Adam Budy Chapter 8 Analysis

The initial chapter covers two central ideas. The first is that God is the sole source of being. Reasoning that God is the progenitor to all existence, nothing, other than God, exists as an unique creation whose creation is due unto itself. Nothing an entity has is from itself, so everything it has is from God. Simply put, being originates from God. If He is the only reason something comes into being, and all entities have nothing from themselves, a concern arises over how the Devil came to sin. It seems that perseverance could have been given by God and the Devil would not have sinned. Furthermore, God alone could have given that perseverance, presenting God as the singular entity that is culpable for the Devil’s sinning.

1) “Astride the animal was a horseman dressed completely in black, with a falcon perched on his left shoulder. He wore a turban and his entire face, except for his eyes, was covered with a black kerchief. He appeared to be a messenger from the desert, but his presence was much more powerful than that of a mere messenger.” (page 109)

Unwritten #9” is a work by contemporary artist, Vernon Ah Kee that focuses on the racial discrimination of indigenous Australians. Apparent in his works are themes such as racism, identity and culture that references the artist’s own backgrounds and experiences. Ah Kee draws on his own experiences of being and aboriginal Australian in the contemporary life in Australia.

In the first chapter of this novel, we get introduced to the protagonist and narrator of the novel, Holden Caufield, from a rest home in which he has been sent for therapy. He refuses to talk about his early life, although he does explain that his older brother “D.B” sold out to writing for Hollywood. His story and breakdown begins in the school of Pencey Prep, a boarding school set in Pennsylvania. The setting for the early chapters in the narration is his "terrible" school, to which he describes the atmosphere to be “as cold as the December air on Thomsen Hill”. Holden’s student career at Pencey Prep has been destroyed by his refusal to apply himself. We know this after Holden explains he failed four of his five subjects, passing only English. Due to his lack of effort and determination, he was forbidden to return to the school after the term. The Saturday before Christmas vacation began, Holden overlooked the football field, where Pencey usually

Contemporary artist, Ah Kee, has created a work, “Unwritten #9”, references past racial murders and the way they resonate in the present context and explore Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous culture in the contemporary society. Ah Kee created this series of artworks in response to the apparent police cover up of the death of a young man in their custody and protection of their own lead to accusations of racism, riots by the Islanders and their further oppression by the police. The faces are also non-specific and have no identity, this refers to the devastating history of racism and violence against indigenous peoples in Australia. This symbolism also suggests the often unspoken motivations for actions and interactions between Australians

In Chapter 2 of Thank You for Arguing by Jay Heinrichs, he discuses how to distinguish the difference between an argument and a fight, and to decide what you want out of an argument. The key point of an argument is to win over the audience to your point of view. In order to win an argument, you need to persuade them. You want your opponent to be persuaded using subtle logical tactics not power and intimidation. Using power and intimidation is the characteristics of a fight. This is when one person takes out his aggression on another, which does not persuade them but initiate’s revenge or rejection. During a fight, the key objective is to win by attacking and belittling your opponent, paying no attention to getting them to change their mind.

The first piece of writing was called “Two Questions” by Lynda Barry. The visual story is about a girl who finds it hard to make quality stories like she uses to. She gets very stressed out and overwhelmed. She feels that people negatively judge when she makes a “bad” writing piece. So, she stops. Then, one day she feels that she wants to start writing and drawing again. She then realizes that its okay to become stressed out by writing and that it's apart of the process. With that in mind she embraces it and gets her writing mojo back. I think that the visual story tries to convey the theme of never giving up on writing. This story speaks clearly to confused English students.

In Chapter 3-Control the Tense of Thank You for Arguing, we are shown how changing your argument to a different tense can give you the upperhand. This is the task presented by the rhetorical lab on page 29. The directions tell to examine the tenses if we “find ourselves a victim” in an argument, and to then switch from the past or present tense to the future. I tested this technique on my brother, whom I have years of fighting with under my belt, but very little experience arguing with.

In Zinn Chapter 8 was about how the Louisiana purchase increased the size of the United by extending land to the Rocky Mountains. Mexico won its independence in the revolution against Spain in 1821.Texas broke off Mexico in 1836 and became the Lone Star Republic.So the US decided to buy Texas in 1845. Jame Polked moved into the White House and decided to send in some troops to Rio Grande but that was a problem for Mexico.The Rio Grande was the borderline for Texas but they didn't know at the time.This order provoked Mexicans. In March 28 1846 Taylor moved his troops Corpus Christ and waited for an attack. General Taylor quartermaster was riding up the Rio Grande and he disappeared 11 day later his body was found and his head was smashed.People

Hossana, a fiery red horse, belongs to William deGranville, a young knight that is on the mission to take back Jerusalem from Saladin the Great Sultan. Hossana was ridiculed in the beginning for being

The movement out west as described in Chapter 19, The Way West by, John D. Unruh JR., was a journey for a new way of life since the cities were getting so crowded. The thought of becoming rich from the gold in California or living in vast sprawling land, of the west. During the movement people had to travel for months and go back to living a primitive lifestyle.

Both the stories of Russesabaginga and Orwell are set in a time of violence and corrupt authority which delivers a sustaining impact to the changing world views around them. Their tales are very moving and evoke a thought process in the reader which questions the morals and standards of current society. Although both stimulate the readers mind, the way the writer’s ideas come across are quite different from each other. An Ordinary Man written by Russeabagina is presented through examples of logos and ethos due to the logical appeals of his ideas on family and perseverance. He employs ethos as well through his deliberate efforts to link the humanity within a genocide to the moral philosophy of the audience. Contrarily Shooting an Elephant written

Some characters of the story include the King of Salem, The Englishman and the Alchemist. The King of Salem is the old man who helps Santiago to pursue his own Personal Legend. The Englishman has the same purpose as Santiago, to pursue his own Personal Legend, but his knowledge is only limited by the books he read. The Alchemist is the person who helped Santiago understands the world better; that all things are connected, and helped him get to the oasis of the Egyptian pyramids.

After Hester is released from prison Hawthorne leaves us wondering if her choice to stay in Boston was even a choice she could make. Chapter five opens with Hester coming into the light and leaving the cell in which she had been punished in for so long. However, once she is out, she decides to stay in Massachusetts, in the same community which has shamed her for so long. Hawthorne describes the decision when he writes, “it may seem marvelous, that this woman should still call that place her home… But there is a fatality… which almost invariably compels human beings to linger … the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime” (71). In this quote Hawthorne is not only speaking of Hester, he is speaking of

The Sultan soon passes away and the reign is taken over by his brother who is the polar opposite of the former ruler. I feel as though this is hearsay and not a direct observation since a mere traveler wouldn’t have such close encounters.