Beyond Good and Evil

with different people. I remembered my first job was a dish washer in the Chinese restaurant for one whole year and I hated it so much because of the endless hours. It made me so jealous and envied every times when I saw those servers take home with good tips. A Year after I felt more comfortable to worked at the employees at the restaurant. I used my powers of persuasion to convince the owner of the restaurant to let me become a server.…

Final Paper Many people would agree that there appears to be a contradiction between a loving God and the reality of evil. The attempt to answer these difficult contradictions is referred to as a theodicy. The great Christian thinker of our time, C. S. Lewis, wrote as an atheist after his beloved wife died, “meanwhile where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms… But to go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is in vain, and what do you find? A door slammed…

Mother Courage and Her Children: What Will the War Make You Do? Inside of all of us there are good and bad qualities. We may be aware of these, or for some these qualities only appear in times of desperation. We all have times of greed, and times of sacrifice. It is our actions that shape who we are, and what others think of us. In a time like war, these qualities can be elevated and exaggerated in different ways. It is how we use these qualities that affect our lives and whether or not we…

Rafael needed to find something interesting to read. Her teacher had assigned her class to write an article on a book and Rafael wanted it to be a cleverly woven masterpiece. Rafael checked into her school’s library one day and carefully browsed through the selection of books until she found a book that was rumoured to be interesting and thought provoking. “The minute I opened the book and began reading the first words, I knew I was in for a literary delight”, Rafael says, “The words speak to a…

consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are NEW every morning; great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion; saith my soul; therefore will I HOPE IN HIM. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth." Lamentations is actually a rather depressing book, if we look at what is around this verse there is total chaos,…

spoken truth from God. As in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (NIV). Bridges focuses…

side’s choices. Although, both Hesiod and Genesis display immortal sin, the monotheistic structure in Genesis is more compelling at explaining the emergence of the evils of the world because it demonstrates both divine and mortal choices, while Hesiod’s account is less compelling because the polytheistic world shows the immorality…

In this life, if we do the good things to other people, we will be rewarded with a better life in the next life. I also think all the people that we meet in this life are the people that we already met in our previous life. All of the places that we have been in this life are the…

BABY’S BREATH is an absorbing, supernatural thriller that delivers a frightening and chilling tale. The script does a good job in creating a compelling mystery. The plot immediately engages and maintains one’s attention from the opening scene to the very last scene. The main heroine is thrust into an enthralling life and death situation to bring justice to her twin sister’s killer. The goal is clear and the danger is high. The script provides an intense mystery that easily pulls in the…

attributes of the universe. And me it proves that God and the world are not separate from each other so God could quiet possibly be an idea within all of us. The piece of evidence I came across from Emerson was that evil is the lack of goodness. So if God is within all of us and during acts of evil we are lacking goodness during these acts how could he be an almighty power? Lastly Emerson alludes to Jesus not being special since everyone is of God. What set him apart and made him special was…