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Shiphrah & Puah Jochebed Pharoanic Princess Miriam Zipporah
Young Adult Ministry | Her Story | Theology Thursday | January 31, 2019 Miriam the original superwoman NO EXODUS WITHOUT HER • 1st Prophet ever (not just lady prophet...dudes too) • Mentioned in more Biblical books than any other woman. • Her name was most widely used name in New Testament era. All those Marys? Those are Miriams. • She never marries, nor does she have any children. • Oldest writing of Exodus story: Exodus 15:20-21, “Song of the Sea.” While Moses held the waters open, Miriam led the people through in song and dance. • There’s a fight for authority in Numbers 12. The people refuse to move until Miriam is healed and restored. • Micah 6:3 references Miriam with Aaron and Moses. 500 years later, she is prominently remembered. • Jewish tradition includes story of “Miriam’s well.” The Israelites have water in the wilderness through Miriam. When she dies in Numbers 20:1-2, the people are without water. According to the Shiphrah & Puah Targumim, Joshua leads Israelites across the Jordan River on the one year anniversary of Miriam’s death. Jochebed redemptive imagination: Themes: Pharoanic Princess How does Moses know he was Hebrew? What if...it was Jochebed, singing to him as she nursed him, telling him stories Female Heroes, Liminal Space of his people, not in spite of the Princess, but with her knowledge. Both of them Miriam committed to loving this child, deceiving the Pharaoh in preference of life. What is Miriam doing while Moses is away hiding? FOund in: Exodus & Numbers Zipporah What if...this is where Miriam’s title of prophet comes from. -
The Social Consciousness of Mark Twain
THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF MARK TWAIN A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the School of Social Sciences Morehead State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in History by Rose W. Caudill December 1975 AP p~ ~ /THE ScS 9\t l\ (__ ~'1\AJ Accepted by the faculty of the School of Social Sciences, Morehead State University, in partial fulfillment of the require ments for the Ma ster of Arts in Hist ory degree. Master ' s Commi ttee : (date TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • . • • . I Chapter I. FEMINISM . 1 II. MARK 1WAIN 1 S VIEWS ON RELIGION 25 III. IMPERIALISM 60 REFERENCES •••• 93 Introduction Mark Twain was one of America's great authors. Behind his mask of humor lay a serious view of life. His chief concern, . was man and how his role in society could be improved. Twain chose not to be a crusader, but his social consciousness in the areas of feminism, religion, and imperialism reveal him to be a crusader at heart. Closest to Twain's heart were his feminist philosophies. He extolled the ideal wife and mother. Women influenced him greatly·, and he romanticized them. Because of these feelings of tenderness and admiration for women, he became concerned about ·the myth of their natural inferiority. As years passed, Twain's feminist philosophies included a belief in the policital, economic, and social equality of the sexes. Maternity was regarded as a major social role during Twain's lifetime since it involved the natural biological role of women. The resu·lting stereotype that "a woman I s place is in the home" largely determined the ways in which women had to express themselves. -
Land Reform and Agitation
Land Reform and Agitation | Sample answer ‘What was the importance of one or more of the following: land agitation and land reform; the co- operative movement; industrial development in Belfast?’ (2018) From 1873 to 1896 there was a Great Depression in Britain. There was a fall in the prices of agricultural exports and thus less need for Irish labourers in Britain. Famers feared mass evictions and conflict between tenants in farmers. So in July 1878, Michael Davitt set sail to America and sought support for the 'New Departure'. Fenians believed that their new goal should be to focus on land reform over Irish Independence and so they asked them and Parnell for support. Davitt and Devoy, who was the leader of the American Fenian Movement, believed that all groups should work together to achieve their goal and so, constitutional nationalists, Fenians and Irish Americans had to work together. In April 1879, James Daly set up a meeting in Mayo which protested against the increases in rent. Parnell identified with the protests and in June of that year he gave a speech about them. In October Davitt set up the Land League and Parnell became the leader. They had three main aims, a reduction in rent and evictions, secondly, to achieve the three Fs (fixity of tenure, freedom to sell and fair rent) and thirdly, for peasant proprietorship. Parnell's slogan the "land of Ireland for people of Ireland" became widely known. The Land League supported peaceful means to achieve their three aims but they couldn't control the extreme violent actions of some tenants. -
A Proverbs 31 Study | - Page 74
