...of Indifference and a book called, Night. Both of these had made huge impacts on the world around us. They informed us of what had happened during Wiesel’s time in the concentration camps and how indifference had affected us all when we could have acted to try and stop the Nazis sooner. America's largest corporations had even still given them the fuel and resources they had needed to continue. If we weren’t indifferent couldn’t we have stopped this from happened in the first place? But, which of these, his speech or the book, holds the most influencing power? Which could make people reflect on what had happened or make them want to learn more? The book has so many layers and layers of knowledge and meanings that even though it's small in pages its power is as strong as if he was sitting with you and saying it personally. Or the speech, which gave a clear and meaningful meaning on indifference and so much more? I feel that the book gave me a much deeper understanding than the speech did, though they both had their greatest points and had...
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...eye. First of all, my team had won the game 2-0 and my mom, sister and I were going to meet my grandma at Red Lobster after my game. As we were driving down the road we saw five cars in the other lane and there was one Jeep speeding past each one coming straight at us. As the driver of the Jeep came to the last car he swerved back into the other lane almost hitting us head on. “Mom, how fast was the Jeep going” I asked. “We were going 60MPH and he flew by us so he must have been going at least 90MPH” she said in amazement....
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...Furthermore the recess attendant was coming over to tell us that it was time to be done. But we were to into the game. Kaynen and I were both fighting each other now for the ball pushing, shoving, pulling absolutely everything possible. And that’s when it happened… the girl. This girl thought it would be funny to walk right next to us and try to make us mad or annoy us. But she wasn’t paying much attention apparently, because in a matter of minutes she was on her back laying on the cement slab of our basketball court. She started screaming and yelling and bawling her eyes out. Now the recess attendant came over and talked to her and tried to calm her down. She took her inside and told us to follow. Kaynen and I both looked at eachother and followed, little did we know we were about to get in a whole bunch of trouble. The girl was ok just a little shaken up and a couple scratches on her elbows. Kaynen and I apologized and turned around and that’s the first time I had ever been in the same room face to face with Mr. Tokar. He looked at least 7 foot tall and huge. Rumor has it that he use to play semi pro football and I could guarantee he did. In a very deep voice he said “Boys will...
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...WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WORSHIP? By A.W. Tozer Michael Matysek MUSIC 200-001 February 10, 2015 Summary Throughout the book, Whatever Happened to Worship, A.W. Tozer emphasizes the power of Godly worship. Christians need feel convicting to substitute work for worship and to direct their lives toward worship. Humans were designed to seek the will of the one and only God who created everyone is his image. Tozer reminds us and explains what it means to worship in his book, Whatever Happened to Worship? Loving God is man’s whole reason for existence. That is why we were created and why we have been recreated. Tozer says, “I am of the opinion that we should not be concerned about working for God until we have learned the meaning and the delight of worshiping Him.” Tozer emphasizes throughout the whole book that true worship must always be in spirit and in truth. It is possible to have a form of worship that isn’t pleasing or glorifying God. The book starts by looking at worship in the church, where people often feel like they are rich and lack nothing. But what is really lacking is the true meaning of worship to God. Chapter 1, Worship in the Christian Church, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. That is why we are born and that will determine where eternity will be spent. Making the decision to follow Christ and asking the Father for salvation is how humans determine this. Fake Christians aren’t acceptable to God. People were not created...
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...world gathered to pay tribute to those who died. She also talked about about how no one could describe what happened and how painful it was to see that memorial. This text also discusses how this memorial brought everyone together and showed how people were proud to be American and also proves that the American population did not forget what happened and they even feel stronger after what happened. After terrorists attacks the population always tend to come together to show how strong their country in for instance it also happened in Paris “Paris attacks: Victim recalls horror as she played dead to survive Bataclan massacre” is an article written by Kabita Maharana who describes the events that happened to a young South African women called Isobel Bowdery, who was at the Battaclan terrorist attack in Paris. Bowdery narrates the evening of the 13th of November as a peaceful Friday night where people went out to enjoy the weekend before the terrorists attacked unarmed men and women in the French capital she describes the event as "It was just a Friday night at a rock show. The atmosphere was so happy and everyone was dancing and smiling”. Bowdery described seen grown men cry because of their dead girlfriends, strangers shielded other people by becoming human shields themselves to save lives, how she had to play dead for an hour to be able to escape. Bowdery also informs us that the survivors were comforting each other. “to the complete strangers who picked me up from the road...
