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greatly affects me and how I view the world. “You’re not a real Catholic if [....]”. This is a phrase I have heard many times since I have been at Saint Mary’s. Many of the books we have read have given different definitions of what religion is so, why can’t Catholics have different definitions of what Catholicism is? I believe that since we are surrounded by people of the same religion we often tend to force our practices onto others. As social beings I feel that we all want to…

and sound judgment, then why do people still smoke cigarettes despite knowing the effects to their body? The question is then this: is common sense really so, common? The Oxford dictionary definition states common sense as “good sense and sound judgement in practical matters.” The problem within the definition of this phrase is if this ideology were true, then how can we explain the poor decisions we make everyday? Although defined as being good sense and judgment, common sense has proven to…

Aristotle asserts, in his book Nicomachean Ethics, that courage is a virtue existing somewhere between confidence and fear. Confidence and fear are relativity vague terms in and of them self. Yet, out author cleverly go off path, distracting us away from the primary issue to understand the secondary issues in an effort to engage the reader in a true understanding of what it mean to be courageous. Courage is defined as a mean and to understand that mean we must first understand what two…

Similarly, in “In Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively,” Margaret Kantz frames the reading by sharing her input on what facts, opinions, and arguments actually are. First, Kantz states that, "'research' does not mean compiling facts and transmitting them to a teacher, but instead it is using a variety of conflicting sources to make an original argument on the subject that one is researching." In other words, when writing a research paper, it is important to enter into the…

see if you’ll ever be successful in life.How cool is that? Achieving goals is probably what every student dreams of. Being successful in life should be everyone’s priority but not every person thinks the same way. Success has different types of definitions but yet all come together to the same thing.…

Take bowling for an example, many will agree that bowling doesn't take much physical ability and one does not have to be physically fit to play the sport, but still most bowlers will classify themselves as athletic; this may be due to the unclear definition but they shouldn’t be classified as athletic because they are not physically active. Many sports have athletic people that participate in athletic activities and are fit including swimming, which people consider to be an athletic sport, due…

brought together by corresponding qualities. When I think of the word community it is usually with a positive connotation rather than negative. In Amy Tan’s essay, she introduced a community that her mother was apart of that caused me to rethink my definition of community. Her mother was apart of a community of “broken” and/or “limited” English speakers by default because she could not speak our language properly according to our rules of grammer. The community was looked down upon in our…

clear-cut definition of congregational worship for music to be so abstractly removed from it a priori. If this definition is tested lexically against scripture, however, we find that it cannot stand, and the premise defeated. Whale believed that “worship is the only sufficient evidence of living religion” and Luther famously said habere deum est colere deum, or “to believe in God is to go down on your knees.” For such bold assertions to be true we need to be careful and specific with our…

Definition Essay: Success Everyone defines success differently. The dictionary definition for success is the achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted. You can be successful by positively influencing one person or a group of people. You can be successful academically, professionally, and socially. These different ways of being successful have a positive vibe that can be took and passed on by you and the person/people you influence. Yes you can be successful by influencing a…

home can have a plethora of definitions. In “Homeplace,” by Scott Russell Sanders, and “I Must Be Going,” by Richard Ford, home is defined in two distinct ways. Sanders believes that if one continues to move frequently, the meaning of home will dwindle. On the other hand, because Ford is always on the move he believes home is where you make it. Although, the dictionary defines home as a place of residence, these authors go beyond the dictionary’s standard definition. These essays are similar…