By words, a nation is forged. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” –Thomas Jefferson. In essence, words shape its vision, values, and destiny. Individuals are stimulated by words and phrases – “be courageous,” “hold fast and be strong.” The word “character” defines a person with an attribute by which they’re made. Words are a force that shaped existence – reality is valued by the phrase, “pursue to growth and learning.” Since a boy, I enjoy the fulfillment that comes from discovery learning. My story is found interwoven with the ability “pursue growth and learning” – the curiosity led me into the God’s truth. Stages in life prove me to be a student, schooled by life and transformed by God’s Truth.
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Contemplating in my college dorm and found myself asking a question: “what would the world look like if we all obey God’s commandments? If we all refrain from sexual immorality, there will not be HIV, AIDS, and Chlamydia.” Sexually transmitted disease was a big problem on most college campuses and mine was no different. Almost everyone had given themselves sexual immorality, including me. But, I should have known better, I had a better upbringing than most people at school, but I allowed myself to be influenced – compromising the values I was brought up with. I truly believed that question triggers something in my mind. I started going to Sunday church more often and began to study the Bible. I would post questions to Dad, but he seems to never have an answer that convicts nor satisfies me. I once asked him, “How do we know that we will go to Heaven if we obeyed God? He told me “we don’t know for sure”. His answer upsets me so much that I asked, “Why obey God at all. Why would Paul say, ‘I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith…’ make no sense.” We would go back and forth until frustrated, we parted. It pushed me further away from God and the Bible into the wayward lifestyle and deepen my wounds. I use to say, “life was not worth living” and “why was born into this useless life.” But I could stop myself from searching. My attention was now turned to the end-time event with the thought, “If …show more content…
How they were sincere, full of zeal for God even though they did not know the Truth. They were diligent to instill godly values in me. Coming into God’s Truth and being among God’s people only ignite the fire to live by the standard which is worthy of Christian. The strong values Mom possesses on womanhood and how men should treat her, I found to be biblical but it only came alive after meeting a young lady in the Living Church of God, to her credit was a great example that I know Mom would be proud of – we became good friends. We often go to rock climbing together and exploit our strengths and weaknesses. Learning how she was able to be firm with her value system in an age pressured feminist to be equal to men. I use compromised with the values I was brought up with because I did not see women living according to those principles. I use to think Mom’s Era was long gone; women who embrace being a homemaker, who understood the important of the role of man had gone extinct. Thank God I was proven wrong. My faith in biblical values grew stronger see Rachael Tlumak (now Heykoop) example of what my mother had been trying to teach me all along. Just last year, Rachael wedded a man deserving of her. She forever will be an example to me of uncompromised values. Learning from the examples of brethren in the Church gave a new perspective on how I can also overcome my compromising life and be strong on my
“I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” (Zusak 528) Words and the power they possess is a common theme that is heavily mentioned throughout the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Throughout this book, rhetoric affects multiple characters in both positive and negative ways. There are instances in this book in which one can see how words have the ability to tear people down, educate and inform, and to inspire individuals to follow their dreams.
All over the world, people have always sought for power, they have struggled to defend their culture; they have worked beyond imaginable to obtain economic prosperity and political freedom. A matter of fact equality is something that nowadays we are still fighting to obtain. Education has always been the key to power. In the twenty-first century education means a way to obtain the American dream, in other words, to achieve success. However, schools were never intended to empower people to think for themselves or to help them succeed. At the beginning of the American school, different groups of people wanted different things to come out of schooling, one of those things was to facilitate reading the bible in the text it states that “Schooling became important as a means of sustaining a well- ordered religious commonwealth” (Spring 22).
Over the past year I have grown as both a person and a writer. My writing has improved
Ever since I started talking this class, English 1301, with Dr. Piercy, I have been able to expand my writing and thinking skills. Not only was I able to make more better essays but I also learned important topics such as how education creates an impact in the world. In this essay I will be talking about three writings and how they are related to this course semester. The three writings are “On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt, “Why I Write Bad” by Milo Beckman,and “Statement of Teaching Philosophy” by Stephen Booth. How are these 3 writings related to this semester’s course work?
Over the course of this class I feel like I have become a much better writer. When I go back and look at some of my Journal entries and assignments that I did at the beginning of the semester, I can’t help but tense up at some of the things I wrote. Sometimes the things I was writing didn’t flow well, or I might have even have missed glaring grammar mistakes.
Growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood as a kid sanctioned me to perpetually become aware that I was different from my neighbors. Through some social interactions with my friends in elementary schools, I quickly descried that my appearances, such as my hair, eyes, and nose was different from my peers. For instance, my hair was a lot darker than most of my peers’ hair and the texture of my hair was different from most of them. “Grow out your hair” were phrases that lingered throughout my childhood days, where I had my hair at a very short length. Throughout my childhood, I longed to try to be a part of the dominant group in society such as the Caucasians, but I did not do anything to be a part of the bigger group in society. Instead,
As a second language learner I have never expected myself to be a perfect writer throughout the semester. Even If English was my first language still, I would not be a perfect writer. It is not about first or second language, it is about how well I understand the learning objectives. Then organizing and writing with my own ideas and putting them in my paper. I am going to be honest, I am not good at English subject and English subject is my strongest weakness than the other subjects. In this paper I will discuss and analyze my own writing, reflecting on the ways that my writing has improved throughout the semester.
