Diandra Suarez November 16, 2012 Luke/Acts Critical Book Review-Reading the Bible from the Margins De la Torre presents Reading the Bible from the Margins as a book that brings perspectives to the standard way of reading the Bible. He makes the point that only one interpretation of the Bible was considered due to the dominant culture’s power (Delatorre 8). Despite this power, Delatorre hopes to show how the marginalized are spiritually empowered. Although the Euroamericans, or people in power, are not racist, they all have a privilege which will dominate above the marginalized and therefore they must be educated on the disenfranchised. By viewing Scripture from those who are oppressed, readers can learn God's will for us with a better
No one wants to be so unlike everyone else. No one wants to not be liked or viewed differently. Everyone simply wants to fit in. In the American Scholar, Margaret Drabble expresses this thought in the quote,” Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.” We are constantly affected by external factors that create a view of how we should be living, and, as a result change our internal opinions and mindset. This explains our society today because people are conforming to society from external factors, like our appearance, and by internal factors, like with our opinions.
When creating equal opportunity for the residence to participate in activities, we have to consider each residents diversified needs so that individuality would be promoted. Inclusion is to eliminate all barriers that make it difficult for a resident to participate in society, so that all residents can be included in activities to reach their potential as it is a basic right for residents to participate in their own care provisions. 1.2 – describe the potential effects discrimination Answer: Discrimination occurs when certain individuals are unfairly treated than others due to their gender, race, disability, culture, religion, appearance, sexual orientation and ethnicity and beliefs. The potential effects of discrimination could be: • Isolate themselves, withdrawn from society • Low self esteem • Feel anger • Worthless • Lack of confidence • Loss of identity • Challenging behaviour All these would be down to the discrimination the person has had or left 1.3 – explain the importance of inclusive practice in promoting equality and supporting diversity Answer: Inclusive practice is promoting the individuality of the resident, which is why we have to adhere to the care plans in order to meet the
Appiah also asserts that both positivism and relativism cannot support the idea of cosmopolitanism because the definition of cosmopolitanism is that every humanity should belongs in to one community, in this community, people respect and communicate with each other in moral way. Everybody shares their thoughts and form a group. Although positivism dose respect each other, their ethics are only judge by right or wrong. As Appiah mentioned that “if relativism about ethics and morality were true, then, at the end of many discussions, we would each have to end up saying, from where I stand, I am right. From where you stand, you are right.”(26) But everyone has different feelings, different perspectives to view different things.
However, per Webb, if we are, then it is a very ultra-soft patriarchy. Except for some light disagreements with some of his criteria selections, I agree overall with Webb that the spirit of the Scripture should definitely play a part in how we stand on certain issues in today’s culture. It’s imperative that we look behind the static words on the page, so to speak, and look at the context of the situation to determine what God is trying to tell us. Webb does a fairly good job of making us understand this. One may not agree with his methods of choosing the criteria, but you can’t disagree with his assessment that the spirit of what is trying to be said in Scripture should rule the
The Lord works in our faithfulness and our actions. In the seventh chapter Muller shifts the topic of conversation to contextualization. As messengers in a foreign culture would the story that we grew up learning be the same story that kids growing up in the Arab world learned? Most likely not, our whole world is filled with differences in culture so how do we share the Gospel without changing it? That is where there is much debate on the idea of contextualization and if we, as messengers should do it or not.
Alexandra Loza Eng 101-042 Corissa Eisenman The Myth of Universal Love Universal Love is impossible because the love between families is a natural human instinct, rather than a decision, and also because we are raised by family that teaches cultural traditions and customs that will carry on throughout our lives. Asma’s opinion of universal love was that it was a good idea because “Helping a stranger in need makes you feel better about yourself” but in reality it would not do anything because there’s no guarantee that a stranger would do the same thing back for another stranger. “The Myth of Universal Love” by Stephen Asma deals with this argument stating the advantages and disadvantages of choosing either
It is also true that these children are less supervised because they don’t receive the time and communication from their parents. Even though there is no evidence behind all this, these are the reasons why single-parent households are viewed as problematic for
It’s funny how the two people who brought each of us into this world, same blood and genetics as us, can prohibit us from having a diverse and fun-filled life. As a child they’ve preached to us about the importance of being different; being a leader not a follower. What or who exactly would we be leading if our parents don’t give us the freedom to make mistakes or if our life is based on their perished goals. Parents believe that we shouldn’t voice our opinions towards them they consider it “talking back.” I believe that we should voice our opinions for what we believe in. They feel like we aren’t eligible to make our own decisions.
Having a Christian education allows students to have proper character training, a higher standard of conduct, and positive peer influences. Those in favour of the removal of Christian education from schools argue that having Christianity in schools prevents students from having a social relationship with students of other cultures and ethnicity. However this is not so, based on a recent survey conducted by educational officials, more than 65% of students with character training are receiving Christian education. By helping their students to build good character training, the students socialize with students of different ethnicity and cultural practices. Proponents claim that Christian schools build students to feel superior over students who enrol in non- Christian schools.