The Covenant Walk

In class we have talked about the Western religions and how they have come from Abraham.  We have talked a lot about how God promised the land to Abraham’s people.  This covenant came up in the church service I attended this past week.  The pastor talked about the different myths in the bible of covenant […]

Impact of Attractiveness In Hiring

This article was about a study done on whether physical attractiveness played a role in who managers hire.  Two main hypothesis were tested: 1. Knowledge and personality tests and conscientiousness played a larger role in hiring than physical attractiveness.  2.  Physical attractiveness would have a higher role in employers’ assessments in high customer contact jobs […]

Tim Orwig Presentation

I did not realize that Morningside has been such a strong influence in racial and gender equality throughout its history.  In the very early 1900’s, Morningside had a women’s basketball team when there were very few in the country.  That team was banished shortly after it was created because they were featured in the Chicago […]

Honors-Oogy and Homer

Oogy and Homer have somewhat similar stories.  Oogy is a surviving bate dog for dog fighting.  Bate dogs are thrown into pins with fighting dogs just to test the fighting dogs.  Oogy’s face was extremely torn up on one side and he is very lucky to be alive.  He was excepted into a loving home […]

Becoming A Hajji

Today during class we went on our own version of the Hajj, only ours was on Morningside campus instead of in Mecca.  We participated in all of the events that the actual Hajji would.  Our events were small examples of the actual Hajj events, but they were very helpful in learning the process.  While we […]

Honors Reflection

My opinions on beauty have slightly changed, but overall, these readings and our discussions have strengthened my main opinion.  Everybody has a different sense of beauty.  We all find beauty in different people and different objects.  Yes, sometimes our views on beauty are influenced by our social world, but when we look past that, we […]

Religion or Competition?

As we were talking about Christmas and how we don’t really know what day Jesus was born, I started thinking.  We discussed how Christians picked the date of Christmas to compete with the Romans’ celebration of Saturnalia.  It makes me wonder how much of our beliefs and practices come from competition between religions rather than […]

Honors: Wisdom of Solomon

This reading is about how we (people) make the mistake of noticing beautiful and marvelous things and, in a way, worship those things without thinking deeply into it.  We fail to see who created this beauty and how it was created.  By not realizing this, we take things from this world and make them our […]

Go to Liberty?

All throughout reading the Unlikely Disciple, I was intrigued by Kevin’s new experience.  I thought he was insane for trying to study there with his lack of evangelical christian knowledge.  I’m glad he had the courage to go and write this book.  His insight on Liberty has shown me that there is more out there […]

Contrast Effect

The articles we read and video we watched were all about the contrast effect and how it changes our views on beauty today.  The contrast effect is when we judge beauty based on others’ around us.  These people can be more attractive or less attractive people.  They can be in our normal social lives, or […]

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