Jude the Apostle

The Abundance of Service If there was ever one thing to make someone happy, unconditionally happy, it would be service. While not drinking alcohol, smoking, or doing drugs are very important, service is something that does not just help oneself but also another person. It’s like a double whammy! Large acts of service can sounds hectic, overly ambitious, even scary, but those scary things are not the only possible size of service. ur Lord and Savior, Christ the Redeemer, used active love to help…

Phaedrus believed that Love was the eldest of the Gods, and that made him the mightiest. His viewpoint on love is that when a person falls in love he/she should do anything to make the object of their love happy. I still believe that his theory on love can be applied to the modern day, now more so than before. As Phaedrus explains, Chaos is the only god that is older than Love. That makes sense because after Chaos, Love is needed to get things back on track. The world now is full of…

Annotated bibliographies Hansen C, Hansen R. Rock Music Videos and Antisocial Behavior. Basic & Applied Social Psychology [serial online]. December 1990;11(4):357-369. Available from: Business Source Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 22, 2015. In “Rock Music Videos and Antisocial Behavior,” Christine Hall Hansen and Ronald D. Hanson, professors of phycology, discuss the parallels between the effects of rock music. They assert that these antisocial behaviors can be linked toward a younger…

This particular pericope is one that would be considered very controversial and indeed raises a few theological questions for theological scholars. What exactly was Ananias and Sapphira’s wrong course of action? Did they both die as a severe and harsh consequence of God’s punishment of their sin? Aside from these contentious questions, it is suggested by many scholarly interpreters that the themes and purpose of this text that are most prevalent and apparent is the concept of lying, the…

Ethics has a great impact on people whenever they are facing a difficult or biased situation. It depends on what ethical philosophies that people believe in, which would justify their actions towards a specific problem. The goal of this paper is to reflect the different responses of bystanders under two different ethical approaches, which are the utilitarianism or the deontology approach. According to the textbook (Introducing Philosophy through Pop Culture: From Socrates to South Park, Hume to…

The meaning behind Shakespeare’s “To be, or not to be,” soliloquy in III.i.56-90 of Hamlet has been debated by readers since its debut performance. It is because of its fame and history that the “To be, or not to be,” soliloquy has been interpreted to have numerous meanings. Many view the soliloquy to be a testament on the suffering mankind endures throughout life. “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, To die,” (lines 56-60), in these lines…

There are many reasons for violent acts. Some commit violence because they want to harm others and some because they want to harm themselves, but some because they believe they are helping the world in some way or another. People commit these kinds of acts because they don’t think clearly; causing them to justify their violent actions as caring ones. In Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the characters, Rodion Ramonovitch Raskolnikov, Arkady Ivanovitch Svidrigailov, and Katerina Ivanova…

Inside the concentration camps during WWII, the German guards committed many unthinkable horrific actions on the Jewish prisoners. They first peacefully entered numerous Jewish towns, making friends with the Jews living there. They quickly changed, becoming cruel and vicious. “Evacuating” the Jews to the concentration camps, they then either killed or set them to work. Inumerable of the Jews gave up hope and condemned themselves to death. However, despite their many hardships, many of the Jews…

Should we take charge of how we live, and who we desire to be in life? Most of us have those special people in our lives that teach us to be kind to others and learn to understand how we interact with the world. In my opinion I feel that the people that we place our trust in take advantage of us. However, there are mystical and religious beings that we believe in. In Charles Bazerman’s text “Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity Systems: How Texts Organize Activity and People.” he defines discourse…

“Innocent Until Proven Guilty” In The Crucible, Judge Danforth may have accidentally convicted an innocent person for a crime with which they were not involved. Even though Danforth may have done this, he should be considered innocent because of the false accusations the people made him believe. Considering there was a lot of false accusations and misconceptions, he should not be thought of as a false accuser; he may have gotten confused with all of the information that was being presented…