Spanish Game- JUPa

Jupa instrucciones:
1) Encontrar una pieza de juego para cada juego persona.
2) Encontrar dos dados, cada rollo tiene una persona dados.
3) El que tira el número más alto se va a ir primero, en caso de empate, entonces las personas que están vinculadas volver a tirar.
4) Esa persona empieza a rodar por un solo dados y mueve la cantidad que él o ella se da.
5) El jugador sigue las instrucciones que el lugar que cae en dice.
6) El juego continúa hasta el siguiente jugador en sentido horario.
Nota rápida: los jugadores tienen que seguir las flechas cuando se mueve.

God

Throughout all of history, starting with the first human life on earth, people have been asking questions. Questions such as why do humans exist, what is our purpose, what fulfills us, and what happens after we die? In all of society these questions, have been pondered and question repeatedly, however, logical certainty cannot be achieved; making it personalized opinions in most cases. I as an intellectual person on this planet have actually been asking questions like this for a while, and I am ready to share my knowledge that I have come by over the years, while including the knowledge that I have gained so far during this school year.

“Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.” Genesis 2 tells of the story of Adam and Eve, the first two people supposedly on the earth. Adam, as from the quote was made from the dust, while his companion was formed from within his own flesh; a rib turned into women. The two were the image of god and were created by god to take care of his creation, to populate the earth, and to have a relationship with Him. Adam and Eve were the first gardeners, parents, and people to disobey god. However, this biblical story explains why we are on earth in terms of a religious side. There is a whole other side to things.

Science, a word thrown into religion that can have many people feeling sick, has a different reason, of why we are on earth. Evolution, a word that can make people throw up, has a lot of conflict in people’s minds when it comes to religion. Evolution, a theory formed by Darwin states that humans evolved from other animals by chance. Many scientists now accept evolution as fact, and many more people around the world are following suit. I for one actually accept evolution as fact and presume it to be true because of the facts presented to me. However, it is conflicting for a reason; many people do not like it and mistakenly presume that evolution disproves religion, which it does not. In fact, the two come together as nicely as to opposite magnets do. Francis Collins for example made a good point when he said, “I do not find the wording of Genesis 1 and 2 to suggest a scientific textbook but a powerful and poetic description of God’s intentions in creating the universe.” I for one agree with him in that I do not take genesis 1 and 2 literal, as I feel many people in today’s society also do not take it literal. Chris of Yes or No by Peter Kreeft, who plays the speaker of the Christian faith, had this to say, “I don’t know. [If I believe in evolution] However, suppose I did. How would that contradict my faith?” Therefore, it can be concluded that even Christians can accept that evolution does not contradict religion, and I accept that.

However, everyone is entitled to his or her own opinions, and some take advantage of that by claiming what they feel is true. What do I mean by that? I mean they concluded that religion and evolution cannot mix, something I do not believe. Some will say that religion is not real at all, but evolution is, such as Steven pinker of Harvard, who claims that the theory of natural selection works, but then questions why a god would allow bad things to happen, such as 9/11. However, you also have someone like Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, who claims that that evolution happened, but it was not as random as Darwin would claim, that there was a helping hand to glide it along. Then the final type of people are those who say Evolution is not real, a thought I could not say I agree at all. They state that fossils presented do not prove that evolution took place, in fact may even prove that it did not take place. I for one know that fossils prove that old life lived on earth, but research does show that it actually does not prove evolution.

Now before we conclude I would also like to say something about the earth’s age. Science will tell us the earth is billions of years old, yet the bible claims that it is only 6000 years old, something seems wrong it would seem. Will for starters this is a misconception; there is no explicit verse, that relates the time of creation of the earth. Therefore, to conclude on why we exist, we exist because we were formed by a helping hand of a higher power and shaped and molded throughout the years into which we are today. We were made to protect the World we live in, to populate the world we live in, and if one chooses to adore the creator. There will always be speculation of how human’s existence came to be, but I feel this is the best bet. Therefore, a final note before I continue onto the next subject, we started out as dust, and we finish as dust, could it be a cycle? 