Proverbs 31:23 – Three Wise Women, Part 2 “Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.” ~Proverbs 31:23 In Part 1 of our study on Proverbs 31:23, you saw a real-life picture of what an ungodly, unbiblically submissive wife looks like. You witnessed my sinful and wretched prayer life as well as my "holier than thou" attitude against my husband in which Satan so skillfully used to cause much strife and division in my household. I allowed Satan to use me as a baseball bat to beat my husband (basically, I was beating my own head) and recklessly tear down my house with my own hands (Prov 14:1b). “I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.” ~Romans 6:19 We will now turn our attentions to three wise women in the Bible that truly understood what biblical submission is all about. In His righteousness, the Lord our God saw fit to use these women as examples of what a Princess of the King really looks like: beautiful and precious character, calm, confident in Christ, quiet, peaceful, and a humble servant ready and eager to act on behalf of others when necessary; with no regard for her personal comforts or preferences because she fully trusts her God to care for her every need. Who are these wonderful women? They are: 1. -
A Framework of Sustainable Design for the Region of Palestine
The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School College of Arts & Architecture A FRAMEWORK OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR THE REGION OF PALESTINE A Thesis in Architecture by Hala Marwan Haddad © 2010 Hala Marwan Haddad Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Architecture December 2010 The Thesis of Hala Marwan Haddad was reviewed and approved* by the following: Ute Poerschke Associate Professor of Architecture Thesis Advisor James Wines Professor of Architecture Madis Pihlak Associate Professor of Architecture Alexandra Staub Associate Professor of Architecture *Signatures are on file in the Graduate School. ii Abstract: Many definitions of sustainable design have emerged in the past twenty years, most of which focused on the environmental part of the design process. In recent years, especially with the emergence of sustainable design as an international trend, more attention has been directed towards the social and economic part of sustainable design for a building to be truly sustainable and able of fitting in any context, for the long run. This thesis explores into the different dimensions of sustainable design, studying what makes a building sustainable, and using that as a base to define sustainable design in the region of Palestine, a small country in the northern part of the Middle East and east of Mediterranean, to define a framework of sustainable design. The framework achieved at the end of this study uses the vernacular as a passively sustainable prototype of sustainable design, for its environmental, socio cultural and economic complexity of a building, integrated with modern active techniques, that helped define the framework and helps define the future of the vernacular as a sustainable structure in different regions of the world. -
The Oral History and Memory of Ras Beirut: Exceptional Narratives of Co-Existence
Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Conference Washington, DC, November 2014 The Oral History and Memory of Ras Beirut: Exceptional Narratives of Co-existence Maria Bashshur Abunnasr, PhD This paper is a very condensed version of my past dissertation research and my current project on the oral history and memory of Ras Beirut sponsored by the Neighborhood Initiative at the American University of Beirut. For those of you who do not know Beirut, Ras Beirut is the western-most extension of the city and is most renown as the location of the American University of Beirut (AUB) founded by American missionaries in 1866 as the Syrian Protestant College. To many Ras Beirut is a place famous, indeed exceptional, for its association with tolerance, education, and cosmopolitanism. And that association is largely credited to AUB. The focus of this paper, however, is not on AUB’s role in Ras Beirut. It reverses the lens to consider the local community’s role in making Ras Beirut’s past through what I term, “narratives of coexistence.” Comprised of primarily (though not exclusively) Greek Orthodox Christians and Sunni Muslims, Ras Beirut’s local community claims its foundation is based on ta’ayoush, Arabic for coexistence. They consider their history of peaceful coexistence the bedrock of Ras Beirut’s exceptionalism that distinguished Ras Beirut from other parts of Beirut, of Lebanon, and of the region. While they recognize the presence of the AUB as momentous to the future shape of Ras Beirut as a cosmopolitan hub, their narratives insist on the influence, if not the determination, of their 1 coexistence on the missionary choice of Ras Beirut as the site for the College in the first place. -
Generalsecond Bullrun Campaign Under Pope That the Whole Corps Had to Be Detached from the Army of the Potomac for Rest and Recuperation
