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Saint Augustine of Hippo once stated, â€Å"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.† It was after stumbling across this statement that I was influenced to call up my friend and suggest a road trip. When we started off, it was a beautiful day. The bright morning sun peeked over the Appalachian mountains to bid us farewell as we packed our belongings into the 2011 Chevy Cruze. Dew still perched on the delicate leaves of various summer flowers while we rode down the road towards Tennessee. My friend Sarah drove. Her fingers tapped the steering wheel in rhythm to the Carrie Underwood song blaring from the radio. It was the radio’s job to keep us awake since we had left so early in the morning; however, it was not doing a good job as I fell asleep only twenty minutes into the ride. Sarah had to wake me up at the rest stop just outside of Roanoke, Virginia. â€Å"Hey, Allyson,† she called as she shook my shoulders, â€Å"it would be nice if you woke up, so I could take a nap.† I just mumbled an incoherent string of words in response. â€Å"I can just drive right back to Pennsylvania. We don’t have to take a road trip.† That got me up. I had so much invested into this trip like money and time. I sat in the driver’s seat and watched the road continuously channel under the car sort of like a conveyor belt. It was hypnotizing, just keeping my eye on the road. Before either Sarah or I knew it, we were already parked in front of our hotel in Gatlinburg,Show MoreRelatedSt. Augustine, The City Of God1236 Words   |  5 PagesReport on St. Augustine, The City of God Saint Augustine, The City of God,tr. J.W. Leedom; reprinted in C. Warren Hollister et al., eds, Medieval Europe: A Short Source Book (New york, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1982; 4th ed.2002), 17-19. The City of God is written by Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, in the early fifth century of the current era. The writings of Augustine deal with the intellectual problems Christians faced. Augustine lived in a time where the Roman Empire was in decline. King Alaric sackedRead MoreTheological Understandings of Mediated Grace2903 Words   |  12 Pages[4] Julian of Norwich, a fourteenth century anchoress, stated a similar belief in her work Showings, saying that â€Å"the soul may be always like God in nature and in substance.†[5] This makes sense considering that analogies compare otherwise different things by examining the similarities of particular qualities that they share. In this theory of imago dei, Julian believed that grace restored us to our original state of purity - thus grace once again acts as a bridge between the human and the supernaturalRead MoreEssay about Religious Challenges to Constructing a Democratic Iraq3427 Words   |  14 Pagesrequirement is that every scholar interpret the Quran in accordance with his or her historical background. This will lead to a practical understanding of the religion. One important observation about the religion and its relationship with government is stated by the leading scholar, Ãâ€"mer (2003), Islamic theology does not contain a comprehensive list of injunctions about the theory of political governance. The Quran only mentions a number of moral principles, which are relevant to political governance