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...Before the United States became militarily involved in defending the sovereignty of South Vietnam, it had to, as one historian recently put it, "invent" the country and the political issues at stake there. The Vietnam War was in many ways a wild and terrible work of fiction written by some dangerous and frightening story tellers. First the United States decided what constituted good and evil, right and wrong, civilized and uncivilized, freedom and oppression for Vietnam, according to American standards; then it traveled the long physical distance to Vietnam and attempted to make its own notions about these things clear to the Vietnamese people—ultimately by brute, technological force. For the U.S. military and government, the Vietnam that they had in effect invented became fact. For the soldiers that the government then sent there, however, the facts that their government had created about who was the enemy, what were the issues, and how the war was to be won were quickly overshadowed by a world of uncertainty. Ultimately, trying to stay alive long enough to return home in one piece was the only thing that made any sense to them. As David Halberstam puts it in his novel, One Very Hot Day, the only fact of which an American soldier in Vietnam could be certain was that "yes was no longer yes, no was no longer no, maybe was more certainly maybe." Almost all of the literature on the war, both fictional and nonfictional, makes clear that the only certain thing during the Vietnam War...
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...3. God gave us free will, this means that we can act on our discretions and knowingly choose to do right or wrong. We see in the Bible that God provides us with the Ten Commandments as guidelines of what is right or wrong. Jesus also tells us in the Bible that if we choose to have faith and believe in God our father and abide by the rules of God and choose to do good, we will see the kingdom of God. We hear throughout history of so many awful acts done by individuals. We see on the news everyday that there is a shooting somewhere, a murder, a child being abused by someone, animal cruelty, or hate crimes against people of a certain race or religion. These are all examples of things we know to be wrong or "bad". Yet the people who choose to do these things have the free will to choose that path. When someone is faced with the loss of their child due to a shooting at a school, in their grief they may question why God would allow such a horrible act to have happened. They may feel anger because we are taught to have faith that God will protect us from harm. So how could he have allowed this to happen? It appears that although God is all-powerful, he cannot sway our free will one way or another. This is a hard concept to digest in the moment of such a tragedy. The...
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...today. The third reason is to learn about what causes conflicts and wars so we can help identify when they might be occurring. We should preserve history so we don’t make the same mistakes we did in the past. Things would not reoccur in the future if we knew what happened in history we would know how to prevent things from happening again. We would see signs that happened in the past and we will know how to keep more things from happening. More wars have and will be prevented because of history, inventions will be improved, and sickness will be cured because we know what happens if you do a certain thing. The next reason is so we will know how civilizations got to where we are today. If we didn’t have history we would not know what works best for civilizations. History helps us learn how laws we created; if we did not have laws the world would be chaos. Laws are sometimes based on religion. Religions are also very important in history. Religion is what a human believes how they got here, why they are here, and where they are going. Everyone has a religion whether you admit it or not, every civilization has one or many dominate religion like Americas dominate religion is Christianity. The last reason is to learn about the causes of war. Most of history learned in school is history about war and it is very important, it teaches us about war and what causes it, how it happened and how to end it. If we did not know about what has happened in the past we may not be able to keep it...
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...it got completed. In the passages we read, it showed us four perspectives. A news article, a speech, a commentary and a political cartoon. All four of these perspectives showed an interaction among the speaker, audience, and subject. Which is called the rhetorical triangle. When someone uses the rhetorical triangle or ethos, pathos, and logos, it makes the passages much more interesting and you’ll get a better understanding on what they are trying to inform. In the first passage, Neil Armstrong is describing his experience being the first man on the moon. The New York Times did a really good job informing the...
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...cultural, historical) historical Listener background knowledge: They didn’t know much about what was happening at that time. See the “Types of Arguments” table on page 412 for more information. Arguments Evidence/Support Possible flaws 1. President Franklin Roosevelt provoked the war with Japan. A. We might have been at peace with the Japanese, but that didn’t stop them from bombing the United States. B. Would we have went to war if the bombing didn’t happen? He...
