...Loving the Bad Man- Movie Review Louise Lomeland CRIS303-B02 Liberty University Online Abstract The movie Loving the Bad Man is about a traumatic experience; rape of a young woman and the man who raped her. Christine Thompson is a young Christian woman loved by those who know her and her family, father, mother, and brother. Christine is raped by a young angry man named Mike Connor and she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy she names Arthur. Mike is committed to prison for 10 to 20 years for his crime on the day Christine gives birth. They come together through Christine’s faith in God and His word for forgiveness. Christine’s life gets worse before it gets better, while Mike’s life, although in prison gets better before it gets worse. Everyone close to Christine and Mike are affected by the traumatic event. The Nature of the Crisis Presented Christine Thompson is a young woman who lives with her family. Her mother, Marion who is a stay at home mom is supportive and loving, and shares the Christian faith with Christine, her father, Ed who is also supportive and loving but does not see eye to eye with Christine and her belief standard of faith, and her brother, Joey who is a DJ music player at local venues. Christine works as a cashier in a store. A male co-worker Cole Parker, who is also a Christian is interested in Christine and asks her for a date however, Christine declines stating she does not date. Driving home one night after a church fellowship meeting...
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...must be about the historical and cultural forces. These were the cultural and historical influences that produced the criminal behavior in the Bosket family. There were many different factors that came into play throughout the history of the Bosket family. One of these examples is that someone must fight and be “bad” in order to gain respect or to be considered a man. After all, this idea of being “bad” actually became almost like tradition for the men in the Bosket family. The Bosket family only knew how to be bad men. Every man in the Bosket family had a reputation, and each one of the men wanted to keep their reputation. The men in the Bosket family would fight because all they really had was their name. Therefore, these men almost needed to maintain their tough guy images in order to feel good about themselves, but also to keep their reputation. Another part of the history of the Bosket family, and really a lot of different families is the self fulfilling prophecy idea. For the self fulfilling prophecy idea, the younger generation is expected to do as the generations prior to them. Consequently, for the case of the Bosket family, the men were expected to become bad men. The men had to deal with slavery, but the men still wanted respect. In order to get respect, these men must fight or commit crime and that is just what they did in order to gain respect and a reputation. Finally, some of the last aspects that the Bosket family had to deal with are racism...
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...persons: (are) the good girl and the old bad fellow. Two dissimilarities. The short story deals with the questions if tThe man takes advantage of the free samples offered in the shop or if the shop girl is prejudiced against the old poor fellow. The short story is about an old fellow, who comes to the plum pudding store once a week. The problem is that the man does not buy any plum puddings, but he samples them. Therefore he gets the plum puddings for free and actually steals from the store (– definition as a thief). We see the story through the woman’s eyes, therefore the shop girl has the prejudice that the man is poor and cannot afford the product. Even though the man was neatly dressed, she still has the prejudice that he is poor. The good girl The shop girl is very friendly and open-minded. Even though the girl knows what the man is up to she lets him come to the store each week, and actually asks him if he wants a spoon to sample the puddings. “Well, let him come if he wants it that bad” “Would you like to sample them, sir? Here is a spoon for you to use.” The girl lets the old man sample from the store. And later she wants to buy him a pudding; it would give her such pleasure. The man samples not just one The man samples every pudding in the store, but he never buys anything, and he has done it for years. He says he is never satisfied with the plum puddings therefore he gets to sample the next one. (E.g.) ”This is not bad either, but a little too heavy.” The...
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...Mansfield one conflict that arose was when the fat man tried to put down Leila by telling her that she will lose her youth one day and all of the things she enjoys now will be hopeless when she is old. Leila had a hard time overcoming this conflict as she took the fat man’s words quite harshly. Leila was caught in a dilemma between listening to the fat man or ignoring him. However Leila was able to overcome this conflict by moving on and forgetting what the old man had told her. Leila had done this because she realised that even though what the fat man had said might be true; in the sense that she will grow up one day. But Leila realised that since that day isn’t tomorrow, she knew that it is important that she lives the life to fullest while she is still young. The conflict was important to the text as it showed how Leila reacts to and overcomes the conflict, the conflict also showed that at times it is important to not take everyones opinion to heart, and the conflict showed that it is important to move on from a bad situation. The conflict that Leila faced was that the fat man had said to Leila that her youth wouldn’t last forever. In the text the fat man had told Leila that one day she will have lost her youth, and become an old lady who is unhappy and no longer desired by other men. The fat man says some harsh words that makes Leila upset as she realised he was right in a way, that she will grow old eventually. The fat man had changed Leila’s perspective of the ball from...
