Comparative Essay

Comparing Aung San Suu Kyi’s excerpt from “In Quest with Democracy” and Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

As a journalist and critic for Time Magazine, James Poniewozik concentrates on how the classic fairytale of Cinderella has been reinvented multiple times to correspond with the viewpoints of feminist authors. Poniewozik claims in his article "The Princess Paradox" that "girls choosing the fairy-tale ending is not such a bad thing" (667). However Peggy Orenstein, a contributing writer for The New York Times, would completely disagree with that statement. Orenstein stresses in her article Cinderella and Princess Culture that the "princess craze" and "girlie-girl" culture is ruining young girls as they feel constantly pressured to be perfect (673).

begins this writing from when she was eleven years old. Her mom and Granny were very

Christians today have a biblical principle and opinion of the universe existence. Christians believe that God created earth and that he accomplished that in only six days. Genesis 1 explains the creation and the interpretation is so utterly clear and one writer states “Thus, any interpretation that goes beyond a clear plain meaning of the text is considered to compromise Biblical authority and capitulate to evolutionary theories”. One look at the Young Earth View is said to be formed from the Modern English

The misunderstood subculture of music that many have come to know as “hip-hop” is given a critical examination by James McBride in his essay Hip-Hop Planet. McBride provides the reader with direct insight into the influence that hip-hop music has played in his life, as well as the lives of the American society. From the capitalist freedom that hip-hop music embodies to the disjointed families that plague this country, McBride explains that hip-hop music has a place for everyone. The implications that he presents in this essay about hip-hop music suggest that this movement symbolizes and encapsulates the struggle of various individual on

Richard Rodriguez and Amy Tan are two bilingual writers. Rodriguez comes from a Latin background where both his parents speak Spanish. Tan is a child of Chinese parents. Though they share some of the same situations; each has a different way of portraying it. This gives the readers two different aspects of being bilingual. Rodriguez told his story in Aria: a Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood. Tan told hers in Mother Tongue. In spite of the fact that they both wrote about their experiences of being bilingual, they told their stories were for very different reasons.

Brent Staples of “Just Walk On By”, Judith Ortiz Cofer of “The Myth of the Latin Woman”, and Alice Walker of “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” had discovered their personal/cultural knowledge and identity through their experiences. They might have different experiences in different situation or incident it has the same concept. Brent Staples and Judith Cofer had similarly uncovered how they are being alienated especially in their foreign place. They both had experienced to be mistaken as somebody else. Brent Staples was once mistaken for a burglar in a magazine company and a mugger in a jewelry store. Cofer was also mistaken as a waitress by an old woman while she was holding her notebook which an old woman thought a menu

Comparative Analysis of Josie Appleton’s article “The Body Piercing Project” and Bonnie Berkowitz’ “Tattooing Outgrows Its Renegade Image to Thrive In The Mainstream”.

Young men who are sent to a war learn the reality in a very harsh and brutal way. Both the stories, ‘The Red Convertible’ and ‘The Things They Carried’ portray the life of a young soldier and how he psychologically gets affected from all the things he had seen in the war. Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried,’ is more specific on the experiences of a soldier during a war where as Karen Louise Erdrich focuses more on describing the post war traumatic stress in her short story ‘The Red Convertible’. One thing similar in both the narrations is the Vietnam War and its consequences on the soldiers. From the background of both the authors it’s easy to conclude that Tim O’Brien being a war veteran emphasizes more on the

In The Namesake based on the book and movie by Jhumpa Lahiri, there are several events and scenes that are interpreted differently throughout the film and book. The book is based on Gogol Ganguli, the son of immigrant parents Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli who struggles with his double identity and rebellion towards his family. The movie is quite different with its focus on the parents and their relationship more than Gogol, the main character. The characters in the book that are portrayed by the actors in the film are very important because it subtracts and diverts the focus of Gogol’s struggles who is the heart of the novel.

To believe in the young Earth theory, is to believe in the Bible. Those that believe in the Bible believe in a literal six day creation for the Earth and all that are upon it. When God spoke the world was brought into existence. On the sixth day God created Adam and Eve. He gave them dominion over all the animals and plants that he created. It wasn’t until the fall of man that any of the animals would start to die and decay. Another belief of a young Earth is the flood of Noah. Many of the young Earth creationists believe in the flood geology. “Instead of the millions of years requires to create fossil fuels such as coal, flood geologists claim that they were formed within a year under the tremendous pressure of the Noachin floodwaters.” (Koperski, 2006) In the book of Genesis we are given the creation account as well as the account of the flood. “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same say were all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the Earth forty days and forty nights.” (KJV, Genesis 6:11-12)

According to the Christian bible, creation was done in six days contradicting the scientific view that organisms develop over long periods of time. Similarly, the holy Quran used by Muslims describes Allah (GOD) as the sole creator of heaven and earth. The Quran suggests that man is not a product of clay as Christianity presupposes but is caused to grow out of the earth by God in the form of a viable and good growth. Jews also reject scientific views on creations for instance Darwin’s evolution theory because they see the bible as an embodiment of eternal truths. Christians, Muslims and Jews are unwilling to reinterpret their creation beliefs to integrate scientific theories such as evolution. Therefore, the biblical or religious cosmogony applies among Christians, Jews and Muslims with all the believers sharing in the belief that God exists with reference to the holy books (Oppy, 33).

Muslim scholars stated that the details mentioned with regards to the Big Bang theory go identically hand in hand with the description of the creation of the universe in verse 30 of chapter 21 of the Quran “Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, then We separated them, and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?” (Quran 21:30). The theory also matches what is mentioned in the verse that the heaven and Earth (the universe) where once joined together, and then split apart. The only

We live in a relentless society characterized by spectacular scientific innovation and research. This innovation continuously morphs the foundation of how we understand the world, including our philosophical ideologies and religion. New geological discoveries the last couple hundred years has undermined many Literal-historical views on how the earth was created. Churches that were once anchored on the young earth hypothesis now face a split between those who hold steadfast to their traditional foundation, and those two branch out their beliefs to accommodate the scientific discovery. A multitude of theories such as the Day-Age, Gap and Framework have come up from the mix of postulations. Before I came into this class, I had begun to develop my own notions about the way in which the world was created, but had a very unclear picture of how the flood, radiometric dating, and layers of sediment played into the whole picture. My ideas were congregated from a mixture of what I was taught at my modern evangelical church, what I had learned in public school, and what I had read in scripture. I however, faced a discontinuity within this area because while I knew what I believed, I didn’t know why understanding this issue mattered. Thanks to this discussion about Genesis and geology, I have developed a clearer picture why and how I believe in certain theories and philosophies. It also has enabled me to develop an understanding of how science and religion are separate entities.

In Christian biblical texts, it talks about God created the world out of nothing, God is separate from the world, God created world freely, and many other things. But, there is nowhere in their literature of Christian religion talks about the age of the earth or specifies a mode of creation. This allows diverse views within science and religion. Therefore, in the Big Band theory proposed by Geroges Lemaître, seems to give an answer. Based on the theory, “universe originated from an extremely hot and dense state around 13.8 billion years ago” (Cruz, 2017). This shows that having known the world was created, lead science to find out how long ago was earth created.