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...Well Doc, I don’t quite know what to do. I haven’t been able to sleep, and when I do get the privilege of sleep it only lasts for a few hours before I wake up due to a dramatic nightmare. So many bad things had happened on that island, so many bad things that I cannot get out of my mind. No matter how much I try to forget about it I just keep reliving what had gone on. I need your help; I don’t know how long I can go on like this. I learned a lot about myself and others, sadly I don’t know if I like it. When the plane crashed on the island I thought I was with the most able bodied kids to help all of us survive. We were all from a higher end academy and had vast knowledge in miscellaneous subjects. Also, we were probably the most mature kids for are age, coming from the U.K of course. Yet, I was wretchedly wrong. One thing I found out about those kids is that naturally humans are savages. Another boy on the island, Simon, was viciously murdered because we were all dancing and in the moment and acting wild. Looking back on this event I don’t remember much of what went on except the fact that we killed an innocent boy just because we were dancing and having fun. That was not the only time I saw savagery. It happened when Jack and his hunters killed the sow. They didn’t just kill a pig for food, the vindictively and ruthlessly murdered a pig. The kill of the pig seemed as if to give them a high. The hunters were in awe of the fact that they could dominate another...
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...or watch that news segment for a few moments to learn what happened, but we do not take the time to empathize what happened to that person or an entire country. As Bloom had stated, “But empathy will have to yield to reasons if humanity is to have a future” (Bloom), this statement has to muster up some sort of emotion...
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...7 mile journey to the city of Emmaus- Characters: Jesus, Daniel, Cleopas, and Me, the people of Jerusalem Setting: Road to Emmaus Cleopas: ¨I still can't believe what happened to Jesus¨. Daniel: ¨Neither can I, but unfortunately there was nothing we could have done¨. Cloepas: *sadly frowns and looks down at the ground* Cleopas: ¨Now with the empty tomb…..I don't know what to think anymore¨. *a moment of silence* Cleopas: ¨But no! *triumphantly lifts head up* I know he´s out there somewhere! Watching over us¨ Daniel: ¨Right!¨ Me: ¨Yes!¨ -Everyone's demeanor changed when they got their hope back; but still had some doubts- Daneil: ¨But when is he coming?¨ -Silence rose once again- -Then the presence of...
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...the most challenging experiences in our life is to be left by someone who is really important to us. How can we moved on to the next step of our life if we are not complete? We will just only feel sadness and misery for that person. And this is what they feel right now, those families that had been left by their loved ones who fought for our nation. Recently, we faced an enormous problem that test the bravery of the Filipinos. The special action force commandos fought for our nation, but unfortunately 44 of them got killed by the Moro rebels. They suffer so much difficulties just to win the battle. They didn’t mind what will be the consequences, they only think about our nation. But if there are people that are being affected so much by what just happened, they are the families that are being left by those 44 brave saf commandos. It is really hard on their part to accept what happened. Its hard to go on when someone on your family is lost. But we have to accept the fact and keep on our mind that god has always a plan for all of us. And the fallen 44 has a purpose why it was happened to them. God created us to live and to appreciate all the things that He made. And not to kill other’s life just to get what we want. He is always there for us when we are in trouble and he never let us face those problems without His guide. As his creation, all of us must do the only job He wants us to perform. And that is to live our life with love. And to share to others the blessing of our life...
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...the most challenging experiences in our life is to be left by someone who is really important to us. How can we moved on to the next step of our life if we are not complete? We will just only feel sadness and misery for that person. And this is what they feel right now, those families that had been left by their loved ones who fought for our nation. Recently, we faced an enormous problem that test the bravery of the Filipinos. The special action force commandos fought for our nation, but unfortunately 44 of them got killed by the Moro rebels. They suffer so much difficulties just to win the battle. They didn’t mind what will be the consequences, they only think about our nation. But if there are people that are being affected so much by what just happened, they are the families that are being left by those 44 brave saf commandos. It is really hard on their part to accept what happened. Its hard to go on when someone on your family is lost. But we have to accept the fact and keep on our mind that god has always a plan for all of us. And the fallen 44 has a purpose why it was happened to them. God created us to live and to appreciate all the things that He made. And not to kill other’s life just to get what we want. He is always there for us when we are in trouble and he never let us face those problems without His guide. As his creation, all of us must do the only job He wants us to perform. And that is to live our life with love. And to share to others the blessing of our life...
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