Christine Caine’s speech at Passion is geared toward ending modern-day slavery and sex trafficking, and she makes her argument through the rhetorical development of the Christian Identity. Caine seeks to encourage her audience to adopt Christian values to change communities around the world. In positioning herself as a Christian, Caine works to establish credibility by using the Bible, assuming her audience will find the embodiment of truth within her speech. Caine makes her argument without using any statistical information to center the focus of her argument on scripture. Through referencing this scripture and offering anecdotes, Caine’s position then becomes powerful by equipping her audience with the ability to become directly involved …show more content…
This argument of an eternal presence working through people to generate change where there once was destruction is why Caine feels "the Samaritan had compassion and so he went” to signify that someone (Jesus) had once done the same act of compassion for him (Samaritan) (Caine, 8). This movement of showing compassion for those caught in the midst of destruction gives the Bible credibility in society today. Additionally, in assuming her audience will respond to her call to action, Caine uses a hypothetical response to her own argument. Through showing that “I 'm gonna take my little bit of light, and you 're gonna take your light” Caine works to reassure her audience that this movement is all encompassing (Caine, 24). In constructing her argument, Caine uses scripture to appeal that this is not only herself making a call to action, but rather the church and man of Jesus himself making this argument to show “we are saved by grace for a purpose” to be disciples who make other disciples (Caine, 14). Using this scripture gives Caine more credibility towards her audience by assuring them of the principles of change she is presenting before them. This ideological tactic works to further establish the audience’s need to align themselves with the movement. Caine explains that “if we, together, would raise our voice, if we, together, would do something now” the audience would no longer feel that they do not have
Thank you very much for your generosity! Honestly, there are no words to accurately express my humble gratitude for this remarkable gift offered by you, Marion and Anne Williams. I'm soon to be an undergraduate at Virginia Tech, and I plan to both major in Astronautical Engineering and minor in Computer Science. Ever since my early childhood, I've always been fascinated by the unknowns of space. For instance, it's quite hard to imagine looking at something as massive as Jupiter when you're only given images on Google. Although the images are tremendous, just looking at the planet with your very own eyes could make an astronaut out of anyone. Yet, I'm not actually looking forward to be an astronaut. It's been my dream to work at NASA, but it's
Transition. Clara didn’t let her age or resources get in the way of her goals. She earned her own money to pay for her books by sewing and writing letters for neighbor who didn’t know how to read or write.
Do you know anybody that has famously failed before? Well I do. His name is Elvis Presley. You may be wondering how he failed. Well, at his first performance a manager told Elvis he wasn’t going anywhere and might as well go back to driving his truck. Today I am going to tell you about him joining the army, his commercial breakout, and him going back on tour.
A highly influencing person that visited to our school was Bobby Jones. He came to share his story with us on October 23. Bobby Jones grew up in Yankton, South Dakota, with his parents, his brother, and his sister. Bobby came to persuade our students about staying on track and not to go down the wrong paths in life. A powerful message was delivered that day. He had a very specific goal, which was to tell us his story and give us more of an insight to stay focused on life. Bobby Jones had great information for everyone and I will always remember this presentation. He had a unique way of getting the audience’s attention. Frequently, he would do clapping exercises with the audience, which was very fitting due to the audience members who attended. There were middle school students at this speech as well as high school students. In that aspect, I feel as if he did a great job adapting to his audience.
Compassion from God is necessary for the survival of the
Christianity was new to most slaves who had been abducted from their native country and taken to the Americas. Some were hesitant to abandon their old traditions for the Christ their white captors taught of, but after several generations of slavery, most black slaves had succumbed to relentless preaching. However, the Christianity that took hold within the slave community was often interpreted differently, conveying different messages to pockets of slave population. The use of Christianity in slavery was a double edged sword, creating not only a tool for control, but a weapon of discontent in slave communities. Examining the works of Richard Allen and the stories of Nat Turner, create a narrative of how Christianity was applied differently to slaves.
