... the ordeal that people make about self-esteem. Self-esteem can be described as belief in one’s self; self-respect, undue pride in one’s self, or conceit. In the following paragraphs, I will discuss basic servanthood truths, the motivation, mannerisms, and model for adopting the attitude of a servant and servant leadership. Philippians 2:1-11 gives us an excellent model for developing a servant’s heart. An example of irony is that we as human beings believe that we need to puff ourselves up and draw attention to ourselves in order to be great, when in fact Christ humbled Himself and as a result was exalted and lifted up. Matthew 20:26 says, “It is not this wa ...

... individuals who interrelate in order to satisfy their mutual needs for love and affection. They are interdependent economically, psychologically and physically. Without question these social units formed by gay men and lesbians constitute families. Homosexual parents are not a negative attribute and is as moral and virtuous as heterosexual families ; therefore, the desire to be a parent is not only for heterosexuals. Gays, like non-gays, are often inclined toward parenthood. Don Clark, a gay father and clinical psychologist, assessed the relationships between sexual orientation and fathers’ childbearing attitudes and behaviors. He also explored fathers’ s ...

... is called the Jim Crow system, after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who was an old, crippled, black slave who stood for negative stereotypes of blacks. Segregation has become common in Southern states following the end of Reconstruction in 1877. During Reconstruction, republican governments in the Southern states were run by blacks, Northerners, and some Southerners. The Reconstruction governments had passed laws to help blacks get economic and political opportunities. By 1877 the Democratic Party had gained control of government in the Southern states, and these Southern Democrats took away black advances and rights made during Reconstruction. They ...

... between the availability of the weapons with fire and the crimes of violence.According to an assertion, one of the causes of this relationship between the availability of the weapons with fire and the homicides are the fact that the weapons with fire are more fatal than the others weapons and, consequently, more likely to cause a death when ways in fact and flights are made. This explanation is very valid and it is exposed further in the section entitled " the attacks perpetrated with a weapon with fire and the probability that they will involve serious wounds and deaths ". Another reason for which the weapons with fire perhaps facilitate the perpetration of th ...

... highest rates were in death penalty states with executions: 9.7 homicides per 100,000. The people who are pro death penalty say this is because states have differences. These differences include, the populations, and number of cities. Strongly urbanized states are more likely to have higher crime rates than states that are more rural, such as those who lack . They say states that have the death penalty have it because of their high crime rate, not because they have the death penalty. During the temporary suspension on from 1972-1776, researchers gathered murder statistics across the country. Researcher Karl Spence of Texas A&M University came up with these ...

... Buddhist monks tried to win converts outside India through the use of theater and song (Burdick 97). They taught the precepts of Siddhartha and Buddha in such theatrical epics as Ramayana and Mahabharata, setting exacting rules for theater performance in the process (Burdick 99). Similarly, Irish monks established singing schools, which taught uniform use of music throughout the church (Young "'). Through chants which were all the same, they spread identical teachings. Christian psalms and hymns in Apostolic times were sung to spread the knowledge and faith of Christianity. In fact, Christianity was promoted from the start by music. Churches were for long the o ...

... along in the world. She sacrificed to get the girls a weaving machine so they could make their own cloths for their families when they married. Even when they were older she was able to support them. Through all her child rearing she only lost one child which was extremely good for that time period. It was also due to uncontrollable circumstances like disease. This is a formidable feat especially compared to today’s standards. Along with maintaining her own children she also brought other children into the families of others. The midwife today is not so important as it was two hundred years ago. Back then it was the highest paying job for a female. Martha in her ...

... 1973 there was a violent crime every 6 minutes but now it has increased to a murder every 16 seconds. Crime per thousand from between 1983 and 1992 rose 9.4 percent but from 1991 to 1992 it went down 4 percent. In recent years crime has been decreasing. Property crime, murder, robbery, and burglary have all decreased at least three percent in recent years but that is not much. There is one exception; rape which has gone up 3 percent. Violent crime has risen 40.9 since 1983 while in recent years it has only gone down a tenth of a percent. This may be one of the reasons people feel less safe. People aren't afraid of larceny or property crimes. They are afraid of ...

... committed by juveniles is low. According to one estimate, only 13% of violent crimes are committed by young people (Gallup Poll Monthly, Sept. 1994). The ACLU further suggests that the public also holds greatly inflated perceptions about the violence of today's juveniles, claiming only about 0.5% of young people commit violent crimes. (³ Crime Time Bomb,² U.S. News & World Report, March 25, 1996) Current social trends do little to contradict the dire predictions made about youth crime rates. Nearly all the factors that contribute to youth crime -- single-parent households, child abuse, deteriorating inner-city schools -- are getting worse. At the same time, ...

... too followed the family tradition and set up her own shop in Germany with her husband, but in this letter she seems to be very distressed and worried. She says that life has started to become very difficult since 1933. There has been a new ruling body installed in Germany called NAZI and according to her newspapers it is led by a hero, who has come to save Germany; Adolf Hitler. These Nazis oppose our jewish religion greatly; nearly everybody does, but this is a new strain of hatred that I have no seen before. In letter she states that some new anti-semitic rules called "The Nuremburg Laws" came into effect just this month which will practically sign her busin ...