RIGHT AND WRONG AS A CLUE TO THE MEANING OF THE UNIVERSE C.S. Lewis has presented many intriguing ideas in regards to how right and wrong relate to the universe. The moral law is a genuine thing‚ whether we agree with it or not. Lewis presents there is an absolute good and an absolute bad within the laws of human nature. As human beings‚ we tend to have a great deal of trouble interpreting our own selves. Within Mere Christianity‚ C.S. Lewis provides me with useful insight to help me understand
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C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce is a work that showcases the many patterns of denial and rejection that people use to avoid giving their lives to God. Lewis attempts to show the difference between heaven and hell. He does not do this in the literal sense of the places where humanity will be going in eternity. Rather‚ he embodies the figurative sense of heaven and hell which people experience on earth. He focuses on the importance of our earthly decisions in the balance of not only how we spend eternity
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In “Mere Christianity”‚ C.S Lewis describes how hard it is to be a good Christian in his statement “now we cannot‚ in that sense‚ discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing)” (265). In this statement‚ Lewis is arguing that struggling to be good and having faith in religion takes a tremendous amount of willpower. Faith in religion takes conscious effort because it can become difficult to hold onto faith over time. I can relate this to my own personal
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For my unit 4 novel I read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton it takes place in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma in 1965. It is told in the first person narrative by PonyBoy Curtis. The main characters of the outsiders are PonyBoy‚ Johnny‚ Dally‚ Darry‚ and Sodapop. Both groups of boys such as the greaser (the main characters and more) and the Socs‚ the Socs are apart of the conflict. I personally like this book because of PonyBoy’s perspective on everybody‚ as him being the narrator and the way he thinks would have been
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annihilating its opponents and censorship‚ Soviet writers such as Nikolai Bukharin and Grigori Deborin were compelled to depict the glory of communism or face the harshest of consequences. In “Down With Factionalism!‚” Bukharin justifies his slander of Leon Trotsky in the battle to succeed Vladimir Lenin for the leadership of Russia. In Deborin’s “The Second World War‚” he explains how the Soviet Union’s allies‚ England and the United States‚ let them down and how the USSR‚ alone‚ should be credited
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celebrated. It is not something of which to be proud. World War I affected the lives of everyone who fought in it. New weapons and new tactics were being used for the first time‚ and every country wanted to play a role in this new type of warfare. Erich Maria Remarque was one of the unfortunate people to be dragged into this war to fight for Germany. After the war was over‚ he wrote a book about the realities of war from the perspective of the soldiers fighting in it. On the first page‚ he wrote‚ “This
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The title of this book is Dog Daze the S.A.V.E. Squad. The author’s of this book are Lauraine Snelling and Kathleen Damp Wright. I really liked this book and it was a pleasure and thrill to read. Anyone who likes teamwork‚ dogs and adventure would like this book. The setting is in Oakton City at the Oakton City Community Center. The mayor was announcing the winners of the Founders’ Day poster contest. Those winners would become Junior Event Planners for the Founders’ Day charity fund-raisers
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In Reading Autobiography: A Guide For Interpreting Life Narratives‚ we are asked‚ “What is the truth status of autobiographical disclosure? How do we know whether and when a narrator is telling the truth or lying? And what difference would that difference make?” (Smith and Watson) In this essay‚ I would like to briefly explore C.S. Lewis’ Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life with these questions in mind. According to many Lewis’ biographers and scholars‚ he was a master of the “smoke screen”
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In C.S Lewis book The Four Loves he has a chapter about Friendship. At First he talks about that Friendship is something that few seem to find. With it being unnatural is something that has to be worked for‚ but like the other loves can be developed overtime. He then goes on to talk about male relationships and how they can be perceived by outsiders as homosexual‚ even though that is not always true. With friendship Eros can be touch many people at the same time. He then turns his attention to why
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The article “A Conversation With Whales” by James Nestor‚ featured in The New York Times on April 15‚ 2016‚ argues the best way to observe and study whales is by free diving. As a scientist who closely studied sperm whales by free diving on a research team‚ Nestor wrote this article to express the urgency surrounding learning about whales as they approach endangerment. He successfully explains the importance of free-diving for this purpose through ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos. Nestor uses personal credentials
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