Responding to Amazing Grace

Reading Response to Amazing Grace

Joshua Haltom

ENG125

Olabisi Adenekan

Ashford University

October, 30, 2012

            Poetic literature has intrinsic quality of relevant, human, existentiality.  The poet may write about everything they sense, feel, experience, or imagine.  Saying that poetry is built into our life experience, is another way of saying that human experiences are more complex than they seem.  (Clugston, 2010)  In a way, we are all poets when we attempt to relate the outward environment to our internal condition.  Since perception is reality, the imagery within poetry is only as limited as the reader's spiritual capacity.  Poetry is unique in pervasive depth of symbolic content.

God in Morality

     Morals appeal to emotions, and the state of being emotional is synonymous with belief.  The ultimate subjective object of belief is God.  Therefore, I propose that one cannot be morally sound without belief in God.  This idea is all about definitions.  What does it mean to believe in God?  It is a relationship of subject to object as pertaining to giving and receiving.  What is being felt and exchanged between who and what creates a logical design that is productive or destructive for relationships.   The moral equal of sharing is emulating the Nature of the Creator.

Creativity and the Creative Process

       Successful authors are said to see the same-self, soul on a white page and project the right letters.  Something in the words that are chosen causes images to become coherent.   (Rosenberg, 2010) What is it that certain thing that makes literature interesting?  Creative writing is anything where the purpose is to inspire thoughts, feelings, and emotions rather than to simply relay information.  (Hale, n.d.)  What is the creative proocess?  What is the aesthetic system that forms active participation with an idea?  Meanings assigned to symbols and intentions assumed behind the will to receive pleasure are what form a theme.  Everyone comes with an understanding.  A creator of literary art might explain a moral or fact of life with words in stories or poems.  Literature stimulates the mind, has the potential to influence action, and to engage in it with prolific intention is like downloading existential understanding to your soul.  "Poetry exists to be heard, to be listened to for the echoes of life experiences that it presents."  (Clugston, 2010) 

Macbeth discussion ENG125

Week 4 discussion 2

Lee Long Email this Author

10/25/2012 9:37:48 PM

I definitely believe that Shakespeare’s Macbeth reveals a lot about human nature and people you will or have met all though out life.

From the very beginning of the play you see the three witches, or weird sisters, are evil and represent temptation. They did not tell Macbeth to murder the king, but he did anyway because they told him that he would one day be king. In the end Lady Macbeth takes her own life out of guilt because she could not live with herself knowing that she instigated her husband into killing the king. Macbeth also has bloody hands which represents his guilt. He believes that Neptune’s ocean will turn from green to red after he washes his hands because he feels the blood will never be able to be washed away... or guilt. Yet his wife believes it will take only a little bit of water,

The Science of Good and Evil

In her work called "Some Moral Minima", Lenn Goodman suggests that certain actions such as murder, genocide, torture, slavery, rape, and terrorism (and there may well be more) are just plain wrong.  To present the universally applicable measure of what is or is not acceptable, Goodman presents several challenges to relativism.  In the following text, I will explore the validity of the argument by defining relativism, reviewing Goodman's explanations, and then giving a scientific understanding of destructive ability and creative capacity.

The War on Drugs, Prohibition, and the Necessary Reform

    Drug laws are an outrage.  Regulatory reform in the laws of possession, which the adage says ‘is 9/10 of the law’, is the necessary protocol for the making of economic equilibrium.  When any product is considered to be “owned”, it assumes a place from which offense can be taken.   This creates a false sense of competitive rivalry between consumers.  With the guarantee of access being abundant and mutually protected by code of understanding and discipline, then, crime and poverty would become rare, if not extinct.

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Title: Mag-iloy
Date: 2011
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