What can give support to nations leaders but also have them question their ethics? ... Many have no hope at all that they will live through the war they are fighting in to defend their country. ... Please God, let me see my friend again with both eyes intact and no gapping holes in his body" (James 12). ... There is something about having the assurance that you are safe and that a higher being (God) is watching after you. ... Leaving family and friends can make you become very lonely but knowing you have a God that is always with you and that is watching over you and your family can give ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is a set of rules that they chose to live by because they believe that God gave them these rules. ... The one thing that all these religions have in common is that somewhere in their translation of the bible they believe that God has told them not to allow for any other form of medical treatment other than prayer, and occasionally the use of oils or everyday household products. ... In each of these cases the parents and the church believed that they were doing what was right in the eyes of God, and that they were giving the child proper care. They hold the tenant that God will heal them if ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I have watched my dad pray on multiple occasions, but this wasn't what I had been expecting. ... My confusion only further developed as we spent the rest of the night listening to stories of Moses's parting of the seas and the tales of Jesus "the great "son of god. ... I was continuously amazed by how disrespectful my American friends could be to their parents. ... Parent's care for their children all of their lives and to say something of such discontent "something so disrespectful" is just inappropriate to me. ... I really love both my cultures and cannot imagi...

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For centuries, the world has watched as religion changed and molded modern day civilizations. ... In the United States, it's unnatural to claim that there is no god, no god of any kind. ... In the eyes of the state, a marriage will not be legal until it has been done at a city hall. ... Children have very close relationships with their parents. ... They have stuck to their guns over time and still to this day continue to fully fund their children's education. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A role model should be sincere and not out for their own good but the good of others. ... This was where we had our fresh start; she was going to college and working a part-time job, while my grandma watched over me during the day. ... Grandma was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and my fun and outgoing Grandma seemed to deteriorate before our eyes. ... We had long talks, her and me, she helped me realized that everything happens for a reason, and that god only sends hardships to people he knows are strong enough. ...

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Their traffickers also hold them through sexual force and violence. ... People like their parents or community leaders can either set up women, or they can be sold or traded to her new husband. ... The life of a sex trade worker would look appealing to that of watching their family murdered and chased for god knows how long. Although it may take a generation or so, this unfortunate situation that these people were forced into will one day become what their children learn as their way of life. ... We need to fight this problem head on all around the world, by funding programs that will help f...

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• Grade Level: High School

Quakers advocated passive resistance . . . would turn the other cheek and rebuild their meetinghouse on the site where their enemies had torn it down (qtd. ... These people were in a sense the first "true Americans" as they believed that all men are in fact created equal, or as any doctrine may have stated that all men are were children in the sight of God. The Quakers built their society on the principles of civil equality apparent in their anti-slave feelings and their pro-native American relationship with local tribes. Some Quakers went as far as allowing natives to watch their children. ...

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