Pontiac is an Ottawa Indian that wanted to learn from the master of life, but eventually he changed his mind and started to look more into magical ordeals. Since he was learning more about magical ordeals he thought that he would one day meet the Great Spirit. By him not being sure about how others would feel about his studies, he kelp it a secret. He used many different equipment to cook with. Since he traveled time to time, one day he found a path in the woods. He thought about the three paths he saw so much that he went back to them and entered the first path. A spark of fire approached him out of nowhere on the first and second path. He go away from that path, and went to the third path. When he went down that path nothing happened, so …show more content…
After he did that she instructed he to get ready to meet the Great Spirit. Pontiac did what he was told and then started to climb the rocks. The lady told him to climb with one hand and foot. It took him awhile but when he finished climbing the lady disappeared out of nowhere. He was now alone in a beautiful summit, while he was there he saw three villages.When Pontiac stepped to the biggest village a handsome man helped him enter the celestial abode. The Great Spirit told Pontiac to sit down and asked him as many questions as he wanted. The Great Spirit told him why did he let the white men take over their land? Why he use the white men equipment? Why do he dress like him? The Great Spirit wanted Pontiac to be like the old ancestors were and the old traditions. Then out of nowhere the Great Spirit told him that he should kill all the white men. If he was to kill all of the white men he would give him favors of happiness and prosperous. While he was there the Great Spirit told him a lot of things about religion. He told Pontiac that he can’t marry more than one women and can’t worship the devil. The information was engraved in hieroglyphics on a wood stick and told Pontiac to spread it around all the indians villages. Now this story was very different from what I’m use to reading. The Great Spirit seems to be a big deal to Pontiac in life? Was the Great Spirit another word for God? What made him want to meet the Great Spirit?
When reading about the institution of slavery in the United States, it is easy to focus on life for the slaves on the plantations—the places where the millions of people purchased to serve as slaves in the United States lived, made families, and eventually died. Most of the information we seek is about what daily life was like for these people, and what went “wrong” in our country’s collective psyche that allowed us to normalize the practice of keeping human beings as property, no more or less valuable than the machines in the factories which bolstered industrialized economies at the time. Many of us want to find information that assuages our own personal feelings of discomfort or even guilt over the practice which kept Southern life moving
There is a stark parallel between the Vietnam War and the circumstances under which life is maintained on Potrero Hill. The soldiers in Gods Go Begging are poor, uneducated, and trapped fighting in a war they do not support; the boys on Potrero Hill are also poor, uneducated, and unable to escape the war into which they were born. They are victims of their circumstances and their government. Some of the boys that Jesse meets in Vietnam are there because they were drafted. Unable to get a deferment, either due to a lack of funds or because no higher education establishment would accept them, boys are forced to go off to war. Others, like Mendez, fled to the United States in order to escape the violence at home that resulted from the United States’
Mean Spirit Our story takes place in an oil-rich Native American town, called Watona, on a reservation in Oklahoma. The course of the story extends from 1918 to the mid-twenties. There are a multitude of characters that accompany this story. One of the most important characters is Nola Blanket, a young teenager who is a full-blooded Osage Indian. She is a very delicate girl, but still very strong.
Speaking of courage is a story found in Tim O ' Brien's The Things They Carried about a solider named Norman Bowker who has returned home from the Vietnam War. As Bowker circles the town's "source of pride" he comes to realize that the town that he left so many years ago will never be the same. While his life was paused by the war, theirs weren't. He also comes to understand that while the people he once knew have changed that he has also changed. He has been consumed by a war and it will forever alter his being.
John Smith explains the hardships of the voyage in the “General History of Virginia” he and others endured. While finally landing on land and discovering the head of the Chickahamania River, The colony endured Disease, severe weather, Native American attacks, and starvation all threatened to destroy the colony. Smith talks about his accomplishments of being a “good leader” and how he helped in many ways. John Smith was captured by the Native Americans and brought back to the camp. Within an hour, the Native Americans prepared to shoot him, but the Native Americans done as Chief Powhatan ordered and brought stones to beat Smiths brains out. John Smith gave an ivory double compass to the Chief of Powhatan. The Native Americans marveled at the parts of the compass. After the Native Americans admired the compass for an hour Chief Powhatan held...
