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Stages of Culture Shock

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Strange things people say: time has run! The relationship between mood and time; Mood + Time = Culture Shock If you don’t believe me, it is in the diagram above. Pure science. So the more time you have, the more shocked you get. But there is hope for recovery, eventually, the curve stays up. There are four stages of culture shock adjustment: The honeymoon stage; everything is good and new and nice and it’s good to have to experience something other than what you are used to. Adding spice to your life. The hostility stage; honeymoon is over. You now get anxiety, frustrated, angry, afraid and on a worst case scenario, depression. The Integration / acceptance stage; this is the stage where you are getting over your anger, fears, frustration and learning to cope with the changes around you. The Home stage; this is the stage where you feel at home. You have learnt the different cultures and you are comfortably living with your own. Other external factors no long...

The second Coming of Christ the Unfulfilled Prophecies

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Christ’s second coming to complete the great work of redemption, is one of the most solemn and yet most glorious truths revealed in the Bible. As much as God's pilgrim people are left to sojourn in the "region and shadow of death," they have this precious and joy-inspiring hope which is given in the promise of His appearing, who is "the resurrection and the life," to "bring home again his banished."  The true followers of Christ in all ages have hope in his second coming. Prophecy foretells the manner and object of Christ's second coming and presents tokens by which men are to know when it is near. Reading the book of Daniel and Revelation in the Holy Bible, one will learn about the unfulfilled prophecies. Even though Christians have different interpretations on some of the prophecies, they agree that they must be fulfilled before Christ’s second coming. There are many resources that one could use in order to understand the prophecies such ...