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Process of cooking rice
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Process of cooking rice
The process of preparing rice may seem the easiest thing to do; however, that is not true for most people. This is because cooking not even something rice to most people have always proven to be difficult. Therefore most of the time, there is a need for a process in the cooking process so that all steps followed there can be the fruition of what needs to be achieved and, in this case, the proper cooking of rice. The reason for writing this down is the fact that I have always wanted to cook. I love cooking, but it is not every time I get the time or the chance to cook. Therefore what I am putting down was the last meal I prepared, and it came out so good I decided to write it down for you to be able to use it and prepare your rice.
Cooking rice is a process. It is a process for any cooking that a person engages in. therefore, a process needs everything to be in place before it starts. There is a likelihood of mess up if a person starts a process when everything is not perfectly in place. Therefore for the cooking of rice, we need ingredients as well as tools. Ingredients are the items we are mixing and cooking to make the rice meal at the end of the process. The tools help us to go about the process. The ingredients needed for this process are 2 cups of rice, water, salt, one big onion, three tomatoes, one green pepper, two big carrots, cooking oil, and spices. On the part of tools, we need two cooking pots, chopping board, wooden spoon, lid for the pot, gas or electric cooker, matchbox, and match sticks, jug for water, grater, and a plate.
With all these ready, then it is okay to start the process of preparation to cook. The preparation should be done perfectly, and one should not start cooking until they have prepared all the ingredients. The first thing is making sure that the utensils are completely clean and cleaning the cleanable ingredients. At this point, also clean the rice and sock for the next 30 minutes as you prepare the ingredients so that you begin cooking. After cleaning the ingredients in clean running water, begin chopping the onions onto the chopping board, then to one of the pots while the other stores the rice. After this, cut the tomatoes into small pieces and keep them on one side chopping board. On the other side, grate the carrots and cut green pepper into the carrot. With this done, it is okay now to begin the cooking process.
Put on the gas or the electric cook. Once it is on, places the pot with the onions on it, then pour inadequate cooking oil. When the onion cooks to brown, add the tomatoes and simmer for like 5 minutes. After the onions have formed a thick paste-like conglomerate, at this point, add a pinch of salt, then add the carrots and the green pepper. Put on the lid and simmer for like 7 minutes. At this time, as it simmers, make sure you warm water and have hot water. After 7 minutes, add 4 cups of water to the pot and allow to boil for 2 minutes, add salt to taste and pour the soaked 2 cups of rice inside the pot, and stir. Cook for 15 minutes and open the lid to check if the water has dried.
When almost dry, lower the temperature or intensity of heat simmer for 5 minutes. Once this is done, put off the gas or the electric cooker and leave the rice for another 5 minutes with the lid on. After this, serve it with a stew of your choice. In conclusion, therefore, we can say that it is very important to cook and eat one’s cooked food. However, circumstances do not always allow us to practice some of the things we desire.
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Luh, Bor S. “Quick-cooking rice.” Rice. Springer, Boston, MA, 1991. 540-565
THE FOUNDATION OF THE CANON
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The editorial focuses on the key events and movements that were influential in the recognition of the canonical books. It also gives a deep insight of the methodology employed by the applicable individuals and councils that deemed the books as an inspiration of the word of the living God. A biblical canon also referred to as the canon of the scripture refers to a list of books which bear an authoritative scripture by a certain religious community. The development of the canons has seen its development through vigorous debate and mutual agreement among many religious authorities with relation to their respective faiths. Believers of Christianity make viable considerations that the canonical books are a direct inspiration from the Almighty God. They also believe that the books are meant to express an authoritative message of the relationship between God and his people.
The canonical books are a collection of Holy Scriptures namely the Old and the New Testament. God is the divine author of the set of books, songs, narratives and letters contained in the canonical books. All these were written as a way and means to draw man closer to the lord through His loving son Jesus Christ. The New Testament canon saw the rise of many movements. The Marcionism movement took place in the year 140. The Marcion who was a native of Asian Minor rejected the Old Testament because he regarded that the God depicted in the Old Testament as an inferior being. He claimed that Jesus had come to give liberation to mankind as a direction of authority from God depicted in the Old Testament. He also claimed that Jesus had come to reveal the superiority and mercifulness of God, the Father. Marcions views were dangerous and widely spread. Thus the Marcionites thus are termed as the first to clearly define a canon.
