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- 191: Christ Is The Answer - John Saward
- Christ Is The Answer John Saward Christ's life has been documented and studied for many years, in an effort to understand not only his mission but his message. Theologians have tried to uncover the mystery of Christ, so that Christians will engage their faith in the right direction. For many Christians each step of their faith needs direction. John Saward's book Christ Is The Answer is an attempt to step by step explain: What Christ is?, Who he is?, and What he means to man. "This book is an introduction to Christ and ... easily be forgotten and pushed aside by routines. Even if it is forgotten or lost in the fog, Christ's work is still very visible to this day. This is visible through the work of John Paul II. From the very beginning of Pope John Paul II's Pontificate, he stressed the importance of Christocentricity. "The opening words of his first encyclical state the truth upon which all his teaching ...
- 192: Cosequences Of Shame And Guilt
- ... and remorse. In each of the two works, The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are characters who have committed a sin and feel guilty about it. For example: John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, and Reverend Dimmesdale have all committed a sin or sins and are feeling extremely guilty and remorseful about it. They are wanting to be forgiven, but they have no strength and are cowards. Forgiveness can be obtained if these characters find the strength within themselves to speak the truth. The first to commit a sin is John Proctor, the husband of Elizabeth Proctor. John is a good man until Abigail Williams comes into his life. John lives in a house feeling empty and thinking his wife does not love him. Lust is a very powerful feeling and it ...
- 193: John Savage Desires What Makes
- ... Monogamy is sinful, massive orgies are not. Serious thinking is unnecessary because life has already been planned out. Hardships and stress can be solved with a few tablets of soma. This is the world which John Savage and others in the novel foolishly came to hate. All of the things that John Savage desires are the things that make our society unstable. Huxley uses John Savage to show the reader that this world is distopian, when this society is the closest example to a stable, utopian society. Uninhibited sexual freedom provides happiness to this society’s citizens, the Fordians. ...
- 194: John Grisham
- John Grisham John Grisham became a world famous writer with his book The Firm. Although he never wanted to be a writer, he has now written over nine books, many of them best- sellers (Arnold 29). Examining his writing will show why John Grisham quit his previous job as a lawyer. I will start by telling about his childhood, education, family, then on to his career. John Grisham led a mostly normal childhood. Grisham was born in ...
- 195: Western Films
- ... the historical drama of a wagon train in the mid-1800s moving westward, encountering harsh environmental and weather conditions and, of course, hostile Indians. Another epic tale of the building of the American empire was John Ford's silent railroad classic The Iron Horse (1924) - it would be fifteen years before Ford's next western classic. Warner Baxter won a Best Actor Academy Award as the Cisco Kid in director Raoul ... got their start. Gary Cooper starred in an early talkie - Paramount's first sound western by director Victor Fleming titled The Virginian (1929), known for its famous western phrase: "When you call me that, smile." John Wayne gained his acting experience during the 1930s in dozens of B westerns. "John Wayne" (first known as Marion Michael Morrison) was discovered by director Raoul Walsh and appeared in his first starring role in one of the earliest epic westerns - The Big Trail (1930), and then in ...
- 196: Cosequences Of Shame And Guilt
- ... and remorse. In each of the two works, The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are characters who have committed a sin and feel guilty about it. For example: John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, and Reverend Dimmesdale have all committed a sin or sins and are feeling extremely guilty and remorseful about it. They are wanting to be forgiven, but they have no strength and are cowards. Forgiveness can be obtained if these characters find the strength within themselves to speak the truth. The first to commit a sin is John Proctor, the husband of Elizabeth Proctor. John is a good man until Abigail Williams comes into his life. John lives in a house feeling empty and thinking his wife does not love him. Lust is a very powerful feeling and it ...
- 197: Government Lies From Vietnam
- ... agencies of the democratic countries suffer from the grave disadvantage that in attempting to damage the adversary they must also deceive their own public.” Shortly before sending General Paul D. Harkins off to Vietnam, President Kennedy meet with him at the White House. In addition to being a general, Harkins was also the head of the United States Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG). In this meeting, Kennedy gave explicit instructions that he wanted to be fully informed on every aspect of the war. This included both the good news and the bad news. As Commander-in-Chief, Kennedy had every right to this information, however he was consistently denied the bad news. Every time Kennedy received a report from General Harkins, Kennedy would hear about minor victories, new strategies, and flat out ...
- 198: The United States and National Security, and Dominant Party in Balance of Power
- ... to maintain the balance of power. The Soviet atomic test in 1949 had upset that balance. Only by building the super bomb, it was thought, could equilibrium be regained. It would not be until the Kennedy administration that Kennen would be vindicated and an awareness would develop "of the basic unsoundness of a defense posture based primarily on weapons indiscriminately destructive and suicidal in their implications" (Kennen 365). The late mistakes ... leading the Soviets to do the same. The problems of the Eisenhower years stemmed directly from the overconfidence in the U.S. nuclear program to achieve tangible military objectives in the face of increased hostilities. John Foster Dulles, the symbol of bipartisan cooperation on foreign policy, began to advocate the nuclear response. The impotence of our standing army compared to the Soviet's military behemoth was clear to all U.S. policy advisors. There was no way in which we could match Russia gun for gun, tank for tank, at anytime, in any place. John's brother Allen Dulles, CIA director under Eisenhower, said "to do so would mean real strength nowhere and bankruptcy everywhere" (Gaddis 121). Instead, the U.S. response to Soviet aggressions would be made on ...
- 199: Atomic Diplomacy
- ... to maintain the balance of power. The Soviet atomic test in 1949 had upset that balance. Only by building the super bomb, it was thought, could equilibrium be regained. It would not be until the Kennedy administration that Kennen would be vindicated and an awareness would develop "of the basic unsoundness of a defense posture based primarily on weapons indiscriminately destructive and suicidal in their implications". The late mistakes of the ... leading the Soviets to do the same. The problems of the Eisenhower years stemmed directly from the overconfidence in the U.S. nuclear program to achieve tangible military objectives in the face of increased hostilities. John Foster Dulles, the symbol of bipartisan cooperation on foreign policy, began to advocate the nuclear response. The impotence of our standing army compared to the Soviet's military behemoth was clear to all U.S. policy advisors. There was no way in which we could match Russia gun for gun, tank for tank, at anytime, in any place. John's brother Allen Dulles, CIA director under Eisenhower, said, "To do so would mean real strength nowhere and bankruptcy everywhere". Instead, the U.S. response to Soviet aggressions would be made on our terms. ...
- 200: The New World
- ... underground telecommunications, it was discovered that there were exactly one hundred survivors sparsely scattered throughout the world. Upon finding the few remaining aircraft and sea vessels, all one hundred survivors were able to gather at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was decided that life could not continue to exist on Earth. There were little to no natural resources left and all animal life had ceased to exist. While the survivors ... best Leader for the Department of Education. In order to make sure people in the New World get along; someone will have to be in charge of the Department of Human Relations. The survivors chose John F. Kennedy for this position. Kennedy was the thirty-fourth president of the United States. He proved to be a very "easy to get along with" president (Sidey). While he was in office, Kennedy showed the ...
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