...Paradise Lost By John Milton The Book note Table of Contents Introduction Cast of Characters Plot Summary An Analysis of Major Characters Satan Adam Eve Chapter Summary and Analysis Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 and 6 Book 7 Book 8 and 9 Book 10 Book 11 and 12 Symbols and Themes Quotes The Quiz Introduction John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608. He was the son of a successful Protestant merchant, and was provided with an excellent education that included the opportunity to travel widely throughout Europe. He was fluent in a number of classical as well as modern languages, including Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Spanish, Italian, French and Dutch. In 1625, he began his attendance at Cambridge University with the intention of becoming a clergyman in the Church of England, but was disillusioned by what he considered the arrogance and ignorance of his fellow students. He decided that his true calling was to serve God and his country as an author and poet. Inspired by Roman poets of antiquity, and particularly Virgil, Milton aspired to create a great epic poem in the English language. He considered two other distinctly British topics for his epic—the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and the military exploits of the general Oliver Cromwell—before settling on the Biblical story of Adam and Eve and their fall from God’s grace through disobedience. Milton was politically active throughout his life, and was outspoken...
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...Humanity, Jesus, Restoration, Analysis, Reflection are different in many ways. Christian’s view them in a completely different worldview than say someone who does not believe in them. All people have their own views as well as how they see things from right and wrong. According to the Christian worldview, this is how God, Humanity, Jesus, Restoration, Analysis, and Reflection will be examined and explained. There are many ways to explain what God is and what he is like. Many cultures including the Christians see God as being in control of all. When you look at Christianity through the eyes of a Christian and then look through the eyes of a non-believer, you will come up with a completely different view of God. However, in the eyes of a Christian, when something goes wrong in their life they tend to ask the question, “why has this happened to me, where is God at when I need him the most?” (Garvey, 2000)These types of questions show that God cannot be everywhere all the time. Within all the religions that are considered Christian, God has many different characteristics. According to John Garvey (2000), one of the characteristics of God is that he is supposed to make good things happen. God created the heavens and the earth in a shapeless blackness. He formed the earth to be round, and he said “let there be light, and there was light,” (Genesis 1:3). God created all the vegetation on earth, he created the animals. He created a garden, the Garden of Eden. After that he created man...
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...FOOD ART CRITICISM Group 1 FORMAL ANALYSIS Form, Medium, Size and scale Form: The art is a sculpture. Medium: Honey crisp apples or Rome apples were used in this artwork, which were pasted on a canvas. Size and scale: The canvas is 28x36. The apples are 150 in diameter size. FORMAL ELEMENTS OF ART 1. Lines: There are squiggly, curved, and diagonal lines. 2. Shape: The apples are round although they are bitten. 3. Form: The sculpture has squiggly, curved, and diagonal lines. 4. Space: Positive space: apples Negative space: canvas 5. It is three-dimensional. 6. Color: Hue: red, white, and yellow Value: warm Intensity: The sculpture may be warm-looking but it does not affect how people feel about it. 7. Texture: The apples are not good to look at, but we can see that it makes a person curious to touch them if they’re real or not. ICONOGRAPHIC ELEMENT Apple in religion is a forbidden fruit. This shows what Adam and Eve did when they listened to the snake in the garden of eden. DISTINCTIVE ELEMENTS Basically, the picture shows two frames and each frame contain apples that have bites. What makes them distinct is one frame is crowded with apples that there is no room left and the other frame is only filled with a few apples which still has a lot of room. Analysis of Principles The artwork is repetitious and chaotic. USE OF LIGHT The artwork has a warm tone due to the redness of the apple. Likewise shadowy, because the...
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...to Live Here Once (Rhys) Jason W. Miller Ashford University ENG125: Introduction to Literature Professor Patricia Lake December 3, 2012 Death and impermanence is always full of sorrow. I have chosen Death and Impermanence as my theme to discuss, not because of tragedy I’ve experienced, but instead because it’s an interestingly complex theme. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “I Used to Live Here Once” could not be no more different in their visual form than they already are; however, they both represent the theme through common emotions and mood of the literary works. Throughout my essay I will explain the relevance of the two works, and authors, as well as the differences. The formalist approach will be my choice of critical analysis of the two works, which will aid in forming my comparison and contrast of both works as well. “The poem of the Robert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is discussing the beauty of life’s wonderful but short-lived treasures, as example chasing dreams and spending time with loved ones. It is illustrated by Frost those treasures in the world related to the nature through the use of metaphors, imagery, diction, and allusion. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” helps open one’s eyes to the harsh realities of nature’s path and although we must all succumb to the laws of nature, it is these unbreakable laws that make life so treasured (Shmoop, 2010). On the other side the literature “I Used to Live Here Once” is a somewhat mysterious story of...
