...little games can be played with the tongue. Try out these or another you already know.) Who can touch their tongue to their nose? (Make everyone try.) Can anyone fold his or her tongue? Who can make the most folds? (I’ve seen some people who can make several angles in their tongues) We can do some pretty silly stuff with our tongues. But when the Bible talks about our tongue, it’s not fun and games. GETTING STARTED (10 minutes) There are a few ways that we use our tongues that we need to examine. As you can imagine, they all have to do with words. Today, we’re going to talk about the truth about words. General Discussion: • What are some negative uses of our words? (Allow students to come up with several examples, such as gossip, lying, filthy language, etc.) • Have you experienced hurtful words in your life? You’re beginning to get the idea that a tongue is serious business, and it is related to our spiritual lives in a significant way. Let’s go deeper and see how. DIGGING IN (30 minutes) Read James 1:26 Discussion Question: 1. What does this passage say about the tongue and our ability to control it? (To not control it makes our religion worthless.) Let's look at an even more condemming Scripture. Read James 3:5-8 Discussion Question: 1. What does that passage say about the tongue? Let’s talk about gossip first. General Discussion: • How would you define gossip? • Do you like it when people gossip about you? • Be honest with yourself before we continue—how much do you gossip...
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...Briana Laszlo English 110 Atherton 5 March 2014 Devil in a Blue Dress: Themes In the devil in a blue dress, written by Walter Mosley some of the main themes are prejudice and freedom. Racial prejudice is prominent throughout the entire book. The word “nigger” is constantly being used throughout the book in both a friendly manor and a demeaning one as well. The white men in this story use “ nigger” to display their power over the black characters. In the story, the black man is always to blame and they are the ones who have to work extra hard to remain existent. The constant owner-slave relationship is being displayed throughout the interactions between African Americans and the white folks. Every white man in the story has power over every black man in the story. They use their color to get what they want. As soon as Easy is able to walk away from each white man including- Ricardo, Mr. Albright and Michael Teran, he is given a new sense a freedom. In a way these men were his slave-owner and each time he refused their power and he was given freedom. Just like slavery when it was most prominent, black people had to fight their way to survive. All the black men in this story are doing just that. Each time someone is killed it represents the killer doing something to try and help himself to survive. Freedom is represented by Easy’s house as well. Easy owning property does give him some kind of social status in this racist world he lives in. Racial prejudice also brings...
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...He witnessed over thousands die and more suffer. He survived one of the worst events in human history and is now sharing his unbelievable journey with millions across the world. In his Holocaust memoir Night, Elie Wiesel discusses the theme of Race. Through his use of diction, imagery, and dialogue Wiesel powerfully expresses to the reader that the Holocaust was an extremely painful journey with many struggles along the way. Wiesel’s use of diction specifically demonstrates the dehumanization and racist effects shown toward the Jews everyday. In chapter 6, one of the SS officers addresses the Jews as “Filthy dogs!” (Wiesel 63). This use of diction shows that the SS officers did not even view the Jews as Jew or as any race at all. Instead they viewed them as dogs, filthy dogs. The word filthy implies the meaning of disgust or unsanitary. As if it is their own fault that they are dirty. Another use of diction was in chapter 5, “I had ceased myself to be anything but ashes.” (Wiesel 50). “Ceased myself to be anything,” means nothing. He has become nothing but ashes. It is very straight to the point, short and brief....
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...but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Live as servants of God 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness’s are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Unclean is the opposite of "holy" (Lev 10:10 that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean,). The unclean are not fit for association with God while the "holy" are set apart for special service to God. God's people were to be a "holy people" (Lev 19:2‘you shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy). Calling them unclean was a severe reproach. A filthy rag obviously can’t clean us, but it will defile us. (Nos contaminan) Our deeds, whatever they may seem to be are occasionally covered by rags that are filthy. John 15: 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever...