The purpose of life, and what fulfills us is a challenging question that is hard to answer like the last. Like the last, the Bible tells us that the purpose of life is to take care of his creation, to populate the earth, and to have a relationship with God. However, could there be more to it than that? The bible actually tells us a list of many purposes in life, if you understand it the way that others do. For example, the website, http://www.dougbrittonbooks.com/onlinebiblestudies-selfworthandrespect/godhasplansforyou-youhaveapurpose.php   has gone and made a long list of all those, so for this part I will be using examples from that site.

The purpose of life it would seem revolves around god, in many cases he bible tells us, you are created to know God, you are created for God's glory, you are created to praise God, you are created to spread the Gospel. So as it can be seen that bible for obvious reasons is heavily based around god, however it is not all about god. The bible also tells us that our purpose is to grow the fruit of the Spirit. What this means is that god wants us to grow our character during our life, it is more important that if we fail or succeed. However most importantly he wants us to use the talents that he gave to us, which can be seen in Romans 12:4-8. Most importantly, he just wants us to live our lives, do not minimize your life, live life as an adventure, and be faithful.

I actually have no problems with what the Bible says about our purpose, except I do kind of wish it was not so heavily revolved around god. I for one feel that there is a higher power, I just do not know who it is yet, for that reason I find it hard to know who to praise or spread, but I do try to get to know a higher power, who very well could be god. I think also that the purpose of life is what someone wants to make of their life, which is what a higher power would want I feel; to learn who they are. Someone who does not believe in religion or the Bible I feel can live by that. Life is after all just an adventure for all those living in it. So to conclude on this point I would say that purpose of life in unknown, but if you take, what the Bible gives it can help to give a good guideline of what our life is for and for those who do not believe then just keep doing what you are doing because it is what a higher power would want. In addition, what fulfills us I believe is what we want to fulfill us. For example, many people find it in Facebook; others find it in a wife or other means. However, in truth, we will never find it without that higher power or until death whatever comes first and that brings me to my next and final point.

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." John 14:1-3 says it best, that god does have plans for us after life. However, is it that simple and end it at that? No I am afraid not, this question is one that has plagued me the most and have given long hours of trying to find the answer to this question. For I am going to be honest here I am deeply terrified of dying and the unknown that comes with it. Therefore, I actually look for the reassurance that there is something after death and I am convinced there is. In the book, Yes and No, it talks about both Heaven and Hell. Christopher states that Heaven is open to all and that no one is condemned to Hell, and yes, Hell is a real place, human kind made it however.

However, there are people out there that claim far scarier things that end up scaring me. For example, some claim there is no after life and that everything will just go dark, like falling asleep and never waking up. Some others claim that you just are reincarnated as some other type of living creature, which I could believe. Because if you think about it, matter is never actually destroyed, so why couldn’t the matter that makes us just be recycled into some new life? It makes you think, but I hold true to the afterlife story and I hope really badly that it is true. Now before I conclude on this subject there is some interesting, “proof” to the argument of after death and that is the supernatural. For example, how does one explain having a near death experience or seeing something such as a ghost, as of now no one can. The facts all point to there being something unusual going on, people just cannot prove it. So to conclude I would say that there is life after death and it comes in the form of Heaven or Hell, which most people I would imagine choose Heaven.

As of now all of the stuff that we have talked about and focused on is almost, if not, impossible to prove. This is why what I write is what I believe to be closes and my best bet after all of the research I have done and the amount of time thinking of the topic at hand. I would like to conclude by saying religion and theology is independent upon faith, and it will not and cannot survive without faith, which I see now is why the bible is pretty focused on that.

New Spanish Blog

For the Next few months my blog will be in spanish! for my viewers who don't know the language...well I am sorry I will try to add some English now and then in between :)
Now, time for the spanish!
Hola a mi hablantes de español. Este blog es para ti para los próximos meses. Yo no soy un hablante nativo, perdóname por los errores.Hoy es un mensaje de bienvenida, así que no voy a escribir mucho, pero estar preparados para más por venir...
...Adios! 

This I believe

A subject that has been swirling around the humankind since the dawn of man is rights. What are rights, how do we get these rights, and how in the world might we possibly guarantee them, all questions that civilizations have incessantly asked all through the ages. Just within the homeland of the United States of America, it has been an everlasting battle to discover the right balance of rights.

