Literalism

For people to survive they need at least their most basic human needs met: food, water, safety. Only after those needs have been met can they move on to thinking about their wants. Some people sadly never get the opportunity to even begin to think about the things they want because they hardly have the things they need. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park follows the stories of two people growing up in Southern Sudan in different timelines. They both face struggles beyond what people growing up in first world countries could imagine. Nya and Salva hardly get to think about the things they want because they are struggling just to maintain the things that they need, water and safety. With a war erupting around Salva's timeline he spends his childhood on the run walking dangerously long distances looking for a refugee camp. Water plays a very important role in A Long Walk to Water because it has symbolic and literal roles and it is what brings both of our characters together in the end. Water very literally represents health and life. Symbolically water represents hope, progress, freedom and mobility. The literal meaning of water is something that we need to survive. People need water to be healthy and to live. The main characters Nya and Salva both struggle to have enough water to survive in their childhood. Nya must walk "to the pond and back" (pg. 20) twice every day to bring her family home just a little bit of water. Salva is on the run from the war and traveling by…

To Start off, I chose to react to Professor Emerson’s scholarly paper because I strongly believe to better understand a professor’s teaching style it is important to examine real life examples of their personal work. Most teaching today involves already premade PowerPoints that the teachers base their lectures off, I have noticed Professor Emerson has a Unique way of teaching, but nevertheless, there are still the same PowerPoints that are used every year. So, a personal article like “Law as…

“In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.” This premise is essential in the understanding of Creation from a Biblical perspective. Without the belief of God as creator, the entire purpose of creation, much less the Bible and the redemption story is negated. The belief in God as the sole creator of the universe is indispensable for this world view. As the story of creation progresses, there becomes much conflict within the itself as different classes of though are created to help…

Biblical Literalism in The Scarlet Letter: The Path to God and Social Conformity Biblical literalism is a pejorative that is often used to ridicule the interpretative approaches of fundamentalist Christians, who often hold the ideology that the Bible is God’s work and is authoritative on ethical, spiritual, and moral matters. Similarly, the early Puritan societies in New England advocated for this literal interpretation of the Bible because they also believed that the Bible was written by the…

1. Describe your understanding of biblical literalism according to the biblical scholars in the film For the Bible Tells Me So. Include in your answer a discussion about the underlying assumptions of biblical literalism and its interpretive practices. In the beginning of the film, we see religious leaders speaking on how homosexuality is an abomination. We see an older white man say that, “[he] knows of only one book that could be read and reread and continue to be a challenge: the Bible.”…

science and religion can coexist in our world (3). Each of the author’s points describes a way in which religion and science can be related. Barbour’s four main ideas describing the relationship between science and religion are Conflict, Independence, Dialogue, and Integration (3). Conflict is the idea that science and religion both constantly try to discredit or “challenge” the other’s key concepts and beliefs. One side of the “conflict” claims the scientific method is the only way to learn…

Survival of the fittest is basically an organism being better fit for an environment than the other. The traditional view on life is very simple, God created us and we were put here for a “reason”. Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection caused conflict between traditional views because it offered a new explanation other than “God” as to why we are here today. Three main challenges Darwin’s theory of Natural selection faces concerning traditional views is the challenge to biblical literalism,…

Slang, the way people of this world use daily to expressed how they feel. Slang allows words to have varies meanings; so many meanings that some become evanescent. Some people believe that slang is informal, sloppy, and ghetto,but slang is poetic and when used it connects with other people. Slang is America. The famous poets Walt Whitman and Gelt Burgess points of views are similar on slang and they way it is positively expressed. “Slang, profoundly consider’d, is the lawless germinal…

As mentioned in the beginning of this paragraph these are only charges against CET. The accusations against the practitioners are clearly a stereotype charge from literalism and fundamentalist. However, the CET defends themselves with humility towards the critical practitioners. Christian English Teachers believe that “wishing spirituality would die is not helpful” (Canagarajah, S, 2009, p.…

Value and Disvalue of a Mending Wall In Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall he uses symbolism and literalism to describe the meaning and representation of the wall. For instance, the poem talks about the property, animals, people, and not to mention the elves. Some people may admire the wall, while others disapprove of it. This leads me to give some insight on the interpretation of the wall from both points of view. First of all, there are some emblematic meanings between the value and disvalue…