Masquerade

If you would, please open your Bibles to Colossians 2. [Pray] Colossians chapter 2. We’re going to begin in verse 6. Before we start, I’m just going to warn you that there is going to be a large chunk of Scripture used here. But we be focused here in Colossians 2 almost the entire time, so it will be easy for you to follow along in your Bibles. Now, I want to give you a little background on the Colossians. I like to give historical context in my sermons because it is a tremendous help when…

Introduction Geek culture is an arguably deviant subculture that originated from the term "geek," which was originally a pejorative term for a highly intellectual outcast. Nowadays geek culture refers to the subculture that surrounds activities such as collecting and reading comic books, participating in role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons, dressing up as an animal or superhero, boys enjoying the children’s television show “My Little Pony," and even just being…

In Richard Wright’s The Library Card, the author vividly describes his quotidian life as an African-American living in the segregated south of the early- to mid- 20th century. Widely considered an autobiographical account, Wright’s short story touches on key details of his everyday life that separated his from the life of many whites. By holding such a unique perspective of the period’s culture, Wright, as the story’s narrator, is able to liberate himself from the confines put in place by the…

to issues like war, environmental depletion, the inequities of totalitarian regimes, people’s enslavement to commodity fetishism, and many more. Miyazaki believe that the people involved in the animation industry tend to avoid real issues or even masquerade them with fantasies and illusions, they’re just willing…

In his essay, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Alan Turing poses the question, “Can machines think?” (433). Turing takes the position that machines can, indeed, think depending on how one defines thought. Although he states that he “should begin with the definitions of the meaning of the terms ‘machine’ and ‘think,’” he does not directly provide the reader with his definition of thought (433). Instead, he spends a lengthy amount of time exploring a replacement question that manifests…

A young lamb hiding in the shadow of a lion, a predator in the game of war, and prey in the game of love, wages a new battle in foreign territory. William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a play in which its characters are defined by their respective reputations. On one hand, are Leonato and Don Pedro: the leaders of two politically powerful families, whose desires are of the utmost priority for those surrounding them. On the flipside, characters like Don Jon and Dogberry are not given…

Much as a river shapes its banks on its course, in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck grows and matures as a person as he and an escaped slave, Jim, travel down the Mississippi River. As they raft along the river, the people Huck meets and experiences he gains, as well as the extreme social views he is exposed to, transform him from a naive young boy to someone who has an understanding of his own morality and of the way society functions. In between the banks of the mighty…

In The Primary Chronicles, the establishment of Christianity is strategic via the characterization of two female characters, Anna and Olga. In Kievan Rus’, women are expected to be passive; they must serve their husband and worship God. The concept of passivity is widely associated with Christianity whereas activity is perceived to be pagan. Anna is a representative of this ideal because she accepts Vladimir’s marriage proposal in exchange for the conversion of Rus. Olga, on the contrary,…

Modern Feminism has many various strands of thinking as different people strive to explain the world around them. Gregory Castle says, “What all of these women have in common is an interest in exposing patriarchal forms of power as the cause of the unequal and subordinate status of women in Western societies” (96). Literature reflects the ideas of the author therefore, by interpreting Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley with the literary theory of Feminism, the reader can…

The famous tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about two ill-fated lovers, Romeo and Juliet, from two feuding families. In Friar Lawrence’s soliloquy, he expresses that there is nothing on Earth that is so evil that it does not provide the earth with some special quality. This means that everyone, no matter what, will always have some sort of evil and good in them, but depends on what situation that they’re in, where they will show that evil or good. Through Romeo,…