Blood ... Terror ...and Insanity are 3 words you can use to explain Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. It recalls the Vietnam War through the eyes of Richard Perry‚ an African-American soldier. Perry goes through a lot of changes and sees some of his good friends die in battle fighting for a cause that no one could agree upon. The book has 4 other main characters‚ Lobel‚ Johnson‚ Brunner‚ and Peewee. Myers’ Fallen Angels takes a dive into the harsh reality of modern war. The realistic depictions
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and the reparations owed from the treaty. The Christian response to this‚ and other crises of the time‚ was quite interesting. While Henry Fosdick’s “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” advocated less for doctrine and more towards a social gospel that Walter Rauschenbusch’s “Christianity and the Social Crisis” emphasized‚ Clarence MacArtney’s “Shall Unbelief Win” did not agree with Fosdick. Much of What Fosdick argued for pointed back towards the work of Rauschenbusch. In referring to the kingdom of
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The novel I am reading is Monster by Walter Dean Myers. This story is about Steve a young black male who has been accused of murder and stealing cigarettes. Steve was in a robbery in a store when the clerk was shot and killed. Steve didn’t kill the clerk he stole cigarettes and sold them. In the book Steve is admitting that he stole the cigarettes but all the other people on trial are saying he killed the clerk. One of the major social issues in Monster has to do with race. Steve is a young
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In Eric Schwitzgebel’s How to Tell if You’re a Jerk he explains that: “Jerks are people who culpably fail to appreciate the perspectives of the people around them‚ treating others as tools to be manipulated or fools to be dealt with‚ rather than as moral and epistemic peers. To be a jerk is to be ignorant in a certain way—ignorant of the value of others‚ ignorant of the merit of their ideas and plans‚ dismissive of their desires and beliefs‚ unforgiving of their perceived inferiority.” (Eric Schwitsgebel
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“”Empty fantasies” these myths certainly are not. On the contrary‚ they contain much more that is real than if they were reporting that which had once occurred”.1 This quote by Walter F. Otto in his book‚ Dionysus: Myth and Cult‚ though used for a specific example‚ articulately and briefly explains why we read myths at all. They tell us not only about the people of the time‚ but also about ourselves. Through myths we can learn about a culture’s values‚ about why we choose to or not to devote our
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Hopeful Imagination Prophetic voices in Exile (Walter Brueggemann) A Book Review by PJ Shrestha METHODIST THEOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Lecturer: Prof. Lim Sang Kook Submission Date: 12/10/2012 HOPEFUL IMAGINATION: PROPHETIC VOICES IN EXILE Walter Brueggemann Fortress Press‚ 1986 In this book Walter Brueggemann looks at the three most prominent prophets during the period of the Jews’ exile in Babylon after and around the time of 587 B.C. What links Jeremiah‚ Ezekiel and 2nd Isaiah is that
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“1920: the year that made the decade roar‚” by Eric Burn‚ highlights and describes many of the events that took place within the twenties‚ and explains what really made those years that roaring. Burn’s objective is to prove to the readers that the 1920’s not only impacted the era itself‚ but continued to have an effect on the people the following years. “It would be a preview of the entire century‚ and even the beginning of the century to follow‚ in which we live today.” Burn’s objective remains
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When Eric Bentley wrote in “Ibsen‚ Pro and Con” that Krogstad was "a mere pawn of the plot." adding that "When convenient to Ibsen‚ he is a blackmailer. When inconvenient‚ he is converted‚" I believe he had entirely missed the point of his character in A Doll House. Krogstad’s characterization is a flagship example of the way Henrik Ibsen wrote all the characters in the play: representations of man’s true multifaceted nature. On the surface the reader makes quick judgement about the content of
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The Truth and A Lengthy Excuse An essay on Eric Williams and Winthrop Jordan In Eric Williams’ essay‚ "Capitalism and Slavery"‚ the first thing he stresses is that racism came from slavery‚ not the other way around. Of course I was immediately put off by this statement after reading Winthrop Jordan’s "White over Black: American attitudes toward the Negro‚ 1550-1812"‚ which has quite the opposite idea stated in it. Fortunately‚ Eric Williams’ essay nearly tears itself apart on its own
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In perhaps his most important contribution to rhetorical theory and the understanding of human communication‚ Walter Fisher presents an explanation of his narrative paradigm in Human Communication as Narration: Toward a Philosophy of Reason‚ Value and Action. This book essentially elaborates on and refines Fisher’s previous articles on the narrative paradigm and aims to present a more complete explanation of the theory’s roots‚ as well as its main tenets and relevant applications. Human Communication
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