Essay on Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments are regarded as the fundamental laws that all Christians are to conform to. They were written by the hands of God himself and revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai, inscribed on two stone tablets. They offer basic rules of behaviour for spiritual and moral living to Christians. These laws still instruct Adherents today, for they expose sin and show us God's standard. Without the sacrifice of Christ, Adherents are completely helpless to live up to God's holy standard.

The United States of America was founded with a credo of religious freedom. They hoped to change the vicious cycle of religious persecution and intolerance that had been swirling through Europe for centuries. Over the last two hundred years this legacy has been shredded and stained. Our religious freedoms have been taken away by people who have twisted what our country was founded to protect.

Children today have access to many forms of literature, some of which are books made into movies. As the children become older, comments such as “the book was way better” or “the movie didn’t even come close to matching the book” or “the movie and book are the exact same, so save time and just watch the movie” are heard once children begin to make connections between the book and the film. It is important to me, as a future teacher, to be able to address such comments from my students and, in turn, help them understand why and how movies can either help or hinder the book’s original value and message. To help me prepare, I will compare a children’s film to the literary work that came from it.

Although this paper uses a mainstream movie, at all times you should use scholarly writing and language throughout the paper.

America has been named the "melting pot" of the world. It houses many different cultures, nationalities, ideas and religions. There are Christians, Jews, Catholics, Buddhists, Mormons, Hindus, Spiritualists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Islamic, plus many more. America is unique in that all these religions are represented in a nation that is only 200 years old. And America has upheld, throughout history, that the freedom and equality of religion is extremely important in order for this nation to function as a free nation. The foundations of America were set as a result of England's persecution; more specifically, England's religious persecution. The colonists wanted to create a nation that allowed people to be free. They

"I would not think of quarreling with your interpretation nor offering any other, as I have found it always the best policy to allow the film to speak for itself."

For the paper on Theodicy in Culture I choose to write about the movie For Colored Girls. I picked three specific scenes within the movie that displays pain, suffering and questioning God. The first scene I picked is when a couple was fighting because the wife turned down his engagement and the boyfriend did not take it well because he suffered from bipolar disorder so he would snap at any time, during the scene when the girlfriend said no the man turned to the two things she loved more than life itself which were there children and he killed them by dropping them out the window and he did this because he was upset with the girlfriend for saying no. In this scene, the man was suffering from not being himself and not knowing what he was doing

In comparing an August, 1974 film review from The Great Speckled Bird with one from the New York Times from the same time period and regarding the same film, two very different styles of writing, and the thoughts of two very different kinds of writers are immediately found. The tone and language of the two reviews are vastly different, as is the review content for Robert Altman’s California Split (1974).

and contemporary audiences. These are explored through the ambiguous nature of morality which is expressed within key scenes of the film.

The Bible has been seen as a book of peace by millions and one of bellicose prejudice to others. Is the Lion King allegorical of Shakespeare’s Hamlet or is it a racial commentary damning segregation? Depends on whom you ask. However you look at the world, it cannot be disagreed that humans are immensely perceptive creatures who will attach meaning to just about anything, including movies. At Columbia, subtext and meaning are everything. A simple scene is never to be perceived as such but, rather, rife with metaphorical imagery and deep, three-dimensional characters. This has never been my process of

All of the critics were writing for the public sphere, which is characterized by Inch and Warnick as containing arguments that are "intended for public or general audiences" (52). In this case, the argument for the public sphere is directed toward movie-going audiences. The argument field is the evaluation of films during the 1990's, and could more specifically include historical films created in the 1990's. The argument field is an important point to my argument because historical film contains many debatable points, all of which will be discussed after the reviews are summarized.

The Old Testament consisted of a set of documentations of religious scriptures, which were written by different people at various times for a different audience. Most of the Old Testament contains short stories of traditional stories and those stories of distinguished ways God established mankind. These stories are often told to the people in narrative form, which are guidelines often referred to as laws, songs, genealogies, and a list from these authors that composed the Old Testaments. The pressing of set documentation is essential because it is the framework for the lives of God 's followers. The term “Old Testament” originated as a means to express spoken traditions and God 's creation of that particular era. It is an method of philosophical investigation was designed to answer the why questions within these spiritual text documentations. These religious documentations consisted of four parts. These four sections retrieved from the Old Testaments are the laws, history, wisdom and prophecy. The laws are a rule of behavior enforced within the community. The rules are sometimes called “Torah.” When analyzing this Torah, these rules viewed within the first five spiritual books of the Bible. For example, in the first Torah in Genesis, it explains the creation, Noah’s Flood, Abraham and Isaac, and Joseph’s coats of many colors. However, the laws in Exodus were in regards to the going out. The going out took about 40 plus years, until the people led to

Islam is, debatably, the fastest growing religion in the world today. At a level of 1.2 billion, they represent approximately 22% of the world's population. Moslems make up the second largest religion in the world, surpassed only to Christianity at 33%. This is according to the 1999 World Almanac and Book of Facts (724). What is Islam? Who is a Moslem? What do they believe? How does one become a Moslem?

Contemporary criticism reflects the current audiences that are viewing the subject and their mindsets. Early movies specifically needed to know their audiences, as the reception they received could make or break actors, directors, and even entire studios. However, a movie viewed in modern times can have a completely different effect on the viewer than the original intended audience. Specifically movies, such as the ones shown here, that are based on historical events. In the order of the years they were released, Jezebel, Drums Along the Mohawk, and Unconquered, all focus on romantic relationships, and the different historical periods they are dropped into. Each of these movies take a drastically different look at their characters, despite their similar, specific, genre of romantic historical fiction. Each review of the movies echoes this, with analysis of the characters, historic accuracy, and just overall how compelling the story is.

One peril from bringing a wide-ranging scope into this argument, is the need to then reassert how this would assert itself, with comparisons from which we’ve analyzed, and understood the sublime better. The “where” and “when” would at least improve, by habits exhibited today. Reserving it and “beauty” as synonymous terms might have once been serviceable, but after what Burke and Shaw went about to put in place, this acceptance of the darker, more drastic sides of our world is almost, itself, compelled to this new era. Ways of thinking correspond, blossom, and flourish with these new dimensions, but if also figuring in logical reasoning, little room is left to speak of any emotional responses, or the asserted faithfulness wherever the