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    Payne, Austin English IV, 4th hour December 7, 2015 Paper The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales During the time of The Canterbury Tales the church people are supposed to follow certain rules that put them right with god. The four rules are considered as vows. The four vows are: poverty, stability, chastity, and obedience. The vow of poverty is about not being attached to such world such as garments or jewelry. The vow of stability is about focusing on god, day on and day off. The vow of chastity asks people to not be sexually active so that they can be attached to god. Finally, the vow of obedience is about people following god’s plan instead of their own. Although the four vows are not very hard to obey, only certain people in the story obey them. The vow of poverty states that people during this time should not be so attached to material/worldly things so that they can be closer to God. Chaucer says, “And on his hood, to fasten at his chin/ He had a wrought-gold cunningly fashioned pin.” (Line 199-200). This means he wanted to have jewelry more than he wanted God. Chaucer also stated that “He let go by the things of yesterday/And took the modern worlds more spacious way.” (Line 179-180). The monk looked on to follow the way of the world which is sinning at its best. The nun also breaks this vow. “Her cloak, I noticed, had a graceful charm/She wore a coral trinket on her arm.” (Chaucer Line 161-162). The nun valued her worldly possessions more than her relationship with…

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    Shiners Model

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    Counsel cannot legally withhold information pertaining to their client’s case (Model, 1995). They have to inform them of any consequences that they are looking to face as well as keep them informed of the status of their case. This violates Rule 1.4 in Communication, by stating that legal consequences cannot be discussed between the Counsel and Shiners (Model, 1995). They have the right to communicate in client- lawyer privilege. The Counsel is obligated to inform their clients about any…

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    Single Mother of Two Passes Away From Cancer; Will Not Properly Prepared A single mother of two, who succumbed to cancer made the week’s headlines. The story goes that when she first got aware of her condition she immediately started to make will preparations as is the norm employing the use of Legalzoom.com. Eventually, she was able to come up with a “legal will” complying with all standards, including the witnessing formalities as par the requirements of the law of Florida. The details stated…

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    experience in providing in-house counsel to rapidly expanding organizations. Today, he works strategically to improve Aspen Dental’s growth while maintaining legal compliance within the multi-state organization. Growth is a sign of a healthy business by anyone’s standard. Aspen Dental, a manager of dental services, supporting offices in 33 states, has enjoyed an impressive amount of growth with the last few years. Clocking in 3.4 million patient visits with 750,000 new patients added in 2014,…

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    The second question to answer is, what do Evangelicals believe? Evangelicals believe in four distinct ideas. Conversionism, Activism, Biblicism, and Crucicentrism (What Is an Evangelical?). Conversionism is the belief that human lives need to go through a transformation. They need to go through the process of being "born-again" and then live this lifelong transformation following Jesus (What Is an Evangelical?).Activism is the activity of expressing and living the gospel through the efforts of…

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    The last section of chapter discusses Edinburgh and Lausanne’s’ relationship to convergence. Chapter five focuses on the convergence beyond the Lausanne movement. The chapter starts of discussing the theological convergence’s impact “on the broader evangelical and ecumenical world focusing on theological assumptions (162)” and “missiological methods that emerged from the Lausanne movement” (Pruitt 167). Pruitt discusses the International Mission Board (IMB) and its relationship with Lausanne,…

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    The prevailing theme within the videos and audio clip this week was creativity, autonomy and the rules that we either self impose or have imposed on us. While the I fully believe in the philosophy, I believe there is a fine line between lack of rules and regulation and chaos. From my limited exposure my consulting client, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Milwaukee (ELCA), is suffering from some of the chaos of not enough oversight and systematic guidelines. Edward Schein, an organizational…

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    The Evangelical Movement

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    part of the evangelical movement and trying to embrace their religion took it’s toile on many southern women. Southern women were expected to be moral caregivers. They were responsible for bringing family members closer to God and often carried a large burden when their husband’s or children rejected the faith or fell short. Some mother even believed that if they loved their children too much or “made them into idols,” God would let their children die. Women’s spiritual authority often set them…

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    Fundamental Evangelical Protestants believe that the Bible is the truth; the good news in the Bible must be spread to others, and in God creating the world and all life forms (the Creation), since it is a part of the Bible. Charles Darwin's belief of evolution clashes with the Creation, a belief of Fundamental Evangelical Protestants. This clash was taken to court on July 10, 1925, because in March 1925, Tennessee made teaching evolution…

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    co-operative partnership, in which the counsellor encourages the client to take equal responsibility for the work they do together” (Jacobs 75). Counseling of a discipleship nature helps the counsellee to focus on the right perspective of a Christian life which would lead to a better relationship with Christ. Stephen Greggo in his article Counseling Care and Evangelical Pastoral Leadership writes “Pastoral counseling within an evangelical ministry is primarily concerned with spiritual…

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