Comparing 'Salvation And A Grunt's Prayer'

“Salvation” is a short story by Langston Hughes describing a boy when he discovered a significant truth about faith and religion. The last paragraph of “Salvation” functions as an epiphany for the boy. An epiphany is an experience of sudden and striking realization. It can also mean the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi. This event helps shape the boy’s religious understanding far differently from what his Aunt Reed believes.

Picture a life where every intricate detail of any trade took a large amount of time to do but it had to be done for the survival of the human kind. Now picture it’s the turn of the 20th century, everyone and everything in the united states was revolutionizing. Many inventions are being born and many machines are making these intricate jobs more effortless. Life before was merely a memory.

In the sermon "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God" Jonathon Edwards uses various rhetorical devices to persuade his audience. The sermon was made on July 8, 1741 at a time were everyone believed in God and everything revolved around the bible. In his sermon, Edwards used allusions, similes, and personification to show God's anger towards humans. In the 17th century people's beliefs were all based on the bible. Everyone could refer to the bible as one of the only books they knew.

Leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, Clarence Darrow, in his 1924 case appeal, A Plea for Mercy, defends his clients, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopald Jr., of murder. Darrow’s purpose was to persuade the audience, the judge and jury, into shortening the boy’s sentence because the terrible acts of war has tainted the nation. He exhibits an aggressive tone by using fear, allusions, and metaphors to bring justification to the boys by appealing to his audience. Darrow implements fear throughout the duration of his speech to persuade his audience to believe the state of our nation has paved way for two, very well off, boys to turn into murderers.

C.S Lewis was a writer of many books and poems. C.S Lewis was born in November 29, 1898 in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and died in November 22, 1963 in Oxford, United Kingdom. On the day that he died he was not the only one our president JFK also die and Aldous Huxley who was also an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. Some of his work include Mere Christianity, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, and The Last Battle. These book are the most common theme for C.S Lewis which was redemption he wrote mostly about that because of his religious beliefs towards god.

Rhetorical Analysis: Sinners A Puritan pastor in the early 1700s and philosopher, Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon, “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God”, describes how angry God is towards sinners. Edward’s purpose was to scare sinners and unconverted men with the realities of hell so that they would seek a relationship with God. He adopts an aggravated tone to express to the sinners in his congregation that they should seek redemption because God can send them down to hell at any moment, but instead He gives them another chance. The metaphors and imagery that Edwards use in his sermon for the Great Awakening helps him to describe God’s wrath against sinners to make unsaved people convert back to the original ways of Puritans.

Since the early 20th Century, prayer in school has been a huge argument, and is still one of the most heated arguments in today’s society. The debate came about in 1948, when the Supreme Court handed down its first decision on the issue of religion in public schools, ruling in McCollum v Board of Education that it is unconstitutional to conduct religious education within public school buildings (Cohen par. 5). Many people stated that principals did not want the non-Christian students to feel uncomfortable, but did they ever think that not praying in schools could make the Christians students uncomfortable? Not letting students pray in school violates the 1st Amendment.

Thomas Merton was born on 31st of January 1915 in the city called Prades. His father’s name was Owen Merton who was born in Christchurch (New Zealand). His grandfather was deeply religious man who taught at Christ’s college at Christchurch. His mother’s name was Ruth Jenkins who was American artist. His father and mother know that they were captives in that world and yet they were unable to get away from it they see worlds in a different way not because they were saints because they were artists.

Life is a short four lettered word which blows in the wind and silences everyone at once when it finally ends. What keeps you holding on is your faith; faith that things will get better and they do indeed. Your faith is what keep holding on which ties into your religion; moreover, the God(s) you believe in. Furthermore, everyone has pressured events in life which changes them for the best or worst; moreover, these events change our course of life and ] affect our future.

Going into the first experience at the Salvation Army, I had the expectations of the students being fairly well behaved and the facility not being very good or clean. However, it was basically the opposite of what I thought. The students were good for the most part, but at times I found it somewhat difficult just to keep the 5 or 6 that were at my table quiet and sitting still for a couple minutes. I was very impressed with the Salvation Army and I loved how there was that time of separation for K-2 and 3-5 to do homework and receive help. I feel like the students were offered a pretty large amount of freedom by being able to pick their tables and make their own snack.