Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Samrau

Semrau's point is to conserve, reuse, and recycle everything, including yourself and body parts. The way Semrau keeps information from the reader definitely helps the intent of the essay and makes it more clear at the end. By taking what would otherwise be a normal recycling topic and then engaging you to a much deeper level on the subject Samrau keeps your attention focused on what’s at hand. Conserve, reuse, and recycle are the main words of the article with reuse being the author's favorite. You have to read further into the story to realize what he is talking about. Many people probably wonder how he is going from reusing to his bones, when he is actually talking about his body. For most people, this idea and practice is disgusting and a lot of people aredo not agree with it. But the way he writes that makes the essay and theme unknown by giving little information, it doesn’t directly tell them the main point, but makes them think a little more about it and gives them a positive effect

Thursday, December 9, 2010

A Hymn

"Savior of the Nations, Come"by Martin Luther, 1483-1546

1. Savior of the nations, come,
Virgin's Son, make here Thy home!
Marvel now, O heaven and earth,
That the Lord chose such a birth.
2. Not by human flesh and blood,
By the Spirit of our God,
Was the Word of God made flesh--
Woman's Offspring, pure and fresh.
3. Wondrous birth! O wondrous Child
Of the Virgin undefiled!
Though by all the world disowned,
Still to be in heaven enthroned.
4. From the Father forth He came
And returneth to the same,
Captive leading death and hell--
High the song of triumph swell!
5. Thou, the Father's only Son,
Hast o'er sin the victory won.
Boundless shall Thy kingdom be;
When shall we its glories see?
6. Brightly doth Thy manger shine,
Glorious is its light divine.
Let not sin o'ercloud this light;
Ever be our faith thus bright.
7. Praise to God the Father sing,
Praise to God the Son, our King,
Praise to God the Spirit be
Ever and eternally.


     This hymn is based on Jesus' birth, a christmas song.  It discusses how the people want a savior to come and to guide us to what is right and to make earth his home. It also discusses that Jesus' birth was not of a human conception but of a miraculous and heavenly one of a virgin so he would not be conceived of a sinful nature.  This hymn discusses the actual birth as well how the angels praised him. How he conquered death and hell and returned to his father's home. He did this becuase he loved and saves us.
     Luther uses pathos in this song in a variety of ways especially in his word choice of the verses. In verse 2 it says that Christ was not given to us by man but by our God who loves us so much that he would sacrifice son for us. This should make us feel heartwarmed and loved by God the Father. In verse 5 you can also see pathos by God not giving his son but his only son for us. Luther uses pathos to draw our emotions into the song by showing how much God loved us and how Jesus conquered death and hell for us.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Sermon

1. 19

2. makes holy, slain, is, died, was, slain, took sin, lives again, slain, died, died, rose, makes, reign, lives

3. From the sermon in the hands of an angry God, the main purpose of the sermon is to scare the Puritans into fearing God so they would believe in him and scare the Puritans into not doing anything wrong. The sermon that we heard was very contrasted from the idea and preached that God is a loving God and Jesus was sent to Earth to forgive our sins and to be sacrificed for us.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Mirror Dangleys

In this article it discusses whether or not to ban the law on hanging dangling items from your rear-view mirror.  There are so many people that hang "dangleys" from their mirror that it shouldn't be illegal.  People that have been pulled over and ticketed for a seperate reason, havent gotten in trouble for their mirror accessories.  Some people thought it was only illegal to have things hung in their rear-view mirror if it was distracting.

"I call it a 'gotcha' law. It's an excuse to pull someone over." This is my favorite quote becuase it is true. In this economy police still have to make their quota of tickets and this is just another excuse for a ridiculous ticket.  This law gives police a reason to ticket someone when their bored and can't think of a better ticket to give them.

I disagree with this ban. Almost everyone that i know hangs an object in their rearview mirror.  If the object is not obstructing their view, then what harm is being done? People should have the right to decorate their car as long as it doesn't put them or others at risk.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

alboms point is Amerians love lebron james becuase he is black
I disagree with albom becuase if he was white or black, he would still be an amazing bball player
 But LeBron didn't become internationally famous with only black fans liking him, and he didn't reach this sudden infamy with only white fans bailing out is his most convincing argument. He is trying to say that only black fans made him famous and onyl white fans helped him out