John Jacob Astor

Fear; A strong emotions usually caused by worrying about something bad about to take place. Everyone faces fear, some are mild as some very strong. For John Keats, I would categorize his fear as being very strong. Strong enough to write a poem, which, later became one of the richest poems ever written. Looking at his life from childhood, one would wonder, how you could go on without having fear of death. "When I Have Fears," this is a Shakespearean style sonnet with its rhyme scheme, with…

The stories of Jesus are represented through the four New Testament Gospels: Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. Each Gospel emphasizes on particular principles that represent Jesus differently. Jesus is seen as the suffering Messiah in all four Gospels, but each Evangelist puts in his own intake, hence expanding on the original Markan portrait of Jesus. The writers of the Gospels give their own theological assertions, and understandings, which in effect creates a new portrait of Jesus for each…

Machiavelli claims that a leader may be loved or feared, both are useful. Ultimately a leader should choose to be feared, or respected. However, there 's no use in being hated by the public. Donald Trump has gained much disrespect and harsh feelings in this regard. Machiavelli talks about virtue, a good leader should seem miraculous to the public. In an effort to be respected not necessarily admired by the public Donald Trump could do a couple things. During his campaign Donald Trump reached out…

associated with empiricism philosophers, they included Hume, John Locke and George Berkeley (Sell, 2009). The empiricist argued that the human knowledge were controlled and comes from human senses and sensory experiences. The rationalist particularly the ones who lived in central Europe argued that the knowledge and untrustworthy came from the mind through the process of intuiting and conceiving ideas. Major contributors of European enlightenment John Comenius (1592-1670) - he was a Czech…

In Chapter 13, John reasserts this notion of love, in the words of Jesus Christ, "love one another: just as I have loved you" (John 13; 34). These intensely personal Gospels are completely unlike anything Rome has witnessed before. This is because they are written by influence of God 's divine wisdom and the teachings come from God, the antidote of…

“Rabbit Run” was written by John Updike. The decisions that a person makes in life can either a positive or negative implications. The implications don’t just affect an individual, but can also affect people around them. Every day we make decisions that can affect people around us. Before making a rush decision, you need to think things through so you can prevent any future regrets. It illustrates how the decisions made by a young man in his life affect the people that surround him. The novel…

A Being So Gentle is a wonderfully written book that has many interesting points. The first men to arrive on the frontier were hunters. In 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker explored the Cumberland Gap. Rachel Donelson was born ninth out of eleven children. John Donelson was Rachel’s father. He was a well-educated planter…

In the 1800’s, the word “romance” was not used as it is today. The American Scholar A.O. Lovejoy once observed that the word 'romantic ' has come to mean so many things that, by itself, it means nothing at all. Contradictory to the previous statement, F.L. Lucas counted 11,396 definitions of the word, and synonymous usage for ‘romantic’ show that it is perhaps the most remarkable example of a term that can mean many things in accordance to personal and individual needs (Introduction to…

In the begging of chapter three in the Gospel according to Luke the message of John the Baptist is presented. In the first fourteen verses of this chapter, the author tells the story of John the Baptist and what he is intending to do with his ministry. Many come to him to be baptized and with every type of person, John has a message. This message is still appropriate to us in this day and age. He calls us all to “Prepare the way for the Lord”! Before this passage can be analyzed it is imperative…

need of the individual. I share and practice the axiology of John Dewey in which, “the school, itself, is a community of students and teachers who are mutually engaged in learning. It is a specialized environment in which experienced are simplified, purified and balanced. Since the environment is complex, experiences are simplified according to the…