Interpretation

is such a fine line to draw between interpretation and revelation. A life dedicated to understanding and diving as deep into the context of Scripture is a great calling and skill to have. Even with all of the amazing scholars that dig and dissect through the pages of the Bible, there are still so many things that are widely debated and argued about. I like how the text sums it up by saying, "where there appears to be conflict, it is a conflict of interpretation" (Entwistle, 2015, p. 227). It is…

serpent. Her insubordination to God, as perceived by Orthodox Christians, justifies a woman’s desire for sin and sexuality (Kvam), despite the concept of sexuality never arising within the chapters of Genesis. However, the reasoning behind these interpretations of Eve justify the role of women in the world in the Christian religion with Eve holding the blame for the presence of sin and why human error and mortality exist in the world. Alternatively, the ideas of “sin” and “sexuality” shows the…

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, has many interesting but different interpretations. It had been interpreted as a Gothic horror tale, a semiautobiographical account of a mental break down, and as a symbolic presentation of the effects of social and economic oppression on women. There are many aspects of the story of why these three interpretations work. For example, the first reason why it can be a Gothic horror tale is how the narrator gradually becomes insane. At first she…

Duffy’s poem is written in the perspective of Medusa. How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers? The interpretation of the poem might vary depending on the age social status, gender, culture and the time period in which the text was read in. The variation of the interpretation will be based on the different interpretation of the literary devices such as metaphors, the effect of repetition and structure of the poem. Specifically looking at the difference how…

Strict Interpretation of the Constitution Strict interpretation means that the Constitution must explicitly grant a power or privilege in order for that action to be legal. A loose interpretation doesn’t give any safeguards against government intrusion on the people’s liberty. Strict interpretation is better because it is an approach more likely to get to what the original intent of the Founders of America was. Whereas loose interpretationists can make new laws and invalidate old ones based on…

the New Testament. Moreover, Revelation crosses three literary genres including epistolary, apocalyptic, and prophetic. Due in part to the variety of Revelation, it should come as no surprise that there are a multitude of different views on the interpretation of Revelation. This paper will focus primarily on four of the main viewpoints, Preterist, Historicist, Futurist, and Idealist/Spiritualist. It is using hermeneutics, that each individual view tries to interpret Revelation. While the…

interpret and analyze art, whether it’s literature or an actual painting, in school, I have always thought of it from a different perspective compared to the teachers and students around me. My interpretations, like the others around me, are unique in our own sense. Class discussions of single interpretation on a piece of artwork is absurd. The long lasting masterpiece should not be deemed one perception. Controversies involving a piece of work is drivel. Argueing over a single analysis of art,…

Scalia’s work on Constitutional interpretation, two competing approaches will be discussed. According to Justice Scalia, there are four approaches to Constitutional interpretation: Textualism, Strict Constructivism, Legislative intent, and Living Constitution. However, the most prominent approaches to Statutory and Constitutional interpretation are textualism and living Constitution. Justice Scalia makes a case for textualism. He explains in his essay “A Matter of Interpretation,” that…

theories are psychoanalytic, activation-synthesis, and information processing (White, 2017). Each theory is unique and offers different ways of looking at the way the brain works. Sigmund Freud wrote the book The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and created the psychoanalytic dream interpretation theory (Myers & DeWall, 2014). Freud believed that the dream manifest content, or plot, is disguising the latent content—the unconscious desires of people (White, 2017). Freud also believed that dreams…

In his Interpretation of Dreams (1991), Freud implies that the nature of the dream has psychological effects and deals with the innermost emotions that could only be reached in an unconscious state. Freud believed that ‘the interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.’ (Freud, 1991) His theory was based on the idea that…