Billy Graham

In 1960, around the time in which women's rights were beginning to alter, American politician and journalist, Clare Booth Luce delivered a speech to other journalists at the Women's National Press Club. Luce uses this introduction to prepare the audience for the speech she is about to deliver that is not likely to receive a friendly response due to her direct criticisms of these writer's journalistic integrity. She constructs her opening by using subjective language toward the subject matter,…

Aboriginal English or Croatian English. All of these families will have words and phrases with meanings known only to family members. In the writer’s own family, “Just do a Billy Graham” translates to “For God’s sake, stop procrastinating. Just make a decision and stick to it.” An outsider would not understand a “Billy Graham” without explanation. Other terms from the writer’s family include the “Oscillating Decreminator” (an item or activity you are continually searching for but may never…

Malcom X made the government and all people who preached white nationalism the enemy to their cause, black nationalism. For example, he talked about how Billy Graham “preached white nationalism” and any church that was not preaching black nationalism was preaching white nationalism and therefore did not deserve their membership. He used derogatory language for the people in the government positions who would…

The Break Through There are multiple quotes that pertained to my own life that have lead me to make decision I have made. There’s decision have in return made an impact on my own path as well as my own journey. In the quote by Billy Graham, “Once God leads you to make a decisions don’t draw back. Instead, trust his leading and believe He goes before you because He does.” God has truly lead me in a direction to make a decision that have impacted my life in a positive way. All though faith is…

severely suffered from PTSD. Family and friends started to worry about Louie. Louie almost lost his wife because of his drinking. One day, his wife dragged him to listen to a sermon that he did not want to go to and Billy Graham was preaching. As he was sitting there listening to Graham, Louie starting to think about his time on the raft. He started getting angry and got up and left when he was told not too but then ended up back on the raft in a flashback. While Louie was on the raft he…

Studd 's muscular Christians goal in life is not achieving moral perfection, but glorifying God and spreading the gospel. Sports are not seen as a thing with inherit value, but merely a tool to distract the populace to convert them, shown when Billy Graham said on Youth for Christ, "We used every modern means to catch the attention of the unconverted, and then we punched them right between the eyes with the Gospel"(Mathisen, 242). Lastly, Studd 's muscular Christian is patriotic themed, with a…

My History As A Writer Throughout my lifetime I have come to love and absolutely hate writing. The reasoning of the assignment or topic has a lot to do with my affinity and disgust. Although learning new things, like writing, was something that I loved doing in elementary school, that all changed when it was daily implemented. As an art form I recently come to love writing down my thoughts, ideas, opinions and stories. A struggle for me while attempting to write an essay or report is grammar.…

“The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless” (Billy Graham). This quote describes mission trips well, and it applies to the ones I have been on. I have gone on 5 mission trips so far: The Dominican Republic three times, Honduras, Haiti, and Ecuador. I am able to have gone on so many because my youth group goes to these places, along with other places. During my summer…

Success is defined as both, “the attainment of popularity or profit” and, “a person or thing that achieves desired aims or attains prosperity.” As a child, most everyone dreams of becoming rich and owning everything they could ever want. This dream is most often referred to as the “American Dream”. While everyone’s perception of this so called “dream” may differ, the one cultivating factor is reaching a higher level of success from where they started. Today, there are three main features of this…

Louis Zamperini was a juvenile delinquent, 1936 Olympic runner, a bombardier on a B- 24 Libertarian, and a Prisoner of War. Louis zamperini faced many problems in his life and overcame all of them. January 26, 1917 Louis Zamperini was born to Anthony and Louise Zamperini, an Italian family. Louis Zamperini was a badly behaved kid. He started smoking when he was five and started drinking at 8. His father, Anthony Zamperini, taught him how to box and he started beating people up then bullied him.…