Martin Rodriguez Ms. O’Kelly AP English 3 October 2011 Editorial Essay Genia Miller had to identify the body of her 14 year old daughter by her jewelry after a horrific crash caused by texting while driving made her daughters face unrecognizable. People have the tendency to answer the phone while driving even though they know that they are at risk from having a car accident or causing an accident. Even though people are not supposed to drive while txting they still do it knowing they could get a citation because its against the law. Texting while driving has become an increasingly destructive epidemic that claims the lives of hundreds of people each year. I think that the people who are texting and driving should be penalized harder that way everybody will learn not to be texting.
He was suspended for being disruptive and talking when he was supposed to be silent. Another example is when Charles tells his friends that Mr. McLeod was in a car accident where a little boy was accidently killed. His friends took this information the wrong way. They started the rumor that “the freak” killed the kid. When Phillip Malloy tells Mr. Griffen about the incident, In Nothing But the Truth, he makes the rumor grow even larger.
In the end, rape culture is definitely being spread through the media, often in a negative way. Rape culture and its continuing effects on the world are heavily influenced by the media, but that can be changed from a negative concept to a slightly more positive one if people can consistently stand up for the right ideas. It is no secret that once something is placed on the Internet, if it can generate enough interest, it will travel quickly. This can be very bad for the promotion of things like victim blaming and sexualized violence. If enough people see it, it’s going to gather many opinions, and unfortunately, there will be a lot of thoughts that agree with these horrible concepts.
Seven Pounds delivers a very powerful message and leaves the audience contemplating what their mission in life is and how it would change if their life abruptly changed in an instant. The movie is written in such a way that each viewer can take away his or her own personal message from the movie. The main message of the film is centered on what is each individual’s purpose in life – what is their personal mission in this world. Throughout the movie, it becomes clear that Ben Thomas, Will Smith, was in a terrible auto accident that he caused and took seven lives, including his wife’s. Ben’s outlook on life changes with the accident.
If you were to read headlines like ‘Paranoid schizophrenic killed mother and friend after early hospital release' (this refers to Leyton Williams who killed his elderly mother and friend, Anthony Kitely, in 2008) (Jones 2010) what would yours or anyone’s immediate reaction be? I suspect that after feeling sympathy for the victim you would start discussing the risk and danger mental health users pose to society. You are not alone in your thoughts because the current feeling is ‘Western Society is increasingly preoccupied with concerns about risk so much so that some sociologists now define it as a risk society’. (K272, Unit 14, p. 33) Unfortunately this perception of risk can impact on people with mental health problems. These effects usually come in the form of stigmatisation and the belief that they contribute to violence in society.
All Together Mourning Princess Diana Diana, Princess of Wales died in 1997 from a car crash. She and England’s Prince Charles had two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, before they got divorced. Princess Diana was known for both her philanthropy and her scandal-plagued marriage. The following texts: “Princess Diana Dies in Paris Crash”, “Queen Elizabeth’s Televised Speech”, “Earl Spencer’s Eulogy for Diana”, and the Wikipedia entry for Princess Diana are all about the sorrowful death of Princess Diana from a different person’s point of view. The first article, “Princess Diana Dies in Parish Crash” is a news report from the British Broadcasting Company on the morning of Diana’s death.
She is quick to say, "The God that I serve looks at a person's heart deep down and not his appearance". Is this the case? Let's not forget quickly that our appearance can cause a fellow man to sin, and that is sinful on our part. This is surely the handiwork of the devil. nful Also, I think this trend is on the speedy rise because not much attention is given to it in the church today for fear of indirectly driving away and losing our already handful members.
Voltaire on Religious Tolerance During the age of Enlightenment many people, especially those belonging to the middle class, began writing against the way society lived. Many people also wrote against the church and the way the church wanted to run things. Voltaire always spoke against the church but he also believed in religious tolerance because in the end he was raised with religious beliefs that could not be forgotten. Just like John Huss and Martin Luther, Voltaire received punishment for trying to unmask the church although what they spoke the truth. This is why I believe he started this piece talking about an Irish priest who wrote a pamphlet on religious tolerance.
Would you accept a female priest in your church? In general religious use, ordination is the process by which a person is set apart for the administration of various religious rites. The ordination of women is nowadays a very controversial issue especially in religions where either the rite of ordination, or the role that an ordained person fulfills, has traditionally been restricted to men because of cultural prohibitions or theological doctrines. Although there may be many advocates of female priests, I have to admit that personally I strongly disapprove of them and I am sure I could not accept one in my local community church. Firstly, from the point of view of the Roman Catholic Church I belong to, the main reason women cannot be consecrated is that Jesus himself chose twelve male apostles.
This was the point where the church start to took advantage of people, people would do anything they could to make sure they are going to heaven. There was occasion when ordinary people saw something in the church which would make them feel they can’t trust the church anymore. The religious roles such as local priests were supposed to comfort people in hard times, they were supposed to live in a very simple life and spend their time praying and helping people. But many people saw their priest being drunk and doing things exactly against the religious ideas. In the other hand we had the popes, most of them took advantage of people’s beliefs such as believe in purgatory and made money out of it and rather spending on a good cause they spent it to make big churches and extending their empire.