Identify the concepts found in all four videos. Write a brief summary – What are they about? Write a critical response analyzing (not a summary) the ideas, concepts, and themes in these videos, including your reaction to them.

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Following the themes of the stranger, othering, and how these concepts are often expressed in our societies,.
Each of these speeches stand as among the most articulate and powerful ever said about othering, strangers, and the social mechanics that lead to such evils.
Instructions: 1. Watch Videos 1, 2, 3 and 4. a. Sir Ian McKellen: The Stranger’s Case from Sir Thomas More b. Charlie Chaplin: Speech from “The Great Dictator” c. Elie Wiesel: Speech “The Perils of Indifference” d. Clip from “Don’t be a Sucker” (1947)
2. Following the Critical Response Format and Guidelines a. Identify the concepts found in all four videos b. Write a brief summary – What are they about? c. Write a critical response analyzing (not a summary) the ideas, concepts, and themes in these videos, including your reaction to them. i. Your critical analysis MUST include ALL four videos. d. Write two questions you have after having analyzed these four videos. e. About 500 words
3. Write a at least two replies to the critical responses of your classmates a. Your replies should: i. Engage with either your classmate’s questions or analysis ii. Not be vague or general statements of how nice their post are iii. Be critical and engaging iv. Be about 250 words

Read the book written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnets from the Portuguese. Write an explanatory academic essay after the reading. Make sure you create a good thesis to go with your paper.

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Read the book written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnets from the Portuguese.

She was a later part of the English Romantic movement, a second wave as it were. Her husband, Robert Browning , an equal to the great early English romantics,
was kind of too, but his style was tending towards the ways of modern poetry, indeed perhaps one of the progenitors of modern poetry.

He ‘saved’ her from a stern Victorian father and lifestyle, took her to Italy, where they pretty much lived out their lives together until she died. One day she came downstairs of her home there from her study into the kitchen and told him she had translated sonnets from Portuguese poets. They were of course really her sonnets written to him. A fascinating, much celebrated story.

this is a set of romantic poems that covers a historic love affair and details in what their love was all about. As good as the earlier Romantics on love, especially Keats and Shelley.

After reading this book look into your own insights, your own thinking in regards to what this book is about.

Write an explanatory academic essay after the reading.
Make sure you create a good thesis to go with your paper. Be detailed about your reading showing within your paper that you carefully read the entire book.

Cite and write about these two; Glenn Tinder, “Can We Be Good Without God?” pp. 147 ENCOUNTERS Dorothy Sayers, “Why Work?” pp. 153 in ENCOUNTERS

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The purpose of this assignment is, using research, to expose an ethical dilemma for a worker in your chosen profession, and to explain how a worker with a Christian worldview would respond to that dilemma. An ethical dilemma is a choice a worker faces in his or her daily work, not a controversial topic faced by society as a whole.

Cite and write about these two of these selections in the essay:
Glenn Tinder, “Can We Be Good Without God?” pp. 147 ENCOUNTERS,
Dorothy Sayers, “Why Work?” pp. 153 in ENCOUNTERS.

You must cite at least three sources found on the ORU Library website. These may be articles from scholarly journals or current ebooks.

Illustrate and analyze the two losses with personal experiences. Discuss what Frankel says about the loss elements you’ve selected and relate them to your own experiences

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Author Joseph Taglieber sums up Bishop’s poem as something “Most of us can identify with trying to put on brave faces regarding loss; yet actually mastering losing is another matter entirely. Bishop’s faltering speaker represents human nature’s inner struggle with making art out of our struggles.”
Step One: Select two losses Bishop describes in her poem and read Frankel’s article After studying “One Art,” select two losses described in the poem. Then, read Joseph Frankel’s article and collect what he has to say about these losses.
Frankel’s “Coming to Terms with Loss in Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘One Art’” article is on
Step Two: Illustrate and analyze the two losses with personal experiences Discuss what Frankel says about the loss elements you’ve selected and relate them to your own experiences. You may approach this in any way that works for your thinking – the anecdote can be lighthearted or “deep”; use material you are comfortable writing about.
Example: When I was 18-years-old I bought a used motorcycle against my parent’s wishes; they were worried I would get hurt. Shortly after getting the bike I was in a minor accident that only I knew about. I suffered a bruised elbow, a burn on my calf from the bike’s piping, and some road rash – normal injuries for a motorcyclist – but I was terrified to ride again. A few days after the accident I lost the cycle’s only ignition key.
Frankel writes that “Bishop’s speaker tries to convince herself that loss is a level playing field: House keys and wasted time are on par with exlovers and lost childhood homes.” Due to my terror about getting on the bike again, the lost key gained enormous importance. To me it symbolized movement into adulthood and claiming success despite what my parent’s thought; therefore, both the accident and loss of the key [I ended up selling the motorcycle with the excuse that the key was too expensive to replace. . .]
Step Three: Bring it all together through analysis of Bishop’s final phrase, “Write it!” Bishop closes her poem with the rather curious phrase “Write it!” Your task is to bring together what you’ve written about in the body paragraphs and present an idea(s) about what the conclusion means to you as a writer and reader.
Example: The loss of the key and therefore the motorcycle is literally written on my body as a burn scar on my calf, a scar that also functions as marking me as an adult . . .

