Masoretic Text

Biblical Poetic Readers: Learning How To Know God Can you live in the world, partake of the ways of the world, and yet please God? Psalm 1 is written by an anonymous psalmist, however, the reader can see the psalmist knows God, as well as understands that life without him is bleak. The Wisdom of the psalmist has shined through this Psalm to create this illustration of a wonderful wisdom psalm, perhaps through personal experience or sometime in his life, God revealed to him the importance of the godly life, how life is without Him, and how He rewards us for having a relationship with Him. This psalm also includes the warnings and what precautions the reader should heed to, so the warning will not come to fruition. Psalm 1 teaches: the way of destruction is to partake of the world, uniquely, the psalmist illustrates that: God will demonstrate his love for us through His giving when we choose Him and not the world. First, the parallelism is chiastic showing the three perspectives: not walking with ungodly, not standing with sinners, and not sitting with scoffers, will result in the main claim of being blessed. The tenor of this psalm is a metaphor of inspiration. It inspires not to just to read the Bible, but to live by it, gain knowledge, to immerse into the word of God, which in turn will make the reader happy, jubilant and perhaps to the point of being overjoyed. The illustration of sitting, standing and walking is a trope of metonymy, the words used is an example not to…

both the illustrations and written text generally can exist independently, but complement each other. There is a strong marriage between the written and visual language in Tan’s book that creates a harmonious connection to powerfully and effectively represent depression. The illustrations in The Red Tree are the most important element of the book; Tan effectively represents depression by using colour, strong imagery and the significance of a red leaf which appears somewhere on each page. The…

When the required twenty minutes was up we moved into our writing lesson. The idea was to stick with the non-fiction theme and teach them how to write an information text. I chose to do a lesson about “What am I good at.” I felt that the time that I had to complete this lesson, twenty minutes, I didn’t have time to require them to write about something that they would have to research. From earlier classes that I have taken at USC, I knew that using the knowledge that the students’ already…

nature of discovery is best explored both in and through a text in order to receive a more sustained understanding of the concept. The two approaches are closely linked and, as a result, complement each other to quite a large extent. James Bradley’s novel Wrack and Raymond Carver’s short story So Much Water So Close to Home (So Much Water) contrast the effects of the process of deliberate discoveries evoked by necessity with sudden physical discoveries on an individual’s relationships.…

Forget the image of the lone developer, sitting alone in a room coding on a Matrix-like black and green screen. No matter the code produced, developers need to be not only good oral communicators, they must also be able to write well. But we all struggle to use the language correctly and in a business where teams have developers with different native languages (my first language is Portuguese) we all need some help. In this post, I 'll provide an overview of some techniques and tools that…

reading practices (code breaker, meaning maker, text user and text analyst) (Anstey, 2002). The first part of the Four Resource, code breaking, requires using semiotic systems used within texts to make sense of the “marks on the…

In order for students to achieve optimum learning, it is paramount for one not to underestimate the selection as well as usage of relevant and appropriate texts. It is through the use of suitable strategies and available resources that one can implement an effective learning program in order to satisfy the needs of the students within the context of the Syllabus. The Fisher curriculum library presents itself as a valuable stepping stone for pre-service teachers to hone their skills in gathering…

Even though the two paragraphs the author writes differ in communication, both had one clear point - attempting to change the North Carolina education system. The purpose of this essay is to examine the effectiveness of using informal or formal writing when communicating to two different audiences, a close friend and a respected senator. The writer effectively uses her critical literacy skills to understand the audience’s need for informal or formal writing, and use descriptive language to fit…

concerning the rhetorical situation for writing to the public. I figured out that my ideal audience for a Facebook post are my family, friends, and people I know such as acquaintances, co-workers and etc. Which is very helpful to know, because this tells me that I am not bound by formal language and gives me a larger vocabulary. My purpose was to inform and to convince my audience to donate to and support the Syrian refugees and my stance was the fact that refugee help centers such as the Red…

are focused. Since, American culture and another countries’ cultures are very different. There is difficulty in relationship between them. Therefore, we could specify about conflict that the writers want to tell us. Also, the writer’s way to write this texts are very strictly divided, American culture and parent culture even them personality and skills. However, it is interesting that immigrants’ lives are very much to my stereotype. In text of Amy Tan, “Rules of Games, the Mother of main…