PITTSBURGH VOLUNTEERS WITH SICKLES' EXCELSIOR BRIGADE Bruce Sutherland PART 3 Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville Heintzelman's Third Corps had been so badly mauled in the battles on the Peninsula under McClellan and in the GeneralSecond BullRun campaign under Pope that the whole Corps had to be detached from the Army of the Potomac for rest and recuperation. The three divisions of the Corps were assigned to that quiet sector known as the Defenses of Washington. General Hooker's old division, the Second, was placed temporarily under the command of General Grover while Colonel Nelson Taylor commanded the Excelsior Brigade, subject to General Sickles' return. Early in September 1862, the Excelsior regiments were en- camped about two miles southwest of Alexandria near Fort Lyon. They had fallen back from the Chantilly battlefield and as William Wiley of the Friend Rifles describes it, "We only went a short dis- tance beyond that field when we again laid on our arms, and it was raining and very cold. No sleeping was done that night. The next morning we got a loaf of bread and started off again towards Fairfax and then left itand went out scouting through the country until dark when we camped again on a beautiful farm and where we lived well for that night on corn, potatoes and apples. At daylight, the morning of the 3rd, we were on the move towards Alexandria ... J>1 The column moved through thickly wooded country toward the Potomac at Pohick Church and by early afternoon the troops were on the river road which skirted Mount Vernon. -
Fear Under Construction: Islamophobia Within American
ISLAMOPHOBIA STUDIES JOURNAL Volume 2 • Issue 1• Spring 2014 26 ISJ 2(1) Fear Under Construction: Islamophobia Within American Christian Zionism Steven Fink University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire ISLAMOPHOBIA STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 2, NO. 1, SPRING 2014, PP. 26-43. Published by: Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley. Disclaimer: Statements of fact and opinion in the articles, notes, perspectives, etc. in the Islamophobia Studies Journal are those of the respective authors and contributors. They are not the expression of the editorial or advisory board and staff. No representation, either expressed or implied, is made of the accuracy of the material in this journal and ISJ cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. The reader must make his or her own evaluation of the accuracy and appropriateness of those materials. 27 Fear Under Construction: Islamophobia Within American Christian Zionism Steven Fink University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire “Violent Islam is true Islam.” This statement by Walid Shoebat (2010: 137) encapsulates a view of Islam which is commonly presented by leaders of American Christian Zionism, a subsection of American evangelical Christianity which emphasizes unwavering support for the nation of Israel. Reflecting the Orientalist tendency of constructing degrading monolithic caricatures of Islam and Muslims, these leaders construct essentialist depictions which play a powerful role in shaping Christian Zionist laypeople’s conceptions of Muslims in general and Palestinian Muslims in particular. Seeking to gauge Christian Zionism’s place within the landscape of American evangelical Christianity, it is difficult to determine the actual number of Christian Zionists in the United States. -
Cedar Hill Programs
Cedar Hill Cemetery Foundation Programs Virtual Programs The Fight for Women’s Suffrage in Connecticut Virtual Program Tuesday, March 9, 7:00 pm Free, Registration Required How did the women of Connecticut work for – or against – the right to vote? Natalie Belanger looks at photos, letters, and pamphlets from Connecticut Historical Society’s collection to understand one of the most hard-fought political battles of American history. You’ll learn about suffragists like Katharine Houghton Hepburn, Mary Townsend Seymour, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, as well as some Connecticut women who fought tooth-and-nail against women getting the vote. Natalie Belanger will present the program via Zoom. Belanger is the Adult Programs Manager at the Connecticut Historical Society. She holds a B.A. in history from Smith College and an M.A. in women's history from the University of Maryland. She has worked in museum education for most of her career. She also teaches history courses at Manchester Community College and other area colleges. The program is free. Reservations are required and may be made online at www.cedarhillfoundation.org. The Zoom link will be sent once registration is received. Lest We Forget: Infectious Diseases (1850-1918) Virtual Program Tuesday, May 11, noon Free, Registration Required Cholera infantum, the bloody flux, ague, putrid fever, filth disease, consumption – and the treatments sometimes sounded just as scary. Evelyn Bollert explores the fearsome infectious diseases that afflicted families in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The presentation is based on her informative tour of Hartford’s historic Cedar Hill Cemetery. Evelyn Bollert will present the program via Zoom. -
