Isaac Newton

Leaving out the story of Abraham and Isaac would have kept from the reader/listener the trials that God put Abraham through. Making Abraham take his son, that was only possible because of God, to a mountain and to sacrifice his son to God. The absence of this makes the reading of the story…

Soren Kierkegaard, is one of the biggest influential existential philosophers. He set the tone for many 20th century philosophers. He lived a very short and prolific life. He considered himself a religious writer, however he had a very peculiar form and understanding of faith. What is interesting about Kierkegaard’s philosophy is his idea of linking faith to religious existentialism, which is far from being a traditional Christian approach. He believed that religious existentialism implicates a…

“Isaac’s Storm”, by Erik Larson, is a non-fiction historical narrative about the 1900 Galveston, Texas hurricane, “the most lethal hurricane this country has ever known. So far.” (www.washingtonpost.com) 1 In the book, Larson tells the story of Isaac Cline, the chief weather observer assigned to the Galveston, Texas weather station from 1891 to 1901. Mr. Larson, is a former “staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, and later a contributing writer for Time Magazine [who] has written articles…

The article I chose to write about is “The Robot Invasion.” This article is informative on how robots could in the future replace humans. It discusses scientific research and break throughs to justify the authors points. Anyone in the working class should read this article, and educate themselves on how far robots have come. “The Robot Invasion” is written by Charlie Gillis. The main idea is to inform people of the change to come in a world pertaining to robots. The authors tone is formal, and…

The use of robots, programmed machines capable of automatically carrying out a specific series of tasks, was once only a foreseeable reality if you were a strong believer in science fiction novels. Now, the implementation of robots to complete tasks that were once only done by humans is now a reality. Presently, robots serve in many different aspects of society and their influence is predicted to increase indefinitely. Regardless of one’s viewpoint about the use of robots and what a robots’ role…

This was a test to see if he had faith in god, but not just to see if god existed. Abraham believed that no matter what happens to Isaac, he will have Isaac back at the end. Since Abraham withstood the test, at the last minute when he went to sacrifice isaac, he was allowed to sacrifice a ramp instead. Therefore, Kierkegaard described Abraham as the knight of faith because his action was not universal. He did everything as god commanded without…

In the future, there is a police group that hunts down mean robots who disguise as humans. The trouble is, all of these robots look exactly like humans! Rick Deckard is one of these people, and today he needs to catch a robot that has escaped. What worries Rick is that the robot he has to catch is a smarter model than others. Since he knows that the robot is a good singer, he decides to go to the music center to look for the robot. At the music center, Rick sees the robot! He tries to get…

Isaac Slade, Joe King, Ben Wysocki, and Dave Welsh make up the popular rock/ pop band The Fray. With their first album, How to Save a Life, this band appeared on everyone’s radar. The Fray’s song “You Found Me” appeared on the band’s second album, The Fray. Eight months after the release of The Fray’s second album, the band released a music video for “You Found Me.” This song could have several meanings depending on different points of views. Many interpretations of the lyrics in this song…

The story of Abraham and Isaac from the Bible is quite an interesting one. The story tells of God ordering Abraham to bring the best thing that he owned to the top of a mountain and sacrifice it there. If the best thing that Abraham owned was something simple then this story would be a nice story where a man shows his devotion to God by giving up something simple yet beloved in His name; however, what Abraham decides to be his best is not so simple in the slightest. Isaac, the son of Abraham,…

From the first activity, I thought Bradley’s words were melodramatic but as the lesson progressed I realised there was truth to his perspective. Taking inspiration from my initial thought my group decided to exaggerate the first scene starting with Aastha, Erin, Georgia and Maddi who all played the roles of futuristic robots. They conveyed their role by having their face faced downwards and only when I switched the ‘button’ on with an elongated ‘beep’ sound they began to start operating. They…