The Gnosticism movement came into place later. The movement raised the idea of esoteric knowledge bearing its source from the questions concerning traditions and authority which engaged the apostolic fathers. They gave the Gospel of Thomas which is a book of the sayings of Jesus thus were proposed to give a reliable source about traditions about the history of Jesus. They also gave the Gospel of Truth. The gnosis true was beyond scripture. The Gnostics portray their writings of apocrypha to different apostles; at times they portray the apostles as deficient in knowledge.
The Montanism movement took action in the second century. Its source is in Asia Minor, a place called Phrygia. The leader, Montanus believed that the Holy Spirit promises by Christ had been fulfilled. Montanism gave a strict concern on the gifts of prophecies. They also claimed that the Holy Spirit supernatural manifestation was through prophets and prophetesses. The understanding of authority by the church was challenged by the holy spirits claim to inspiration.
Debates on the canonical books also were on the work of two German scholars who were in opposition of the other. Adolf von Harnack was on the liberal side while on the conservative side was Theodor Zhan. In the views of Adolf van Harnack, Christianity was termed as a religion of the spirit. Oral tradition was supreme and that written documents validity was questionable.Thoedor Zhan, the conservative scholar based his work on the interaction of the church with those heretics who came up with the alternative canon. He also works on the churches reaction in accordance to the challenges posed by the heretics Zhan’s position is favored by some factors. One is that the expression of fathers themselves in relation to the canon gives no evidence as far as Harnack’s theory is concerned. The local churches still bear autonomy thus not in a state church.
The Eusebius development marked the distinction between the recognized books and the disputed books. According to him, the recognized books are gospels, acts and the epistles of Paul and revelation. As per the disputed books, he divides them into two: those that should be included in the canon namely James, Jude, 2nd Peter and 2nd John and those that should not to be included. The Festal Letter of Athanasius gives the books of the New Testament which clearly coincide with the modern New Testament. Athanasius give a clear distinction between canonical writings and those that are worthy of reading.
Theological reflections also give an insight to the development of the canonicity. Significance of the history marks a reflection in the development of canonicity. The virtual unanimity in relation to the state in which the church received the writings in the New Testament is depicted in the special guidance and the profound providence of God. This was depicted as evidence by Louis Gausssen. The canon was neither imposed by the leaders of the church nor the apostles. The gradual process with which the canon was formulated gives a conclusion that the church gave rise to the bible. Nicolaus Appel, a Catholic Scholar depicts the canon as a decision of ecclesiastic which was made in the age of postapostolic. The extent of the infallibility of the canon is dependent on the infallibility of the church. The church did not extend its authority to the canon. It just gave recognition to the canon. Accordingly, the idea of canonicity is contained in the book itself as something that saw it source from God. It is not depicted as a favored status conferred by the church.
The internal testimony of the Holy Spirit also marks a key event in the canonicity. The Roman Catholic theologians believe that the canon authority was guaranteed by the church. According to them, the authority of the canon was dependent on a self-aunthetification basis and firmly sealed to the hearts of the people of God by the Holy Spirit’s witness as opposed to being dependent on the church. According to them also, the scripture is of divine character, origin and perceived authority. It bears the marks of divinity. This evidence clearly affirms that it is of the make of God. The testimony also holds that man is not able to perceive that it is of God thus he needs the internal testimony from the Holy Spirit
The criteria used to deem which books were inspired by God was based on different methodologies. One of those criterions was the apostolicity. This criterion was operative in the early church. Application of this criterion saw the acceptance of some books. These were the books of Revelation, James, Jude and Hebrews. This criterion is also given modification in the cases of the books of Luke and Mark. The other writings not included in the canon could not have claimed apostolic authorship. Apostolicity however has a limitation of being an all embracing methodology for determining canonicity.Gamboe defines apostolicity as the trait of the earliest church. He however neither does nor overrates apostolicity as a criterion.
Public lection was also another criterion which was used to validate the canonical books in the New Testament. According to Zahn, the main factor in the development of canonical books was the utilization of the writings contained in the New Testament in the worship of the church. Because of its suitability of the writings for use in the church, this gave them a position in the canon. Gamble accepts public lexion as a criterion .However; he claims that the criterion was not definitive in that many documents which met the requirement adequately were not part of the canon whereas other writings which do not have longstanding and broad currency at last did gain canonical recognition.
