...TOTAL POINTS: ( 44 /45) Letter Grade: _A__ SECTION I: State Your Position: ( 2.5/2.5) I am a: (Theist) SECTION II: State Your Belief: ( 2.5/2.5) I believe that: (God and the afterlife exist ) SECTION III: Clarify Your Belief and Position: (10 /10) A Supreme Being: (Maximum 200 words) I am a theist and I believe that God exists. One key reason why is because my mom has raised me to believe that there is a God since I was a baby, I have been to church multitudes of times and also have read the bible many times so naturally I am going to believe that he is real. Yes my mom “raised me in the church” but that’s not the only reason I believe in God though, I believe because after observing and living life on this planet for the past 20 years I have came to my own conclusion God exists. I feel life it self is too far too complex and diverse for there not to be one (The Teleological Argument). Just like how we know a car or a skyscraper was created by people because of the complexity of the creation so is the same logic I use when I defend the existence of God, after taking biology this year it only made my belief in a God stronger by learning how life on earth works, from my point of view It really amazes me how people think that there is no God. The Afterlife: (Maximum 200 words) I am a theist and I believe that there is an after life. I am a firm Believer in God so naturally that would make me a firm believer in the after life as well. Proving...
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...Track List Main Title (from The Rescuers Down Under) Homeland (Main Theme) (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron) Dies Irae (Mozart’s Requiem Mass) Molossus (from Batman Begins) United We Stand, Divided We Fall (Two Steps From Hell) Chevaliers De Sangreal (from The Da Vinci Code) Leaving Earth (Mass Effect) Lascia Ch’io Pianga (Ronaldo by Handel) William Somerset Maugham once said, “Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” I think that this quote is important because it shows how art is capable of allowing humans to transcend their state of being and feel something greater. Music is sort of like playing a role-playing video game. It takes the listener to a far off land where anything is possible. For me, my favorite feelings that I get from music are those of adventure, energy, and beauty. Adventurous music is frequently found in film soundtracks. The opening theme of The Rescuers Down Under starts with peaceful animal noises and then explodes into drums, horns, and maracas, only to fade away again back into a single drawn-out violin note. This is a really effective piece of music because the sudden explosion of sound is loud, unexpected, and a bit erratic. Spirits: Stallion of the Cimarron contains another of my favorite adventure songs in its main theme. It starts with a lonely horn and gradually adds in percussion and violins until it swells into full force with French horns. With music in this adventurous genre, I feel like...
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...abundance of Edwards’ notions. Edwards’ speech, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, speaks to the audience because of the harshness and the ability to create trepidation in people. He strategically lowers the audience’s self-love and makes it feel guilty until eventually when hearing the horrors of hell, you endure fear. The speech begins by making you terror hell and then gives you the loophole out of it. Although the message is not distinctly stated, Edwards’ vigor in speech blows the audience into believing every single word. Given the setting and circumstances of his time, Edwards' speech, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", is an example of an effective argument due to his allusions to the past and polished use of visual imagery to engender fear in his audience. Edwards’ speech uses visual imagery, therefore leaving a mark and creating guilt in the audiences’ conscious. After creating multiple emotions like: guilt, fear, self-realization, he gives them a mode to be saved from it all. Although each of these images were diminutive and concise, when allied with the allusions they create the trepidation Edwards worked...
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...the readings/films we read/watched in class, some examples include: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle and, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. These stories are all very different but share that same lesson of putting matters into your own hands. Trust no one or you will be hurt or put into danger. In Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, you can’t trust the government. The government also known as The Party, watches it’s citizens and will vaporize anyone just for doing something as simple as having an individual thought. In any society you should be able to trust the government. Maybe not completely but enough to know you won’t be killed just for thinking. “For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory” (Orwell 24)? This quote describes that the Party doesn’t keep records of the past, the records that are kept are constantly changed. People have so little memory of their past that Winston can’t even remember the beginning of the Party’s rule or his childhood. Another example about the government is even the children will turn you in for anything. The children are junior spies that could have you vaporized. “You’re a traitor!’ yelled the boy. ‘You’re a thought-criminal! You’re a Eurasian spy! I’ll shoot you, I’ll vaporize you, I’ll send you to the salt mines” (Orwell 23)! This shows you the seriousness of the junior...
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...Vast Hell “A small town is a vast hell” The quote above describes how badly some people perceive small towns. There could be many reasons behind this strong dislike. One of them could be that small towns are often seen as these tight and small communities where everybody know each other in one way or another and are noisy with too much time on their hands, which resolves in gossip spreading out quickly in town when something happens. But what do you do when you try to move past the gossip, and stumble upon the ugly truth? We see this in the novel “Vast Hell” by author Guillermo Martinez, where the quote is also from. The story takes place in a small village, and resolves around a man that thinks back to the arrival of a nameless young boy in the small-town, that manages to become the talk of town, when rumour starts spreading that he is romantically involved with the wife of one of the two barbers in town, who people call “the French Woman” for unknown reasons. Fuel is added to the fire when the boy and the French Woman disappear, leading half the town to believe they ran off together and the other half to believe that the barber somehow did away with them. Further investigation into the case gives the story a whole different turn, because after digging in the ground to see if the barber had buried them there, they do find dead bodies, but not the bodies of the boy and the French woman, but of a lot of unknown people. The story is told with a first person narrator...
