My project is actually moving rather slowly, but blessings do come with patience. I have to communicate with my mother over the telephone and via email to give her updates and to get a progress report regarding her students efforts. I will be writing letters to businesses along with the students. And I will be sure to post my final draft when it has been completed. We are currently using one of her Economics’ classes to write letters to different businesses to urge them to donate funds that will ultimately influence the well being of individuals as well as families. We still haven’t come up with a way to choose the family. I feel that this is a minor detail, because the hardest part will be retrieving funds. Picking the recipients will be easy.

This class has a lot to do with my professional goals. I will become a hospital pharmacist working in the infectious disease department. As a health care professional I will be taking on great responsibilities and dealing with many ethical questions. This class carries a great responsibility for those who do believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins and is truly the head of our lives. Being a student in this class and a child of the Almighty, I have to approach this class with great discernment. Being strong in my faith will allow me to weed out unnecessary secular knowledge that is conveyed in class. It will teach me the importance of putting God first in all that I do, especially in my career. Pharmacists deal with the general public on a daily basis and you have to be able to function as your role in society and still honor your beliefs. As a pharmacists I will have many responsibilities. This class has taught me to consider ideas that are being pressed on me and at the same time use my spiritual background and morals to make the ultimate decisions. Pharmacists deal with the medicine world having a thin line between financial advancement and seeking the best advice for patients. Being a Christian I will consider the monetary element, but a patient’s overall health and well being will always come first. I can’t waste too much time on the financial aspect, because the Lord will bless me in all that I do, as long as I give honor and glory to him.

This class also has taught me to not take everything at face value. I do believe that the Bible may have some questionable sections, but at the same time I feel that they are questionable only to the untrained eye. The focus should not be on picking God’s word apart, but to make a commitment to benefit from the word and do your best to perfect your life and apply his word to your everyday way of thinking. Working with customers will expose me to a world of addicts, liars, and people who genuinely need my help. I have to be able to differentiate between the two and respond to each type of person. My goal is to be the best pharmacist I can be according to how God would want me to handle my duties. I want the Lord to use me as a vessel to help his lost sheep come home. I want everyone to put their trust in the Lord. I would like to restore the general public’s faith in out healthcare system and show the world that everything isn’t about money. There are people who are nurturing and genuinely would like to make a difference in society health wise. One of those persons happens to be me.

Feminist Criticism is a useful tool, because it enables us to ask questions that may not have been brought up if the female perspective were not considered. Using Feminist Criticism while analyzing the Bible helps us to view the doctrine from two points of view. According to J. Cheryl Exum, “ the Bible was written by males and for males.” Criticizing from the female perspective helps us understand who may have been left out. Or who doesn’t have a voice in this situation. Without Female Criticism we wouldn’t pursue answers to questions like why aren’t women given a voice in the Bible and what parallels in the Bible regarding male and female roles are present in today’s society? Asking these types of questions helps one understand the language and diction in the Bible. If the Bible had female authors, stereotypically, we may have expected and encountered a more detailed text and more emotion from characters from the Bible. The female plight during Antiquity would not be a mystery or summarized in one paragraph. The bond between mother and child would be described. The suppression of females would be acknowledged and Eve and Delilah may have not presented in such a negative fashion. Feminist Criticism tells us to take into account the feminist perspective to understand present interpretation of the Bible.

We haven’t taken the midterm as of yet so I can’t report whether or not I did well. The plan is to do well nonetheless. I started studying on Friday after classes, which is rather late, but last week was quite eventful for me. The one thing I seem to be having trouble with is the map section. I’ve gone from website to website trying to construct my map for the test. Some of the terms we have to locate I don’t even recall going over. No map that I have come across has everything and the boundaries are not concise. I think if we were given a map to memorize I would benefit greatly. The most I could locate was Egypt, Syria, Jerusalem, Tigris, Euphrates and the Persian Gulf among a couple of other important landmarks. This list doesn’t contain nearly the amount of choices we were given to locate. As a result I will be attending my first office hours for Theology tomorrow. I only wish I hadn’t waited to the last minute, because I have an exam and a quiz tomorrow.

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