Christological recognition was another criterion which was used. It was referred to as Luther’s criterion of validating canonicity. In this criterion, Luther uses the motto of that which promotes and preaches Christ. A canon within a canon came up as result of this practice. Luther put four books into a secondary position. These were the books of Hebrews, James, Revelation and Jude. This criterion tends to destroy the terms of the canonicity based on traditions. The criterion on Christological recognition varies depending on the extent that the individual using the criterion thinks on what urges Christ.
Evaluation as a criterion was also utilized in validating the canonical books. Further criteria for canonicity based on terms of catholicity, antiquity and inspiration However, such criteria have failed. Canonicity is unique. This is neither because it coincides with neither what is apostolic nor with what is of Christological order in nature Evaluation as a criterion of approach is heavily presuppositional. The scripture itself is self –authenticating. Historical development of the concept of canon is in line with our understanding about the nature of the authority it has.
REFERENCES
“The Belgic Confession,” The Book of Forms – Reformed Churches of Australia, Geelong: Reformed Churches Publishing House, 1991.
L.Morris, “Canon of the New Testament,” in The Encyclopedia of Christianity: The National Foundation for Christian Education, 1968.
Ridderbos, The Authority of the New Testament Scriptures, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1963, 18.
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Process essays offer guidance on how to carry out various activities. In academic writing, we all at some time experienced challenges in not only ensuring that we answer the question as required but also that we guarantee ourselves good grades. Our struggle levels differ when it comes to writing academic papers, some with research, others with formatting, and the most serious ones with ensuring their papers are free from any plagiarism. The various forms of academic writing have their purpose, and the target audience the message is conveyed to; this helps determine the language and arguments to employ. The process of writing academic papers right from the research to the submission will form the basis of our discussion.
Firstly, once we are given the topic or questions that we are required to respond to in the essay, we go through the subject while highlighting the keywords. The keywords help us understand what we are expected to do; is it a persuasive, argumentative, or a critique essay. After understanding what is required, it is time to commence research, to ensure that only the credible sources will be referenced in the paper; we search for articles from google scholar. Also, we ensure that the materials we research are relevant to the question and that they are not very outdated; we should strive to ensure that our sources are no more than ten-years-old. After understanding the question, we should write down an outline; it helps us not only to keep track of all problems but makes our work easier.
Secondly, we go through the sources one-by-one reading it while noting down the relevant answers to a word document, noting down ensures that we do not lose important details. The research should go on until the question in the essay is answered to satisfaction. Every paper is usually required to meet a specific target of words, which should be our indication of when to stop. We cascade the different windows on our laptop and answer the question from the materials right from the introduction, body, and conclusion. One paramount value that we ensure that the last sentence in the introductory paragraph is a thesis statement that sheds light on what will be answering in the body. Moreover, in most cases, the essays we are given are on materials we have covered in class; hence it is also vital that we rely on course materials as an information source. Additionally, we must use signal phrases to indicate transition from one paragraph to the other and also use joining words to contrast various points.
Thirdly, after ensuring that all parts of the question have been answered, we should go ahead and cite all our sources, which we had left them on various tabs of our browser. They are different formatting types, so it is up to ensure that we use the correcting formatting for the in-text citation and the works cited. We can provide this by using the various citation generators example, citethisforme; this will ensure that we generated the citation that in every way coincide with the format of the paper. Luckily, our professor, in most cases, provides us with materials and guides we use to format our papers, both the citations and the page. After ensuring that the quotations are okay, we format the pages to the required format.
Fourthly, we proofread the paper; this is to look out for grammatical and sentence structure errors since they affect our grades. We should proofread once and allow our fellow students to proofread too. One can use grammar also to check for any spelling and grammatical errors and get a chance to correct just from the website itself. After we have cut and pasted the adjusted paper to the word document, we ensure that all writing, including the references, are in the right font size and style. We save our paper and then copy all in the paper apart from work cited; we save it and upload it to Turnitin; this helps us to identify the prevalence of plagiarism in our work and ensuring that it is eliminated. After checking for plagiarism and finding it has none, we either send the paper via email to the teacher or upload it in our online class.
Academic writing forms a very significant part in our final grades that translates to the GPA after our school years. They are various reasons we are assigned multiple forms of writing; the process essay above offers guidance on how to conduct a task to completion by outlining the steps efficiently. In the essay steps above, the outline is an essential step since it guides us through the writing of the paper, ensuring that we do not leave any part of the question unanswered. Lastly, another vital piece in writing is that guaranteeing the message conveyed is grammatically correct and free from plagiarism since the attainment of the proper formatting and pages will not translate to a good grade if the content is not understood.