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...Soldier Suicide "I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” (Remarque) Most people on planet Earth have experienced the horrible emotion of fear, and some have even experienced cruel side effects of the trauma. But watching people die, causing the death of others, and just blatantly fearing for your life every second, is an abhorrent emotion that consumes a small percent of the world's population that isn't working in a factory, saving lives in the operating room, or writing the most revolutionary books of all time. These are soldiers. People that once had dreams of what the world was like on the sidelines of the battle field, the patriotic glory of fighting for your country. But during the draft, there was no choice. Every man between the ages of 18 and 26 had to fight. They had to kill. And William Tecumseh Sherman showed us what war really is: hell. This quote was written by Sherman in his unforgettable piece of literature, All Quiet On The Western Front. While there were two different sides to the opposition of war, Sherman gave us a first look exclusive inside what WWI was like and its immense impact on the morality of soldiers. Now, Sherman displayed a...
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...for different people, such as Lennie and George who have two different dreams. Also the American Dream during the 1930s was tremendously difficult to accomplish. For instance someone living in the 1930s, like Lennie and George, had to work very hard for their American Dream to come true. But although the American Dream is different for everyone, Lennie and George struggled to try to accomplish their American Dream. In Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie had two different dreams that gave them enough strength to never give up. Lennie’s dream was he wanted a life that was more simple and easy going. Lennie seemed to be more excited about the dream than George was because whenever Lennie would start talking about tending the rabbits on the farm George would sometimes get aggravated and yell at Lennie. For example in the novel Lennie said, “I remember about the rabbits, George.” Then George says, “The hell with the rabbits. That’s all you can ever remember is them rabbits. (Steinbeck, 1993)” This makes it seem as if George understands the reality of how hard it is going to be to accomplish This dream, and Lennie does not. Also in the novel Lennie is the one that likes talking about their dream and George is much quieter about it. "O.K. Someday—we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs...
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...so: 4 paragraphs. In each paragraph, you are to includeat least 1 short quote. Don't make your quote any longer than 5 words. You thentalk about the quote, summarise what it means and provide an interpretationabout it. You start with "from this article we can infer that x"...you then include a short, embedded quote suchas "we can infer that vegetarianism is actually a "greaterdrain" on our supplies than regular meat eating". Now don't getthis wrong, YOU ONLY keep the quote you pick identical to the article's text.If the rest of the article says "...on our supplies than regularmeat eating", DON'T copy that out, change it into your OWN words,like "...than normal diets on our reserves of energy andlogistics." See what happened there? I re-wrote the article'smessage in this section using my own understanding. This gets you into the topband and makes sure that you actually UNDERSTAND the article, because that iswhat the question is asking you. That's what the paper is about, your READINGability, not your 'copying out information' skills. - Add interpretations at the end, such as "this is actually verysurprising as we would expect vegetarianism to be a 'greener' take on our dietswhich highlights the unlooked attitudes towards this problem". Seethat? That shows that you are able to not only read it but take it that bitfurther and 'read between the lines'. You can read an article and inferunspoken stuff. - Quote from a range of the article, include ALL important details, and makesure...
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...He uses fear and guilt to compel his audience to turn to God. In this sermon, Edwards condemns people to hell in hopes that this will straighten them out. His Puritanism is the driving force of his message. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a sermon spoken by Edwards to a Puritan congregation to convince the listeners of the seriousness of sin and instruct them to seek salvation from the punishment they expect they will receive from their just God. Throughout the text, Jonathan tells his listeners that once you sin you are prone to sin again, ultimately creating a bad habit for yourself. For instance, Edwards wrote, “Their Foot shall slide in due Time…” (Edwards 156). In this quote, Edwards states that sin is like a slippery slope where destruction is inevitable once committed. The only thing that can stop the destruction of one are God’s loving hands. Edwards also teaches that everyone must repent for their sins. Puritans believe in the concept of predestination that God chose each human being from birth for salvation or for condemnation. Also in this sermon, Edwards indicates that God is extending mercy by calling out to the...
