Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland

The author used various devices to convey his view that Jesus had to be misunderstood for him to fulfill God’s plan. For starters, Mark’s use of apocalyptic devices was used in the beginning and ending of his Gospel. Other than condemning the Temple’s sacrificial system and the priest who controlled it, Mark had used other devices to indicate Jesus ministry is fundamentally an adverse judgement on the

The prominent theme that the story, “The Man Who Saw Through Heaven” by Wilbur D. Steele revolves around is how people let the words of others affect/change them as deeply as they do. A pivotal point in the story that exemplifies the theme was when Mr. Krum, a Christian scientist, explained his belief to Reverend Diana about how Earth could merely be a little stone on a ring on another organism's tentacle (315). That thought altered how Reverend Diana saw the world, and Christianity. This consequently changed how he would spend the rest of his life. He replied saying “May be a--ring--a little stone--in a--a--a--ring.” which exemplified his disbelief at the notion of the world being virtually insignificant because he couldn’t even formulate

The way in which Stoker distinguishes a duality present in Lucy is through the shifting perspectives told by multiple characters, the structure of the novel is heavily based on intertextuality in this light. The structure of the multi-faceted narrative reveals how certain characters are unable to cope with the duality present in Lucy.The male characters, specifically, project the idea of a duality in Lucy in order to comprehend how she so easily shifts states between being ‘the pure woman’ and ‘the fallen woman’ - terms first established in the Victorian era. This projection is not only endorsed by the male figures in the book, but the character of Mina Harker as well confirms the notion, whom Stoker constructed of representing the ideal standard

Through vivid imagery in chapter 9, Golding paints a scene that uses Simon's death to patently resemble the crucifixion of Christ. The boys on the island are now in dire need of a Christ like character to guide them. To be a “Christ figure” a character must attain and exemplify the traits and values possessed by the Biblical Christ. Although Simon portrays qualities that a Christ figure needs to succeed, he completely fails as evident in his brutal but ineffective crucifixion and his fruitless attempt at martyrdom.

Besides Jesus, Paul, who called himself as an Apostle, was influential in the beginning of Christianity. People even claimed him as the “founder of Christianity”. Paul was the one that brought Jesus’s message to the world. He went on three missionary journeys, and the fourth journey to Rome in order to spread Christian faith and the development of its various institutions. In addition of his responsible of geographically and culturally expanding Christian movement, he also extended it as well as ethnic lines. Because of his attribution to the New Testament as writing 13 books in the total of 27 books, Paul even considered himself “as little more than an ambassador or emissary for Jesus” (Powell, 231). Paul is the person who had oppressed the church. After that, on the road to Damascus, when he experienced a rendezvous with Jesus, he became a Christian missionary.

Columbus Day is an American and patriotic holiday celebrated in all 50 states of the U.S since 1971, when congress passed the law. America should not continue to celebrate Columbus Day because he brought cruelty, heś been given false credit, and the legacy of the day is not as wonderful to Native Americans and African Africans. With ¨discovering” America, he also brought cruelty to the the indigenous people because he tortured, killed, and encourage his men to rape the native women. There are things that he didn't even do and he was still given credit such as discovering America. The legacy of the Columbus Day is not as remarkable to the Native Americans and African Americans because it just reminds them the cruelty that happened.

Ignatius of Antioch is also called Ignatius Theophoros, meaning “God Bearer” (Greek). He was the second Bishop of Antioch in Syria at the time of his arrest- 107A.D. He is mainly known from seven highly regarded letters that he wrote during a trip to Rome, as a prisoner condemned to be executed for his belief and is believed to have died c.110, in Rome by martyrdom during Trajan’s reign (AD. 98-117).

DA Carson is a very good speaker and his sermon was very enlightened. Carson suggests Paul was very unique and he became all things to all people. Carson talked about Paul’s yes but argument. He was effective in considering both sides of an argument which essentially brought both sides together. Paul was concerned about one’s conscience and he tried to reform one’s conscience to the word of God.

“His every movement is jealousy watched by the police till he comes of age and presents himself for inspection; then he is either destroyed, if he is found to exceed the fixed margin of deviation, or else immured in a Government Office as a clerk of the seventh class; prevented from marriage; forced to drudge at an uninteresting occupation for a miserable stipend..” This quote is referring to how the irregular figures are treated in flatland. This reminded me of how the lepers were treated in the Bible. Leviticus 13:45-46 - And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. All the days where in the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be. These verses are saying that lepers were to be isolated and outcasted. These people were not to interact with other people, much like many of the irregulars in flatland.

Within Aldo Leopold’s novel, A Sand County Almanac, the concept of trophic cascade is brought forth with his idealistic mindset for “a land ethic”. To Leopold, the land ethic “changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members and also respect for the community as such” (Leopold 871). Utilizing this mindset, the actions, consequences, and events from Timothy Treadwell’s life depicted in the documentary Grizzly Man have an understanding and purpose for why they transpire the way they do.

Gregory Boyd received a PhD from “Princeton Theological Seminary” and is formerly a “professor of Theology at Bethel University.” Currently he is the senior pastor of “Woodland Hills Church” in Minnesota. Paul Eddy received his PhD from “Marquette University” and now teaches “biblical and theological studies at Bethel University.” Both men are very qualified to write in this particular field. They

Andrew welcomed in Thomas Paine as a welcome friend on his way back from France. Thomas Paine came back from his educational trip to the scholars of France when he decided to see his friend who resided in the city of Orleans, France. The lunch took place in the small house that Andrew owned on the outskirts of town. Andrew started the conversation with a question when he inquired, “What were you taught in the schools of France?” To this Thomas responded with, “They have enlightened me to the ways of reason. They have removed my need for barbaric religion and revealed the true god.” (Paine, 1794, P.95) Andrew took this response with surprise for such a great mind to have fallen to the ways of the fool.

In Flatland, everything is made of two dimensional shapes. Men are the polygons and women are the straight lines. Isosceles triangles make up the working class and soldiers; the sharp point made by the isosceles triangle is used as a weapon. Equilateral triangles- since they are normal- compose the merchants. Squares are lawyers and pentagons are doctors. A Higher number of sides correlate to an increasing leadership and power in government. Circles are treated as nobles, and with an increased number of sides; as a polygon gets closer to being a true circle, their supposed intelligence rises respectively.

On October 1st, 2015, there was a mass shooting on a community college campus in Roseburg, Oregon, in which several people were injured and killed by a shooter named Chris Harper Mercer. At 10:30 am, Mercer entered a writing class and started asking all of the students to stand and state their religion. Regardless of their answer, the person was shot. If the student responded saying they were Christian, they were shot in the head. If they responded with anything else, they were shot in the foot. He was accounted by his peers to be “a lonely man who seethed with disdain for religion and had an interest in guns” (Frosch et al.). Although the events that take place in the short story “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather are not identical to the events

Everyone knows the gospels are very important to the Catholic Church, But why? We read them at mass every Sunday so they must have a deeper meaning. Well that’s just it. They teach about Jesus’ life on earth, his death and resurrection. They might differ from each other but that is because they were written by four different authors. They’re Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Some of his most trusted apostles. The gospels inform us on Jesus teaching and life. This is why we know the correct way we should live our lives and how to achieve the ultimate goal, heaven.