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apocalyptic. We must be careful because these writings were not the inspired Word of God. Nevertheless, the form of apocalyptic literature was fairly standard, and its use of symbolic language is kin to the book of Revelation. In fact, some common elements in apocalyptic literature included the battle between good and evil, the presence of the kingdom of God, the call to repentance to escape judgment, and the future victory of God and His people over His…

In chapter twenty nine Hendricks mentions the importance of five literary genres that God uses throughout the Bible. Exposition is a common literary genre that is seen in the Bible. Hendrick uses Paul's letters in Roman as a representative of exposition. Since exposition means an argument or an explanation of truth. Therefore, Hendrick believes Paul's letters represent the exposition genre. Simply because paul uses many conjuction words like and, but, and therefore. The usage of those words can…

My video highlights a deep aspect of my project topic because it shows how useful smart things are and how it can improve one’s home. It can allow people to actually turn their lights off right from their smartphone and they don’t have to manually turn them off. Also, my video artifact accomplished one of the requirements, which was that it “Provided insight into a beneficial and/or harmful effect of the innovation”. This is because it showed how it can be used and what it’s impact on society is…

Criminal investigation is meant to be done by a series of rules and regulations. There are different types of rules for the way police, detectives and agents go about a crime scene, collect evidence, ask witness and interrogate key suspects. There are even rules about the way they travel. Crime shows are kind of similar but there are some major differences. Most crime shows are meant for entertainment not information. Crime shows sometimes get their information right when the agents go about a…

Know Your Writing Mission Choosing a type of writing that is close to your heart, provides you with a purpose or a mission. Whether it is widely known or not, every writer has a mission. For some it is fiction, and for others, nonfiction. With a firmly established mission, you write with more zeal. When trying to find your mission, write what you prefer (fiction, nonfiction or both), not what others think you should write. Only you can decide the direction of your writing, its meaning or…

Behaviour is the dynamic interactions between people and the environment; it is complex, intricate and informed by factors within and without an individual’s control (Gray & Macbain, 2012). Biermeier (2015) and Lindon (2012) both state that sociocultural theory justifies behaviour by recognising the whole ecological system of the child. Moreover, sociocultural theory emphasises the importance of social interactions and cultural practices as being instrumental in cognitive development and…

The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton is a novel that is specifically written to target teenagers, adolescents and young adults. It can therefore be stated that the novel is a form of Young Adult Literature as it meets many of the characteristics required to define this type of writing. The two characteristics that will be spoken about in this essay is firstly, the novel is written in the first person of a fourteen year old, making “Ponyboy” the protagonist; and secondly, there is an absence of adult…

Developmental psychology is a new field of study for me to learn about. I found that throughout this class, much of what I learned could be applied to my life. As I grew up, almost everything that I went through could be explained by a developmental theory or principle. The three areas of developmental psychology that I will focus on for this paper are emotional development, social development, and moral development. My temperament was I was younger was quite the opposite of what I am now and…

Convincing others to change their mind is tricky. As business people, getting others to agree to our ideas will be a crucial part of our jobs. We need to understand the best strategies to persuade others. In order to understand persuasion, we need to know the objectives of persuasion, what type of arguments to use, and how to successfully persuade. The three main objectives of persuasion are reinforcing positive opinions, realizing unformed opinions, and neutralizing hostile opinions.…

Assignment 1# Objections to Act Utilitarianism Act utilitarianism, as defined in lecture, is the ethical theory that states an act is only right if and only if the consequences of that act creates the greatest net balance of well-being out of all possible actions. For this paper, I will also draw on the definition of utilitarianism given by William Shaw, which has three main features. The first is that the only thing considered good unto itself is the well-being of humans and sentient…