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...David Webb Peoples use these religious allegories to hinder a direct and understandable message from the film’s narrative. Therefore, Fincher and Peoples took their complex writing to a deeper level than most screen writers by denying the audience a straightforward interpretation of Roy Batty. One example is the allegory of the creation story and the fall of man. Parallels from the creation story are seen time and time again throughout the film, which is one way Roy’s character relates to the Biblical character, Adam (Gravett, pg. 38). In the Bible, Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil as it is stated in Genesis 2: 16-17: “And the LORD God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.’" However, Adam an Eve did eat from the tree. This is seen in Genesis 3:6-7: “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” Because of this Adam and Eve turned away from their purpose- to worship and please God....
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...Chris Newsome Professor Clough English 101 8 December 2014 "Araby" Analysis James Joyce's "Araby" is the story of a young boy from Dublin. Written in a first person point of view, the same young boy is also the narrator. While his name is never revealed other things about his life are brought to the reader's attention. He is raised on a dead end street named Richmond Street which is described as "blind" (Joyce 572) in the first sentence of the story. Richmond Street is also described as a "quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free" (Joyce 572). Living in a home with his aunt and uncle where a Catholic Priest once lived and died. The boy becomes intrigued by the old books and many other things left in the library by the priest. Soon though he becomes obsessed with his friend Mangan's sister. At first he admires her from a distance and one day while the other boys are playing she speaks to him. Astonished and at a complete loss for words when she finally speaks to him. She asks him if he plans on attending the local bazaar Araby. Desperate to impress her he promises to return with a gift for her from the bazaar. Things do not go as planned however, he spends most of the evening waiting for his Uncle to come home to give him the money he needs. Once his Uncle finally makes it home the bazaar is all but over. Determined to buy the girl a gift he decides to make the journey there anyway. When he arrives everyone is packing up and preparing...
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...Key 1 Matt Key Natalee Grigoletti Intro to Business May 5, 2011 Supervalu • The full name is Supervalu Inc. This company’s main headquarters is located at 11840 Valley View Road in Eden Prairie, Minnisota. • History: The Supervalu company was created in Minneapolis in the 1870’s. In 1871 three men named Hugh Harrison, George Newell, and W. D. Washburn created a company known as Newell and Harrison. In 1874 George Newell bought out the other two men and renamed the company George R. Newell Company. In 1879, Hugh Harrison started his own company call H. G. Harrison Company. In 1926, the two companies merged. The new company was known as Winston & Newell Company. It was the largest grocery distributor to independent grocers in the Midwest. In 1954, it took the name Super Valu Stores. In 1958, the company bought the grocery store chain, Piggly-Wiggly which was based in Wisconsin. In 1971, the company took a different direction when purchasing a retail store chain called ShopKo. In 1980, the company continued to expand by buying out two other grocery store chains called Cub Stores and Atlanta’s Food Giant. Also during that year, Supervalu combined the Cub Stores and ShoKo into one company. In 1991, the company bought out an Indiana grocery store chain called Scott’s. Later that same year, Supervalu sold 54% of Key 2 the ShopKo company to the public. It wasn’t until 1992 that the company changed its name to Supervalu Inc. In that same...
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...often called third force psychology. This type of psychology says that humans are mostly good, physical beings who are mentally healthy when focused upon achieving self- actualization and are able to make their own choices. The first force was behaviorism and the second force was based on psycho-analysis, the thought that our conscious behavior is shaped by our unconscious recollection of our past experiences. The idea is to resolve a patient’s psychological problems by uncovering and discussing their unconscious, unfulfilled or repressed desires. Self-actualization is the goal. At the end of the day, secularists just want to meet their full psychological potential. Ivan Pavlov describes Marxist psychology as this: only science, exact science about human nature itself, and the most sincere approach to it by the aid of the omnipotent scientific method, will deliver man from his present gloom, and will purge him from his contemporary shame and the sphere of inter-human relations. Marxists believe that human development is an unavoidable march towards communism, and because of that, Marxist psychology leans towards behaviorism. Their view of human development eliminates free will, justifying the behaviorist perspective that our choices and actions come from our brain responding to environmental stimuli. Marxism rejects some of...
