Ladder

C. S. Lewis, in his classic work “Mere Christianity,” describes a basic Christian worldview. A significant theme of the book is on what the issues of morality means for the human race, as well as what morality means in relation to God and to one another. Where does morality come from and how does one become moral? Morality originates with God, Lewis argues, nor can man be truly moral apart from the transforming work of Jesus Christ. In a chapter entitled, “The Three Parts of Morality,” Lewis…

The SeaDragonShark There once was a kid named Conner Morse he never really had much luck during school. One day he slipped in the cafeteria and got covered in lots of gravy noodles and cottage cheese. He had to go clean off the food and he accidently went in the female’s restroom. So called his mom to get a change of clothes and she brought a unicorn shirt, princess socks, and rainbow sweatpants. Conner got pissed that he had to wear this, so he went through the rest of the day getting laughed…

patiently waits for his father to return, he comes to realize that his hiding spot isn't the best place to be hiding. He uses the many skills that his dad had taught him, i.e. how to use a gun, how to care for injuries, many different knots for rope ladders, and ect., to set up a better hiding spot on the top floors of seventy-eight Bird Street.…

which the worker may have been distracted or dealing with a personal issue. These concerns could put him in a different frame of mind, causing him to have an inappropriate response to which he knew it was a safety hazard but still chose to use the ladder on the scaffold. He may have had an inappropriate activity in which he misjudged the hazard and thought he could complete the task without incident (Goetsch, 2010). The second theory affiliated to this accident is the accident/incident theory…

there has always been a social ladder, which creates a social divide between those with power, and those without. In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel gives a modern context of the social divide, by explaining the relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Defined as the group at the top of the social ladder, the bourgeoisie is viewed as the oppressor who exploits and abuse the working class who compose of the bottom of the social ladder, the proletariats.…

Jean Vanier’s book The Heart of L’Arche talks about how he came about establishing L’Arche and what his experiences has been like. The book starts off by talking about the mystery of the poor. It seems that we all live in this competitive society where the better a person is or the more money they have the better off they will be, however Jean Vanier challenges this. He talks about how when a person befriends the poor or a person with a disability, they tend to have a transformation of their own…

A Glimpse of the Mid-1900s’ Worldview No! He would not believe it—how impossible! Feld, the father of his only child, nineteen-year-old Miriam, discovered that his employee, Sobel, had all along loved Miriam. Her father had hoped strongly that she would either go to college or marry a man higher in the social class—not an uneducated employee of a shoemaker. Bernard Malamud’s “The First Seven Years” takes place in the mid-1900s. In this story, Feld tried to match up a college boy and Miriam…

Elements of Music: A Closer Look In our everyday life, sound surrounds us almost constantly. With a simple walk to the mailbox, our ears are exposed to a number of sounds. Such as birds chirping, car horns blaring, neighbors laughing, and leaves scrambling. What causes theses sounds, though? How do we interpret them? Espie Estrella, a music education expert, states that sound is created when an object vibrates. Estrella continues by explaining that our ears sense these vibrations and send them…

Hydroelectric power plants require a dam and a reservoir. These man-made structures may be obstacles for fish trying to swim upstream. Some dams, including the Bonneville Dam, have installed fish ladders to help fish migrate. Fish ladders are a series of wide steps built on the side of the river and dam. The ladder allows fish to slowly swim upstream instead of being totally blocked by the dam. Dams flood river banks, destroying wetland habitat for thousands of organisms. Aquatic birds such as…

In the fall of 1962, the fate of the world was forever altered. The age of man was met with an abrupt end. A conclusion was written to events that had been set into motion years, months, and days previously. It is unclear who fired the first missile and the exact reasons why, but by that same evening, New York, Moscow, Stalingrad, and Los Angeles had ceased to exist. A missile inbound to Washington, DC was intercepted and shot down over Nebraska, irradiating the vast majority of the Midwest. The…