Week 1 My Background
1054 words by jantoin1
I don’t know if my hurricane story is interesting, but when hurricane Katrina hit I had just graduated from John Ehret high school that past May in 2005. My family and I weren’t going to leave at first, but my moms job forced her to leave and I didn’t want her to leave me behind, so me, my mom, and my stepdad drove to southwest Houston, Texas two days before the hurricane hit and we sat in what felt like never ending traffic. We planned to stay there for only two or three days, but ended up staying there for almost two years. So after I graduated I planned on attending Xavier that fall, but obviously those plans were shattered. After weeks and weeks of crying and watching the news everyday stuck in Texas, I finally realized that I wasn’t going home anytime soon. I sucked it up and got two jobs at Ross a clothing store and at Journey’s a shoe store in the mall. I figured that if I couldn’t go to the school I wanted to go to I might as well get a job. The people I worked with were very nice and understanding and they made me feel right at home. Some people were afraid of me at first when they found out that I was from New Orleans, I guess because of all the things they were being showed on the news and things they had heard from other people. Besides all that, I applied to Texas Southern University and got in, but some of the people there were evil. The students there were fighting students from New Orleans every other day and didn’t want to be involved in any of that so I decided to wait on Xavier and I applied, got accepted, and started college in the fall of 2006. My thoughts in this class so far are that I find the class very interesting as far as the materials that we are learning and the approach and methods that you use like talking to the class about what we are supposed to read as opposed to just giving us the reading assignments and letting us be on our own without explaining the material. Usually I get bored with a lecture after sitting there for a while and listening to my professor talk, but I like some the joke that you tell to make us feel comfortable I guess and I like that the class is able to see visuals, especially of the people we are learning about. Being that this is a theology course I expected it to be a more strict and a more harder class than any of my other classes. I also expected the class to be much harder because I’ve heard other students comments about how hard theology was and I avoided taking it for three years because of all the rumors from other students that had previously tooken any theology course. I’m am taking this course because it was required for me to take some kind of theology course to fulfill some part of the classes I am suppose to take so I can graduate. I also have to take another theology course so you might see me again. I think the Bible is the most greatest book ever to written. Even hough many students go to school and learn all this stuff and read all these books, the Bilble is the one I think will stick with you the most and help you accomplish your goals in life and and the after life. The Bilble seems to warn of us of the way w should live and what will happen if we chose not to go along with past stories in the Bible and the word of God. I think Biblical studies is amazing because because we have all these scholars trying to uncover the truth about things that people beleive and what they’ve heard as oppose to what actually happened in the past and what the Bible is actually saying. Biblical studies also gives students a way of understanding what is going on in the Bible because we have some people who read the Bible front to back and they still don’t understand what thye have read, but if they go into Biblical studies there is someone there to explain it to them so they won’t be left in the dark. Biblical studies alos gives a person an opportunity to to perhaps become a minister, priest, or pastor if they are interested in it. For my profession, I would love to become a pharmacist and discover new medicines. I don’t really think this class anything to do with being a pharmacist unless reading the Bible can tell you not to sell drugs under the table, but who would really do that? I think the Bible could give you some moral incite on how to go about acting when you acheive this idea of becoming a pharmacist. 586 B.C.E is a key event in the Bible because it displays a lot of information about understanding the ancient text and how it came about. Lamentations is a story about how the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzer. People some times suggest that this event and the event of Katrina happened because the people of the town were sining so God came and destroyed the way they were living along with their homes and some of their family membes to open their eyes and let them know what was going on. People relate ths to Lmentaton in the Bible because the stories are similar. The Merneptah Stele is the firt writings that pertains to Israel. It tellsus about the fist hol events and before any other person or writing came along. It is also a bg stone that represents the fight between the Libyans and the Canaan’s. The point of showing the Babe Ruthe film clips was to give us an idea of how more than one person can take the same story and twist it and turn it into something its not. That person might mean well but they might not always have the story correct as opposed to someone with the truth and thats how it is when some people give stories about the Bible.