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... I. INTRODUCTION II. EVALUATING THE TYPES OF EVIL III. ATHEISTIC AND SKEPTICAL ARGUMENT IV. FREE-WILL THEODICY V. POSSIBLE WORLDS VI. THE ALTERNATIVE APPROACH VII. CONCLUSION VIII. BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION Evil is a universal problem with many categories. Philosophers like David Hume and Alvin Plantinga have attempted to explain the presence of evil despite there being a God. One can choose from many theodicies on moral and natural evil. Lately work has shifted to the notion of gratuitous evil. If gratuitous evils exist, is God morally responsible? Gratuitous evil and natural evil appears to bring the most plausible charge that something malevolent has occurred. This paper will critique various arguments concerning evil. Biblical Theology will show that the arguments are missing a key to understanding evil. EVALUATING THE TYPES OF EVIL The complexity involved in addressing evil persuades us to define what is meant by natural and moral evil. It is noted, by Steven Layman, that the distinction between natural and moral evil is not always sharp. It is Erickson who provides very distinctive definitions. Natural evil are the destructive forces of nature. Forces of nature such as earthquakes and hurricanes are out of the control of man, and due to the resulting suffering are deemed evil. Moral evils are those evils committed by free moral agents. Moral and natural evil are at time corollary. Layman suggests that among the losses of natural...
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...THE BIBLE’S INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE by Zhang Lanlan June, 2007 Xiaogan University Abstract As the sutra of the Christianity, the Bible has a great influence on both English and American literature and offers an eternal theme of their literary creation .English and American writers use stories of the Bible by three main methods. First, they quote person's names or stories of the Bible as the characters' names or plots of the creations from the Bible directly. Sometimes they make some changes on the original stories. Sometimes they quote stories directly from the Bible as the writing materials. Second, they make use of symbolic meaning of the Bible by some technical such as simile, metaphor and symbolism, so that the stories could exert a great influence on contrasting with the new products. Third, they merge the plots of the Bible to give connotative efforts to the readers. Exploring the methods helps us know the western culture and consciousness, have a good appreciation and study for the English-American literature. key words: English-American literature ; the Bible; methods 《圣经》在英美文学作品中的影响 摘要 作为基督教的经典，《圣经》对英美文化影响深远，为英美文化创作提供了永恒的母题。英美作家化用《圣经》故事的主要方法有：直接引用《圣经》中的人名作为作品的人物名称，或直接引用《圣经》故事或对原型故事进行变形或处理，作为创作素材；通过比喻，隐喻或象征等手法，把《圣经》故事的寓意融汇到作品情节中或人物性格里，使这些故事发挥有力的陪衬作用；使作品中的人物，故事和情节与《圣经》故事大体对应，让《圣经》能穿越时空的限制，从而发挥隐含的参照作用。 探讨英美作家化用《圣经》的方法，有助于我们了解英美文化的思想意识，更好的学习，欣赏乃至研究英美文学作品。 关键词：英美文学；《圣经》；方式 ...
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...Running Head: MID-TERM ESSAY: IKEA CASE STUDY 1 Mid-Term Essay: IKEA Case Study Emily Shinkle Indiana Wesleyan University Business, Analysis and Technology ADM-508 Rodney Swope July 29, 2012 Mid-Term Essay: IKEA Case Study All companies share three characteristics – goals, people, and structure (Robbins, Decenzo, & Coulter, 2011). IKEA, a global furniture company, exemplifies these characteristics in an excellent way. Mikael Ohisson (2011), President and CEO, says, “We’re a values-driven company on a never ending journey to be the leader in life at home”(www.ikea.com) Mikael and his team have proved this truly is their goal by setting a great example when it comes to other topics within business such as social responsibility, decision making, and strategic planning. IKEA is considered a multinational corporation (MNC), which simply means is a consumer had four homes in four different countries they could all be furnished from ceiling to floor in IKEA because this company sells their products in many different places (Robbins et al., 2011). The Swedish-based company currently has 287 stores in 26 countries and maintains 1,018 suppliers in 53 countries (www.ikea.com). The simple and inexpensive furnishings are popular in many different social and cultural settings, giving IKEA a well-rounded approach at business around the globe. It was not until 1994 that IKEA decided to expand to China. One reason for the expansion was because China...