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...Essay #3 December 3, 2015 Living Comes With a Price There is a price every person must pay in order to be successful. Becoming rich comes with a price. Building a family comes with a price. Even your dreams need to be paid for. In order to achieve your goals or in this case, become filthy rich in rising Asia, you must work hard. In the book “How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia” by Mohsin Hamid, the protagonist of the novel, whom remains anonymous narrates his journey of becoming successful. The narrator’s lack of a stable relationship, no family support and bankrupt business; are the prices he must paid for being successful. The narrator after working part-time at a DVD’s shop after school, and falling in love with “the pretty girl”, he starts to think about his future. Being the youngest of the family, the protagonist is able to further his education obtaining a scholarship for the university. Joining a political organization became the only way he was able to secure his safety. The “pretty girl” becomes successful, being advertised on billboards around the city. Thinking about his future becomes crucial, thus he starts selling expired cans of food to small street vendors. During that time he is able to learn about the business and soon he is able to set up his own bottling water business. Although his business grows his lack of a stable relationship is tested. The narrator get married and has a son. The price he pays is not having a stable relationship. He got married...
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...decides to visit his family at home. He receives a watch as a birthday present from his brother but is being arrested later on, because the watch is stolen. The theme in the story is very much about the difference between colours of skin and the history behind it. And its about being proud of who you are and not neglecting your family. Billy (or William) isn’t proud of who he is, and considers aboriginals as “drunk”, ”filthy, etc. “She grinned up at him like Gorgon, her hands clutched at his body, like the lights from the nightclub. ‘Billy! Ya Billy Woodward, unna?’ ‘Yes. What of it?” He snapped’. ‘Ya dunno me? Im ya Aunty Rose, from down Koodup’. She cackled then. Ugly, oh, so ugly. Yellow and red eyes and broken teeth and a long, crooked, whit scar across her temple. Dirty grey hair all awry. His people. His eyes clouded over in revulsion. He shoved her away and walked away quickly.” After the meeting with his aunt, we clearly get a look into his personality, that he is neglecting his descent. He thinks of his species as filthy and ugly. Maybe because he tried to live an over class, white life? His life so far has been as a handsome, semi-professional football player and a talented artist. He thinks of himself as far more civilized as his brothers...
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...he was. Wiesel uses the quote “I was nothing but ashes now…”(97). Wiesel uses both syntax and diction in this instance. Although it is not chopped and is brief. This quote could have been written a lot longer and he could have expressed how he felt more clearly but instead, he makes it a brief phrase. This quote had 2 important words, “ashes” and “nothing”. This shows that he was once something, and now “nothing”, similar to how fire become nothing, “Ashes”. Another instance of syntax is when the Nazi’s order Wiesel and the other prisoners to run “Faster, you filthy dogs!”(87). Wiesel used briefness to show how rude and cold hearted the Nazi’s were, they considered the Jews as dogs. Every part of this quote represents the fact that the Jews are now dogs. When the Nazi’s say “filthy Jews” the term “filthy” is an example of diction as it is used to show the dehumanization. Even though they were being referred to as “filthy Jews”. They are now dogs and are not being described as humans and instead as animals. ...
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...of manliness. While marching from Auschwitz to Buna, Elie and his fellow Jews were being yelled at by camp officers to run faster. However, they were completely dehumanized by the officers. “‘Faster you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!’ Why not? [...]. The blood flowed more readily in our veins. We had the feeling of being alive [...]. We were no longer marching, we were running. Like automatons” (85). The SS were calling the men tramps and dogs while marching, and forcing them to run. Elie was hurt and felt as if he was moving in a mechanical way, like an automaton. He also felt as if he was just a filthy animal and not a real human. During the march, men were occasionally getting shot for stopping or slowing down. “From time to time a shot exploded in the darkness. [...]. If one of us stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated the filthy dog” (85). Elie still felt like a filthy dog, and at this point he was determined to stay alive for his father. However, he did potentially think letting his father die would set him free of a burden and that made him angry. While being transported to Buchenwald, soldiers tossed bread into the cattle cars at the Jews and just watched them fight like animals. “One day [...], a worker took a piece of bread [...] and threw it into the wagon. [...]. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest” (100). These soldiers watched the men tear eachother apart for food, like they were...
