A Brief Biography of Robert Matthews the Religious Man

No individual had the same family background and early experiences in their lives. Each individual also had their own personalities. Chris McCandless was a young and successful college graduate with a job and had money. Oddly, he decided to disappear in response to his father’s misjudgment, giving away his money and overall, became homeless. McCandless could no longer

A second reason for the religious prevalence in Colonial America was the evil that people faced. “The providence of God was ‘wonder-working’ in making manifest the reach of his sovereignty; such acts of ‘special providence’ represented God’s clearer and more explicit than usual intervention into the affairs of man. But he was not alone in having supernatural power. The events

The study of psychology and Christianity has been known to be at odds over the past several decades. Many believe that Christianity and Psychology cannot mix or intertwine. They believe a person can only believe in one but not both. In this essay I will discuss what the integration view entails in reference to psychology and Christianity. I will then discuss the major objectives that can arise from this view and follow by the counter objectives and core strengths of this view. I then will give an example of how this view can be used practically in a counseling situation.

Robert Smalls is a man who had accomplished a lot during his early life to his later years. From capturing a Confederate flag ship and leading it to the Union while also escaping from slavery along with a couple of people, to helping recruit about 5,000 African Americans for the Union Army who of which fought valiantly during the Civil War. Even though he was treated better than most African Americans in his early life as his possible father, Henry McKee, treated him like a son and gave him extra privileges that usually wouldn’t be given to his race, he rose above it and was able to help establish the first school built for African American children, was appointed Major General in the South California militia, and many more, leaving a legacy that his children and many people would be proud of. With all that and much more, Robert Smalls early life, family, military career, and political career was able to help him become the man he died as.

I sat down at my kitchen table with Michael Bruxvoort, a friend and fellow Tar Heel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on October 25th, 2015. We laughed and talked about his journey through life and all the memories, obstacles and pleasures along the way. Among the many topics we spoke about, the ones that seemed most relevant to him and myself were: the family dynamics of religion within his household, his process of religion through secular spaces and lastly, his transition to Chapel Hill, NC and making it his home. Our conversation through Michael 's life shows how his faith has shaped him to be the man he is today. Through this paper, I will explain and analyze these topics in hopes of better understanding geographies of religion.

Simmons, Charles James (1893-1875), politician and evangelical preacher, was born on 9 April 1893 at 30 Brighton Road, Mosley, Birmingham. His father, James Henry Simmons (1867-1941), was a master painter and his mother, Mary Jane (1872-1958), a schoolteacher. They were Primitive Methodists, temperance advocates, and Liberals. His maternal grandfather, Charles Henry Russell (1846-1918), a Liberal, Primitive Methodist lay preacher and friend of Joseph Arch (leader of the Agricultural Labourers’ Union and MP), shared the family home. Simmons described him as ‘the greatest influence during my formative years’, the well-spring of the religious and political activism that was to characterize his career (Simmons, 6). Educated at Board

Once Smith and Bradford arrive in America, the difference in their use of religion in their writings is more evident. John Smith hardly writes of religion and its impact on daily life again. His narrative is focused more on the relations of the settlers, the Indians, and the adventures that ensue. His use of religion is merely used to explain what he cannot. Smith writes “But now was all our provision spent, the sturgeon gone, all helps abandoned, each hour expecting the fury of the savages, when God, the patron of all good endeavors, in that desperate extremity so changed the heart of the savages that they brought such plenty on their fruits and provision as no man wanted.”(30). In this example, Smith does not understand why the savages have brought them food and saved them from starvation. So his explanation is that God must have intervened the situation. Bradford uses religion to analyze almost all situations in daily life. His opinions of Thomas Morton and Merrymount illustrate this. Bradford writes “...some tending to a lasciviousness, and other to the detraction and scandal of some persons, which he affixed to this idle or idol maypole…and here I may take occasion to bewail the mischief that this wicked man began in these parts, and which since, base covetousness prevailing in men that should know better, has now at length got the upper

Wright had a very troublesome childhood, but it also impacted the way he viewed the world around him. When he was young, Richard’s father deserted their family, and his mother had a sickness that continuously got worse. He was also forced to become independent from his grandmother as a child because she disagreed with his hobbies (Wright, Richard). Wright’s younger years caused a disruption in his home and his education. Richard Wright grew up in the

The first, and most important antagonist in Angela’s Ashes is Malachy McCourt. Frank McCourt described his father, Malachy, as “the Holy Trinity with three people in him, the one in the morning with the paper, the one at night with the stories and the prayers, and then the one who does the bad thing and comes home with the smell of whiskey” (210). While Malachy was an important and influential antagonist in the story, he was not always the best role model for his children. Mr. McCourt was said to be known for abandoning his family for multiple days at a time without warning or any way for the to provide for themselves. Often times Malachy would spend the majority of his paychecks on feeding his addiction, rather than feeding his children. Due to his father’s constant absence, Frank had to step up and take on more responsibilities in his 1household. Frank was working a full-time job to provide for his family by the time he was fourteen. Malachy was a very proud man and a very loving father, when he wasn’t drinking. He was generous and would eat just a small amount so that his family would have more to eat when food was scarce. “Food is a shock to the system”, (24)

In the first chapter of “Christianity Rediscovered” by Vincent J. Donovan he is introducing us to the idea that missionaries now have a poor reputation due to their history. He says “History has offered the opportunity to deflect and distort the meaning of missionary work in every age”. For a long time a missionary was a person spreading the word of God and after years of doing so we have diminished many different beliefs, practices, cultures and history. At the time it was thought to be the right thing, to spread out and share the gospel to help people find meaning and acceptance. In today’s age a missionary is a lot of different things, in many cases it is more focused on the health and physical wellbeing of the people. Many people still share the gospel through missionary work, but in other cases it is more of a material aid. Donovan introduces the book as a voyage of discovery he wants us to put our normal beliefs aside to see his perspective of living a missionaries life and struggling with the fact of if you are helping or hurting.

Reverend Thomas, Robert Malthus was a political/classical economist born in the late 1760’s. He studied at several different schools in the areas of mathematics, literature, and arts. Malthus was married in the early 1800’s and had three children. Malthus is most famous for his theories on population growth and how he proposed we go about controlling it. He later died in the 1830’s at the age of 68.

The artist I have chosen for this project is John Roger Stephens, also known as John Legend. Born on December 28, 1978 in Springfield Ohio, John showed musical potential at an early age. His grandmother taught him to play his first instrument, which was the piano. He grew up playing and singing in his church’s choir. His talent at that age was amazing, labelling him a child prodigy. Growing up, he listened to music from Michael Jackson, LL Cool J, Boyz II Men, and MC Hammer, very influential African American artists. They were able to change the way people viewed African Americans with their music, and make the world a more accepting place. John knew that he wanted to become a vocalist, and was determined to make his dream

Chris McCandless enjoyed a privileged upbringing, but one in which he was held to high expectations. Chris's

Matthew Lewis’, The Monk: A Romance (1796), is a bildungsroman primarily depicting Ambrosio’s development into adulthood and subsequent transgression from ‘saint’ to ‘sinner’. However, the maturation of Antonia is also presented, and the dual coming of age narratives are marred by monstrous events. I theorise that, monstrosity not only incites the catalyst for their maturation and is the means by which they develop; it is the device by which their fates are determined. Thus, Lewis parallels their evolution into adulthood with social transgression in order to highlight the fatuity of idolatry.

At the age of 12, Chef Anthony and his family moved to Maryland, where he began what would become his career in the restaurant industry. After only one month of working as a dishwasher in a small local restaurant, his enthusiasm for food was apparent and he was