Essays Tagged: "Sunday school"

The Gates Bill

rents Mary and William Henry Gates Jr. His childhood was uneventful and was well raised. He went to Sunday school at the Congregational church and sang in the choir. He was a Boy Scout but never showe ...

(4 pages) 150 0 4.8 Oct/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Satan

SatanI grew up in the ------ church. I was baptized at the age of eight. I went to Sunday School just about every Sunday. With all of this church background in middle school I still m ...

(8 pages) 91 0 4.8 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Christian Science Church--The First Church of Christian Science--discusses various aspects of religion and faith.

ed a church member, Robert Jeffrey, who is a Christian Science practitioner, a former lector, and a Sunday school teacher of grades three through five. A Christian Science practitioner has devoted his ... ion.c) Worship ServiceThe First Church of Christ, Scientist has two worship services a week, one on Sunday and one on Wednesday. The book Weekly Bible Lessons, published at the Mother Church every few ...

(6 pages) 83 1 4.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

The Moral Dilemma In Mark Twains "Huckleberry Finn" What is the major moral dilemma that Huckleberry Finn is put in? Weather to turn Jim in or not.

ind this comforting. Huck, in the middle of his scared, frustrated decision, thinks, "There was the Sunday school, you could a gone to it; and if you'd a done it they'd a learnt you, there, that peopl ...

(3 pages) 127 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain

Phillip Yancey's "The Jesus I Never Knew"

Why he came," and "What he left behind." Yancey strives to show Jesus, as he really was, not as the Sunday school stereotype of a tall, handsome man with long flowing hair. In The Jesus I Never Knew, ... book image, and have been hidden from the actual truths. Yancey was introduced to Jesus through the Sunday school image himself. Even after his Bible college years, Yancey admits that he did not know ...

(4 pages) 63 0 2.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

A critical analysis of Elspeth Davie's short story, "Sunday Class" with a Bibliography

Elspeth Davie's short story, "Sunday Class" is one that juxtaposes a conventional Sunday school with hierarchy. The Sunday School ... ing a connection between her and the display of the isosceles triangle.BIBLIOGRAPHYDavie, Elspeth. "Sunday Class." The Giant Book of Scottish Short Stories. Ed. Carl MacDougall. New York: Peter Bedric ...

(4 pages) 16 0 0.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Life and works of Emily Dickenson.

a lawyer, legislator, and Calvinist. He was a stern religious man who required his family to attend Sunday School. In her late teens, Dickinson refused to call herself a believing Christian. She spent ...

(2 pages) 65 1 1.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Compare and contrasts Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer and analysis of why Tom was used only at beginning and end of book. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

ind trust in his friend Tom Sawyer's plans have led Huck to some strange situations. As seen in the Sunday school "Arab" fiasco, where Tom, Huck and their gang attacked a Sunday school picnic, Huck ac ...

(4 pages) 95 0 3.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain

Essay on jackie robinson and relating how he handled his life with the help of religion

d UCLA, which was very close to his home. Jackie, while playing sports at UCLA, volunteered to be a Sunday school teacher. Jackie felt a certain obligation to give something back to the youth of the n ...

(3 pages) 26 0 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

In the short story collection: Summer Lightning by Olive Senior, the child is a major device for analyzing the society which disrupts and destroys its world. Discuss using at least 3 stories.

ustrated within the first lines of 'Love Orange' which states, "somewhere between the repetition of Sunday School lessons and the broken doll which the lady sent me one Christmas I lost what it was to ...

(7 pages) 51 0 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Coming off the Cross

tched from behind the couch. Soon after, a wonderful family adopted the little girl and took her to Sunday school. The little girl walked in and saw a picture of Jesus on the cross-pasted wall. She lo ...

(1 pages) 70 3 4.2 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte

the Rev. Patrick Brontë, had moved from Ireland to Weatherfield, in Essex, where he taught in Sunday school. Eventually he settled in Yorkshire, the centre of his life's work. In 1812 he married ...

(6 pages) 38 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Homosexuality Religon Vs. Science

I was raised in a Christian home. When I was young my parents would take me to Sunday school. I would learn all of the Old Testament stories, and sing songs about God and Jesus. M ...

(5 pages) 72 1 3.7 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

How the Baptists sucked me in

pen to me?When I first went I thought it was great, they gave you breakfast and were so friendly in sunday school. I kept going for weeks Mr Baker was the minister and was fun to talk to, his daughter ...

(2 pages) 62 3 3.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Girl Jamaica Kincaid

p well after a wash; soak salt fish overnight before you cook it; is it true that you sing benna in Sunday school?; always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach; on Sun ... days try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming; don't sing benna in Sunday school; you mustn't speak to wharbfflies will follow you; but I don't sing benna on Sundays a ...

(3 pages) 47 0 0.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Story of a Bad Little Boy

ways obeyed his mother, and never told an untruth, and was fond of his lessons, and infatuated with Sunday-School." Jim was bad little boy, who inexplicably and persistently got away with causi ... the midst of his deceitfulness, he remained "the Bad Little Boy" of the village. Jim, unlike in the Sunday-School books, by no means, drowned when he went boating and never got struck by lightning whe ...

(1 pages) 25 0 3.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

"The Harlot by the Side of the Road"

Road" was an interesting look at stories from the Bible that most people do not even know exist. In Sunday school and church you never hear the stories of rape, incest and violence that Jonathan Kirsc ...

(4 pages) 22 1 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Abraham Lincoln

sn't a church close enough for them to attend regularly so his mother read bible storiesto him each Sunday just like they would hear in Sunday school. At the tender age of nine hismom became very ill ...

(3 pages) 25 0 3.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Creationism and Public Schools.

debate. Public school science classes, when discussing the origins of life on Earth, coincided with Sunday school classes. Students learned that the Earth, universe and everything else was created in ...

(4 pages) 75 1 5.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

"The Red Tent" infuses a woman's blood with power.

stensibly, this is the story of Dinah. It is the story, though, told in a way you never heard it in Sunday School. Indeed, her story is so violent, tragic, and brief, that she is rarely anything but a ...

(8 pages) 20 0 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American