efforts of the travelers and vice-verse or when locals benefited from the efforts of missionaries (docs 1‚ 2‚ 8). Negative receptions were created when the converts mistrusted or feared the proselytizers or when people were indoctrinated into their faith (docs 3‚ 6‚ 7). Receptions of tolerance occurred when rulers of a state encouraged tolerance of other faiths in their domains (docs 4‚ 5). Because missionaries often brought treatment or sustenance to another area or when travelers and locals admired
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communicate appreciation well to those who value these styles. However‚ members of the team who depend on words of affirmation‚ my least valued language‚ may feel their contributions have gone unnoticed unless I learn to speak this language. Just as a missionary should invest the time and energy to communicate the Gospel in the heart language of the people they serve‚ I must invest time and energy to effectively communicate in the language of those I lead. Ironically‚ when God blessed me with my wife‚
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Paul of tarsus is recognised as the second founder of Christianity after Jesus. He was born in tarsus somewhere between 0 and 10CE. Although his teachings have influenced every generation of Christianity of Christian thinking and every variant of Christianity‚ in Pauls early years he was a Jew and a Pharisee and was also know as Saul. As a Pharisee‚ he was well known for he opposition against the individuals who were preaching Jesus Christ and was first mentioned in the bible witnessing the death
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officials at this time apparently began to believe that Boxer rituals actually did make them impervious to bullets‚ and‚ in spite of protests by the Western powers‚ they and Cixi‚ the ruling empress dowager‚ continued to encourage the group. Christian missionary activities helped provoke the Boxers; Christian converts
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The Boxer Uprising China during the late nineteenth century was in turmoil from external and internal forces. The underlining internal pressures were exacerbated by the thrust of western imperialism and exploitation. Imperialism and the west were the catalyst for the Boxer Uprising. The ingredients of descent and conflict were always present in the late nineteenth century. China had its difficulties without the west’s intrusion. The Boxer Uprising was a reaction against the West‚ not a rebellion
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Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is the story of an Ibo tribe before and during the arrival of white missionaries. The main character‚ Okonkwo‚ is a highly respected man within his society who slowly falls in esteem as the story goes on. He involves himself in more and more conflicts with the people around him‚ including an ongoing battle of impossibly high standards for his son Nwoye‚ who decides to leave his family in the end for the Anglican Church. The warrior archetype Okonkwo is too rooted
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Think about having a father that expects for you to be like him but you’re remotely different‚ how do you handle it? In Things Fall Apart‚ a novel by Chinua Achebe‚ you view how a son‚ named Nwoye reacts to the challenge of expressing his individuality along with the expectations that his father‚ Okonkwo has for him. Nwoye’s initial struggle of finding himself and embracing his differences from his father show how a cultural collision can be for the better and have a positive effect on an individual
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Teaching as Career and Not as a Pay Check Many people that choose to become teachers because someone in their family was a teacher. Some teachers started out in another profession and never thought about teaching at all. After watching the National Teachers of the Year and listen to their stories it has enlighten me on why I choose to be a Teacher. Why do I want to be a teacher? I want to be a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in a child’s life. I volunteered in many elementary schools
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“The period of really intense political and cultural activity in the Byzantine Empire began after coup de’etat of 856.” The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty reached “military power and political authority‚ and also the revival and flowering of Byzantine culture in all its aspects from philosophy to painting.” The Byzantine Empire really had political and cultural progress and expansion during this period. They were so superior to “its western and eastern foes” because “Western Europe
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Things Fall Apart the missionaries wanted to take over the Igbos culture by making them convert to their religion Christianity. They wanted the kids to learn Christianity so they could have them go to church and have them understand what they were making them learn. “He went back to the church and Told Mr.Kiaga that he had decided to go to Umuofia where the Missionaries had set up a school to teach young christians to read and write.” (pg 152) This quote tells us that the Missionaries built a church so
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