The Seventh Seal

Growing up in the Seventh-day Adventist church, I experienced first-hand our denomination’s tendency to separate itself from society at large. This reality takes on a physical meaning in the form of the Adventist school system as well as becoming a more abstract phenomenon in regards to the Church’s fundamental leaning on issues such as Sabbath keeping and consumption of meat. In the introduction and part one of their book Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventist and the American Dream,…

The Family International was founded by David Brandt Berg and originally named The Children of God. Berg was a Christian missionary in 1944 and in the 1960s he began to try to appeal to the “lost and confused youth of America.” The new religions appearing at this time period were “a fusion of an evangelical Christian awakening and the youth counterculture of the 1960s.” David Berg focused his preaching on rejecting the old and accepting the new. David Berg was deemed a prophet and…

The Great Seal of the United States of America is a symbol of what our nation was founded on. There is great meaning and symbolism in the design that I have always wanted to learn more about it. On July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams were charged to form a committee to design the Great Seal for the newly established United States of America. These were after all three founding fathers, surely they would be able to come up with a seal that would capture the essence…

The most ferocious fighting force in the world, the United States Navy SEALs are “never out of the fight” (Luttrell 18). Marcus Luttrell, former Navy SEAL, describes his fight for his and his buddies’ lives in his eyewitness account of Operation Redwing in Lone Survivor. This heroic narrative, meant for those interested in the cold-hearted truths of war and a testament to survival, expose just that. Luttrell includes the last words he ever heard from his friends and other details of death to get…

fleeting. They evaporated. After a while, I started thinking, they cannot kill me. They cannot kill us. We’re…undefeatable. I have a guardian angel and I’m a SEAL and I’m lucky and whatever the…it is: I cannot die. Then, all of a sudden, within two minutes I was nailed twice…my number is up” (“Hawkins”). American Sniper tells the story of a SEAL, the best sniper in the U.S., Chris Kyle. He went through four tours in Iraq from 1999-2009, before he was shot and died. American Sniper represents…

In everyone’s life they will be faced with a challenge that will have to be overcome, For Marcus Luttrell and his squad Mathew Axelson, Daniel Healy, James Suh, Eric Patton, and Michael Murphy, the men of SEAL Team 10 are put through the ultimate challenge of being overwhelmed by Taliban forces with no help after Luttrell loses each one of his squad mate/friends. How would you react to this challenge? Would you hide and try to survive? Would you fight to protect your squad mates till the end?…

you ever wanted to be a Navy SEAL? Have you ever wanted to go into war with your brothers and take down terrorists? All you see about the infamous SEALs is all the bad guys they kill, but in The Last Punisher, you see the full story about this elite special operations force during the Battle of Ramadi. You learn about the struggle to stay alive and hardships of war. I will be evaluating what it means to be a SEAL, visualizing the dramatic events the men of the SEALs go through, and question why…

of Navy SEAL Neil C. Roberts, the battle would be known as the battle of Roberts Ridge. In support of Anaconda, two SEAL teams MAKO 30 and MAKO 31 were to insert into the Shahi-Kot Valley and MAKO 30 would set up an Observation Point (OP) 1,300 meters east of the Takur Ghar peak. The two teams were picked up by two MH-47E Chinook helicopters, call signs Razor 03 and Razor 04 at 1134 03 March 2002. Due to one of the MH-47s having engine issues and a B-52 bombing mission the SEALs could…

The mission the SEALs were given was held along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and what was supposed to be a simple reconnaissance mission turned into a bloodbath with only one SEAL makes it out alive. The story is told by the surviving SEAL, Marcus Luttrell, who outlines how his comrades died in battle. When the SEALs head out to the border, they are discovered by a group of herders. Rather than kill them, the SEALs let them go, only to discover the herders revealed their position to members…

tests leadership and can be recognized as a disagreeing evaluation. Even though cast such as Mr. Wolfe and Seth twist the guidelines of leadership, they, however, uphold a little manliness. Mr. Wolfe is the perfect man in terms of his job as a US Navy seal. In society, Seth is not seen as the best idol for young boys, of the male cast Seth is not the most attractive. This movie was outstanding in highlighting that while popular gender rules do reside in our world that people do not have to limit…