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    Catherine go on numerous bloodletting treatments, while Johanna was against the procedure. As Catherine recovered, the relationship between her and Grand Duke Peter grew. The couple soon became engaged and Catherine even converted to the Russian Orthodox faith. With her new religion, she also received a new name, Yekaterina or Catherine. On August 21, 1745, Catherine II was married to Grand Duke Peter, and became a grand duchess of the Russian royal family. To the public eye she and Peter proved

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    political vermouth of Thomas Hobbes. Its story expresses a sense of pervasive political corruption; it has been read as a daring critique of conditions in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. With this critique of the Russian Government as well as the Russian Orthodox Church as well as religion in general we see the stepping stones for an exceptionally dramatic and controversial movie. The Book of Job is summarized as timeless human suffering which we see throughout the entire Leviathan movie. Within The Book of

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    American church missions and schools were set up throughout Alaska. Jackson was opposed of the use of native languages in church and schools and strictly used English. Jackson wanted manifest destiny, he wanted to expand North America and convert natives to the white man religion(Krauss 1980). By 1910, the United States

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    head of Solidarity with the Persecuted Church, give an inspiring and informative presentation about the conditions of persecuted Christians in the hot spots of Iraq, Syria, and

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    Environmental ethics are a particular portion of environmental philosophy that echoes the ethical affiliation between human beings and the natural environment. The core belief that God is the creator of all things and human beings, grounds the environmental ethics of Christian teachings, where individuals are charged with the stewardship of this creation. Christian scripture, natural law and tradition create the foundations of Christian ethical teachings yet different expressions of Christianity

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    raised in a conservative Southern Baptist church. During my journey at Seattle Pacific University, I have been attending different church traditions in order to find my own individual faith. One church that I have attended is Holy Apostles Greek Orthodox Church. Since the Orthodox practices seemed abundantly different from the services that I grew up with, I was hesitant but also excited and interested in their faith. Holy Apostles Greek Orthodox Church was established in 1999 and is located in

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    The Greek Orthodox Church is one of the three major branches of Christianity, which "stands in today's society as one of the communities created by the apostles of Jesus in the region of the eastern Mediterranean, and which spread by missionary activity throughout Eastern Europe" .The word orthodox comes from Greek, this means right-believing. Currently, the orthodox religion has more than 174 million followers throughout the world. The Greek Orthodox church is autocephalous, which means

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    During the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, there was a lot of positive and negative communication that influenced the main character’s life decisions. The story is about a young woman, named Toula, that is of Greek decent who is fearful of being stuck in the life she is now living. She is a frumpy girl that works in her family’s restaurant because she has not been able to find a Greek man to marry, and because of this, her family claims that she is old and has failed in life. She is allowed to

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    “[Masculinity/ femininity] refers to the extent to which a culture values aggressiveness, competitiveness, looking out for yourself, and dominating others and nature versus gentleness, cooperation, and taking care of others and living in harmony with the natural world.” (Wood) Toula is pressured to marry a nice greek man, while her brother is expected to marry a greek virgin but does not receive the same pressure. Gus also has some expectations of Nick to partake in masculine activities unlike Toula

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    Distancing oneself from culture allows for new roles or new dynamics to take place. In Middlesex, the first place the siblings give way to their feelings are when the Greek are retreating, a symbol of their culture departing, ultimately allowing Lefty and Desdemona to have a more intimate relationship. They both put on a show for the other passengers since their arrival onto the ship, acting like they met for the first time, they had "fabricated memory, improvised fate" (Eugenides 68). They were

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