Abomination

After researching material on Daniel 9:24-27, I will write an exegetical/expositional research paper detailing my own verse-by-verse, point-by-point interpretation of this important prophetic text. In this paper I will describe my own approach to Daniel’s Prophecy of Seventy Weeks. To support my thoughts, I also interact with the various approaches that have been suggested by individual commentators and broader eschatological/theological systems. Specifically, I will be sure to describe the…

Suicide Is a Rational Choice and Suicide is Always Wrong The goal for this paper is to present a comparison about what makes a worthwhile life between Suicide Is a Rational Choice and Suicide is Always Wrong. Psychiatrist Thomas S. Szasz argues that there is no such thing than mental illness and is just a simply myth. Also, Szasz believes that the intervention of physicians makes the case of suicide worst. And, physician’s intervention takes away the freedom of will of the individual. On the…

subconsciously; that an individual’s subconscious affects the individual’s future. In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe tells the tale of a Nigerian man named Okonkwo, as he transforms from a person of high respect in the village of Umuofia to an abomination to his people. The fate of an individual is decided by the individual’s regard for his or her self, demonstrated through Okonkwo’s gradual fall from being respected, coupled with his crumbling self-image. Achebe uses Okonkwo’s initial…

Today he told me how I should burn in hell. Today he told me how I am an abomination for how I live me life, and that I should kill myself. Today.....today it was okay for him to…

Calhoun was a U.S. statesman and a spokesman for the slave plantation system in the South. As a young congressman from South Carolina, he helped guide the U.S. into a war with Great Britain. He also established the Second Bank of the United States. He became the U.S. secretary of war, vice president, and even achieved secretary of state. As nationalist in his political career, Calhoun was one of the leading War Hawks who managed to send the unprepared United States into war with Great Britain in…

David Walker and Nat Turner were abolitionists. They were Southerners and very religious. David Walker and Nat Turner believed in violence and handling things by any means necessary. The Walker appeal was printed in 1829 in Boston. In this publication Walker, used angry words towards slavery and white racism. The Walker appeal molded slavery in many ways. It had an influence on Garrison abolition. It gave hope and inspired black abolitionism, it also made it to the South and put fear in the…

“The world’s oldest profession!” What profession might that be? Prostitution, of course. Whores, as it seems, have established themselves in literature and culture since the beginning of written word. The Book of Revelations, to John Wilmot, now to Nathaniel Hawthorne all include some mention of promiscuous women and their debaucherous deeds. Although in Hawthorne's case prostitution in particular is not mentioned, being a whore is. Hawthorne utilizes sly allusions and implications from his…

lives in many deceiving forms as said before. In the worldly view pride has two sides of existence and it’s a good and a bad thing. In the biblical view as in Gods view pride can kill because of the devil and the fact that pride is considered an abomination. These prideful meanings are the true and lawful meanings of the pride that is within every human being. Therefore, we must acknowledge that it’s a thin line between authentic pride and bad pride. As proven by scientific research, one could…

One of the themes of Things Fall Apart is Reputation. Unoka did not have a good reputation in the village he lived in. One of the scenarios in the story that dealt with reputation was the villagers of Umuofia considered issues in people life an abomination; they were placed in the evil forest when they died. For example, Unoka was placed in the Evil Forest because he had a swelling in the stomach and the limbs. He was in debt and was not good at harvesting corps. Unoka wife and children did not…

Luther that the Cardinals would interpret the Bible in ways that did not focus on faith but that focused on people doing whatever they wanted, and then asking forgiveness in the name of God. The “good works” method of gaining God’s grace was an abomination to…