Dr. Evil

It was obvious to Job’s friends to conclude that Job must have earned his punishment by committing at least one evil sin. “God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evildoers.” (Job 8:20) Basically, his friends were explaining that good people are rewarded, while evil people are punished on the other side of the spectrum. These men were assuming that life is fair in dispensing discipline to Homo sapiens. Therefore, they impeached Job during his misery. Perhaps these men…

How has our culture and society changed over the past thousand years? Any indication of our development of society is vastly evident in the comparison of the epic Beowulf (Heaney) from Anglo-Saxon lore to the modern day movie of Beowulf and Grendel (Gunnarsson). In the Beowulf epic, Beowulf, the main protagonist who possess god like strength, is a very one dimensional character, hardly showing any character development throughout the epic. In Beowulf and Grendel, Beowulf is a more believable…

student population to require community service for graduation. Listen to the voices calling out to us from the past. Our history is full of attempts to justify this barbaric practice, yet it takes time and the evidence of our own eyes to see the evil for what it is. Let this be the one time we refuse the temptation and reject forced labor, before we become the ones history condemns for doing nothing. Forced labor is a concept that has gone by many names over the years. It has gone under…

The time like of the four gospels date back to about 6 BC and dates to about 30 AD which goes from John to the after death of Jesus. In the four Gospels we are given life from them. The gospels in themselves explain their purpose which is literally to bring life to our current life. They are to bring light into our darkness, and merely to call us into the light. It also is there to challenge us to call others into the light. I like to look at it like this the gospels are written to parent us.…

At the start of chapter ten the Time Traveler returns to the same location where he watched the Eloi play in his first encounter with the future, but now he observes through a modified lens as he finally begins to realize what the true division between the Upper-world people and Under-grounders means. The Time Traveler is given narrative authority which allows Wells to use this personal approach to give a storytelling appeal to the expression that ignorance is bliss, “the same beautiful scene,…

intentions were good, “the darkness of Shadar Logoth” (Jordan, p.780) became something to rival the Dark One himself, indicating that the line between good and evil can be very blurred at times. The symbols of Shadar Logoth and the design of the seals effectively portray the theme of with duality, and elegantly show, again, that good and evil are simply two parts of one…

Monstrous Grendel “An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.” Throughout John Gardner’s Grendel, William Makepeace Thackeray’s idea of “never letting the light shine through” aptly portrays Grendel’s evil and monstrous figure even though Grendel himself is not a person. Living in a world of loneliness, Grendel searches for the meaning of his own life, attempting to discover the “good” aspects that life brings instead of focusing on the evil individual he was…

the term “evil” hits back at me. Culturally, I had been introduced to this term referring to Satan or the other evil powers that are controlled by the devil himself. James Willer points out to the meaning of “evil” as “bad” and confirming my notion of the definition of this word. He points out the different levels and platforms through which evil is initiated and enacted. The argument presented in the book is that “it is ordinary individuals, like you and me, who commit extraordinary evil.”…

Dickens portrays good and evil, is how must people would today. He puts in his novel that there are constant battles going on with good and evil. Mostly with both sides trying to trump the other side. Mostly with the good trumping the evil and the evil trying to fight another day. Dickens believes that evil is evil and good is good, there is no in the gap. Either you’re hot or you’re cold, yes than you’re no, and either in and out. Dickens seems to say that if at heart you’re an evil person then…

different in many of ways, but being evil and good are two different things. I believe that humans are naturally born to be good in every way. People around the world have a different ways of being good, and how they interact around others. Based on society today is how I believe people are naturally good. People are born innocent in this world today, but what makes them who they are today is human nature and society. However god did not put people on this earth to be evil. In whatever…