                Rights are what a society as a majority decides them to be. Such as in the case of America, several of the rights that we have in today’s society appear as the direct result of a majority of citizens requesting those rights. For instance in the case of slavery in America, for numerous years it continued within the American nation, however, it was not until a majority of people determined that it was immoral for that change to happen and blacks received some of their rights. Now it is not like that in all cases, however I do believe that in a majority of cases this is how people get there rights.

                Guaranteeing these rights is the hard part in the society. With so many conflicting rights, it can almost seem just about impossible for any group of people to attempt to guarantee them. However, the America seems to have it closely figured out. The American way follows a strict set of rules predetermined to decide who gets what rights and if need be a majority of people can have these rights changed. So to conclude on the issue of rights, rights are formed and given by what a majority of people wish to have as rights and guaranteed by a set of predetermined rules that can be changed if need be, this I believe.   

You Are A Human Being

“You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.” Lyn Beth Neylon, a legal and gender specialist for the Benin and Rwanda programs of the Woman’s Legal rights Initiative makes it be known a number of her outlooks on the rights in being born a human, the dignity and worth that exists before law in the above quote. Throughout the history of the United States of America, there has been more often than not a constant battle of its citizens probing what it means to be an American. This battle led to numerous and countless trouble within the shaping of America; however, it was these conflicts, which directly shaped the nation into a perfect Union for its citizens. With Lyn Beth Neylon’s quote, one should be able to tell that since reconstruction, the views of basic human rights faced challenges throughout time, domestic and foreign events did not always demonstrate that the nation honored the needs and wants of all citizens, and that the government should play a role in developing these rights for citizens.  

The second that one comes out of the womb of his or hers mother and breaths his or hers first miraculous breath of oxygen, the little boy or girl is met in the world by his or hers parents whom are human beings as the new baby child now is. The gift of humanity that is passed down throughout generation to generation does not change throughout time, we are all born the same for the most part, and in many ways we all have the same basic features, but the way that a certain individual is treated has shifted extraordinarily many times since reconstruction. It was just one gene, that so happens to control skin color, this one gene would be the root cause of over one hundred years of tension between blacks and whites. Blacks were born just like there white counterpart however, many white did not view blacks as equal, they may have been human beings but, they were not allowed to inherent any rights and they clung to any dignity that they could hold onto.

However, right after the civil war period, the nation went into a state of reconstruction, a time of rebuilding of the nation for the betterment. The north, who many speculate fought the war to end slavery within the United States actual tried to aid the blacks and for the first time in a very long time in the history of the nation grant them rights. Three new amendments were passed, 13^th amendment allowed them their freedom to not be slaves, 14^th amendment allowed them to be American citizens if born in the nation, and the 15^th allowed blacks the right to vote. These were rights, that blacks within the nation in the past had never felt and it allowed blacks to feel some dignity with the help of law. Another law that passed in 1870 even went as far as to say that a public business could not segregate blacks from their business. Blacks were now allowed to eat and hangout with whites and have more rights than ever before. However, a common problem within the United States arose, people fighting for what they believed to be right, and one of the biggest anti-Black groups arose as a direct cause of blacks getting rights. This new group, the Ku-Klux-Klan was a terrorist group in the eyes of many, but mostly in the North when founded and the government even tried to stop it with the Ku-Klux-Klan Act. However, the overwhelming number of people not wanting to allow blacks their rights got what they wanted in 1883 when the government gave up on trying to grant blacks their rights, and as quickly as blacks got their rights they were gone for the most part and in many cases many blacks lost even more because of the black laws. The government had tried to develop rights for the blacks of America during reconstruction, but had failed and at the same time failed at giving the wants of the black community of America.

