Leo White

These Christians would have raised the cross as a banner against Saddam, Hitler, or Mao. There are church members who wanted to use preventative war to stop communist china from making atomic weapons before they could use them to endanger the United States. They would also advocate landing marines in Iraq before the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) got a strong foothold. Such anticipatory actions are based on the notion that our cause is consistently good, while that of our enemies is…

that they encounter in a story in order for the lesson to be better perceived by the reader. The ideas and messages are meant to, in turn, better the reader by learning important ethic principles from the text. One critic, Philippe Radley, explains Leo Tolstoy’s tactic in his writing, “He portrayed cause and effect, in sequence.” Every action always results in either a positive or…

Christians should consider that pacifism, which is the belief that violence cannot be justified under any circumstance, is interpretable from Christianity. While this is a strong stance, there are compelling arguments connecting faith and nonresistance. John Howard Yoder lays out the argument that violence is an offense directly against God that cannot be justified. Just War Theory is often raised as a sway for Christians to commit to nonviolence except in certain circumstances. Even if violence…

In the beginning of his article, Cesar Chavez makes it clear that he is a strong supporter of using nonviolence to make a change. He alludes to well known civil rights movement figures as a way to show that the use of violence is not an effective nor a secure way of solving a problem. Chavez also evokes fear onto his audience to urge them to change their ways of thinking. These methods assist Chavez in getting his message through to his targeted audience and persuade them to avoid using violence…

The lady or the tiger is describing the unhealable wound archetype to illustrate what will happen if destined to be guilty, “if he opened the one, there came out of it a hungry tiger… which immediately sprang upon him and tore him to pieces as a punishment for his guilt”. In the lady or the tiger all being tried know the consequence of opening the wrong door, while some have to trust their instinct, the man trusts the Princess. Looking up at the Princess in such a harsh time exemplifies that he…

What is freedom? Is it being mistreated or doubted for your lack of an education? Is it being kicked to the back of the line because of your skin color or is it being beaten for standing up to what you believe is right. In “The Speech at the March on Washington” by Josephine Baker and “From Letter to Viceroy, Lord Irwin” by Mahatma Gandhi, each article passionately argues about the equality and power of an education along with the mistreatment of those who stand up for what they believe is right…

Virginia Woolf uses eloquent language to present the lasting memories from her childhood in this passage. Truly, she is a woman of great renown with a silver tongue as her work always has a sense of expressiveness. Very easily, she illustrates a scene for readers. Perhaps, due to her mental illness, her sense of vivid writing is heightened as most emotions are for people who struggle with bipolar disorder as she did. Woolf is absolutely descriptive of everything, nothing goes…

In Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, Ivan Ilyich was a man who tried to be unique and apart from the rest of society. Whenever he tries to do something different he would always look at society and realize that he has not done anything to make him stand out from his peers. Ivan was constantly wanting more money to buy what he thought was necessary in life. Whenever Mr. Ilyich had a question of life he would constantly look to society for answers. In the end Ivan Ilyich realizes that he…

On November 19, 1978, the nation and the world woke to the news of the tragedy of Jonestown, learning of the carnage of the suicide and murder of over 900 people in the jungle of Guyana. What happened has been painstakingly studied however the how and the why continue to be the subject of discussion more than thirty years later. The death tapes captured much of what transpired on November 18, 1978. Jones was heard to say,” “Die with a degree of dignity. Lay down your life with dignity; don’t lay…

Throughout the semester as a class we have read multiple forms of readings varying in style and meaning. The different types of readings were meant to enrich our minds of knowledge and shape our human experience. After reading some of the forms of literature, such as Walden and Civil Disobedience, A year of Magical Thinking and the Auto Biography of an Ex-Colored Man my mind has expanded to consider different parts of life. I think about the way I live my life and the things I do as a human…