When I scheduled the class Persuasive Communications, I had no particular interest in the subject matter; I just needed to finish the general education requirement for a second writing course. It fit my schedule and sounded reasonably interesting, but I did not think I would gain much from it. It was a general education class after all, and would not be very high on my priority list. Now that the semester is almost over and the class work is complete (albeit after this paper), I feel as if I gained a lot from this class. The class’s main objective was to expand our skills as writers, but it served in teaching us many other things that hold value in our education and future careers.
The topic of what happens to those that have, "never heard the good news of Jesus Christ" weighs extremely heavy on my heart. I work with Atheist, Muslim, Hindu and Pluralist in the technology field. Frequently I am attacked just for being a Christian. For a while it was scary to know that I have become a minority in my own country. Some how each time I am attacked I love these guys that much more. My Hindu friend really knew nothing about Jesus before he met me. At lunch one day he asked me about Christianity and I was able to share with him the good news. But for some reason he rebeled and believes the Bible is, "the greatest book of fiction ever created." If not for the revelation God provided about His Word in my second year of Bible school, I probably would be a pluralist myself. I really want everyone I share Jesus with to go to heaven and it use to be tempting to think God might make an exception. However, there is only
I will begin first with the idea that sexual behavior should not be granted its own moral code. Sexual ethics only makes sense if sexuality plays a unique role in human life. If procreation has significance precisely because it is a contribution to God's ongoing work of creation, sexuality is supremely important and must be governed by restrictive rules, which would therefore prohibit sexual acts that are not for procreative purposes. This justification of sexuality as a unique aspect of human life, however, is dependent on a theological claim that there exists a God who micro manages the sexual lives of individuals. Without the presence of such a God, there can exist no separate restrictive rules on the nature of sexual acts. Even if we grant that there is a God, most people will agree that sex is more often used as a way to intensify the bond between two people and therefor sex is the ultimate trust and intimacy that you can share with a person.
When one looks at their life, at any stage in which they live, it is pivotal to see clearly how they are finding meaning, purpose and direction within their daily decisions. As I’ve learned to value the role of community and covenant relationships in my life, it has been a challenge to continually commit myself to overcoming my flesh and correctly align myself with God’s intentions for my life. As part of this transformative process in centering my worldview on Christ’s love, I’ve concluded that all of life’s ultimate questions are found to have been correctly answered in the Bible; repeatedly in Scripture, and specifically in one verse, I have found that it sources everything in life to the glory of God. Romans 11:36 centers our attention on Christ, from whom we derive all answers to origins, meaning, morality, destiny and identity for our lives: “For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. (ESV).” Not only does the most credible book ever written support this thesis, but in “Making Sense of your World,” it is strongly communicated that “God alone is the ultimate reality and everything else is derived from him (Phillips, Brown, Stonestreet, 2008, p. 44).”
My views on whether people are born good, evil, or neutral have not changed. I still believe that there is continuum that ranges from good to evil with neutral in the center. I think most people fall somewhere in the middle of this continuum though there may be some genetic traits that predispose them one way or the other slightly. For most people what causes us to fall into either the good or evil ranges are specific moments in time and the actions or behaviors we choose. Most people are neither fully good nor fully evil, but in a given situation can be either. However, I believe that good or evil actions can be reinforced for individuals, making the person more likely to act or behave in a similar manner again even if it is against the individual’s core beliefs about himself or herself.
Violence is an inherent part of human nature and American society is not exempt from this basic instinct. American land was settled with violence; the American colonies formed through violent acts; the United States of America was founded with violence; and we continue our independence through the violence of warfare. Violence is found in every aspect of life from entertainment to war. As a civilized society we try to counter-act our violent nature, but it remains at the core of our existence.
I was not that active or as involve in the class, but I like many activities that happened in class. There were different activities or communicative practices that has help me get through this class. I love to write, but writing class was never my favorite. The reason is I don’t like formal writing, writing that require a lot of researching and a long period of time, or a lot of requirements. This class did require me to write quite a lot. There are writing that I would never want to write because I don’t think that I’m that good at writing. I always feel pressure when I see a writing assignment because it always seem like there are a lot, and there are a lot of different requirements. So when I saw this class on my schedule, I was very stressful.
Each generation throughout the span of time has defining characteristics, from the Baby Boomers to the Millennials, we each have experienced different things that shaped who we are. How different the world would be without televisions, computers, or even cell phones and we still relied on the radio to transmit information? While change has been necessary to keep up with cultural and social demands, it is always important to reflect on everything that has happened to each generation to get society to where it is today. Paugh History Hall in the Museum of the Rockies reminded me of just that.