The Gilded Age did not prove to give many more rights to any one group; it was just a time of great wealth and success for the nation of America, Mark Twain who made the term did have disgust on this age by the way that the businesses operated. The Progressive Era however, is a much different story in terms of rights. The progressive Era led to many groups finding new rights, one of the groups was the working class. The working class from the late 1800’s to early 1900’s has faced numerous challenges and the government saw and realized these challenges and stepped in to fix the problems. Labor groups and the government made sure the people that worked got more steps to freedom and could work without worry. The main thing to worry about was damage to the human body, many people were working long hours in dangerous conditions, for little pay, to make matters worse many of the people working were young kids. In one such act passed during this time allowed the government to step in and monitor private business for the first time, one of the most powerful companies for a long time, the railroad system was the direct reason for this new act. Women also used the progressive Era as a time to try to make change happen; they wanted the right to vote and to be equal with man. The process of how a women and man differ is quote complicated, but it is as simple as one Y chromosome being different. So why woman were not granted equal rights until woman suffrage later on in the nation’s history is beyond many. The progressive Era led to great change within the nation’s way of living and greatly shifted how domestic policy operated, the nation saw that groups of people needed change to happen and many of those people had gotten what they wanted, and the government had made change happen with new laws and granted new rights.

The Imperialistic Nation of America in the early 1900’s had gotten in a little war known as the Spanish-American war. Many African Americans gave their life in this war and after it was over and America and received the Philippines, Guam, and other land many African Americans were left still without rights. This angered many African Americans who fought in the war, but besides a few protests, nothing came out of it. World War One, The war that the nation tried to stay neutral in for the longest time had a similar effect with American Americans, but still nothing came out of it. The Roaring Twenties, the lowest point within America, had trouble written all over it. Following the progressive Era, many people were still trying to make change happen, and this change led to the lowest point in America. The government took away a right from all Americans during this period, the right to drink alcohol. This angered the people of the nation and left many questioning if the government had too much power and if they should be able to control what they can and cannot drink. People, many of whom were outranged, rioted, and debated for change, and they would receive that change. Thus proving the government should monitor and pass new rights, but only if there is a direct interest by the people to do as such. The roaring twenties would leave with no newfound rights and a United States that was at one of its lowest points. However, it would lead to new domestic policies, with the new deal shaping a few things within the nation and fixing loose screws. 

 World War 2 would have a great deal of shaping rights with America as well. Woman Suffrage was huge around this time and one particular person leading that charge was the women found on posters all around working for the Army. This poster was a great example of how woman could stand up and help the nation with the War. The nation around this time would finally allow woman to vote, once the government passed the new laws to allow it. However, at the same time many groups who aided in the war were not so fortunate to gather new rights, many groups in fact who fought in the war never received new rights. The government aided in fixing problems with woman rights and proving the nation allowed that change to happen by passing new laws. World War 2 its self did not provide rights, but events around it led to new rights. Also during and a little after World War Two America locked up Japanese citizens of America and held them against their will. They had done nothing wrong but the new foreign affairs directed that they be locked up since they had Japanese blood, this clearly went against their needs and wants. The Cold War, Korean War, and Vietnam War, war of two super powers fighting it out did not have much impact on the rights granted to its citizens all that much. The wars did lead like the others to an increased want of rights by many groups who fault in the wars. Foreign affairs shifted greatly when the nation decided that it would fund other places to make sure communism could not and would not spread.

In the 1960’s a new war for rights took place, the civil rights period. New thinkers took up to revive the challenges that the government had failed to do in the 1800’s and finally allow African Americans all the rights that they rightfully deserve. The Civil rights period for the nation was not easy, and for the south to forget Jim Crow’s Laws was even harder. For anyone who was not alive during that time it is hard to realize fully of what it was like, but the best way to describe it is like a warzone. Blacks and Whites alike were losing their lives to what they believed to be right. Jews, a group that for a long time like Blacks had many rights taken away from them, such as bring allowed to eat or go to certain places. Yes, segregated they had been and for that reason in many instances, Jews provide money for the riots and marches that the blacks had to gain their rights. However, with that said blacks for the most part are the ones who got it done with great leaders, such as Martin Luther King, who had a dream for change in the nation. Great leaders standing up for change accomplished his dream piece by piece. One great example is Love vs. Virginia, a case that went to the Supreme Court that allowed blacks to marry whomever they wished; this case overturned a case from the early 1900’s. It is examples such as this that led to the African Americans to receive equal rights and to be equal to whites. However, once again, the government and new laws are what allowed this change to happen, but also these new laws would not have formed without the help of everyone who fought for change.  