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...Scout: “You aren’t really a nigger-lover, then, are you?” Atticus: “I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody…” Analyse how the theme of prejudice pervades the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Prejudice stems from several interconnected factors: the absence of self-respect and moral education and the presence of ignorance. The lack of self-respect can lead to an individual feeling unsatisfied with themselves and when this happens, they instinctively lower others in order to raise themselves up. This leads to ignorance as one does not empathise with someone that they have dehumanised, thus they cannot gain knowledge of the other person leading them to assume knowledge without evidence. Because of this, they cannot raise their children to become empathetic human beings, causing them to develop into ignorant and prejudicial beings themselves. The nature of prejudice and the factors affecting its existence are pervaded in Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. Through the dual narration of Scout Finch and drawing inspiration from her own life, Lee allows for the reader to gain insight into the fatalities of a society steeped in prejudice. The absence of self-respect is destructive for both the individual lacking the quality and the people surrounding them. An individual not employing self-respect is unable to respect others and through this, prejudice can be created. This is demonstrated through Bob Ewell’s actions against Tom Robinson. In the court room when Mr Ewell...
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...In the novel Catcher in the Rye and I quote, Anyway, it was the Saturday of the football game... I remember around three o'clock that afternoon I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill... You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place... You could hear them all yelling, (2-3). Holden examines his surroundings but instead decides to be content with where he is. Social isolation can make an individual have a low-self esteem and have confidence lowered to a minimum. It can also be a leading cause and possible symptom to a mental disorder. As I recalled from above involving PTSD or...
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...main characters in Johnny Got His Gun and Shenandoah are both against war, each source offers different ways the war lured each man into war. To start, in Johnny Got His Gun, manipulation and propaganda influences Joe’s decision to fight in the war. Words like “liberty” and “freedom” are meaningless, yet, enough to attract men, like Joe, into war. While Joe is lying on his living death bed, he is upset that he and other men treated their lives so carelessly to fight in a war that served them no purpose. Him and the soldiers were combatting for nothing. Joe explains this by, “But a guy says come on let’s fight for liberty and he can’t show you liberty. He can’t prove the thing he’s talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it” (Trumbo 110)? This quote shows that these words are thrown around without a...
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...Frederick Douglass, a man who found redemption through the unknown truth, that reading is the key to knowledge, in his case is the key to his freedom. In his time, slaves have endured all kind of physical torture but the worst of them all was the mental abuse. Before I elaborate more on this topic it will be wise for me to give you more detail and a more accurate definition and understanding at what is a mental abuse or better known as psychological abuse. It is the art of emotionally breaking down a person by inflicting fear by intimidation to create total chaos within a person mentality and with such result the one inflicting the mental pain gain power over the victim and can make him or her do anything they want. Now back to the main topic, in his book Douglass as a slave have endure a lot of hardship in his life, most of them were the physical one but one of the most meanest mental torture that the slaves had to endure was the fact that most of them never knew or understood what it was to have a motherly love “frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it” (859). To my understanding the slave had no right to be basically happy, because for a person, a human being to do such thing you need to be a descendant of the devil itself. But on another notes the slave master did so because they didn’t want to have any type of rebellions from the slaves, that is because when the white slave holders had to take or transfer slave woman to...
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...Religion is a subject that both fascinates and intrigues me. Supposedly we are here in this life for a very short time, relatively speaking, from which our eternal destiny is determined. If such is the case, this issue then is the only matter of any real importance and that importance is of such magnitude that all else pales in comparison. Yet we are left without definitive, unambiguous instructions from God as to how to live this life to assure just what that destiny is. Now, I know, any Christian who reads this is jumping up and down to point out that the Bible is God’s word and is very clear on the subject. Yet the statement is preposterous when you recognize the amount of diversity within the religion. It seems rather obvious to me that if God had intended to give His “word” to man He would have made it clear and unambiguous and would have made it equally available to all mankind rather than to a select few with reliance on them to disperse it to the remaining majority, especially when the myriad of groups dispersing it cannot agree on what it says. It seems to me that this idea of evangelism or ‘spreading the word’ is in contradiction of the belief itself. It implies that the salvation of the lost is the responsibility of the saved to ‘let them know’. It seems to remove the responsibility of knowing God’s will from God and place it upon His chosen. It suggests that many people are lost because the ‘saved’ can’t or don’t for whatever reasons make all the rounds. Where is...
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...Chapter One What It Means To Be To be Born Again 1. There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2. The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 3. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 7. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. John 3:1-3,7. In this passage, Jesus had a discussion with a man called Nicodemus. Jesus was at home one night when Nicodemus came to him. Nicodemus was a very important person in town. He could have been a Member of Parliament or the Chairman of the Metropolitan Assembly. Perhaps, he was a patron of the Methodist Church, the Catholic Church or the Lighthouse Church. He was a very important person. The Bible says he was a ruler of the Jews, a master of Israel, a leader in the synagogues. Nicodemus would not come to see Jesus during the day. He came at night, so that all the people who respected him would not see him. This prominent Jewish leader said something to Jesus, which prompted Him to give an interesting reply. When you look at the passage, you wonder why Jesus said all that he said to the man. After all, Nicodemus did not ask him, “How can I go to heaven?” He said to Jesus, “Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou...
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