Comparing Kahneman's 'Thinking, Fast And Slow'

Recently, scholars have analyzed King’s (2003) chapter You’ll Never Believe What Happened is Always a Good Way to Start, with the intent to discover King’s rhetorical techniques and overall purpose. At the time of his speech, the world was “predominantly scientific, capitalistic, Judeo-Christian” (p.12). Firstly, Cassandra Plettell (2017) found that King utilizes ethos to demonstrate how stories may alter an individual’s perception (p.2). Similarly, Emma Murphy (2017) found that King uses ethos and pathos that “portrays the idea that stories have the ability to greatly impact individuals’ lives” (p.2). Then, Ajodeji Edna Adetimechin (2017) found that King uses ethos, pathos, and logos to convince his audience of the influential power that stories “have in shaping perspectives” (p.2). In general, they have found that King’s purpose is regarding the influential powers of stories with the use of ethos, pathos and/or logos. In addition to Plettell, Murphy and Adetimechin’s finding, I would like to go a step further and argue that King’s overall purpose is to persuade the audience that the Genesis creation story has formulated a culture that lacks forgiveness, compassion, and unity (King, 2003, pp.24-27). Inclusively, I will argue how King utilizes his personal experiences with stories, emotional appeals, and writing arrangement in order to gradually persuade his highly intellectual audience.

3. Detail 3 instances in the text where the power of story is alluded to. Explain

Let’s talk about the world about 2,000 years ago. It was a world where the mass of people were illiterate, taxes were extremely high, and the leaders would cheat and kill to feed their ever growing need for power. We all can relate to having a good storyteller in our lives, most were read to at night by their parents or are parents themselves that read to their children. What is the purpose of storytelling? It’s simple, comfort. A good story can ease your psychological unrest as well as offer a moral purpose. Sometimes you can even relate a story to your own life and offer an explanation to something you may be experiencing. This is exactly what the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were. They told their stories of Jesus to offer comfort to their people in a time when people could not pick up a story and read it themselves. It is part of human nature to have the desire for a good story. This paper will describe several events that were written by great storytellers in the bible.

After reading The Art of the Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter, I feel I have a better understanding of the literary techniques used in the biblical text. These are definitely techniques as readers we all need to familiarize ourselves with. He has opened my eyes to a deeper understanding of the Bible, but also specific stories within the Hebrew Bible, which I have always found fascinating. Through Alter’s analyzation, I can see how the use of the rubrics has enabled me to connect with the biblical characters. The techniques have helped bring the characters to life. Alter has convinced me that there is a need for intelligent reading of the biblical narrative. He has given me a literary perspective of the Bible in which I did not have before. The four general rubrics, words, actions, dialogue, and narration, have acted as helpful tools for me to use when reading the scripture. In the following paragraphs I will discuss how I was before reading Alter’s Art of the Biblical Narrative, and how I have changed my view of the biblical narrative because of his book.

In the New Testament, the relationship Jesus and his followers shared was interesting to read about. The author was characterizing the trial narratives as contributing to early Christian “self definition.” Toward the end of the book it talks about human authorities and how they may seem overwhelming, but their authority does not rival God or question what he is meant and what he was there to do for his people. Skinners viewpoints about theology was not only critical, but it showed what he felt the trials represented. Faithful witness’s was very important, and Jesus and his followers can expose the provisional nature of human power and promote an alternative path for more people and to share what they might be seeing throughout these trials.

This week’s readings stretched my scholastic brain while I attempted to compare the parable collections found in the synoptic texts. All of the suggested parables were stories I remember forming my early theology as a child. Whether as a teacher in my later teenage years or as an elementary student, Sunday School had provided me with a parable bank that I could reference regularly as I conducted my religious life. These parables were all hallmark pulpit teachings that I have heard time and time again as an adult as well. It has been difficult for me to take a scholastic look at these familiar stories that simply just are. That is to say, why look harder at something when its teaching is so simple? Would a scholastic dissection change the meaning of a familiar story? In a way, the categories of the lay spoken idea of parable have opened up a new interpretive or applicative meaning.

Geese Blackboard Post - This was another interesting assignment that helped connect the bible to my everyday life. As, I stated before, I am not a stranger to the bible, but I was stunned to see all of the everyday activities the bible discussed. I often returned to specific elements of the bible (Psalms 23), to assist me when I am down. However, after this course I was able to become better acquainted with the bible and its content on everyday life. This course assignment was instrumental in me reading the bible and finding out about friendship and forgiveness.

