This week chapter 7 of Fee and Stuart talked about the four gospels.The four gospels basically talk about the narratives of Jesus’ life. They all talk about the same thing but from a different background. None of the gospels supersedes the other but each stands beside the others as equally valuable and equally authoritative. The four gospels were written by Mark who was the first author‚ and Mark’s gospel was rewritten twice by Matthew and Luke to meet different needs. The four gospel are a hermeneutical
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The approach that I strongly agree with is the John Stuart Mill’s doctrine and Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is a moral approach that believes `` the supreme principle of morality is to produce as much happiness as possible`` (118). Utilitarianism evaluates the right action according to the amount of happiness and absence of pain. In addition‚ ``there is in reality nothing desired except happiness`` (118).The right action should result the most desirable happiness as many people as possible. I choose
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Yung Joc Instructor Laura Daubenmire English III September 14‚ 2012 An Essay on Summer School I can blame no one but myself for my need to attend summer school for this year. However: I would like to blame it on my Spanish teacher‚ my mother‚ my siblings‚ my dog ate the homework‚ anyone but Christopher L. Martin. Summer school was not in my game plan the first day of school last year. I entered my school‚ Lake Catholic HS‚ with the calm surety and purpose of a bona-fide tenth grader‚ I’ve
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The convoluted writings of John Stuart Mill can be translated into simple terms as follows: No moral act or rule is intrinsically right or wrong. Rather‚ the rightness or wrongness of an act or rule is solely a matter of the overall nonmoral good (pleasure‚ happiness‚ health‚ knowledge
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Ouahani Nasr-edine A Paper about Stuart Hall’s article: Cultural Identity and Diaspora Stuart hall talks about the crucial role of the “Third Cinemas” in promoting the Afro-Caribbean cultural identities‚ the Diaspora hybridity and difference. Hall argues that the role of the “Third Cinemas” is not simply to reflect what is already there; rather‚ their crucial role is to produce representations which constantly constitute the third world’s peoples as new subjects against their representations
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The Life of Mary Stuart‚ Queen of Scots Mary was the youngest queens; she inherited her throne at only six days old. Although she did not start ruling her kingdom until the age of sixteen. Mary of born to King James V and Mary of guise. Her father died when she was only six days old. When this tragic event happened‚ King Henry VII saw an opportunity to unite England and Scotland; he wanted Mary to marry his son‚ Edward. The Scots despised the idea; they wanted Mary to marry A French prince‚ as they
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The basic moral principle of utilitarianism is called the principle of utility or the greatest happiness principle. As John Stuart Mill explained it “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness‚ wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism. It focuses on the consequences of action. Utilitarian believe that pleasure or happiness is the good to be produced. As Bentham put it “Nature has placed mankind under the governance
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• Stuart Rojstaczer states his own opinion that students that walk into a class knowing they can go “through the motions” and get a passing grade begin to put in less effort. He goes on to say that many students study less than 10 hours‚ which is less than half of what they were putting in 40 years ago. He also quotes a “recent” survey‚ saying that 30‚000 of first year students showed that nearly half of them were spending more hours drinking than they were studying. He deduces that if we continue
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In the political work On Liberty‚ John Stuart Mill forms an argument in support of the freedom of speech and explains in detail why silencing an opinion is wrong. He does this by exploring the ways that silencing an individual’s opinion in a variety of situations harms society‚ whether the opinion silenced is true or false. In The Second Treatise of Government‚ John Locke explains his views on political philosophy but never explicitly states a clear view on free speech‚ it does allude to an attitude
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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Throughout On Liberty‚ Mill discusses the importance of human liberties‚ freedoms and opinions. The quote below is from the first half of On Liberty and summarizes the main theme: But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion‚ still more than those who whold it. If the opinion is right‚ they are deprived of the opportunity of
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