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...Identify which ones are good or bad statements. If they are bad statements, indicate why. 1. Nobody in the world today is really good. Bad statement. The statement is an opinion and lacks the evidence needed to determine whether the statement is true or false. 2. The world is not flat. Good statement. 3. I will need an extended period of laborious cogitation to assimilate the missive. Bad statement. The use of complex words hinders the clarity of the statement. 4. The number 2 is odd. Bad statement. Since the number 2 is actually an even number, this statement does not make sense. 5. If you believe in evolution, then your ancestors were filthy apes. Bad statement. The statement had the potential of being a good statement for those that believe they came from apes due to the theory of evolution. However, the use of the word “filthy” makes the statement sound bad. 6. Some swans are black. Good statement. 7. If you are a human, then you are a person. If you are an individual, then you are alive. Good statement. 8. The Surgeon General has determined that drinking is bad for pregnant women. Good statement. 9. The world is flat. And because it is flat it is not carbonated. Bad statement. The world is not flat. Therefore, to state that assumption that the world is not carbonated does not make sense at all. 10. The world is flat. Bad statement. There is scientific proof the world is not flat. Therefore, the statement does not make...
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...GEO 3106 Producing Africa: Take – Home Exam 1) The ‘real Africa’ is presumed to be filthy and miserable (Wainaina, 2005). Discuss. Representations of Africa in a global context have been largely negative, often presumed to be one country the continent is stigmatised as backwards, disease ridden, violent and in need of Western assistance. Although some positive imagery does emerge from Africa including that associated with Comic Relief, corporate campaigns such as Guinness’s stylish philosophy and in music videos like ‘Am I wrong’ by Nico and Vinz, Africa is subject to the use and re-use of negative imagery resulting in prominent stereotypes shaping our geographical imaginations of the continent. This is a similar concept to that of orientalism explored by Edward Said (1987). This essay will argue that presumptions of the ‘real Africa’ are largely negative, discussing how ‘Africanism’ and stereotypes of the continent are heavily influenced by colonial representations of people and place arguing that these assumptions are highly compatible with Western domination and power rooted in imperial attitudes. Jan Pieterse (1992:75) recognises that Africa has been depicted as the ‘Dark Continent’ plagued by stereotypes ‘which colonialism would build on and elaborate’. Imaginaries of childlike, savage, inhumane distant others who are dependent upon Western help dominate the way in which Africa is perceived. Campbell and Power (2010) suggest that a dominant scopic regime shapes...
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...LEARNING UNIT: Critical Studies: Interior Design, 3rd Year. MODULE TITLE: Environmental Psychology (Psychology Of Space) SEMESTER: One TERM: One STUDENT NAME: Natasha Millar STUDENT NUMBER: 13-015 | | Environmental Psychology examines the interrelationship between environments and human effect, cognition and behaviour (Bechtel & Churchman 2002:187). The environment in which we are situated influences our behaviour and correspondingly our behaviour influences our environment (Kopec 2012:1). Using Kopec’s Cognitive, Socio-cultural and Neurobiology perspectives, I will be analysing four spaces within Section 4 of Constitution Hill, and how these environments have psychologically impacted on the prisoners by visually analysing the prison through the use of illustrations and research. The Socio-Cultural perspective explores behavioural and learning perspectives. Our daily social conditions such as status, gender norms and expectations, operate in conjunction with cultural traits such as tradition, ethnicity and our religious beliefs, in order to produce certain behaviours (Kopec 2012:5). The Cognitive behavioural theory focuses on the way in which we process information and how that information then affects our behaviour (Kopec 2012:5). This particular perspective will focus on how a prisoner gains knowledge, or becomes aware of events or objects within his environment...
