Salvation

To begin with, “Salvation” is a story about childhood experience in revival and religion. Every week there is a revival where people go to church and pray. In Christianity, people believe that they will be saved from their sins and that they will see Jesus when they pray. Langston Hughes is about 13 years old and believes his aunt that he is going to see Jesus and be saved from his sins. A long time passes and nothing happened. Hughes waits for a long time but he still does not see Jesus. I find…

“Two Kinds” and “Salvation”. In the texts “Two Kinds” and “Salvation”, both characters are forced under social pressure; however, the way each character deals with that pressure placed on them are very diverse and reveals the true nature of each character. “Salvation” and “Two Kinds” both have a pressure inflicted on the main characters, causing some type of conflict in the story. The characters Jing-Mei and Langston were pressured by an audience A good example of this in “Salvation”, is when…

Corps in my home town. I grow up seeing the distress of these people and the need for social service. I have also seen how the Corps, and the social service department were disconnected. The disconnection of the Corp and Social Service part of the Salvation Army was one of the things I could not…

"Baptism" Can Salvation Be Attained without Baptism?; In the Nicene Creed it clearly states " I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins." And also Jesus said, "I solemnly assure you, no one can enter into Gods kingdom without being begotten of water and Spirit" (John 3:5). There are various other quotes saying this, but as you can see above it is clear it says you cannot enter unto Gods kingdom without getting baptism. Since the fall of Adam and Eve we have…

The 1991 science fiction action film, Terminator 2: Judgement Day vastly explores a small rift in time (1995) just years before the world becomes a destructive place where technology has greatly evolved, to the point of exterminating humans, via the form of an AI(artificial intelligence) system called Skynet. However the dark future of Skynet is tied up to the present day via form of time travel, as the AI sends a Terminator back in to the current time set in Terminator 2 (T2) to kill John…

In Frankenstein, Nature and science have brought a significant impact onto the characters. The progression of science combined with nature leads to a debacle. With this, there are various effects and roles shown through nature and science. Mary Shelley expresses her message about this. In her times, she was part of the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romanticist age and this led her to composing a story with nature and science competing against each other. From the struggles between the…

The main point of “Salvation” is to show the readers Hughes experience of being saved. Being saved is supposed to be a great time where you except Christ into your life, but it was quite the opposite for Hughes. In fact, the first two lines of this story contradict each other, “I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved.” (Hughes 299). Not only was this event different from the usual, he was not able to comprehend it until years later. Hughes wrote about this event…

In "Stuff Is Not Salvation," Anna Quindlen, a columnist at News Week, talks about how American consumers are out of control with buying the things they want instead of what they need. She talks about how the addiction to consumption is becoming much more of a problem than it should be. People love the idea of getting a good bargain and feel as if they can 't pass it up. She also mentions how this has been going on for decades, all the way back to the Great Depression. The big difference between…

belong to religious traditions outside of their own. In a time of immense religious diversity, it is now more important than ever to try and solve this issue in attempt to promote peace among traditions. In Jeannine Hill Fletcher’s essay, Monopoly on Salvation? A Feminist Approach to Pluralism, she attempts to answer this problem with the concept of hybridity. The approach introduced by Hill Fletcher on how to coexist with participants of other religions will benefit anyone who chooses to follow…

based on the Bible; its ministry is motivated by love for God and the needs of humanity” (The Salvation Army: Mission and Values, 2015, para.1).This organization promotes abstinence from drugs and alcohol, along with other Christian values. The main components of the dry housing policy are that residents are not allowed to be under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol while on premises (The Salvation Army, 2011). In this particular establishment this means that if an individual wants to…