...For the last several decades the most prominent leader within the religious movement known as “evangelicalism” has been the Reverend Billy Graham. Evangelicalism is a Christian movement that focuses on the need for personal conversion, sharing the gospel, and salvation. Billy Graham is well known for his large evangelistic crusades that draw people by the thousands. These crusades have given Graham the distinction of preaching the gospel, in person, to more people than any other person in history. It is widely believed that over 2 billion people have heard Billy Graham preach the Gospel while more than 2.5 million of them made a public declaration of faith in response (Aikman 53). Evangelism is a very important Biblical task and successful evangelistic campaigns, where people turn to Jesus Christ for salvation, are cause to praise God. So it is natural that many Christians hold Graham in extremely high regard. But one question still remains: is Billy Graham a modern day prophet or is he just one of the most famous preachers that has ever lived? In biblical times the word prophet meant a delegated messenger; someone that delivers the direct word from God. While there is no den William Franklin Graham was born on November 7, 1918 near Charlotte, NC. Graham was not drawn to the Bible instantly. Graham was raised on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1943 he married Ruth McCue Bell, daughter of a Christian missionary. In his early years, the Graham family...
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...Anthony Jones: Is one of 2 children. He has an older brother named David. He plays college football at the University of Alabama for the Alabama Crimson Tide as a Quarterback. He is very popular at school and gets good grades for every assignment he does. He is captain of his high school football team. He plays Corner Back at a very high level. He is a junior. Scene 1: Mental Health Issue Addressed Suicide/Depression Anthony Jones is a very good big and strong athlete and is very popular. He is good at sports. He is even captain of the high school football team. He is very smart and has a good relationship with his parents. THE PARK WEEKEND- SATURDAY AFTERNOON ANTHONY and his friend David are in the park playing catch with a football. ANTHONY goes up for a huge catch down the field and starts running until he hears a loud sound (SOUND OF A CAR STOPPING VERY RAPPIDLY). The man coming out of the car says “my name is Billy”. ANTHONY and David tell Billy “hello”. Billy starts playing catch with ANTHONY and David. Then Billy starts acting weird asking David random questions that sounded weird like “do you have any wine on you”? Until ANTHONY says “David we got to get home”. David agreed and they left. SCHOOL HALLWAY-MONDAY ANTHONY and David are talking in the hallway before school until Billy cuts into their conversation. David tells Billy “what’s your problem”. Billy says “nothing”. Billy looked awful he...
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...William Darrell “Billy” Mays was born Jully 20, 1958 in Mckees Rock, Pennysylvania. He spent most of his childhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He sent some time in West Virginia University but decided to drop out to work on his father’s hazardous waste company. Billy started his career as a sales man on the Atlantic Boardwalk selling the “Washmatik” to anyone who would pass by. Along with the “Washmatik”, Mays also sold many other “As seen on TV’ producs. Mays attributed much of his success and style to the old pitchmen that taught him that taught him the value of trade. After a long while, he started his to travel to home shows and state fairs to sell products across the state. In 1993, Billy befriended Max Appel, the owner of Orange Glo...
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...Men after God’s Own Heart Franklin Graham, son of Billy graham, wrote Rebel with a Cause an autobiography about his life as a well known evangelist’s son and how difficult it was growing up in his shadow. In the early stages of his life Franklin was considered “The Rebel” of the family, not wanting much more in life than guns, alcohol and Rock ‘n’ Roll. After many sinful years Franklin turned his life over to The Lord and pursed to follow in his father’s footsteps. Billy Graham is a world renowned spiritual leader dedicated to American Christian Evangelism. He is father of five children (Virginia, Anne, Ruth, Franklin, and Ned Graham) and also dedicated husband to Ruth Graham (Back bone of the Graham family). Billy Graham has raised his family in the mountains of North Carolina, a small town fifteen minutes from Asheville called Montreat, a small town fifteen minutes from Asheville (Graham 2). Most importantly, he is a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Billy Graham has given his life for the purpose of teaching the Word of God too many lost countries around the world. Since graduating from Wheaton College, his first major success was as a traveling evangelist for Youth for Christ (YFC), which was founded in 1941 (Eskridge 85). Graham was the star of the foundation from early 1945 through 1947, speaking at hundreds of rallies that taught teenage audiences the gospel of Jesus Christ (Eskridge 86). During his YFC days Graham found a way to reach the youth that reluctantly...