How do Beowulf and Gilgamesh exhibit their leadership traits in their respective societies? How does heroism reflect in both Beowulf and Gilgamesh?

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The heroic ideas in Beowulf suggest that one must always seek glory in life by being courageous and exhibiting nobility in his/her actions. Additionally, ones legacy should remain even after death and it is important to boast for achievements (Merchant, 2017). The poem’s events also confirm that strength, courage, warriors’ loyalty and political knowledge and upholding of good reputation are essential societal aspects. These values also appear in Gilgamesh when he meets Enkidu and defeats him in a fight to exhibit courage and glory. He also discovers that ruling well for the remaining days will enable him to leave a good legacy because he finally realizes that the most vital aspect in life is to have lived and loved well.

Despite having great differences in the way they rule and relate to people, there are various gaps in illuminating the philosophies and world views of the Sumerian and Anglo-Saxon tales. For this research, three matters are to be inspected in some detail. The first one is to study the cultural context and the literary composition of the text itself in order to understand the Epics in its entirety. The second one is to shed some light on the relationship between social and supernatural concepts with its heroic values of both Sumerian and Anglo-Saxon poetry into a narrative and the final one is to link the beginning of hero’s journey and how their transformations determine their fateful ending as epic heroes.

1.4 Research Aim                                                            

The focal goal of this study is to compare and contrast the heroic values of the Epic of Gilgamesh and Beowulf, and how they possess many similar characteristics and yet differ greatly in terms of cultural viewpoints, motivation and transformations of each hero’s journey.

1.5 Research Questions

  • How do Beowulf and Gilgamesh exhibit their leadership traits in their respective societies?
  • How does heroism reflect in both Beowulf and Gilgamesh?
  • When does the realization to change occur in Beowulf and Gilgamesh?

Write a paper exploring the notion of discourse as a social practice by analyzing a conversation between two speakers. You will consider how speakers’ intentions shape discourse, how hearers interpret meta-communicative signals, and how both speakers and audiences contextualize what they say and hear

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Write a paper exploring the notion of discourse as a social practice by analyzing a conversation between two speakers. You will consider how speakers’ intentions shape discourse, how hearers interpret meta-communicative signals, and how both speakers and audiences contextualize what they say and hear. To begin this assignment, you will choose one of the short video clips listed below. Watch the clip several times, considering how the conversation portrayed illustrates some of the key concepts discussed this week.
Where do you see examples of quantity, quality, relation, and manner? Where do you see any of the maxims violated? Apply Lakoff’s rules of politeness to the conversation. Where are they maximized or violated? Do any utterances in the exchange provide examples of positive face, negative face, or face-threatening acts? Analyze two contextualization cues or discourse markers that contribute to the speakers’ meaning(s). Evaluate two rhetorical strategies used by the speakers that contribute to their persuasiveness. Assess the ways in which the discourse is a performance or a verbal art. Consider the aesthetic nature of the discourse and of the hearer’s response. Evaluate the interplay between intention and interpretation in the conversation. What is each speaker’s intention? Is the speaker interpreted correctly? Why or why not?

Write an essay where you identify and evaluate a presupposition or set of presuppositions in your discipline in light of the worldview of Christian theism.

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Introduction: Write an essay where you identify and evaluate a presupposition or set of presuppositions in your discipline in light of the worldview of Christian theism. To accomplish this purpose, complete the following tasks:

  • Identify specific beliefs or ideas (presuppositions) in your discipline.
  • Choose one presupposition or a set of presuppositions to examine in detail.
  • Identify the worldview that the presupposition represents.
  • Examine its validity in light of Christian theism.