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...of self-defense? What if one acquires glory or good fortune for oneself and one’s people by killing? King David rose to glory and won the battle for the Israelites by killing Goliath. As stated in 1 Samuel, “Saul has slain his thousands and David his tens of thousands” (ch.18 v.7: via Bible gateway.com) Israel’s prosperity was only made possible because King David was a masterful warrior king that won many battles. Likewise war and conquest played a vital role in the founding of our country. And we became an economic superpower because of the good fortunes that came as a consequence of World War II. In this light killing could be viewed as a good thing. Accordingly things are only good or bad depending upon the consequences they produce. For instance stealing and killing is not bad in itself, for if it were there would be no reason to punish someone for doing so. We need not punish people for sticking their hands in airplane propellers. If I am nice to someone, say for instance a lady that works at my favorite coffee shop, I am being nice because of the consequences it produces. If I...
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...Jean-Paul Sartre claims that man is completely free. To understand what this statement means, this essay will look at Existentialist philosophy and evaluate the central concepts namely freedom, anguish, abandonment and despair. Through analysing Sartre’s lecture entitled ‘Existentialism and Humanism’ and his book, ‘Being and Nothingness’ this essay will explain what he meant by this statement and will argue that while man is free to a certain extent, he is not completely free. Sartre delivered his lecture in a time of guarded optimism and unrest. The truth about the Nazi power and Auschwitz had just become known and the first atomic bomb had been dropped. People were becoming aware of how evil others could be and were looking for answers. There was a need to re-examine life as they knew it and Sartre, through Existentialism, offered a new approach to life. While Sartre himself later repudiated parts of his lecture it still remains his most widely read writing. (Philosophynow.org, 2016) Sartre used the word, ‘freedom’ which would have appealed to the people of that epoch having just been freed from Nazi occupation, however he says man is condemned to be free as he believed freedom came with great responsibility. The main reason for Sartre’s lecture was to defend Existentialism against its critics who thought it would lead to ‘quietism of despair’. They thought it was contemplative and would discourage people from taking action. Due to the words he used, namely anguish, abandonment...
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...for 30 film, “Bad Boys” the National Basketball Association (NBA) Detroit’s Pistons, star athletes reveal themes of aggression, specifically reactive- aggression throughout the film when facing opponents on the basketball court. The team had a one desire and that was to win. Not one member of the “Bad Boys” liked to loose and they were willing to take all measures to get to the top of the ladder. Their motivation to win and beat rivals such as the Boston Celtics or the Los Angeles Lakers was not just for the “Bad Boys” to prove themselves as athletes but also to put Detroit back on the radar for good things not just riots and hunger in their city. The aggression and naming of the “Bad Boys” all started when the team figured out that they needed to mentally out play their top competitors such as the Boston Celtics. It was not that the Pistons were not a good team, with members such as Isaiah Thomson and Bill Lambier, they just were not physically strong enough and mentally tuff enough to compete with the others when they first started in 1989. Constantly loosing to their rivals and seeing Larry Bird and Magic Johnson winning all of the national titles brought the Pistons team and staff closer than ever and created atmosphere of wanting to win. This...
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...When he is approached by the male cannibal, he is told to come get food and the father responds, “You don’t have anything to eat” (McCarthy 65). We have already been told that the man is cannibal therefore you can assume that he is referring to humans as the food. The father’s response shows that he has never once considered humans as food and he will not no matter what he may face. This truly is what separates the “good guys” and the “bad guys” in my eyes. The father would much rather suffer in his quest to find food rather than eat another human being because once he does, then he knows deep down that he is now a “bad...
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...fable is filtering. This occurs when you don’t like someone in the organization and we decide to leave out critical details or pointers that would help him or her be more successful in getting things done. Basil is afraid to how will the old man will respond to the bad news that is why he filtered the information and did not tell the whole truth about the new herd taking over their territory. He is afraid that the old man might shout on his face and rave. Even though things aren’t going well in their territory, Basil told the Old Man that things are well and there’s nothing to worry about. This has lead to the Old Man believing that everything is going so well. If Basil was only brave enough to tell Old Man the truth, Old man might have prevented the departure of other walruses to the new herd. In this story, there seemed to have a “mum effect” which occurs when people are reluctant to communicate bad news. Basil clearly was reluctant to deliver the real and bad news to Old Man. 2. What communication “lessons” does this fable offer to those who are serious about careers in the new workplace? In the new workplace, our channels of communication should be open may it be actively or passively. The real information should be told no matter how bad it may be. Failure to communicate the whole truth might affect the organization badly and it may lead to a bigger and chains of problems. In listening, we should be able to interpret correctly what we have heard especially if it is an instruction...
