Comm 316 2-14-2013 Documentary Paper The Devil’s Playground Living Amish. After watching The Devil’s Playground, I have a greater understanding of Amish culture and how different it is from American culture. The Amish live a very disciplined life for God and their community and during their youth they decide whether or not they plan to remain Amish and become baptized into the religion or to walk away. The movie, The Devil’s Playground is a documentary that takes you inside the life of the Amish, especially their youth. At the age of sixteen, the youth enter a time of decision making known as rumspringa or “running around”.
TIMELESS YOUTH MINISTY A Paper Presented to Professor Geukgeuzian Liberty University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for YOUT 301 by Ben Halsey Bhalsey2@Liberty.edu 8/31/2012 Timeless Youth Ministry Summary Chapters 1-8 Chapter 1 Contemporary youth culture is what is happening today, right now. It is a culture that is being formed and is constantly changing. In itself, the term has nothing to do with Christianity. However, Christianity should have everything to do with contemporary youth culture though. The church needs to be reaching the students of today’s world in a way that is going to attract them to Jesus.
That is the task of building the church by making disciples. Disciples are born (again), and then made. There is a process that one must go through to graduate from infancy to a mature disciple. The key to this is putting in the work per se’. Just as God said He will meet us at our place of need, the Holy Spirit will guide us and mature us as we commit to spending time in and studying the Word, being mentored, and surrendering our lives to God.
In this article the author explains his points on childhood and the death of puritan children. The author uses different points from other people to explain his point. There are a lot of different things that shows us how the Puritan children had no childhood. For example, the children wore clothes similar to adults, and they were treated such as adults. Also, he points out that the parents were not allowed to get to close to the children, showing us that the children had no type of affection.
Parents use discipline to teach their children the difference between right and wrong. The type of discipline parents use is entirely up to them but, "ninety percent of parents say that they have used [spanking] as a mean of discipline on their child, and most parents say that it was used on them when they were youngsters" (James). Spanking is a form of discipline that has been used by many parents; but it is now becoming the method that is being frowned upon by most doctors and many parents. "The American Academy of Pediatricians say that spanking might actually do more harm than good"(Eisenhauer), meaning that the spanking will not correct the problems that the child has, but only make them worse. In some countries around the globe, such as Norway and Sweden, elected officials have made it totally illegal for parents to spank their child.
Kendrick Watts Moyer English 1020- 026 10 February 2014 Is College Really for Me…?? In the essay “Is College for Everyone” by Pharinet, discusses that it’s not mandatory to attend a college institution to obtain a well-paying job. In the beginning of the essay Pharient refrains to a statement that students hear every day, “You want get anywhere without your education (635).” This is a statement that many teachers and parents repeatedly preach to their child since they were kindergartener’s. Pharinet also explains in a reasonable tone, that having a college degree doesn’t always bring success in most students’ life. Mainly because, students are not properly preparing themselves to what seems to be the “real world”.
Rumspringa is Tom Shachtman's celebrated look at a littleknown Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa'"the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. During this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, revealing clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. By allowing such broad freedoms, their parents hope they will learn enough to help them make the most important decision of their lives'"whether to be baptized as Christians, join the church, and forever give up worldly ways, or to remain in the world. BOOK REVIEW: This is a very interesting book, and I learned a lot about the Amish community that I didn't know before. Apparently, when an Amish teenager turns 16, he or she enters a period of time called rumspringa.
Previously, to be honest, I always want more and more, better facilities and life, however after doing community services my eye was opened and my heart began to change and flutter. Attending this university, I’ll make sure to carry out its mission, that is to promote learning in the Jesuit Catholic tradition. I want the students to learn what I had learned so far from my teachers and parents. I am also looking forward to share and exchange my knowledge with the others and so we can complete each other. I would like to make the students aware of religion and promote the Jesuit Catholic tradition I would share and in courage other people to do the same because one has a greater knowledge when you learn about your own
Returning back to school ENG 121 Compositions Laloni Christenson April 30, 2012 Returning back to school Beginning my day the same way every day was very hard for me to do. Day after day looking at my children wishing there’s was a way out of the everyday. Taking time to pray and spending time in my word really help me. One I was at work and, a respective from Ashford came and told me about their child development program. Uncertain if online school was really for me.
Gandhi’s father died while he was still in school and was married at the age of 13 making so Gandhi learned great responsibility early (Rosenburg, internet). During the time when Gandhi’s life was taken place his country did not have its own independence and there was great violence in the world. Seeing how people acted and treated one another Gandhi started to gain his beliefs of non-violence. His mother being and early influence on him with her great beliefs of religion and fasting to clear one’s mind Mohandas Gandhi’s mother played a role in his life that would leave a print on who he would later become (Paston, 18). His religion had and influence on how Gandhi thought and believed as well.