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...While I tried to explain what happened, Neil continued laughing uncontrollably, trying to tell me their tale of how he and Ketchum ran all the way to the local burger chef, ‘bout a half mile away, hid in the restroom and had a friend who worked there help them out. He was never mad about getting abandoned. Neil might have thought I pulled a trick on him and Ketchum, but he never said. It was all good clean (albeit naked) fun and games for Drewer. ~~~ Larry has made driving a car a form of art. He’s also careful to know where the cops hang out. He’s never been in serious trouble with the law, but the day is still young. He glared at his driver’s side rear view mirror; Bodean was pulling up beside us in the lane to his left. He looked over at Bodean and he purposely locked eyes with him. I looked the other way, hoping he didn’t recognize me while he was waiting for the light to change. Larry, on the other hand, was ready to go. “I’m gonna blow this pig off the...
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...Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis For Billy Fitzgerald I can still hear him shouting at me Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking-had he the gold? or the gold him? —John Ruskin, Unto This Last Preface I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it—before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? For more than a decade the people who run professional baseball have argued that the game was ceasing to be an athletic competition and becoming a financial one. The gap between rich and poor in baseball was far greater than in any other professional sport, and widening rapidly. At the opening of the 2002 season, the richest team, the New York Yankees, had a payroll of $126 million while the two poorest teams, the Oakland A's and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, had payrolls of less than a third of that, about $40 million. A decade before, the highest payroll...
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...Passages: 1. ISU Novel Passage: " There was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen... There was a lot you couldn't see when you watched a baseball game.” (Lewis 19) Elements of Fiction: Setting, Characterization and Conflict between what baseball managers see in baseball players. Film Adaptation: Billy and Paul (his name is Peter in the movie) are in the garage of the Cleveland Indians baseball team and they are both wearing a suit, and there are cars in the background. (Time: 0:20:39) Film Techniques: - Medium-Bright lighting to show enthusiasm - Over-the-shoulder shots - Inspirational music in the background to show inspiration of what Paul (Peter) is saying Analysis/Connection to Thesis: This passage and movie scene relates to the thesis because the thesis is about how underdogs are winner and this passage shows inspiration in Paul’s voice from the lighting and the background audio as he says that the players showing big numbers in their last game doesn’t necessarily mean that they will perform in their next and he also say’s how he thinks that picking up an underdog from college is the best thing to do. 2. ISU Novel Passage: “Over and over the old...
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...the stairs. I sat down on the bottom stair and leaned my head against the railing. It was so quiet and peaceful. I debated withy myself if I had the courage to go outside. Sometimes I was winning the debate and sometimes it seemed I was kidding myself. What I did know is the feeling of safety I had sitting all alone in the quiet and warm foyer of our home. I thought how wonderful it would be to talk with Patricia and hear her beautiful voice whispering her soft words into my ear. Outside I joined my cousins and they quickly brought me into their click of friends. They were playing a game of soccer but I sat on the curb and listened. I could hear a few of the boys talking about how beautiful Patricia was and I felt a jolt of jealously. Billy O’leary...
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...Billy Joe Half a Life Human relations 1. In my opinion of why the book is named half a life is because half Darin’s life ago the event with the car crash happened. In the book close to the end when he is presently weighting the book he says that the event happen half a life ago. He sounds like that at the end he is starting to heal mentally. So half of his life was spent in a mental punishment and torment. Half his life is over now and he is better. He has a wife and a kid, he has a good job, and his life is improving. The pain he had to go though was probably tuff, and I am glad I do not have to go through that myself. A weak willed person would have not been able to make it through this tuff challenge in life. A weak willed person might have died as well as the victim of the accident. Darin had to be a strong willed man to be able to make it through this tuff trial in this life, but he made it through and has a lot to show for it. Billy Joe Half a Life Human relations 2. I think that he calls his emotional reactions plagiarized because he was doing what he thought anyone would do in the situation. He pulled over and parked the car and he got out to see if she was ok and to get help. Strauss thought that he should act a certain way when the help were trying to save her. He felt like that is was not actually happing to him like it was someone else’s story. When his dad showed up that’s when he realized that it was happing in his life. At first he...
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...John Mark Terry wrote a concise history of the church’s work of evangelism from the time of Jesus until the modern day. Inspired by a chapter on the history of evangelism in Delos Miles’s book, Introduction to Evangelism, he set out to write a longer, fuller treatment of the subject. The book was written primarily for ministry students in colleges and seminaries in North America. He said the book was designed as a supplemental text for introductory courses in evangelism or as a primary text for courses on in the history of evangelism. The book was written in chronological order from the time of Jesus until the modern day. The first two chapters dealt with Jesus’ own practice of evangelism and the evangelistic work of the New Testament church. In the chapters, he discussed the characteristics of their evangelism and the strategies they used. The third and fourth chapters of the book covered the history of evangelism from the Second Century through the Middle Ages. He noted the change in methods as people were forced by governments to convert to Christianity. Chapters 5 and 6 described the work of evangelism before and during the Reformation. Chapter 5 unpacked information leading up to the Reformation, emphasizing the preaching of the Bible, ministry to common people, the importance of preaching over the sacraments, and the relatively new communication of Bible truth in the common language of the people. Chapter 6 covered the evangelism of Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and the Anabaptists...