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...brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movement? Why in the world did He ever create pain?” (Heller 179). Yossarian says that God plays and forgets about people. He describes God as clumsy, brainless, and bad man. He cannot understand why God creates diseases, pain and other things. God makes world evil, bad and under his control. So, basically God for Yossarian is a bad man, who only does worse for people. However, Mrs Scheisskopfs says, “But the God I don’t believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He’s not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be” (Heller 179). Mrs Sheisskopf says that she does not believe in God, but she does not think that he is so bad and mean. She does not believe in God, but she thinks better about God than Yossarian. It can be conclude that Yossarian and Mrs Sheisskopf believe in existence of God, but they do not believe truly in God. Chaplain is a symbol of religion because he represents words of God. However, he is sometimes uncertain about God, and he has sins. “The Chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knows that sin was evil and...
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...Existence Requirements The existence requirement is the first premise of an argument based on the writings of Epicurus designed to oppose the idea that death is bad. The premise states that something can be bad for you only if you exist. In an attempt to revise the existence requirement so that it is acceptable, but does not conclude with death being bad for you, Kagan introduces a modest and bold version. The modest version states that something can be bad for you only if you exist at some time or the other, while the bold version states that something can be bad for you only if you exist at the same time as that thing. Kagan accepts the modest version, since it allows death to be bad for you even though you don’t exist at the same time as it occurs. Kagan then introduces a problem with accepting this version. If we also accept the deprivation account, which states that death is bad because it deprives us of life, we assume that the more years taken off a potentially long life, the worse death becomes for that person. When we simply eliminate this life altogether, however, it is not bad at all, since the person never existed. In this paper, I’ll address the badness of death (or lack thereof) and the situation of nonexistence, and how these relate to the existence requirement. I will also argue that death is not actually bad on the basis of the invalidity of the deprivation account. I will then examine both the modest and bold version of the existence requirement. Finally, I will...
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...Charles Darwin claims that the strongest instinct of man is sympathy, and that people who are sympathetic tend to have more offspring. Sympathy increases the rate of survival of offspring because it causes people to care for their offspring; sympathy allows humans to care for each other, and also allows people to work together in order to survive, thus proving that sympathy brings society together. Moreover, sympathy is an instinct that is caused by certain stimuli, which includes: empathy and compassion. Naturally, humans are morally good because they are born with the ability to feel both empathy and compassion. In other words, people are born to show sympathy, it is not something achieved. Humans are born with a brain…the brain allows...
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...In the poem “Greasy Lake” written by T. Coraghessan Boyle the writer believes he is “bad”, bad in the sense of rebelling, smoking pot and doing things their parents wouldn’t exactly agree with. For example, the author says “courtesy and winning ways went out of style.” (425) which I take to mean, that being rude was consider cool. Along with that he also states “We wore torn up leather jackets, slouched around with toothpicks in our mouths, sniffed glue...” (425) Meaning that the author thought being bad meant putting on a demeanor that showed he was tuff and didn’t care. Throughout the story he faces quite a few events the beginning with the narrator being out on a summer night with his two best friends Digby and Jeff, they are bored and...
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...With the definition of ethical being in accordance with the standards for right conduct or practice, there is a difference between the “good” and “bad” knight. The difference is all about standards that are expected from the king. Ultimately the king gets to decide the ethics of a knight as he is the most powerful. A good Arthurian knight is well behaved, he possesses the characteristics of chivalry and go on quests where they are tested in order to prove themselves. A “bad” knight either lacks those qualities, fails the quest or goes against their leader. Romance is a big part of knighthood. The knights work hard to prove themselves in order to earn and court a woman’s love. The Arthurian knights were expected to be strong and skillful and...
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...personal it is almost impossible to commit and not feel bad. Paul Baumer finds himself in a situation where he must think fast to survive or be killed. Paul's quick reactions save his life but his mind was forever changed. Paul became very depressed from that moment and no one understood his pain. Paul was stuck in a situation where he was stuck with a soldier from the opposing side and his fast reactions killed the other man. The man was only inches away from Paul when Paul stabbed the Soldier “Gerard Duval” multiple times. After the incident Paul bandages Gerard up hoping he would survive because Paul felt so bad. After the soldier started wheezing and gasping for air Paul couldn't handle it anymore....
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