The War Prayer

A. I believe that the theme of this story is about everyone preparing for the war, mainly spirutualy. The reading talks about one Sunday when many filled the church and a chapter of the Old Testament was read and prayer was said at the service for everyone. Soldiers volunteers, families, and friends. That Sunday service a stranger came up to the main aisle and had the preacher step aside because he had a prayer to say. B. "God's servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two -- one uttered, the other not." This part really stood out to me because I think that it is something that we should all remember when we pray. Sometimes when we pray about something we only think about our/their benefit of the prayer, when really like this man said, prayer has to sides of it. In this case in the reading those who were praying were only thinking about themselves and not the harm that they would be doing to others, that is why when the man speaks his prayer they did not understand that his prayer was mocking what they were truely praying for.C. This helped me to really keep in mind that in every prayer we must not only think about our selves but also about who our prayer might be hurting. C.For example when we pray for our soldiers in Iraq, we shouldn't just pray for their  victory in war but for the people of Iraq who are beeing just as effected by it as our men and women of our country. D. This exactly to the reading because the theme of this readying is speaking about the prayer in war. Sometimes we get so caught up in what is only hurting us and not others that we don't take the time to pray for those who really need it, like some of the inncoent people in Iraq.

Friederich Engels: Industrial Manchester, 1844

A. The theme of this story is about how and why Manchester became the head manufacturer of cotton in England. B. "The town itself is peculiarly built, so that a person may live in it for years, and go in and out daily without coming into contact with a working-people's quarter or even with workers, that is, so long as he confines himself to his business or to pleasure walks." This stood out to me because I think it's a horrible that the working people are being avoided as if they were some kind of animal or disease. C. If the weather had not been the main factor of the cotton manufacturing being in Manchester where else would have been? And why not in the first place?C. In some are in our country and world today some benefit more than others because of natural resources that are not found everywhere. For example the energy we get from windmills only is productive in parts of geopgraphy were it's windier than other parts. D. This relates to the text because the story states how the damp climate was better for the cotton manufacturing than in the other dry climate cotton manufacturing areas.

Women Miners in the English Coal Pits

A. The theme of this story is about the horrible degrading working conditions of the children and women working in coal pits. B. "Their sex was recognizable only by their breasts, and some little difficulty occasionally arose in pointing out to me which were girls and which were boys, and which caused a good deal of laughing and joking." This part of the reading stood out the most to me because I pictured myself what it would have been like to be one of those girls who was being look pointed out at. I can't imagine how horrible it must have been for them. C. The thought that came into my mind after I finished reading this was the little money that they earned really worth everything that they had to go through while working? It made me think about how people even today work at jobs were they are being degrated but that it's their "only" choice to make the money that they need. C. Today there are still many sweat shops like this where women and children are working in horrible conditions and paid verry little, we do not hear much of it but I am sure that there are many similarities with the coal pits. D. This relates to the story because the issue of workers still being under paid and degrated is not only in histroy but still occuring.