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...His influence on massive audiences is well known, but his influence on Christian leaders of the world may be his lasting legacy. Graham has written more than 30 books; many have become bestsellers. In the 1970s, for instance, The Jesus Generation sold 200,000 copies in the first two weeks after publication; Angels: God's Secret Agents had sales of 1 million copies within 90 days after release; How to Be Born Again was said to have made publishing history with its first printing of 800,000 copies. Some of his best sellers...
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...Southern California, setting another record in the college level of four minutes and eight seconds for the mile. He graduated from USC in 1940. The teenager kept doing what he loved and ran more, getting better at what he did. Zamperini, being faster than before, had another chance to go to the Olympics and try for the gold, but unfortunately for him, World War II started and the Olympics were cancelled. Once the war started, Zamperini’s civil duty was called to action Biography.com informs that Zamperini was put into the Army Air Corp and “ended up a bombardier on the B-24 Liberator.”. Zamperini enjoyed his time as a bombardier. Zamperini flew in an air craft named “Super Man.” While flying “Super Man” Andrews says he completed a plethora of missions “including a famous December 1942 air raid on Wake Island.” On this mission, the plane was almost out of gas and barely made it back to Midway Atoll From then on , his time in the Army Air Corps only became more life threatening. In May of 1943, Louis Zamperini and his crew flew out on a mission to find a pilot from another plane that had gone down. However, while trying to find him, Zamperini’s plane went into mechanical failure and went crashing into the Pacific Ocean. With eleven men on board, only three survived, Zamperini, pilot Russell Allen Phillips, and tail gunner Francis McNamara. Help was nowhere to be found, and the three men were stranded on a raft for forty-seven days. One time, a Japanese bomber saw the airmen and...
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...(LDC) worldwide. Some of those countries are under developed countries and developing countries; furthermore, there are major problems in both. The main focus in this paper is on poverty in America; also, the new faces of poverty and how it affects the new faces. . Four Families of Article from USA TODAY, September 28, 2011 The article covers various issues of poverty of different families and individuals; however, the main portion of the article is about a father in Leesburg, Virginia. The man’s name is Billy Schlegel. He is the father of three children; also, he is divorced as of 2004. Billy and his ex-wife share joint custody of their three children. How often have we heard the phrase of people going from rags to riches? There is a new phrase now and it is going from riches to rags in the blink of an eye so to speak. Billy Schlegel’s unfortunate issues stem from changes in the in our economy; that have and continues to occur today. Billy Schlegel plunged from middle class into poverty in the time that it...
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...“big house” and all the slaves. She did this by cooking over an open fireplace, which in a way, aided them in the winter since it brought warmth to their cabin, but exhausted them in the summer because of the blistering summer heat. Most of Washington’s childhood was spent cleaning the plantation and hard labor, such as giving water to the men working out in the fields, or going to the mill to have the corn ground. His childhood was definitely not one that one would call “normal.” He was a slave and he knew it. But, he also knew that freedom was close. The slaves often knew what was happening in the world before the white men did. They found out what was going on through one of their own who was sent to the post office every couple of days. While he was out grabbing the mail for their master, he would linger around long enough to catch the gist of what was happening regarding the Civil War and their freedom. He knew...
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...Why Do We Love It’s a Wonderful Life? Fantasy is defined as anything that has no solid foundation in reality. Elements of fantasy are used in It’s a Wonderful Life to convey themes and create an interesting structure which amplifies these themes, ultimately winning the hearts of the American people. The genre of fantasy allows you to escape reality and lets your imagination ignite a world in which you have not seen before. In the film there are elements such as a parallel world, flashbacks, an overall fight of good versus evil, control the playback of reality, guardian angels, an attempt to complete a goal, and later an effort to ‘save a community’. In It’s a Wonderful Life director Frank Capra illustrates many elements of fantasy, in which is pulls you into a new world, constructed by imagination. The opening credits, which are illustrated on a story book, are where the ‘fairy-tale’ and fantasy mixture begins. As the first scene opens the town sign is covered in snow, as well as the ground, indicting a Wintery Wonderland, as the camera scans to the town of Bedford Falls. Capra demonstrates the typical small town, the snow covered ground, lights stung in the trees lining the sidewalks, and specialty shops. Even though it looks and seems completely normal you will still have the feeling of an imaginary or fantasy land. The film begins in the present time; the year is 1945 on Christmas Eve. Voiceovers occur, praying for George Bailey. After hearing such prayers,...
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