Upon “crashing” each of these waves paved the way for the next. As one reviewer notes: The still abstract recovery of the humanity of Jesus opened the way to a consideration of the concrete history and story of Jesus of Nazareth. Attentiveness to the specific ministry of Jesus led to a new appreciation of the contemporary context and challenge of discipleship. Sensitivity to the actual experience of following Jesus today raised new questions about the meaning of salvation in Christ for the poor, for women, for people of color. The everexpanding encounter of world religions posed anew the issue of Christ as universal savior.10 The third wave, with the view of Jesus as liberator, would give rise to liberation theology. Johnson outlines six basic characteristics of liberation theology: recognition of an oppressed group; action on behalf of justice; our relatedness to one another; use of social analysis; changing the unjust situation and the vision that the reign of God is already arriving.11 Johnson then highlights the three-part method of liberation theology: the oppressive situation is recognized; then the Christian tradition is analyzed for what may have contributed to the tradition and finally the Christian tradition is searched for elements that would yield a new understanding and a new practice that would be liberating.12
Many people believe that that the motivation of the Christian church is to radically “change the world”. However, through his book To Change The World, James Davison Hunter explains how this common believe is a misconception. Rather, he shows readers that, from a sociological perspective, while Christians thrive in many areas of life by reaching others individually, they fundamentally components of creating cultural change.
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“Education is the passport for tomorrow, for the future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Mrs. Twanda E. Young ensured the students at Claflin University understood the importance of their future in her oration for Spring Convocation. As a college student, there’s rarely a moment where I’m not concerned about what the future has in store for me, but Young’s three encouraging words of advice helped guide me to approach it with confidence, Claflin confidence that is.
The History of Mary Prince presents speech as a vehicle to freedom for the enslaved. With every description narrator Mary shares with the reader and speaks to her oppressors, she is becoming more free. This is illustrated via a gradual transformation away from the gentle means of discussing her masters, to a very harsh and critical way of exposing their mistreatment of her. Furthermore, her use of defiant speech in her narrative humanizes her and shows that beneath the cloak of slavery lies a human being with a voice. The dual purpose of voice, with Mary as a character speaking against her masters and Mary as a writer speaking against supporters of slavery.
Compassion is a central teaching to Christianity, if we take a look at the life of Jesus, we can clearly see endless instances of compassion. He came, in the form of a man, not to be served, but to serve; more often than not, showing compassion to all who were around him. The theme of compassion of a clear and prominent one in the film “The Keys of the Kingdom”, as it follows the life of a catholic priest who is sent on an evangelical mission by the catholic church. Father Francis Chisholm, the for mentioned priest, while ministering in China, provides us with endless examples of compassion, both big and small. The Father holds himself to such a high standard of decency, it almost seems as though every scene has some instance of compassion,
The Earth, the most important thing to all living organisms. The Earth provides organisms with plants that produce food to eat The earth provides with water to drink. Earth has been a giving planet. Everything organisms have needed to survive, and thrive, was provided by the natural world around us: food, water, medicine, materials for shelter, and even natural cycles such as climate and nutrients. Specifically humans would do anything to protect this commodity. However recently many things have occurred during the past few hundred years of the existence of Earth. the Industrial Revolution start of all the problems, it resulted with a large production of commercially advertised items, due to the large demand
My name is Sandra Crespin and I am register for your History-1410 class. Unfortunately, I am still unable to access my Owl Mail. I have tried to contact PGCC, however, I am still waiting for a response. Please find my homework assignment in the link below. Again, I apologized for sending my assignment through my personal email.
The Gospel of Luke thoroughly illustrates the themes of mercy and compassion in his use of literary devices such as symbols, stories and parables. Luke urges how significant it is to feel and deliver the ready willingness to help anyone in need in our society. The Gospel offers a model to live out these virtues through Jesus’ actions and his parables.