After the events of the civil rights period, the nation fought many new hardships to continue that shaping of the nation into a better and perfect union. But in many ways it will never be perfect, such as today a new question has arisen, what rights should homosexuals have; rights is a endless debate that throughout history has been debated. “You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.” So back to the quote, it is true that one who is born is a human being, but not all rights are inherent in that reality, in fact many people throughout history did not get any dignity or worth until after new laws, notice that key word, until, not prior. It is clear that since reconstruction, the views of basic human rights faced challenges throughout time, domestic and foreign events did not always demonstrate that the nation honored the needs and wants of all citizens, and that the government should play a role in developing these rights for citizens. Americans throughout time continuously worked to make this nation what it is today, but it is not perfect yet and it may never be, but as of now, it is close, the nation is doing a good job regulating rights and making sure that we are all equal. Remember, together we stand, together we fall. 

Drug Smuggling on the Bay

On March 11, 1987, The Free Lance-Star, a newspaper of Fredericksburg, VA published an article that would alarm numerous Americans and alert countless more. It was an issue, which was spreading like a wildfire within the American civilization, affecting both the domestic policy as well as the foreign policy. Around this time, drug smuggling was evolving in places where it had never before, the Chesapeake Bay region was seeing drug smuggling increase, striking terror into the government to get involved, this lead to domestic policy and foreign affair policy expressing itself in small places, such as on the Rappahannock River with the Daddy Warbucks incident of 1984.

             Many would have viewed the Chesapeake region as a small peaceful community, where nothing unusual or out of the ordinary took place such as drug smuggling. However, the drug smugglers around this time were getting smart; they realized that by going somewhere secluded they were more likely to succeed. Such lead to the events of 1984, when aboard the Daddy Warbucks six tons of marijuana within the ship lead to the arrest and downfall of a huge drug smuggling operation. However, such events would also take place around the Chesapeake Bay, leaving many to demand for a change and many more fearing what could become of their hometowns.

            To help ease these fears the government of Virginia promised that there would be change to the problems. The government held to their word and built in Reedville, VA a Customs Service, who with the help of the Coast Guard and federal law enforcements received the best training available at that time. However with all this pressure into fixing the drug smuggling problem, it was nowhere near perfect, the Coast Guard estimated during that time that only a quarter of all drugs being smuggled on the Chesapeake Bay was being intercepted. The problem it would seem is one that will not be stoppable anytime soon if ever, as Mason, who had at the time served with Custom Services for 22 years, shares that he feels the only way to fix the problem is through education.

            Also going on around the whole United States around this same time was the continuing battle of the War on Drugs. The War on Drugs is a campaign of prohibition and foreign military aid and military intervention lead by the United States government, with the assistance of participating countries, intended to reduce the illegal drug trade. President Nixon was actually one of the first to use the term on June 17, 1971. As early as 1982, Vice President George H.W. Bush and his aides began pushing for the involvement of the CIA and U.S. military in drug interdiction efforts. In terms of Domestic policies, the War on Drugs led the incarnation rate to skyrocket; also, many new laws passed within the nation to control the drug spread and distribution within the United States. Foreign affairs also played a part during this time; the United States government many times throughout history have pumped money into the country and used troops to invade other countries. One of the first anti-drug efforts in the realm of foreign policy was President Nixon's Operation Intercept, announced in September 1969, targeted at reducing the amount of cannabis entering the United States from Mexico. The effort began with an intense inspection crackdown that resulted in an almost shutdown of cross-border traffic Because the burden on border crossings was controversial in border states, the effort only lasted twenty days. Overall, it had a huge impact on

            In conclusion, the War on Drugs had a huge impact all throughout the United States, the Daddy Warbucks incident of 1984 showed the influence the government had on controlling drug smuggling during this period. The Chesapeake Bay proved to be a good place for trade, until the government realized what had to happen to stop this smuggling. However, like smuggling before this war started it will most likely continue with no way to stop it totally. 

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