Directions:

  • View: How to write a documented worldview essay http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/iz1k7 [28 mins.]
  • Read: C.S. Lewis, “The Poison of Subjectivism,” pp. 163-171
  • Read: Worldviews by Jerry Solomon http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/w-views.html
  • Read: Comparing five worldviews by Dennis McCallum https://www.xenos.org/essays/five-worldviews
  • Organize your essay by dividing it into three parts:

o In your discipline of Ministry and Leadership with a concentration on Evangelism and Outreach, examine a specific worldview and its underlying presuppositions. You may select more than one. Remember to refer to a worker in the discipline using the third person (doctor, teacher, accountant…). Choose a worldview that is antithetical (or at least is not accommodating) to Christianity; a worldview with which you disagree. This can be determined by asking the following questions:

  • §§  What do the presuppositions say about meaning?
  • §§  How is evidence approached and evaluated?
  • §§  Should the presuppositions and the subsequent theory or assertion be rejected by the

Christian theist?

  • §§  Should the belief or theory be accepted by the Christian theist at all? If so, in what

manner?

  • §§  Can the theory or position be modified to fit a Christian theistic worldview? Describe

the worldview in detail; you must use the correct philosophical terms (metaphysics,

epistemology, axiology).

o Show how and why the worldview is flawed.

  • §§  Use the tests of reason, experience, and practice to analyze the presuppositions of the worldview.
  • §§  Use presuppositional apologetics as a means to evaluate how a particular worldview stands on its own merits. In other words, examine the validity of the basic assertions of an argument.
  • §§  Discuss the ramifications for the discipline if the worldview is carried to its logical conclusion.

o Assert the correct worldview as it relates to Christian theism.

  • §§  Indicate the reasons this worldview and its presuppositions are valid.
  • §§  Discuss the ramifications of this worldview in the discipline you have chosen.
  • §§  Explain how the Christian perspective would direct the theories or ideas espoused as

well as guide the activities of the researcher or scientist. How would the field change?

  • §§  In what ways could your faith in Christ enrich your discipline?
  • §§  How could Christianity ensure the validity and correctness of the actions taken as a

result of the discoveries of the discipline.

How did WW2 influence one particular aspect of literature (choose whatever aspect you want) high vocab and examples

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Read about how WWII influenced American Literature and then pick one aspect to tell the reader in five paragraphs.

How did WW2 influence one particular aspect of literature (choose whatever aspect you want) high vocab and examples.

What is the relative importance attached to (male) friendship in the society?  How is the society structured in a way that supports and encourages close bonds between men?

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Below you will find a small selection of theoretical questions relating to the course.  Any of these questions can be turned into a paper topic, especially for Paper 1.

  1. What is the relative importance attached to (male) friendship in the society?  How is the society structured in a way that supports and encourages close bonds between men?
  2. What is the relationship in the society between male friendship and marriage?  In what way do they work together?  In what way, for example, must marriage in the premodern societies work to reinforce and support male friendship as the most important relationship in that society?
  3. Why is it that male friendship is given more importance in premodern and, to a certain extent, early modern societies?  What has made male friendship today diminished.  (You might ask how our society is structured in such a way that it encourages and promotes marriage (and the nuclear family) even as it requires that other relationships, including friendship, bow down to this relationship.)
  4. Think about how human relationships differed when society was structured differently.  How did male friendship feel, and how does this feeling differ from the feeling we might have today toward our friends?  Relatedly, how did marriage feel, and how did it differ from how it felt today?  Even though I keep using the term, “diminish,” this question really should be considered in terms of the quality of the affection rather than simply the intensity.
  5. In what way was friendship characterized by ritualistic behavior?  In what way was it considered a spiritual entity?  How does this compare and contrast to how marriage is considered by many (but not all) in our society?  Do we still have rituals around friendship?  If so, why not?  What do these rituals tell us about the way friendship felt or what it meant?
  6. How do physical acts of intimacy serve to express the intimacy between men?  Did earlier cultures have the same homophobia — that is, fear that certain behavior or actions in their relationship would signify as an inappropriate relationship?  Without such homophobia (or awareness of something called “homosexuality”), how are male friendships constructed differently?

Compare and contrast Tartuffe and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the way the structure of the comedy is undermined to emphasize a political point or societal problem.

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Compare and contrast Tartuffe and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the way the structure of the comedy is undermined to emphasize a political point or societal problem.

It has to be formatted in MLA and be a minimum of 1000 words. With at least one quote from each play in each of the 2 body paragraphs.