Pakistan, 1986. Zahid was a Muslim priest who had been brought up to hate and kill those with conflicting beliefs, especially Christians. He often persecuted Christians in town, feeling that by doing so, he would please Allah (the Muslim god). One day when Zahid was persecuting Christians, someone dropped a Bible. Rather than disposing of it, as he normally would have, Zahid hung onto it because he felt compelled to read it and expose its errors. In short, Zahid converted to Christianity and shared the Bible’s teachings with everyone. As a result, he was considered a traitor. Zahid began to experience much of the persecution he had carried out against many Christians. For two years he was imprisoned, beaten, tortured, and eventually sentenced to be hung to death (DcTalk 53-54). The sort of persecution Zahid dealt out and later experienced himself occurs daily in various places of the world. In the days following September 11, though, most people were quick to hide differences between the Christian God and Allah. Muslims and non-Muslims alike explained that Muslims are good people and worship the same god Christians worship. Due to the politically correct mindset of today, most people accept this statement without questioning it. They fail to recognize the many differences between the Christian God and Allah. The question must be asked, though, if Allah and the Christian God are the same – if Christians and Muslims worship the same god – why do many Muslims hate Christians with such a passion; why do they kill Christians? By comparing the characters of Allah and the Christian God, it can be seen they are actually quite different (Speight 108). Although much obvious evidence of the hatred many Muslims feel toward Christians ... ... middle of paper ... ...m and Muslims. 14th ed. Chicago: Kazi Publications, Inc., 1996. Jomier, Jacques. How to Understand Islam. Trans. John Bowden. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1991. The Koran. Trans. N.J. Dawood. 1956. London: Clays Ltd, St Ives plc, 1995. Neusner, Jacob. God. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1997. New American Standard Bible. Trans. The Lockman Foundation. La Habra: The Lockman Foundation, 1994. Shamoun, Sam. “Is Allah the God of the Bible?” Answering-Islam. Online. Answering-Islam.org. 9 March 2002. Speight, R. Marston. God is One. 4th ed. New York: Friendship Press, 1991. “The Reality and Truth of the Muslim World – Islam.” Underground Hope. 18 Dec 2001: 1-2. Williams, John Arden, ed. Islam. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1962. Zehavi, A.M., ed. Handbook of the World’s Religions. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1973.
The book Left of Karl Marx by Carole Boyce Davies examines the life of Claudia Jones. Jones was a renowned journalist, political activist, and one of the most radical black intellectuals of all time. During the 1950’s and the early 1960’s she rose to prominence because her unyielding and progressive political views. Today, she remains one of the most controversial, yet influential figures in the history of politics. In this book, Carole Davies not only provides us with a biography of Claudia Jones’s life, but she also analyzes her political ideology, writings, and the legacy that she has left behind.
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There is a term for the anxiety that affects performance. Musical Performance Anxiety (MPA) has been defined by the PhD, Levy JJ. (PhD, MA & BA,2011). MPA is like stage fright. When a drum corps member is performing or they might be nervous, have butterflies in their stomach. These are the effect of anxiety during performance. A study by PhD, MA conducted on drum corps members showed the effects of anxiety and created the term MPA. The highest amount of MPA was found in color guard performers due the effect guard members have on the show appearance. The root cause for this in guard members and drum crop members is how the performers are treated during practice. The comments coaches make during practice effect the state anxiety in performers. These similar thought go through the performer in
Carole Boyce Davies, the author if this article, reflects on the life of the black communists, activists and intellectuals in this article. The author further reflects on the intertwined trans-Atlantic histories of leftist politics and the feminism and the internationalism that took place in the twentieth century. Claudia Jones, one of the activists mentioned, is highly associated with philosophies of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. She is remembered for her political contribution to the Caribbean community in Britain. Claudia Jones is depicted as a communist and a feminist in all the metaphors that she is prone to using. In her works, Claudia Jones is inclined to metaphors and theories of prominent theorist Karl Marx. She greatly utilizes the Marx’s theories and ideologies such that, she is referred to as the ‘left of Karl Marx’.