Michael Davitt 1846 – 1906
MICHAEL DAVITT 1846 – 1906 An exhibition to honour the centenary of his death MAYO COUNTY LIBRARY www.mayolibrary.ie MAYO COUNTY LIBRARY MICHAEL DAVITTwas born the www.mayolibrary.ie son of a small tenant farmer at Straide, Co. Mayo in 1846. He arrived in the world at a time when Ireland was undergoing the greatest social and humanitarian disaster in its modern history, the Great Famine of 1845-49. Over the five or so years it endured, about a million people died and another million emigrated. BIRTH OF A RADICAL IRISHMAN He was also born in a region where the Famine, caused by potato blight, took its greatest toll in human life and misery. Much of the land available for cultivation in Co. Mayo was poor and the average valuation of its agricultural holdings was the lowest in the country. At first the Davitts managed to survive the famine when Michael’s father, Martin, became an overseer of road construction on a famine relief scheme. However, in 1850, unable to pay the rent arrears for the small landholding of about seven acres, the family was evicted. left: The enormous upheaval of the The Famine in Ireland — Extreme pressure of population on Great Famine that Davitt Funeral at Skibbereen (Illustrated London News, natural resources and extreme experienced as an infant set the January 30, 1847) dependence on the potato for mould for his moral and political above: survival explain why Mayo suffered attitudes as an adult. Departure for the “Viceroy” a greater human loss (29%) during steamer from the docks at Galway. -
Ruta Essential Oils: Composition and Bioactivities
molecules Review Ruta Essential Oils: Composition and Bioactivities Lutfun Nahar 1,* , Hesham R. El-Seedi 2, Shaden A. M. Khalifa 3, Majid Mohammadhosseini 4 and Satyajit D. Sarker 5,* 1 Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Institute of Experimental Botany ASCR & Palacký University, Šlechtitel ˚u27, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic 2 Biomedical Centre (BMC), Pharmacognosy Group, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Box 591, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden; [email protected] 3 Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden; [email protected] 4 Department of Chemistry, College of Basic Sciences, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran; [email protected] 5 Centre for Natural Products Discovery (CNPD), School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK * Correspondence: [email protected] (L.N.); [email protected] (S.D.S.); Tel.: +44-(0)-1512312096 (S.D.S.) Abstract: Ruta L. is a typical genus of the citrus family, Rutaceae Juss. and comprises ca. 40 different species, mainly distributed in the Mediterranean region. Ruta species have long been used in traditional medicines as an abortifacient and emmenagogue and for the treatment of lung diseases and microbial infections. The genus Ruta is rich in essential oils, which predominantly contain aliphatic ketones, e.g., 2-undecanone and 2-nonanone, but lack any significant amounts of terpenes. Three Ruta species, Ruta chalepensis L., Ruta graveolens L., and Ruta montana L., have been extensively studied for the composition of their essential oils and several bioactivities, revealing their potential medicinal and agrochemical applications. -
Jefferson Stereoptics & SADDY STEREOVIEW CONSIGNMENT AUCTIONS ($6.75)
Jefferson Stereoptics & SADDY STEREOVIEW CONSIGNMENT AUCTIONS ($6.75) John Saddy 787 Barclay Road London Ontario N6K 3H5 CANADA Tel: (519) 641-4431 Fax: (519) 641-0695 Website: https://www.saddyauctions.com E-mail: [email protected] AUCTION #19-2 Phone, mail, fax, and on-line auction with scanned images. CLOSING DATES: 9:00 p.m. Eastern Thursday, January 30, 2020 Lots 1 to 412 (Part 1) & Friday, January 31, 2020 Lots 413 to 826 (Part 2) In the event of a computer crash or other calamity, this auction will close one week later. "s.c.mts." = square corner mounts (earlier) BIDDING RULES AND TERMS OF SALE "r.c.mts." = rounded corner mounts (later) There is a 9% Buyer's Premium which will be automatically added to the invoice. (We will absorb Paypal charges.) Your TABLE OF CONTENTS business is very much appreciated. ADVERTISING 20, 68, 131, 403, 449, 450, 615, 681, 732 Please note ‘NEW BIDDING INCREMENTS’ AFRICA 276, 752, 758, 781 AIR MACHINES BALLOONS, ETC 241, 243, 244, 266, 267, 405, 586, 601 - 1. All lots sold to the highest bidder. 603, 605, 606, 780 2. Please note ‘New Bidding Increments’ as follows: ALASKA & KLONDYKE (inc CANADA) 559 - 564, 717 ALCOHOL 53, 137, 334, 404, 819 0 to $99._____________________$5. ANIMALS & ZOOS* 80, 292, 395 - 401, 453*, 485*, 521, 622*, 631*, 819 $100. to $499.________________$10. AUSTRIA 509, 520 AUTOCHROME (FULL-SIZE) 551 $500. to $999.________________$20. AUTOS, OTHER VEHICLES 265, 312, 527, 650 $1,000. to $1,999._____________$50. BANKS & MONEY 20, 480, 485, 730 $2,000.