The Book That Chose Me. Given that I’m not much of a reader I must first say that my book choice was not initial nor was it a simple “eeny, meenie, miny, moe” pick. When I first looked at the list of books I had no clue as to which book to choose for this assignment, so I decided to look up the ratings for each and narrow the list of books to those that interested me. To my surprise there were three book which caught my interest and had good reviews: The Coke Machine, The Race Myth, and Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets.…
After reading Season of Life by Jeffrey Marx demonstrated how I saw I was becoming a man of substances. I started to know the difference from the beginning of my life time till present and from reading the book it showed me how I was becoming a man of my own. Which I thought would not happen till I hit the real world after college. Joe Ehrmann was the coach of a high school football team, who was also a former NFL player. Jeffrey Marx who was interested in Joe coaching style taught Marx how it was best for the team to have chemistry with one another and he goes on by trying to talk to each player to understand them on a personal level.…
This will be about comparing and contrasting “World on the Turtle’s Back and Death”, and “Life and Death”. Those stories are about the creation of the world and how void it as at the beginning. This will tell you the differences and similarities between the two stories. The story of The “World on the Turtles back” was about the creation of the world.…
Susan Wolfs “The Meaning in Life and Why It Matters” is a short book of Essays containing commentaries by Robert Adams and John Kothe, and Wolfs responses to their commentary. Throughout the book Wolf focuses on 3 views to talk about when thinking about life, and objectively why it matters for it to be important. Those 3 views are the Fulfillment view, the Larger-than-oneself view, and the Bipartite view. After explaining these views Wolf then gives her interpretation on her own crafted view called the Fitting Fulfillment view. After Wolf explains these views, Adams and Kothe set up counter arguments to her view and the other views.…
The prophetic book takes its name after the prophet who received the vision. The name Obadiah means “servant of the LORD”. It is the smallest book in the Old Testament. There is no information about the author. Sanhedrin 39b (Talmud) said Obadiah was Ahab’s servant.…
Cue the cliché: What is the meaning of life? Is it simply to work, in hopes of gaining great wealth? Or wanting to contribute to the world and reach peace and harmony? What about merely finding the love of your life and starting a family, well, a financially stable family that is. The answer to this question resides in our own perception of life and reflection on what, we find, most important to live for.…
In Arthur Maurice Hocarts article “The Life Giving Myth” published in 1953, Hocart gives evidence for his criticisms against the established “kinship extension” that persisted in the 20th century. In comparing the meanings of established “extensions” of non-native kinship terms made between a number of languages, he demonstrates that these “kinship extensions” not only serve to muddle the meaning of the original word but can have disastrous, widespread, effects on our understanding of other cultures. In the article Hocart calls for a solution to the issue of kinship extensions and offers the solution of “neutral notation” which would be similar to phonetic nomenclature. Precisely why this neutral nomenclature is so uncommon is also answered in the article; native words…
The book of Job and Ecclesiastes are written from two different points of view, but still have some of the same underlying messages in the text. Job is the signature character in the book of Job and his life is put on display for the reader. This story about suffering, faith, and trials raises a big question for the reader to discover and interpret, why would the Lord make his chosen people suffer again and again and not step in to stop the actions? The book of Job also makes the reader try to connect their personal life to the life of God. Ecclesiastes is a book in the Bible where God is not very prevalent within the text, and also tends to separate the people on Earth from the holy Savior because lack of wisdom.…
“What is the purpose of life?” (Robinson 59). Your element is your passion and makes your life extra enjoyable. Exploring your options is a great idea because who knows what will happen. Not finding your element isn't ideal because it leads to a happy and complete life.…
The Day of the Dead (El Dia de los Muertos), is a very important holiday celebrated in Mexico. The purpose of the holiday is to gather family and friends to remember members who have died. We celebrate on November 1st and November 2nd where the children eat first and then adults eat the second day. Some traditions that mexicans do for the day of the dead is build altars, marigolds, favorite food, and also visiting graves. We honor our deceased ancestors by cooking their favorite food and putting it on the altar so they can get full.…
Critical Analysis Paper # 3 Analysis of “Religion Gives Meaning to Life,” by Louis P. Pojman Introduction: In this article, “Religion Gives Meaning to Life,” Louis P. Pojman believes that religion, but mainly a theistic religion gives purpose and meaning to life. Pojman feels that, since people cannot prove that theism is true or not true, then therefore, people should live like theism is true. A world with theism, living life following a higher being would be a better world than living a life of self-governing, autonomy. Lastly, Pojman believes that living in autonomy is not really affected by having a religion or faith but instead religion may help everyone’s autonomy because they will have more purpose for their personal goals.…
First I’ll give you an introduction to the book of the dead. The book of the dead is a book that contains tons of magic spells that are meant to help a dead person through Duat (The Underworld) and then into the underworld. The Book of the Dead was part of funeral traditions, it includes the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts. The earlier ones were painted on objects, not papyrus. Now I’ll take you on a journey through the book’s timeline.…
Tao or Dao is a word signifying in abstract- 'way', 'path', 'route', 'key' or sometimes more loosely- 'doctrine' or 'principle'. The Dao is the intuitive knowing of "life" that cannot be grasped full-heartedly as just a concept but is known nonetheless through actual living experience of one's everyday being. The Dao is not a 'name' for a 'thing' but the underlying natural order of the Universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe due to it being non conceptual yet evident' in one's being of aliveness.…
Despite a quite universal acceptance of life as precious and worthy of preservation, the debate over human life has raged on for many years and in many situations. Specifically, biblical views on life and the preservation of this gift have brought tension and attacks on the holistic views of Christ followers. Many Christ followers would argue that life comes at conception and this disallows such actions as abortion or negative treatment of a woman 's body especially during the time of pregnancy. I would argue that the life of person does not come at conception ultimately even though it biologically begins but exists in eternity past abiding within God 's plan. John 1:3 states that, "All things were made through him, and without him was not…
Even when the Israelites forgot where they came from and had the nerve to want to go back, God still loved them and provided. His love is so unconditional and for that I am thankful. "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us". ( Ephesians 3:20) (Holy Bible, 2012) This is the love of God.…