John G. Roberts

Leading Seventh-day Adventist historian, author, and educator, George R. Knight, born in 1941, is a retired professor of church history at the theological seminary at Andrews University. His books include the Adventist Heritage series, the Ellen White series, and a devotional Bible commentary series. Just last year, in 2014, he was considered to be the “best-selling and [most] influential voice,” ever since Ellen White, for the past three decades within the denomination. Throughout this book,…

Finally, whereas Victorian definitions of progress implicitly rely on a binary opposition of success and failure, Morley and Stevenson use Fortune’s Wheel to replace it with a definition of human development where both fortune and misfortune can co-exist without contradicting each other. In the 1880s and 1890s, the Wheel of Fortune could easily have been used as a portent of the apocalypse, suggesting as it does that decline is inevitable. Many critics of the day were already talking about…

In order to uncover what one sees in the present, it is imperative to explore the past of the present. Currently, there is a debate on whether immigrants belong in America. The United States of America, also known as the home of the brave and free have encountered this question time and again. In 1919, under the Woodrow administration, Alexander Mitchell Palmer was the Attorney General of the United States. An Attorney General oversees the United States’ citizens. They are known as the…

Introduction Evolution is the process in which organisms change from one generation to the next over a period of time. The Hardy-Weinberg equation is one of the most popular ways to determine if a certain trait within a population is changing. The Hardy-Weinberg equation provides a null-hypothesis to compare to the observation of the population. One can predict the outcome of the estimated amount of offspring in a population by using two alleles to determine which will be present in future…

Robert W. Straub was born in San Francisco, California on May 6, 1920. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees in Business Administration at Dartmouth College. During World War II, Straub served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. In 1994, he married his wife Pat, who was influential during his governor years, and had five children. Him and his wife moved to Oregon in 1946 and Straub became a builder and developer in Eugene. Straub is not only known as a…

end until the sun once more appeared again, nevertheless, the 1920s was also a time where corruption in government, gang violence and crimes against U.S. law an insurmountable rise that had its disastrous consequences. At the time, President Warren G. Harding was a president that was adored by many, but shortly after his unexpected death, scandals such as the Harding Administration Scandal and the Teapot Scandal came to light and ruined the reputation of this once adored president. Another form…

Detour Detour is a 1945 film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. The film starts off by a piano player Al Roberts drinking coffee at a diner while hitchhiking east from California and song plays on the jukebox which reminds him of his former life in New York City. In the flashback, we learn that Al was bitter about his talent going to waste in a cheap nightclub and so was his girlfriend, so she decided to seek fame in Hollywood, leaving him behind. Later, he decides…

Eric Arthur Blair; was a man of strong opinion who addressed political movements like imperialism, fascism and communism. As an English novelist, essayist and critic this man played a big role in politics in his time. Through his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four he spoke stories of his life and political issues in early and mid 1900’s (“George Orwell”). In Motihari, India on June 25, 1903, Eric Arthur Blair was born. As a son of a British civil servant he spent his first years in…

Since the beginning of time, humans have been making natural formed settlements to survive. However, society has become more advanced through time. As society advances, more laws are enforced. In Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver, they have created a futuristic society under an Utopia/Dystopia theme. Literary experts explain that the Greek meaning for Utopia means “no place”, this shows that the Greeks thought that Utopia couldn’t be real or possible. Lois’s experience with her father's aging and…

Though humans have been attempting to achieve the utopian ideal, they have been failing miserably. Today’s world does not resemble a utopia because humans are still subject to inevitable negative aspects of life. Furthermore, increases in dangerous weaponry and technology have allowed the rise of institutions that hinder the progress towards utopia. These groups have put society in a vulnerable position that ends in pain and suffering; effects that are not seen in utopian societies. Possibly…