Terminator Salvation

Anne Broadstreet’s The Prologue is a poem that really catches one’s eye in aspects of life. Anne is one insecure woman and has self-doubting thoughts constantly. She also does not believe her work is good enough to be published. Anne shows her insecurity throughout the poem and specifically in the fourth stanza, “ Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure: A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.”(Bradstreet 111) This is simply saying art impresses her, but it cannot heal her “weak or wounded…

The overwhelming theme that O’Connor develops within the assigned stories of this collection is the ultimate hindrance between man and salvation (God), pride. This seemingly plays into another common theme of freedom. Characters throughout this collection seem to struggle within themselves; some with good intentions and many with severe ignorance to their own hypocrisy. Starting with “Everything that Rises Must Converge”, we see Julian and the struggle with his mother. She is a devout racist,…

Romans teach that the righteousness is built on faith that if one has faith they have the righteousness for the Lord.” For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith. “(Romans 1:17). In the Bible Paul was not ashamed of the Gospel of the Lord, however he was righteous to the word of the Lord. The Bible verse wants us to understand that by having the faith in the Lord will help…

The rituals at the meeting in the forest being evil in nature, but also being so similar to a traditional Christian church service causes Young Goodman Brown to lose his faith in Christianity and in religion in general. Most church services include a time period of singing and a sermon. When Young Goodman Brown describes the structure of the meeting, he notices that, “Another verse of the hymn arose, a slow and mournful restrain of pious love, but joined to the words which expressed all that…

Throughout this unit, I saw a trend in early American writings that incorporated the ideals and values of religion. The theme that these writings have in common is the importance of individualism by utilizing religion to justify ones actions and the belief in a greater meaning such as God and Christianity. For example in William Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation he talks about using God as a compass of sorts to look to for guidance. In this quote from Plymouth Plantation “to keep a good conscience…

Chapter 17 of Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World” is mostly about religion and the belief of God. It is important to know that this novel was written in the 1930’s. This novel not only informs readers about this time period but also about science, the formation of moral ideas, religion, Utopia, and so much more. In this chapter, Mustapha Mond and the Savage are having a discussion about whether or not there is still a God in the present day. Mustapha states that by believing in God, “you're…

What if you were miles from home and engaged into a conversation about you? Could you answer truthfully about yourself? Would you get a piece of paper and write at least ten different things to identify yourself? At the end of the day who are you really and how have I been living. Ask questions like did I put down who I am when the doors are closed, when I am alone and not thinking about what will people say (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 192). Sciences that study human nature and behavior are…

There comes a time in the life of every person where they hit rock bottom, it is in this moment that a person discovers how strong their faith really is. Job is the epitome of this statement. His faith was truly tested by suffering, but how he handled it is what earned him a place in history. During consequential tests and trials a person begins to need love and comfort, such as Job did. In the Book of Job, in the Bible, Job had three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar that traveled great…

1Peter 2:19-20 says, “For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God”. There is a suffering common to man; we have a name for those things like natural disaster and cancer. Then there is the sort of suffering we endure because we worship the Lord, we are hated by many and…

As we enter into Romans we see that the romans have acknowledged God, but they do not glorify him as God, nor do they give thanks to him. (Romans 1:21-23) God allows them sinful desire and shameful lust, having women lust for relations with unnatural ones, and men abandoning relations with women and became lustful for one another. (Romans 1:24-28) The Romans had their minds filled with wickedness, evil, greed and depravity for abandoning the knowledge of God, even with knowing of God’s righteous…