Paul Avery

It is a known fact that most people in the world own or have access to a digital device that has instant messaging capabilities. When utilizing instant messaging, people use graphic representations of emotions called emoticons. In other words, emoticons are a construction of the words “emotion” and “icon” that represent facial expressions using standard keyboard characters (Skovholt, 2014). With the prevalent use of instant messaging, business communications have shifted with the times where it…

him as righteousness. All though it was not for him alone. It was credited to everyone. As long as you believe in the one who raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Paul recounted this story of Abraham to teach the Romans that we are not justified by our own works, but rather in the faith in Jesus Christ and by His righteousness. Paul wraps up chapter 4 of his letter to the Romans with a summary of the entire gospel (Osiek 1840). Structure. The structure of a passage focuses on similarities…

The Life of Mr. Kandinsky Wassily (or Vassily) Kandinsky was born to his mother Lidia Ticheeva and father Vasily Kandinsky on December 16, 1866 in Moscow, Russia and at the age of five him and his family moved to Odessa. Kandinsky was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. He is best known for his abstract paintings and was part of the expressionism and abstract art movement in his lifetime. Kandinsky did not, however, just create art. As a young boy, he learned to play the…

The whole book starts out in the view of the sentry on guard of the customs house. The soldiers have just come in to Boston from out of another city, and the tensions are very very high between the soldiers and the natives of Boston. With all of these tensions a guard describes his experience of him guarding the customs house late at night during winter when a mob quickly appears and advances on him and the other guards that have shown up as the mob has. Then someone yells fire as bells are…

Competent communication Communication is at the center of all relationships, whether or not it is competent communication it is still communication. People view and understand communication very differently, although to be a competent communicator there have to be different parts of communication dynamics of the language to have successful relationships. I will be writing about three different successes and failures of Dawnette Hedge in the lifelong pursuit to be a successful, competent…

The art works, “The Haywain” by John Constable and “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, are two different types of painting that represent the two movements of art work which is Romanticism and Expressionism through their style of art paintings. The well known and well represented the style of art work of romanticism, which is “The haywain” painted in 1821, Constable was the English painter during 18th century. He was a mainly outdoor of landscapes painter that he painted the nature scenery as he saw…

student from the University of Michigan and writer for The Michigan Daily was assigned to review the album. While listening, a DJ named Russ Gibbs from a radio station called WKNR in Detroit, a random caller was aired on the station said "Did you hear Paul is dead?" Gibbs thought it was a joke but the caller continued explaining why he believed so. Apparently, the caller said when you listen to the song "Revolution 9" backwards, you can hear "Turn me on dead man..." repeatedly. After, calls…

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” This is one of many quotes made by Vincent Van Gogh, a famous artist from the 1800’s. He loved to paint, he believed painting and being an artist was his destiny; his calling. But sadly, he developed many mental and a few physical problems while fulfilling his destiny, thus why he lost his mind. But, he was not completely alone when these disorders happened, he had his brother, Theo, to help him. Theo encouraged…

AMISOM is made up of thousands of soldiers from Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Djibouti, Sierra Leone and others starting in 2007. Siad Barre ruled as a military dictator and as a president during the last period of relative peace. In 1991, Civil War broke out and the misery began. Various international missions tried to intervene with bloody results. In 1993, A US helicopter squadron got ambushed trying to contain warlords in Mogadishu. Rocket propelled grenades took down several airships and 18…

John Lennon’s song, “Imagine”, is a well-known ballad that transcends all ages and cultures. His worldwide song incites several interpretations about his worldview depending on the explicit or implicit meanings. If one analyzed his song’s lyrics, it is noted that the telos, or end goal, is obtaining a world of peace and for everyone to be united as one. Lennon proposes a utopia without certain elements in our current world. These elements include war, religion, countries, possessions, heaven…