New Caledonia

Although Capote’s book is non-fiction, there are many places where controversy takes place. Truman Capote wrote a non-fiction novel; he called his style of writing “new journalism”. He added elements of fiction such as dialogue to a nonfiction story but make the general public believe that his novel is 100% true. Capote achieves this with the help of friend and fellow author, Harper Lee, by documentary authenticity “by his extensive use of special kinds of “official records,” of these include:…

Gospel of Luke and Acts The Gospel According to Luke as well as the Acts of the Apostles collectively make up 27 percent of the information of the whole New Testament. These two works were authored by Luke, a Gentile believer (Colossians 4:10-14). Seeing that he just authored these two books, which his writings constitute over one fourth of the New Testament writings (making Luke the greatest possible author), the study of the content and message is quite important to us. (Dulle, n.d.) Acts and…

PART ONE? What are your spiritual gifts? Do you agree with the results? Why are why not? We often wonder why we were created here on earth, what is our purpose. Jeremiah 1:5 says, “I chose you before you were born I selected you to be a prophet to the nation.” Therefore we didn’t choose our gifts God had already equipped us with our gift. After exploring the Spiritual Gifts Analysis my results shows that my spiritual gifts are showing mercy and evangelism. I agree that I have the gift of mercy…

At the heart of the debate concerning women in office, all scholars and pastors address 1 Timothy 2:11-12. Those who do not affirm women in office argues that Paul specifically states "Let women learn in quietness.... I do not permit women to teach or to exercise authority over a man... she is to remain quiet." In order to best understand Paul 's statement, we must focus on three words which are "quietness (ἡσυχίᾳ),"permit (ἐπιτρέπω)," and "exercise authority (αὐθεντεῖν)." "Quietness... (γυνὴ ἐν…

through over inflating a crisis or extra coverage. Joseph Draznin, who specializes in Philosophy, from the University of Maryland, College Park authored a very lengthy piece, titled “News Coverage of Terrorism: The Media Perspective. Draznin starts by going into detail about the basics of both terrorism and the news media industry as a whole. There is only one problem with Draznin’s work is that this piece was published in 1997, so virtually all online media is excluded from his…

The author of The Lottery, Shirley Jackson, makes use of symbolism throughout her short story to get her intended purpose across to the audience. Throughout the storyline, the image of the “black-box” is mentioned approximately 20 times. This box plays quite a large role in the plot of the story in that the pieces of paper inside of it ultimately determines the fate of one the villager’s lives. Whichever individual draws the sheet of paper from the black box with the black dot on is plagued with…

or polyandry (one woman marrying more than one man) as the norm. In fact, in God’s eyes it was sin and it was only mentioned in the Bible so that we can read about the mistakes that our forefathers made in the Old Testament and learn from them. The New Testament gives us some clarity and transparency into God’s mind about His thoughts on polygamy. Male spiritual leaders are commanded in 1 Timothy 3 to have one wife. Titus 1 also mentions a similar phrase: “the husband of one wife.” While these…

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, became the most controversial piece when published in 1948 by The New Yorker. This unexpected story may have deceived readers to believe that it would foreshadow happiness, yet ironically Jackson surprised her enthusiasts by using symbolism to conceal her true intentions. The story begins with a sense of liberation as the author uses unclear depictions to grasp the reader’s attention. At first the plot may seem dreary but once Jackson introduced the towns lottery…

with pop music today being replayed multiple times, I think the only way to revert to semi-original radio is to tune into AM talk radio. A very controversial station which I stumbled upon was with Sean Hannity, who is in association with Fox news (a republican news station). Even though I am conservative, I do catch myself catching onto how wording his ideas plays a role. Sean Hannity seems to be an expert in portraying his ideas of political views in only showing negative outcomes and…

out of every four Americans was unemployed (Tindall and Shi, p. 1100). He was burdened with the responsibility of getting a struggling nation back on its feet. He set out to accomplish this through a series of legislation known collectively as the New Deal. Roosevelt began by…