We Are the World

book Engaging God’s World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living. My first question was how am I going to read a book about Calvinism, when I’m not exactly sure what Calvinism is? To say I was skeptical of this book is an understatement. My thoughts have always been that people believe and view things differently and that's ok. It may be the way they were raised or someone that came into their life and showed them something different. I believe that as long as we all agree that…

If one was to take a look though history, patterns would start to form. They would be able to see the failing of our past and how we seem to always repeat them over time. Currently the United States is repeating, arguable one of its greatest short comings, its failure to react when the world is looking at it for help. The most famous time the country did this was in the late 1930’s into the 40’s, Europe was being thrown into a war that would redefine what cruelty was. It would not be until the…

that lets him know that his ideas come from external things. Meaning that external objects have to exist because if they did not, that would mean that God was a deceiver, which is not true. Descartes views external objects as also as external “bodies”. We know through our mind and faculty of judgment, not through our senses or imagination. You cannot identify substances, but properties of substances, which is manifest substances. He believed that substances are independent and do not need to…

that the universe is so powerful that the human mind will break before it understands. Dillard writes about her being teleported to a new world as soon as the total eclipse begins, one that she did not know existed, and the consequences on her state of mind. “The world which lay under darkness and stillness following the closing of the lid was not the world we knew... then I... would have... simply died of fright on the spot” (Dillard).…

Is it worth to read shakespeare? Shakespeare is a classical type of guy that doesn't get right to the point but takes his time. And this reflects with his works, each line is as complex as it gets, to the point where we have to read it. Mark successfully expresses his point to his audience. He connects with the listeners through establishing the similarity of Shakespeare to complex music. Later he would also give the benefit of why rereading shakespeare would affect the reader. “The first time…

In Hilary Putnam's "Brains in a Vat" theory, he argues against ontological, external-world skepticism. However, his arguments seem very unconvincing in some places. In this paper I will go over Putnam's "Brains in a Vat" theory and then I will specify where I think Putnam's arguments are not sufficient enough to satisfy myself. Before I present my criticism, I will briefly summarize Putnam's argument. Consider an ant crawling on a beach that accidentally outlines a picture of Winston…

In today’s world, there is an imbalance of wealthy and poor states; within these states, there is an even worse imbalance between wealthy and poor people. This imbalance is a result of the capitalistic system that we have in place in Western first-world states. The way that the Western capitalistic system is built, the wealthy owners of large companies hoard the money that is given to them rather than pumping large amounts of it back into the economy. As a result, the state cannot print more…

people on this world believe we are so advanced in the knowledge of science, yet we still have to further our knowledge of space because there are a plethora of knowledge to be learned still, and on occasion to the little knowledge we possess currently of the outer world, we still manage to soar. Krauthammer supports his claims about our little knowledge of the outer world by stating logical information by pointing out that we still practically know nothing about the outer world because we still…

Globalization is not a new concept in the world. The process of globalization has been around long before World War II. “All human history can be understood as the story of increased interaction on a limited planet” (Reilly 1089). Globalization may not be a new concept but the impact that it has had on the modern world in big businesses, women equality, the environment, and the distribution of wealth is bigger and stronger than ever before. Globalization “describes a complex phenomenon whereby…

This world full of darkness where is really hard to walk alone in the heavy path of life, where evil exist in every corner on the face of Earth. You are not alone, just like you many other that are going through the same situation in different parts of the world. Negative situations are always going to exist in one’s life when we do not have the spiritual guides that will help walk through your sorrow and in difficult times. That is why we need spiritual brothers and sister that will advice us…