the bodies of the dead. However, the Assyrian king Enemessar died and the king’s son Senacherib, assumed his father’s throne. Senacherib believed all the bodies that Tobit buried were kill by him and sought to put Tobit to death. Fearing for his life, Torbit fled with his wife Anna and his son Torbias, and all his land were taken from him. However, Senacherib was not king for long and was killed by two of his sons. Sarchedonus his son now ruled Assyria and Achiacharus, Sarchedonus’ overseer of accounts and Torbit’s nephew, told Torbit it was safe to come home. Torbit returned with his family returned home. However, it was not long until Torbit loses his eyesight and falls into sorrow. He eventually loses his will to live and prays to the Lord to remove him from the earth. Meanwhile in the city of Media, there was a woman named Sarah who had married seven times but each time the demon Asmodeus killed her husbands on their wedding night. She as well prayed to the Lord to take her from the world she suffers from. God heard their prayers and sent the angel Rafael to cure Torbits blindness and make Sarah the wife of Tobias, son of Torbit. Torbit remembers that he left money in Media and sent his son Torbias to retrieve the money before he dies. Torbit tells Torbias to find himself a wife and seek a man to guide him to Media. Torbias finds Rafael as his guide. The two traveled together and reached the Tigress River where Torbias stopped to wash himself. Then a fish a leaped from the waters and Rafael tells him to take the fish and remove its heart, liver, and gall. Torbias then meets Sarah they decide to marry, and Rafael tells Torbias to use the heart and liver of the fish to send the demon away. Torbias did what he was told and he lives through the night of his marriage. Then Torbias returned home and used the gall of the fish to cure his father of blindness. Torbit regains his happiness and the family lives long, with Torbias living to the time of the destruction of the city of Nineve.
The Maccabees were three brothers who can be considered as heroes because they successfully rebelled against Antiochus of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire which oppressed the Jews by outlawing Jewish religious practices. They managed to gain independence, cleanse the Temple, and restore Judaism. They created the Hasmonean dynasty which lasts until 63BCE. Because of the actions of the Maccabees, people of the Jewish faith celebrate Hanakuh to commemorate them.
Jesus was considered counter cultural because he was not the Messiah that people expected him to be. The people of the time of Jesus believed the Messiah would be a judge-like figure that will deliver them from the rule of the Romans and create the third Temple. However, Jesus was a pacifist that preached the ideals of peace and loving your enemies. Jesus commonly associated himself with people who were usually deemed unworthy by society such as the disabled, diseased, outcasts, prostitutes, and tax collectors. My project however is not counter cultural. Most people want the educational system to be improved and many people will want something to be done to help children better their education capabilities and goals.
Jesus was crucified because of his dangerous actions. The Romans who sought to control the Jews saw him as a threat for his actions of tipping over tables of money changers at the sacred ground of Herod’s Temple and his opposition Roman currency which is seen as breaking the “you shall not make for yourself an idol” of the Ten Commandments. The Romans tried Jesus for the crimes of preventing tax payments as well as claiming to be “King of the Jews.” He was crucified on Friday and his resurrection was on Sunday.
Edit: Well I dropped off the books in the bin at the NCF today. I also went to Millar Wall Elementary and donated the old books and school supplies. The ladies in the office were very nice and thankful for the donation. Here’s a picture of the things I donated right before I headed off to the school.
