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Mai, Thank you for the support. I totally agree with you that kids need a role model to look up to. I plan to continue to help the children next semester. Involving more college students is a great idea. The only problem is that I help children in New Orleans East and not too many Xavier students live down here.
ldoby2, Thank you for commenting again! I am sorry that I did have any updates for you to constructively criticize or to give your opinions to.
tsmith16, Thank you for your nice thoughts about my project. I would love additional help, but because I live so far away from the city itself, I do not want to burden anyone. My project’s scope is pretty limited as it is, because I only mentor young Vietnamese children that need attention. Thank you for offering!
kaylayowman, You are completely right! My project is going exceptionally well, and the kids are amazing.
kguerin, Thank you for your kind thoughts! I have scheduled it in so that I may tutor them weekly, and I hope they remember me, considering that I make them do their homework.
Source and textual criticism are two completely different things. We are going to start with source criticism. This is a study of how information sources are evaluated. Is this source trustworthy? The word source criticism is actually interchangeable with both biblical criticism and literary criticism. This form of criticism is basically an attempt to find the sources that the writer used. Now, although textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism, it is totally different from source criticism by way of what it criticizes. Textual criticism is the study of texts that also edits ands produces scholarly editions. This form of criticism is used to improve the texts by removing errors and reconstructing the texts. There are actually three specific steps to textual criticism. The goal behind textual criticism is to compose a critical edition.
Tobit is about a man that lives in the capitol city of Assyria. He has taken it upon himself to give murdered Israelites proper burial. One night, after he has buried a man, he falls asleep outside and is blinded because a bird pooped in his eye. His blindness causes him to be incapable of working, which causes a strain in his marriage. This strain drives Tobit to wish that he were dead. Across town, a woman named Sarah wishes for her own death also. Her situation is completely bizarre because she is a virgin that has been married six times. On her wedding night, her husband is killed before the marriage can be consummated. Tobit remembers a debt owed to him and sends his son to retrieve it. Rapheal, the healing angel, offers his protection to Tobit’s son for his journey. The son falls in love with Sarah and asks to marry her. Her father allows it and secretly begins to dig the boy’s grave. Rapheal protects the son from death and he also cures Tobit of his blindness. The main lesson is that if you are a selfless, moralistic person and something bad happens to you, an angel will come down and cure you or make your current situation better.
My project is going amazing. The kids are all great, albeit bratty at time. I have never noticed how lazy these kids are. Most of the kids that I mentor attend mass every Sunday and I usually see them there. There are all so perceptible to saying bad words and I reprimand them but to no avail. I have to tell their parents because it is not in my job description to discipline them, but that is the only bad thing that they do. Well, they do not want to do their homework, but let us be honest; no one wants to do their homework. I do not understand how easy it is to tell people what to do, when you cannot or do not want to do it yourself.
Jesus is counter cultural because he does not really have a race. There are different cultures because of the Tower of Babel. The Tower of Babel was supposed to be a place to worship God but it became a place to worship man, and that infuriated God. Thus, he gave everyone a different language and now we have different cultures. Many people can say that Jesus is white or Egyptian, but I like to believe that Jesus, and God, are universal to race. Does it really matter what color their skin is? Will you stop believing in them if you found out that they were of a different race then you originally believe? Because if that is the case, then you are racist.
My project is not counter cultural because of the area that I currently live in. I live in an area of New Orleans East that is almost completely composes of Vietnamese people. I mean, there are so many Vietnamese Catholics here that our church was not closed and our church now has American and Spanish mass for the Catholics whose churches were closed. My younger siblings are basically children that cannot find homework help from their busy, barely English-speaking parents. However, when I was in high school, as an official Big Sister, I had both an African American and a Caucasian little brother.
My original goal for my project was to improve the behaviors of the youth so that they may have a brighter, more positive future. This began to involve me helping them with their homework, getting them started on better studying and organization habits. Helping them with their homework and just talking to them is the only way I know how to be a mentor to them. Listening to what they have to say and paying attention to them is all you need to do to be a good role model and I feel as though that is what I did.
In the religious sense, Jesus was crucified to purge the world of sin. He died so that we could be saved. However, in the legal sense, Jesus was crucified because he was considered the King of the Jews. His teachings and beliefs lead the Romans to believe that he was against them. The Romans did not believe that Jesus was anything special because he was no a high priest, he was merely a man. Because he was not one of their own, the only conclusion left was that he was against them.
These are two of my little siblings that I have adopted.
