New Criticism

“I rather stand with God and be judged by the world than stand with the world and be judged by God.” This is a line from the movie said by Grace Wesley, which I think summarizes who she is completely. By examining God’s Not Dead 2, we can see Grace, a young teacher, stand by her faith even in one of the toughest situations. This is important because it can encourage the viewers to stand by what they believe even when times get rough. God’s Not Dead 2 is a Christian based drama that has a strong…

during this war and helped to get America through one of the worst times in its history . Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on the date of January 30th in the year of 1882. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park which is located in the state of New York. Franklin D. Roosevelt was an only child and was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt who were very wealthy at the time. His family has been wealthy for a very long time. He was provided education at a young age by various…

Everyone knows how much power the press and advertising have in shaping the news, how its choice of stories and words influence its readers. What are the media? Do the media reflect the views and values of society or is being influenced by it? The term media can be defined as the whole form of mass communications, including newspaper, magazine, television, and internet. As states in her article, “Television has become a scapegoat for all sorts of societal and cultural ills. Critics blame…

Tabloidization The term “tabloidization” is rooted from the word “tabloid,” which is commonly referred to as a newspaper smaller than the broadsheet. However, in its context, it concerns the style and presentation of news. The “tabloid style” is consistently seen by critics as inferior, appealing to basic instincts and consumer demand for sensationalism (Bird, 2009). ‘Tabloidization’ is the direct result of commercialized media, most often seen to be the pressures of advertisers to reach large…

In Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography, he raises one of the biggest challenges that many have when it comes to faith. One of the biggest dilemmas that people face when balancing their beliefs is the determination of how much of life is defined by God, versus how much is a result what we do or do not do? The concept of self-reliance minimizes the role of God and asserts that people make their own path in life. Part I of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography tells a portion of the story of his life…

Augustine also inspired Christians to renounce their wealth and social status in order to be more similar to the way Christ lived. After the period of martyrdom ended there began a new wave of extreme religious expression of being impoverished by choice. The earliest example of this was St. Anthony he was born into a well-established farming family and once his parents died he received a large inheritance. After hearing a message…

about American Pluralism, we have previously written on a number of primary and secondary prose sources and photographs. This paper investigates new types of sources, investigating attitudes on immigration found in the forms of poetry and political cartoons. While in many ways these can be similar in content to prose and photographic sources, these new forms of primary documents provide some additional information and tone that other documents do not fully capture. Through this media one might…

The search for historical Jesus is a difficult one. As mentioned in the video "From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians," there is no written information about Jesus at the time that he lived, the written information we have is after the time of Jesus’ life and we do not know who the author(s) are. I believe that you have to integrate the historical, and archeology, findings with the messages in the Bible; you cannot ignore solid evidence. As we have learned in this class you must take into…

Fitzgerald used the symbolic eye in The Great Gatsby to represent God’s observance of the working class. When Nick and Tom went to New York to visit Myrtle in the Valley of Ashes, they passed an abandoned billboard for an eye doctor. That eye doctor was oculist T.J. Eckleburg. “The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic — their irises are one yard high. They look out…

Throughout the course of this semester we have covered a myriad of myths and how they apply. Of all the myths covered, the Native American myths always stood out most. This paper will be focused on the how the black snake and water protectors of Standing Rock North Dakota and how they can be liked in correlation of the native mythology motif. The myth under analysis is that of Uncegila, a female serpent who can be portrayed in native trickster myths. With all the chaos that has been happening…