The way Dr. Gage masterfully retells familiar biblical stories not only increases the enjoyment, but also depends the way we understand these texts. He is not only a biblical scholar, but also a master poet; weaving biblical theology and poetic beauty throughout this work, the end result is a wonderfully rich devotional that is easy and enjoyable to read.

This week’s assignment in retrospection has taken me through a whirlwind of memories, as my past is scattered with times of great joy and other times of despair and intense loss. All of this has ended up being useful. Some of the most growth in character has come from hard times. In reading the book Courage and Calling by Smith (2011) Smith spoke of looking for “footprints of the Spirit throughout our stories”. This focus gave me great joy and revelation.

According to Angus-Green, a Parable “…denotes a narrative constructed for conveying important truth.”1 These narratives can be thought of like a picture painted out of words. As in any painting, the artist is trying to draw your attention to a moment in time which he or she feels is important to what they’re trying to communicate. The artist will use different colors and imagery to focus the observer to the central point of the painting. Much like this, a parable uses different words and even figures of speech to draw the reader into the central point of the parable. Once understood, the parable imparts one central truth that may take many sentences or even paragraphs to convey. The problem with interpreting these truths often lies in sifting through the parts of a parable that are meant for dramatization of the theme and parts that are essential to the crux of the matter. English theologian Thomas Hartwell Horne developed a system of 9 rules to guide one in the interpretation of parables. The purpose of this paper is to familiarize ourselves to Horne’s nine rules to better understand the proper method of interpreting parables in Biblical text.

Foreknowledge, in the Christian sense, has been sharply debated for centuries. Though it directly means God’s prior and perfect knowledge of people and events regardless of time, it is fundamentally tied to the understanding of the elect and the competing arguments of Calvinism and Arminianism. To some, it may seem like the nature of God’s foreknowledge is high, impractical theology, but it deeply affects one’s understanding of God, which in turn affects one’s response to God. A proper understanding of God’s foreknowledge and the issues tied to it will cause one to scrutinize, and possibly shift, the basis of their faith.

The paper also taught me that the construction of a plagiarism and collusion policy directly correlates to the experiences of the writer as well as that of the institution in which it is being constructed for. Additionally, it was shown unto me though the comments left that my policy was interpreted the way I intended it to be. When read even with its flaws people with find it unforgiving a theme very present in the bible. Moreover, from my last essay I review myself and my Rebel identity using the definitions of Bronwyn T. Williams. In during the birth of my last essay is simply retold a story that I had told several times over. I know my past and I don’t try to hide it. Although I amended the fact that I did not complete the 3rd or 8th grade and the fact that I lost nearly every fight, I was end it didn’t take away from the truth of my paper. In class, we looked at other people’s lives and their experience and how they fell and got back up again. The reason I did not incorporate those example into my essay is because I could not relate. I began from the bottom and rose to the top. By viewing the world analytical

The 2010 New York Times best-selling Christian novel Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo depicts the story of a little boy’s trip to Heaven and back. Throughout the novel Todd’s son, Colton Burpo, explains various visions of Heaven that he witnessed while he was having a life-saving surgery. This story is one of many Christian narratives of religious experiences and although there are a variety of experiences this paper will focus only on the personal narratives of visions of heaven. Christian’s have used different approaches to narrate these experiences throughout time including novels, movies, news clips, drawings, teachings and other forms of narration. Christian’s use these narratives as a form of sharing their experiences and teaching others. This essay will examine how Christian’s narrate their religious experiences and why they narrate them.

A story consists of the introduction of basic impacts of one’s personal life experiences or formal essay occurrences. Merely reflecting adversities a real person encounters, or one’s self-improvements after encountering challenges by opposition of intellectual attacks. It may include battles, tribulations, and triumphs of evolution. It is told in first point of view of the argument being initiated by the author. On how individuals need to apply bible scriptures in their everyday living. Although, biographies and metamorphoses may bring individual to rationalize how a median point of one’s life may establish moral balanced for the better. It may express their position in history, beliefs, and values. While displaying obstacles on how the outcome may have been influenced by a supernatural belief, church leadership, mentors, tragedy, and transformation of a political or international theory. Method of implementation and motive possibly limited or inspiration became a contributing factor to withstand or the reason for modifying their life.

How does Lovallo and Kahneman’s “inside view” (“Delusions of Success”) differ from the “outside view”? Contrast the entrepreneur and venture capitalist. How can a firm or organization maximize the extent to which its managers take the "outside view" in their decisions?