John Steuart Curry

Although life seems as if our advances are making tasks easier, if you give an individual the proper facts and knowledge of where the ecosystem stands today life is in fact becoming more complicated. The gadgets we use on an everyday basis have the potential to sway ones opinion, but in the grand scheme of things they are aiding in the destruction of nature and our planet as we know it. The word complicated was used because with every new device being rapidly mass created, a new set back occurs…

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a group of people named the Puritans sought to flee from the country of England in an effort to escape the Anglican church to find religious freedom. The Puritans sought to purify the church and remove some factors, such as corruption. After first attempting to settle in Holland, they immigrated to the New World where they began to live in communities that allowed them to be within close proximity to each other. Inside of these tightly knit…

naturally inclined to focus on those philosophers whose ideas resonated with me the most. As a believer that the purpose of education is to raise active members of society and that education can indeed change and improve our social system, I selected John Dewey and Paulo Freire as the two pillars of my teaching philosophy. From Dewey’s point of view, learning and real life are intrinsically related and the school should be an “embryonic society” that echoes the community itself; Paulo Freire…

raided native villages, burned houses, and torched crops, until a peace settlement ended the war, sealing the marriage between Pocahontas and John Rolfe, the English colonist who smuggled tobacco into the New World. Relationships were still fragile, however, and eventually the natives led a series of attacks on the colonists leaving over 300 dead, including John Rolfe, leading to years of a perpetual war on the natives in an attempt to drive them westward. As for the plantation colonies,…

When John is baptizing The Lamb of God accompanies him and he knows this because he sees “the Spirit coming down and resting” (John 1:33) When he sees this in John 1: 29 he says, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” A lamb embodies moral characteristics that we can compare to Jesus. Jesus spends his time on earth doing all his deeds for our Father God. Jesus is the ultimate sacrifice by God, and for all of us. Jesus is the Lamb of God, he holds the characteristics of a…

The protagonist/ narrator of John Updike’s short story “A&P”, is a caucasian, heterosexual, nineteen year old male, by the name of Sammy. The story takes place in the summer, on a Thursday afternoon, in small town north of Boston, Massachusetts. The story takes place over a short amount of time, when three young caucasion females walk into the local A&P with only their bathing suits on. Throughout the story Sammy 's emotions turn from lust at the beginning of the story (when the three females…

The contemplation of Mary, leads one to contemplating Jesus because of their intimate relationship as mother and son. Mary’s ‘yes’ to the angel Gabrielle, and all the events which occur after do not allow one to separate Mary from Jesus, because she not only gave birth to Jesus but watched her only son suffer and die. The Akathist Hymn, is a Greek Marian prayer consists of 24 stanzas which have a particular rhythm and pattern. Cherished by the Eastern rite, the hymn is a beautifully crafted…

answer. There are two questions that derive in personal identity. What makes these memories or mental events mine? And what how do these events unify into making me the same person I was yesterday, or ten years ago? This essay will go over the works of John Locke, considered to be the first philosopher to give a theorem in regards to personal identity, Thomas Reid, who created the common sense philosophy, and his contemporary, David Hume, who contributes to Personal Identity with both…

Early modern writers as diverse as John Locke in his Two Treatises of Government and Karl Marx in Capital attribute inequality to the social dominance of one force such that it eclipses other forces’ abilities to function as they might otherwise; a ‘domination disrupts nature’ thesis. Both Locke and Marx identify money as one such dominating force. This dominance applies not only to money being the end of transaction, but also to the dominance of the means of transaction, with corresponding…

Justice and Mercy Our understandings of justice and mercy are greatly influenced by our views of Jesus and redemption. Through texts like “Gods Work of Grace”, “A Spectrum of Views: Traditional Christian Responses to the Holocaust”, and verses in the books of Luke and Isaiah, we see a variety of different viewpoints that shed light on this topic. A good starting point in understanding our views of justice and mercy is in the book of Luke. In this story we hear about Jesus approaching a few men…