Jonah

see the world and make sense of the world around us and our life as we see it through a secular view point. A biblical worldview is based on the inspired infallible Word of God. When we Believe every word and story in the Bible is true—even the Jonah and the whale story—then it becomes the foundation of our actions and govern all that we say and do. To the point where regardless how unlikely or ridicules the story we tell others that comes from the Bible sound our conviction will be unbowed by…

My first favorite text of literary would gladly have to be not a book, but a series and that’s the Harry Potter series. I love the books that are written by J.K. Rowling, I find the books to be very fascinating to read because you are allowed to escape the aspect of reality and to be a part of the world of Hogwarts. Well other than the fact that it’s science-fiction, it also has real life places involved in the series as well. Just like the use of London, it’s used as the home of Harry Potter…

Amusing Ourselves to Death, explains how television creates communication by redefining public discourse. Public discourse is the forms of conversation dealing with political, religious, or commercial. Throughout the book, Neil Postman explains how society has become unknowledgeable about the changes because of being too consumed in its epistemology. Postman starts the book by showing historical facts in the first part of the book and describes the effects of media in American life throughout…

“Cruelty is at the heart of genocide. The killers just don’t eradicate the targeted people, but brutalize them in ways that far exceed what is needed to kill them.” – Jonah Goldhagen A quote from the narrator of Genocide: Worst the War, that I find critical for the discussion regarding the politicizations of genocide. Choosing two examples—the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian— I examine how paramount the power of ‘naming’ is, examine how depoliticizing…

Introduction The genre supported in this paper is the Narrative genre. A genre is a literary grouping of a type of work based on formal and technical similarities, i.e. form style or content. According to our readings, the Narrative genre is a more succinctly defined genre or subgenre that tells or retells a story about historical events that are intended to provide insight and direction to a defined people in the present. This paper will support the exegesis of one narrative genre giving…

Signor Galileo, My brother in Christ, I am writing to you as Regent of the Holy mother church, but also as a flawed common man. I am in possession of a copy of the letter you wrote to Duchess Christina, and after reading it I was left confounded by your imaginative creativity, and simultaneously stupefied by not only your sheer arrogance, but your disdain and utmost disregard for the Church and its authority. Not only do your words border on heresy, but also it is apparent that your soul is…

Cat’s Cradle begins with a call to action, a statement that the readers should “Call me Jonah… [as] my parents did, or nearly did. They called me John” (Vonnegut 11). The novel accounts the actions of John as he works to write his novel, “The Day the World Ended” -- a novel that he never finishes -- which “was to be an account of what important Americans had done on the day when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan” (Vonnegut 11). John also introduces a new, fictional religion…

For Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike, worship plays a vital role in their daily lives. Worship and ritual can be some of the most effective ways for someone to experience God. In each of these religions, worship is used not only as a means to communicate with God personally, but also as a cultural representation of the faith-believing body itself. Worship is said to “sustain(s) tradition and serve(s) as a medium in which evolving self-understandings of community can be expressed” (JCM 157).…

“Chemistry’s the one with the shapes and stuff right?” Channing Tatum asks Jonah Hill in the movie 21 Jump Street. Obviously Channing Tatum was exaggerating in the movie to be funny, but education is not something to joke about. If education was merely a hobby for those who are interested in it, the world would definitely not be where it is today. Society flourishes the most when everyone works collectively to get better. Social responsibility is the idea that everyone acts out of obligation to…

September 2015 What it Means to Be a Hero It was an average Wednesday night at church. I showed up promptly at 6:20 pm, clock in at 6:30, and greet parents and their children as they come in to be dropped off. Around 7pm, I was coloring a picture of Jonah inside a whale with some little girls, while a decent number of kids played on the “Tree of Life” playground. A calmness filled the air and set the tone for the night. As I sat the coloring, a speech my friend gave earlier in the…