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...Andrew Carnegie’s employees were treated awfully. He led them with a tyrannical hand. They were unquestionably underpaid and worked long shifts. The work hours consisted of two twelve-hour shifts each day and his companies ran year round only closing on the Fourth of July. Carnegie’s workers were laboring in filthy, unsafe environments in poorly ventilated rooms. His workers were laboring in filthy and unsafe environments. They were even beaten and threatened on a regular basis. Fellow businessman, John L. Lewis, who served as president from 1920 to 1960 of the United Mine Workers of America, was quoted as calling Carnegie a “mean-spirited, ruthless, business type who prostituted his workers and forced them to work in very dangerous conditions”....
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...Once upon a time there lived a young lad named Herbert. Herbert was the son of Amos the great dragon slayer. Amos was a noble man who was very well respected and well known for his courageous deeds and fierce battles. “Oh I want to kill a fierce dragon one day, just like my father did,” said Herbert, while swaying his sword left to right, practicing for the great day. Herbert’s mother was very proud of the family reputation, so she wanted Herbert to learn the skills and trade of the family business. One day Herbit’s mother walked into Herbit’s room and asked him “Herbit can you please go out into the forest to collect some wood, for winter is arriving soon.” “No mama, I am training for the great day, when I Herbit will kill my first dragon,” said Herbit, but his mother ordered him to go into the forest, so off Herbert went. “I don’t have time for petty choirs like this” said Herbit, “I must practice for the great day, for I shall be like my father the great dragon slayer, then I will be known throughout the land”. So he chose his friend Georgie the Porgy who looked up to Herbit. Georgie Porgy was very well known throughout the village for his wisdom, he had no father and his mother was a drunkard, he was teased a lot and had no friends, so Georgie Porgie was well pleased to serve Herbert. Week after week, Georgie Porgie would gather the wood in the forest to chop. A year later Herbert’s mother asked Herbert to practice his sword...
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...general audience, particularly ones unfamiliar with what it is like being an African American growing up in a poverty stricken ghetto. His descriptions are so profound and detailed, that it seems as if he is painting a picture for people who may not have ever witnessed such things. This is why I feel the intended audience is those who can be enlightened by his reading, as opposed to just being reminded of how the neighborhood is, which would be the case for someone familiar with growing up in an area such as this. Baldwin does not seem to have fond feelings for Harlem. I would go as far as to say that he has a sense of disgust for the place in which he grew up. This is revealed when reaching Fifth Avenue in his visit, he described it as filthy and hostile “with immense human gaps, like craters.” Gaps not only formed by people who have moved away or dead, but by the young people still present who are doing nothing with their lives. Baldwin expresses a sense of displeasure and disgust, with both the physical and mental state of Harlem. In addition to some of the descriptive word previously mentioned; such as hostile, there are descriptions used to describe psychological make-up of the street as well. He makes mention of “fanatical churchgoers”, “moslems” who are united by nothing other than their hate for the “’white world”. People who have pretty much given up and are just “tv-ing” their way through life, as well as some who are “stoned” looking for their next fix. We also have...
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...is shown when contemporary artist Michael Owens states, “He used his celebrity status to clown poor black people. Cosby used to be a poor black person.” (July 21, 2015). This is saying that Cosby is a hypocrite because he has made fun of poor African Americans and he has also been a poor African American. Cosby should remember his roots before thinking about making fun of someone of a group of people. To add, that Bill Cosby is a hypocrite Cosby has said, “I'm beginning to hate men,’ he quips, ‘because I know men. They're basically filthy and nasty and dirty. I know that. I used to be a man, before I got married.” (as cited in July 9, 2015). This was taken from an article from Stacia L. Brown who is a writer. Cosby is saying that when he got married he stopped being a filthy and dirty men. This is not true because it was later found out that he had many sexual encounters that were not from his wife. This means he never stop being a dirty and filthy man. Cosby shows that he is hypocrite because he says that he stopped seeing women when he was married, but that was not the case after people found out that he had rape many women behind his wife. To...
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