GHS208-05 Fall 2019 China and the Islamic Middle East
Global and Historical Studies at Butler University
Ustedh Ubaudullah Evans talked tonight (11/5//19) in JH 141 and gave an awesome speech. He went into great detail about his life, schooling, and faith. All of these parts have helped make him to be the person that he is today. My first impression of him was that he was very funny, and I feel …
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These readings brought up the somewhat controversial idea of whether there is such a thing as free will or if everything in and about our lives are predetermined by God. I think a reason this can be such a controversial topic is because if you believe in God, he is all-knowing and created all humans, …
On Thursday November 7th I volunteered at the International Festival held at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. I really had no idea what to expect going in, I was first surprised by the largeness of the event and the amount of different cultural centers in Indianapolis. I was volunteering with the IACA so I went behind …
In class we talked about how many different versions there are of both the Quran and the Bible. This being because of all of the different world languages and how some words do not translate the same from language to language. This got me to thinking about my life and instances where this has happened, …
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Saturday morning was definitely the busiest day at the International Festival, or at least the busiest time I was there. That morning four of us who were volunteering at 9 decided to carpool. We did not realize that the marathon was going on, so our normally 10 minute drive took us about thirty minutes with …
The documentary was really interesting, I have never really looked in to it before because it never sparked my interest. The Journey each Muslim goes on is pretty amazing though and the diversity of people all over the world was a point people rarely bring up of Islam. In class some students discussed their dissatisfaction …
When we discussed our favorite quotes in class it got me thinking about my favorite quotes, who said them, and why they were my favorite. My favorite quote comes from one of my favorite movies, Chasing Mavericks! (it’s a super good movie if you ever get a chance to watch it) it’s a movie about …
The readings for this class were in the book “Al-Qur’an”, it was however one interesting line that was mentioned in class that really got me to thinking on how these two books are closely related. It was on page 102, line 33, and it says “The punishment for those who wage war against God and …
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While picking Maddie and Taylor up yet again to head to the festival, jokes we made about the little crash from the day before. Today was our big day, however, today was the day were helping perfume the Lion Dance and show other visitors at the festival more about the Chinese culture, from what we …
The second day of helping at the festival didn’t start off the best way possible, I was driving fellow Bulldogs, Taylor and Maddie to the festival and at the stoplight at Meridian and 46st, I was hit from behind (While I was stopped at the red light). So, the day was already off to an …
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