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"So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it." 1 Corinthians 10: 12-13 Satan knocked feet out from them. The Great Captain of Sin was strong and they just couldn't say no. This is just the beginning of the Mayberry Series at my church. Morality in communities and families have the values that we should have. Aunt Bee was having a bad day and was struggling. Paul wrote a letter to the church. The people couldn't resist satan because he looked so good. There should be more shows and movies about Christianity. Our society is failing. They believe that all roads lead to heaven, all is good, and there is no hades. They are WRONG. Our world is hurting. Our nation has been deceived. They are walking away from God. Our ...

"During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them." Exodus 2: 23-25 We live in a difficult society. We live in a society that is bound by sin. We wonder if we will be able to make it. We wonder if we are going to give up. Don't wander in the wilderness. You're going to struggle. You have to hope and trust. Set your sights on the promise land. Our God will lead us to the promise land. We will have problems but you must not fall to temptation. Children of God are on their journey to the promise land. We all have bad times, but it will change. Trust in HIM. Allow God to split open red rivers in your lives. Give Him the ability to fall on your knees and thank HIM. Follow God and experience the prom...

Matthew 5 is titled "The Beatitudes." Beatitudes means complete happiness and complete harmony. We need to be reminded that God's blessings started all other blessings. In this chapter, Jesus gives disciples an ethics lesson. When you die, all you have is your relationship with God. Don't put barriers up. You have to be obedient. The great commission is referenced: No one is happy, they are poor. God gives comfort. These people still have a relationship with Him even if they are poor. We also need to remember that righteousness brings humbleness, and that everything happens for a reason. The only way to have a pure heart and see God is through Jesus. Our responsibility is to help forgive and be forgiven through Jesus. We need to keep the peace. Also to keep in mind, standing up for your faith gets you to God. All of these people are not rejecting you, but the one who sent you. The church needs to feed people spiritually. Do we ever realize that we are hungry? We are...

Oscar Description of Adaptation: I have chosen to do a modern day Othello adaptation. In my adaptation, a married couple returns from a high school reunion but their marriage is never the same again thanks to Oscar’s high school sweetheart. Isabelle plants to seed into Diana’s mind that Oscar is cheating on her, and Diana begins to lose her mind. She has anxiety attacks, and one ultimately throws her over the edge. Diana ends up killing Oscar, Mary, and herself. Eric kills himself right before Diana dies. Rationale for Adaptation: I really liked the story of Othello, and I wanted to make my own version. I chose to have Diana go crazy instead of Oscar, because I think that in today’s time there are more women who are accusing the men in their lives of cheating. In both adaptations that were watching for class, the men are the ones doing the accusing. I wanted to see how the play would work with the roles switched. I still kept Oscar as a black man because I wanted to keep the feel of ...

Othello vs. O Othello O Connection/Disconnection Othello Odin Black protagonist Desdemona Desi Love interests Iago Hugo Villain Cassio Michael Scape goat Cheating portrayal Cheating portrayal Othello and Odin are convinced their woman is cheating Sex scene Sex scene Othello’s is romantic, Odin’s turns into a rape Othello death Odin death Othello stabs himself, Odin shoots himself Brabantino Coach Duke Father figures to Othello/Odin Roderigo Roger Wants the girl Handkerchief Scarf Gifts to the love interests Emilia Emily Wife/Girlfriend to villain Throughout the semester, I have found that “Othello” and “O” are the most similar adaptations we have watched, and they are also my favorites. They follow each other very closely, with a few exceptions. With my chart, I hope to layout the connections and disconnections and then go further into detail. For starters, we have our black protagonists in both movies: Othello and Odin. Accompanying them are their love interests, Desdemona a...

Narrative Rhetorical Criticism in Fiction Using the narrative in rhetoric is a great way to convince your readers of an event that is happening. Being a fiction writer, I do this quite often. The story that I have written that does the most of swaying the reader is my story called “Jake.” I’m going to insert pieces of my story to help you better understand how the narrative can be used to sway readers one way of the other. The first part of my story that I think is important is the very first paragraph: All you know is what a hot summer day it is. The sun scorches down on you and Jake as you two walk to the creek. There is an empty house in your subdivision with a pool in the backyard. The liner on the pool is black, and algae floats through the water. The carcasses of chipmunks and squirrels fill the murky bottom, but you and Jake don’t mind. It is the summer you turn five and he twelve. Jake tries to teach you how to swim that summer. He grips his hands around your waist and makes...

Rhetoric is often times used as a form of persuasion. People use rhetoric in order to sway an audience towards their argument. With persuasion, comes goals. These goals are often obtained by using the three persuasive appeals: ethos, logos, and pathos. In order to analyze my persuasive writing paper titled, “In Defense of the Confederate Flag,” I will be using these three persuasive appeals. This analysis will show my use of ethos, logos, and pathos throughout my paper and the effectiveness of these three appeals. My Paper In my paper on the confederate flag, I argue that the confederate flag representing racism is invalid and that people make too big of a deal about it. I give background on how the confederate flag came to be and also on the history that it contains. I also provide the audience with information on issues that have occurred “because” of the flag and America’s reaction. Theoretical Lens As mentioned earlier, ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade an audience. Etho...

Dickinson and Religion Emily Dickinson was a very different woman in her time, mostly because she wrote about things that should scare us to death. Dickinson also struggled with her own religion, which is often seen through her poetry. I want to take a look at a few of her poems and analyze what Dickinson is actually saying about religion between the lines on the page, and I also want to take a deeper look into the depression that she battled. First, I would like to look at poem J-258. Dickinson wrote this poem around the year of 1861. She references a “certain slant of light,” which I have taken to mean the lie of light because there is a certain slant to it. She then goes on to say, “Winter Afternoons -- That oppresses, like the Heft of Cathedral Tunes.” It seems like she is saying that she gets more depressed as the winter afternoons go on, and Cathedral Tunes also references church music, which is significant because Dickinson refused to go to church. The next stanza begins wi...