Under The Feet of Jesus

Developing children constantly tend to bother adults with all these questions they have about different things in life. Many times when their questions are not answered, they can become frustrated and overwhelmed over their curiosity for the world. In the excerpt from the novel Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Maria Viramontes illustrates the transformation of Estrella, through the passage, from being aggrieved, facing difficulties towards herself and her teachers, and finding that motivation to overcome her obstacles. At the…...

The eighth principle of environmental justice states that all workers have rights to a safe and healthy working environment including one free of environmental hazards. These seventeen principles promote economic alternatives which develop an environmentally safe livelihood for people of color. The beginning of this ongoing battle was fueled by low income, colored communities that were becoming the resting ground for facilities with negative environmental impacts. In the early 1960s, Cesar Chavez lead Latino farmworkers on a march for workplace…...

This book was written by six authors and is edited by one of them. The editor, and orchestrator of the “Jesus at 2000” symposium, is Marcus J. Borg. He became a faculty member of Oregon State University in 1979 and when he retired, he was a Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture in the Philosophy Department. He was widely held as an influential and prominent voice in progressive Christianity, up to his death in 2015. He was educated at Concordia…...

The novel “Under the Feet of Jesus” (1995) written by Helena Maria Viramontes, is the story of a Hispanic family who, through out their whole life living together, have been trying to survive the challenges brought about by poverty, they are one of the people who, at those times, were trained to work like dogs since they were four years old. (Lawton, 1996). The important characters of the story were Estrella and Petra,. Estrella the character in which the story…...

Phoenix Jackson; an old negro woman that partakes on a journey to take medicine to her sick nephew that is off in another town. Phoenix is old and through the story there are many accounts that I think are symbolic to being of age. Being one with nature Phoenix Jackson is determined to travel through the forest to tend to her sick nephew. The story itself was full of symbols, some that where more noticeable then others. Phoenix’s face was…...

English-Lueck is of the opinion that communication technologies have increased the ways in which we can keep track of our families. According to him the communication technologies have been a boon especially for the working mothers as they help them in being connected to their children’s lives even when they spend a lot of time outside home. But at the same time communication technologies have become a bane for them too. To explain this point English-Lueck uses the example of…...

The statue of Christ the Redeemer at the top of the Corcovado Mountain, in the Tijuca National Forest in Brazil, represents the major faith of this South American country. Overlooking the city, it probably has one of the best views that can be found in Rio de Janeiro. The statue is currently 80 years old and has gone under several extensive renovations, which included adding an elevator in 2002. The statue of Christ the Redeemer is probably one of the…...