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...happiness. The justification of utopianism = why did plato want the republic? Justisifcation for improving human society among the Greeks? Poor always poor, always unhappy, death claims everyone - it is rational to maximize pleasure and eliminate misery. Do eternally accouding to plato. Opinions – 1. Relativism is a retreat in the 20th century. Can’t voice own opinion – can’t change the world – retreatist. Lazy persons out – often times used as avoidance. DO NOT USE AS IMMEDIATE THE POOR MANS WAY OUT OF ARGUMENT. If use, have to have massive justification for it. 2. a. Define the difference between Greek utopian experiments (2 of them) Plato and Homer refuge Plato – more of an activist Homer - the nostalgic Garden of Eden...
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...Counseling Theory of Larry Crabb Sandy La-Ree Trudgeon Liberty Theological University – Seminary A Paper Submitted to Assistant Professor Max Mills In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course in Theology and Spirituality in Counseling PACO 507 D02 LUO 201240 December 2012 About the Author Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Crabb Jr. has a PhD. In Psychology and has been writing books for over 35 years. He is a popular conference and seminar speaker, teaches Bible classes, and is the founder and director of NewWay Ministries. Since 1996 he has been the scholar in residence at the Colorado Christian University and currently serves as the Spiritual Director for the American Association of Christian Counselors. He has a minor in speech therapy and philosophy of science from the University of Illinois where he obtained his PhD.. He and his wife, Rachel, live near Denver Colorado. Once Dr. Crabb suggested that should he ever write a book about himself, he will entitle it: “Sovereign Stumbling” as God has led him on a journey where he stumbled and God picked him up and carried him through with Sovereignty. Summary of Theory Dr. Larry Crabb is a very spiritual writer whom has integrated the psychological aspects of secular counseling with that of the Christian counselor in such a way that multitasking can be implemented by way of running everything past the Biblical principles presented in God’s Word. There are three types of counseling that are thought to be important...
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...Misty Gilliland Description of the Image of God The biblical approach to describing the image of God begins in Genesis 1 (NASB) where it is written that God made man in His own image. In the creation of mankind, God purposefully distinguished humanity from the other created beings by giving each an individual identity and supplying the ability to relate to God.1 Gen. 1:26-27 clearly states the mankind was made in the image and likeness of God. Humanity is so valued by God that He put special emphasis on not committing murder and that even the blood can cry out from the ground (Gen. 4:10) from those murdered. As God is without sin and humanity was created without sin, the introduction of sin damaged the relationship mankind shared with God, but the restoration of that relationship was made possible through the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.2 Over the course of history, the historical approach to describing the image of God resulted in various interpretations of the image and likeness of God as it pertained to humanity. Irenaeus proposed that God’s image and likeness were separate things and that the likeness of God gave mankind the ability to relate to God in righteousness. That righteousness was broken in sin, but restored in Christ as believers could come to God through Him. Calvin later argued that human nature was completely damaged by sin and Aquinas followed Irenaeus with some modification. The historical interpretations held by these men are viewed as...
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...Tablet I Summary The story begins with a prologue introducing us to the main character, Gilgamesh, the Priest-King of Uruk. Gilgamesh’s mother is Ninsun, sometimes referred to as the Lady Wildcow Ninsun. She was a goddess, endowing Gilgamesh with a semi-divine nature. Lugulbanda, a priest, was his father. Gilgamesh constructed the great city of Uruk along the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia, and surrounded it intricately decorated walls. He also built a temple for the goddess Ishtar, the goddess of love, and her fatherAnu, the father of the gods. Gilgamesh is credited with opening passages through the mountains. He traveled to the Nether World and beyond it, where he met Utnapishtim, the sole survivor of the great flood that almost ended the world, the one who had been given immortality. When he returned to Uruk, he wrote everything down on a tablet of lapis lazuli and locked it in a copper chest. As the story begins, Gilgamesh is a tyrannical leader who shows little regard for his people. He takes what he wants from them and works them to death constructing the walls of Uruk. He sleeps with brides on their wedding night, before their husbands. It is said that no one can resist his power. The old men of Uruk complain and appeal to the gods for help. The gods hear their cries and instruct Aruru, the goddess of creation, to make someone strong enough to act as a counterforce to Gilgamesh. Aruru takes some clay, moistens it with her spit, and forms another man, namedEnkidu. Enkidu...
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