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Thanks to evolution, Penguins have evolved into a group of aquatic, fightless birds, that are highly adapted to life in the ocean. This not only makes them one of the divergent and strange species of birds, but also has allowed them to become such a sucessful species. Penguins are mostly located in the Southern hemisphere ranging anywhere from the Galapogos to the Antartic. Throughout their lives, Penguins spend around half their time in the ocean doing things such as catching food and the other half on land raising their young. Their distinct tuxedo-like apperience called countershading camoflages their bodies, protecting them from predators above and below. Through out the “stepping stones”, the penguins grew to have a dense bone containing
Nico de Bruyn, P. J., Tosh, C. A., & Bester, M. N. (2008, July). Sexual harassment of a king penguin by an Antarctic fur seal. Journal of Ethology, 26(2), 295-297. doi: 10.1007/s10164-007-0073-9
Islam, a religion of people submitting to one God, seeking peace and a way of life without sin, is always misunderstood throughout the world. What some consider act of bigotry, others believe it to be the lack of education and wrong portrayal of events in media; however, one cannot not justify the so little knowledge that America and Americans have about Islam and Muslims. Historically there are have been myths, many attacks on Islam and much confusion between Islam as a religion and Middle Easter culture that is always associated with it. This paper is meant to dispel, or rather educate about the big issues that plague people’s minds with false ideas and this will only be touching the surface.
Knight and Rickard, 2001 W.E. Knight and D.N. Rickard Ph, Relaxing music prevents stress-induced increases in subjective anxiety, systolic blood pressure, and heart rate in healthy males and females, Journal of music therapy 38 (2001) (4), pp. 254–272.
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Music Performance Anxiety is a serious topic of issue for all musicians. Sometimes reaching a debilitating level in which a social phobia is formed, Music Performance Anxiety is a medical condition with which to become familiar especially as a person in the performing arts. There is a plethora of research and literature on this focal anxiety in general musicians, but one must beg the question- what about singers? Vocalists have a unique predicament in that their instrument is within their body. If Music Performance Anxiety is fed in a physiological fashion, vocalists could be at a severe disadvantage compared to their instrumentalist counterparts. The research on this specific topic has begun to be explored, but the number is quite low in the
Thomas W. Lippman gives an introduction to the Muslim world in the book Understanding Islam. He has traveled throughout the Islamic world as Washington Post bureau chief for the Middle East, and as a correspondent in Indochina. This gave him, in his own words, "sharp insight into the complexities of that turbulent region." However, the purpose of the book is not to produce a critical or controversial interpretation of Islamic scripture. It is instead to give the American layman an broad understanding of a religion that is highly misunderstood by many Americans. In this way he dispels many myths about "Muslim militants," and the otherwise untrue perception of Islamic violence. In this way the American reader will become more knowledgeable about an otherwise unfamiliar topic. However, the most significant element of Lippman’s book is that it presents Islam in a simple way that makes the reader feels his awareness rise after each chapter. This encourages him to continue learning about the world’s youngest major religion. Understanding Islam dispels many misconceptions about the Muslim world, and presents the subject in a way that urges his reader to further his understanding of Islam through continued study.
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At the first glance, Islam and Christianity appear to have nothing in common, however; as you go beyond the surface, they appear to have many similarities such as their beliefs of God, their beliefs of life after death, their holy scriptures, and their prayers. These religions, although two entirely different beliefs, share a similar origin. Like many other religions, they both claim to be the one and only true way to God. In order to truly see and understand their similarities, one must date back to the rise and birth of Christianity and Islam. Throughout the course of this essay, I will compare the many facets that show the alikeness between these two growing religions.
In one study, patients were asked to choose from two options, music or anti anxiety pills to calm them down before going into surgery. Which then ”Scientists tracked patient's ratings of their own anxiety, as well as the levels of the stress hormone cortisol.” The results of these tests concluded that patients who choose music over the anti-anxiety pills had less anxiety and a lower cortisol levels ,which is the hormone that releases stress into the body, over people who took anti-anxiety pills. This proves how music is a way to relieve stress from a person even better neurologically. The scientific reason for why this happens and possible is due to the Amplifier