The occurrence and prominence of secularization has become a prevalent feature of contemporary Western society. Steve Bruce’s Book titled ‘God is Dead’, as it may be controversial outlines the debate of surrounding secularization and its occurrence. His argument is put forward in an academically stimulating and compelling way in his exploration of secularization; by building on the work of key sociological thinkers mainly Durkheim, Marx and Weber to looking at contemporary sociological thinkers such as David Martin, Abercrombie and Turner. By examining their explanations and theories of secularization and also exploring his own views I feel
Whilst there has been countless attacks on the Native American people the Battle of Wounded Knee, if you can in fact call it a battle, is the event that can be held as the most accountable for the destruction of the native American culture; the obliteration of their hope and dreams. The Battle of Wounded Knee resulted in the death of three hundred Native Americans, half of which were women and children. White Plume, in the article In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, explains that “the whole Sioux Nation was wounded at that last terrible massacre, and we’ve been suffering ever since”. This sentiment is expressed throughout the remaining article as well as in Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues.
In Miguel A. De La Torre’s Liberation Theology for Armchair Theologians the subject of liberation theology was explored. De La Torre biblically expressed Liberation theology by using the main point of the poor being followers of God and God himself is the leader of the poor, who will not let them down. Besides De La Torre, using the underrepresented society as an example of how Liberation Theology works, he uses a world view which taps into different theologies such as Black Theology, U.S. Feminist Theologies, Hispanic Theologies and many more. Although De La Torre lists different theologies from different groups they all tie in together melting into the pot of Liberation Theology.
The Collapse: Richard Van Camp’s “On the Wings of this Prayer” and Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The People of Sand and Slag”
Throughout each article three factors stood out the most: How the subjects of the stories were viewed, how the subject of the story viewed other people, and how the subject of each story handled situations. Each of these factors helps the documents illustrate the authority of Divine Right of Kingship in their own way.
The Great Spirit Ayasha was eight years old when her mother, Nadie died.(apostrophe) She would sit by the fire with her father,Hassun,the great chief and sing weary trills about the dark one.(diction)(antagonist) Ayasha was an only child and because of that she had no choice but to be married and carry on the legacy of her father’s tribe.(protagonist) She was told when she turned eighteen she was to be married to one of the madiki soldier’s. Ayasha was so upset that she waited until it was midnight and creeped into the shanni woods where she weeped all night and all day.(setting) She weep a thousand rivers but when she finally stop she spotted something that looked like a glowing ball of dust.(hyperbole) Ayasha inched closer and closer, trying to steal a glimpse of the unknown mist. As she was about to approach it she stopped; she noticed the box was rattling like a snake approaching its prey.(simile) Ayasha was a giant,she took two big gigantic steps, picked up the box and proceeded to open it; Before she could hear what her father said she flung open the box and out came a form of
In “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman, the whole story revolves around Lia, the thirteenth child of Lee family. Lee family was a refugee family in USA and Lia was their first child to be born in US. At the time of time of birth, she was declared as a healthy child but at the age of three it was founded that she is suffering from epilepsy. In the words of western or scientific world the term epilepsy mean mental disorder of a person and in Hmong culture, epilepsy is referred to as qaug dab peg (translated in English, "the spirit catches you and you fall down"), in which epileptic attacks are perceived as evidence of the epileptic's ability to enter and journey momentarily into the spirit realm (Wikipedia, 2014)
In the book Black Elk Speaks, being the life story of a Holy Man of the Oglala
How would you describe or position your peer's theology? Darryl theology if we must label it is “Liberation Theologian”. However, there are varying degrees of Liberation Theologians. Darryl stated his theology is not "in the vein of giants such as Gustavo Gutiérrez and James Cone". However, he however, he identifies with the Good News of Jesus Christ as a liberating at heart. Luke 4:18-19 the NIV version would give you window which to view Darryl's theology through.
Most people will agree with the fact that there is a distinction between good and evil. While movies may exaggerate this and make it seem that the distinction is quite obvious and easy to differentiate, morality has a more important distinction in monotheistic religions.The distinction is readily made through the concept of Heaven and Hell, If there was no evil, then there wouldn't be a purpose for Hell. Hell is explicitly stated in the bible and people today condemn people to hell all the time, therefore evil must exist. However, evil existing in actuality creates a problem to monotheistic religions. I will state what the problem of evil and what the soul-building theodicy is; additionally I will attempt to discuss another problem may arise due to this theodicy.