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1240 words by tchevis
My hurricane story isn’t as interesting as someone from New Orleans but its good enough share on my blog. The week of hurricane Katrina, Beaumont, Texas, was packed with refugees from New Orleans. They stayed inside the Ford Arena and had many thing and people to entertain them. They got to play games, eat, shower, color and get many toiletries and clothes. They had concerts for them; church in the arena, trips, and the kids even had a registration for school. We tried to make it seem like they weren’t strangers to the city. While they were there, my mom had to go give shots and medicine to many of the people for several days. When she went, I went with her to visit people and talk to doctors and nurses. We met a family of six; three girls, a boy, a dad, and a pregnant mother. Although they were stuck in a shelter with many sick people, they had all the love a family could have. They did many things together in the arena, and had family talks at night. Later through the week, my mom and I talked to them and decided to adopt a family. Their kids stayed with us in our house while the parents stayed in the Ford Arena. Every morning we brought them to school and helped them with their homework afterwards. We ate dinner together and then brought their parents some afterwards. After about a week, we found them an apartment and got them some furniture and food donated to put inside. We helped them get on their feet and it became an everyday routine for us to visit them. We always were together and it was no way you could convince the children that we all weren’t brothers and sisters. In about a month, hurricane Rita came and sent us all to Dallas. While we stayed for about a month, we all went to school there and continued life as though it was a blessing. When it was time to return back to Beaumont, they decided to live there while we went back home. They came back to get their stuff, which luckily wasn’t damaged and returned to Dallas, Texas. Every summer we go to visit them to see how everything is going. My thoughts on this class aren’t really established yet. It’s only the second day and I just sit and listen to Dr. Homan. After taking this class, my expectations are to be able to be able to read any book or internet source and notice what is all true and what’s all false. The only reason for me taking this course is because it’s required and needed to graduate. My background of the Bible comes from church of course. I was in seven different church organizations and held a leadership position in four of them. I performed the living Stations of the Cross and was always in the Christmas plays. I helped with the revivals and went to a convention in New York just to learn more on leading my faith. For my professional vocation, I plan to be a nurse practitioner but the class has nothing to do with it. The course commitments can be followed by me. King of ancient Egypt, of the XIX dynasty; (the son and successor of Ramses II) succeeded to the throne when he was already advanced in years. He quelled a rebellion in Syria and repulsed a Libyan invasion of the western delta of the Nile. The first recorded cite of the name of Israel was found in an inscription on a stele of Merneptah rejoicing in a victory. His time in power was apparently the beginning of the turn down of Egypt. After his death, a period of palace plotting began and Seti II was one of the kings who reigned briefly after Merneptah (Merneptah Stele). The book of Lamentations is sandwiched between the books of Ezekiel and Jeremiah. This odd book suitably follows the book of Jeremiah the prophet and priest because it was written by Jeremiah. It is the “Lamentations of Jeremiah” as he wept over the city of Jerusalem following its sadness and incarceration by Nebuchadnezzar. In the Septuagint version of this story, the Greek translation of the Hebrews, there is a brief memo to the effect that as Jeremiah went up on the hillside and sat overlooking the desolate city, he uttered lamentations. (One of David’s first actions as king was to conquer Jerusalem and declare it the capital of his kingdom. A geopolitical restraint dictated this choice, despite the city’s drawbacks. Beginning in the period of David’s kingdom many traditions about Mount Moriah, which rose above biblical Jerusalem, became sanctified. The most famous is the Binding of Isaac (the akeidah ) by Abraham, the father of the Hebrew nation. David conquered Jerusalem in approximately 1004 BCE and made it a center of government. He brought the Ark of the Covenant to the city, and Jerusalem became the political and spiritual nexus of the Jewish people. David refrained from building the Temple, leaving the task to his son Solomon. The concentration of religious ritual at the Temple made Jerusalem a place of pilgrimage and an important commercial center. The city served as the capital of the united kingdom (Judah and Israel) for only two generations. Its centrality was restored by the conquest and destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians in 722 BCE. It was in Jerusalem that most of the great prophets were active, articulating spiritual and ethical principles that would transcend the city’s narrow confines to become pillars of human civilization. In 586 BCE the city succumbed to the Babylonians. At the order of their king, Nebuchadnezzar, the city was torched, the Temple razed, and the people taken into exile. A small number returned 50 years later). The reason for showing the two clips of the Babe Ruth stories was to compare the way things were made back then and the way they are made now.