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Heretics 1000 Years Apart If a person is a heretic does it mean the person’s idea is indeed wrong? Galileo was ridiculed and persecuted by the church because of his observations and teaching. Later the church did come to accept his ideology but it was years after Galileo’s death. Tertullian wrote a letter on the “Proscription Of Heretics” talks about heresy and “Galileo’s Indictment and Abjuration” states the reasons why Galileo was a heretic. The documents are about 1000 years apart but the…

Violence in a media driven world Thinking back to when I was younger I can remember all of my friends parents setting up parental control options on their televisions, restricting what shows, movies, and video games their children had access to. Parents were and still are concerned about how violence in media could affect their children. We briefly discussed this topic in class when we learned about Banduras BoBo doll. I picked this topic because when I was a kid my parents didn’t have many…

things, even suffering. Poetry Reading the Psalms shows Scripture in the form of poetry. Nevertheless, scriptural poetry is found in other places. After crossing the Red Sea, Moses sang praises of triumph (Exodus 15). David laments at the death of Saul and Jonathan (2 Sam 1:17-27). Joshua even uses poetry to plead with God for the sun to stand still (Josh 10:12-13). Mary’s song is familiar to numerous Christians (Luke 1:46-55). Various pastors still use Aaron’s blessing (Num 6:22-27) as a common…

leave. The anxiety for her family’s future and the uncertainty of their survival led her to be menacing toward the Van Daans, a different side of her not even her family saw before. In the article, “Hidden Children in France During the Holocaust,” Saul Friedlander, a 10-year old boy, was also a victim impacted by the Holocaust. Without his parents, he had to adapt to his life in a Catholic school - alone - and the time he spent there motivated him to be a devoted Catholic. Thus, by the end of…

“Saint Paul, the Apostle, original name Saul of Tarsus one of the leaders of the first generation of Christians, often considered to be the second most important person in the history of Christianity” (Sanders, 2016). The specific writing of St Paul that this essay will be focusing on will be The Galatians 5:13-26, from the New International Version. This specific chosen passage will be link the to a contemporary Social Justice issue, Violations of human rights and dignity. The passage of The…

Self-destruction or Abortion? There are many things in this world that people have different views on, but this topic, is a very controversial one that causes a lot of dispute. If a person is a victim of rape, then they should have the right to have an abortion be one of their options. This should be acceptable because most likely, the victim will have PTSD and having a product of that situation around will only make it worse. No one would want to have a child that would remind them of that…

There was a lot of change that occurred throughout the period of the early twentieth century, bringing it hurtling into the modern era, and there were many poets who chose to interact with this change and the events that helped shaped such change and explore it through their work. We will look at 3 examples of poems that approach the new era of modernity in different ways, ranging from the modern and graphic subject of D.H. Lawrence’s Tortoise Shout, to the melancholic tone representing many…

Before proceeding any further, I want to first acknowledge the sources I used during my research: Saul Friedlander’s Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt, Paul Peters’ “Witness to the Execution: Kafka and Colonialism,” and Richard T. Gray’s “Disjunctive Signs: Semiotics, Aesthetics, and Failed Mediation in ‘In der Strafkolonie’.” Compared to other canonical authors, evaluating Kafka’s literature in the context of his life proves to be a more illuminating pursuit because of the tremendous amount…

My theoretical tendencies on social change are most aligned with critical theory. This is not because I am overly critical of all aspects of society, however, I am most often critical of the structural systems in place that appear to work as machines of oppression and interest groups rather than social justice and equality. This personal predisposition supports an approach that is congruent with structural social work theory. Structural social work critiques existing social, economic, and…

JOINING THE FRAY: GARRET KEIZER’S LOADED LIBERAL WAKE UP CALL Published in Harper’s Magazine, Garret Keizer’s “Loaded” uses race as a way of demanding that, as citizens of the United States, we wake up from our progressive indifference. The brilliant author flips his intended audience’s liberal beliefs and uses it against them to successfully prove his point. The majority of Keizer’s essay is seemingly about the gun debate. The lefty audience is likely to have strong anti-gun opinion, whereas…