Please read and answer all the questions in each essay topic carefully. Each essay response should be about 2 pages long. Each essay is worth 50 points each.
I prefer that you speak in plain language as if you were explaining the subject matter to someone with no experience with the topic. It is permitted to only use our textbook as a source. You may use outside sources if you like, but your own reflections in your own words are preferred.
If you submit work that is not your own, you will receive a zero grade for the assignment and academic discipline may ensue.
Preview of Essay #1
Choose one of the religions we covered in this course. Answer the following questions within your essay.
- What forms of worship, prayer, meditation, or ritual activity are associated with this religion?
- How are the rituals performed?
- Who is the leader or who are the leaders in this religion?
- What types of art, music, dance, or other fo
Describe your background of apologetics as you begin this course. What have been your conceptions of apologetics (both positive and/or negative)? Have you previously studied apologetics? If so, explain the chief motivators for and the benefits of your study. If you have not studied apologetics in the past, how do you think studying it could prove helpful?
Your paper must be 400500 words and include at least 3 scholarly/academic references in addition to Apologetics at the Cross and the Bible. Try to find material that supports what you are saying and/or material that has helped improve (or not improve) your views on apologetics. Submit your paper as a Microsoft Word document. Essay 1 must use Times New Roman, 12-point font, follow current Turabian format, and be uploaded to Blackboard.
complete the module reading assignment from the Northouse textbook, then select 2 concepts of interest to you and research the concepts in peer-reviewed journals. Submit a thread of at least 500 words examining the relationship between the selected concepts and leadership. Then use the Merida text and other sources to provide biblical application of the concepts. Support your thread by citing at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles. Your thread must be in current APA edition format and must include a reference list.
Discussion Board Forum 3 - Path-Goal and Leader-Member Exchange Leadership Theories (chpt 6-7 Northhouse) Books are attached.
Women have served in various contexts and this has changed over time. Complete research based on the following criteria regarding the historical context of women leaders.
Read Chapter 3 in the textbook by Halee Gray Scott. (Dare Mighty Things)
Write a 3-4 page paper highlighting, comparing, and contrasting 2 women leaders from history serving in different contexts and why they were successful or unsuccessful in their leadership in that context. Ensure the following points are addressed:
Choose two women from any of the following eras. The two women in your paper must be from different eras:
A woman leader from ancient Egypt, Greece or Rome
A woman leader from the Middle Ages to Renaissance
A woman leader from the 19th and 20th century
Ensure that you use the Paper Writing rubric to guide your efforts and support your work with scholarly academic resources using APA format.
1 scholarly article, APA format. List references.. Define Theravada and Mayayana. Describe the Ahrat and the Bodhisattva. Explain how each achieves the goal of nirvana. Examine how they relate to some of the key concepts/teachings (e.g,the Four Noble Truths, the three Mark's of reality.
Sociologists puzzled for decades over the growth of evangelical Protestantism. Christian Smiths study argues that we can learn a lot and get past some faulty assumptions in the sociology of religion if we consider American evangelical Protestantism as a subculture. Write an essay that discusses Smiths subculture perspective on evangelical Protestantism, why he thinks this is such a promising way to understand this religious phenomenon, and how Luhrmanns more recent study can be seen as either extending or challenging Smiths insights. Make sure your essay addresses these points along the way:
Choose one of the religions we covered this semester. Answer each of the following questions in your essay.
- What are the teachings of this religion regarding God or the divine or unconditioned reality?
- What does this religion say about the afterlife?
- What does this religion teach about ethics (good, bad, right, wrong, how to live)?
- What does this religion teach about people of other religions?
- Do females and males have similar or different roles in religious life?
Be descriptive and specific.
I prefer that you speak in plain language as if you were explaining the subject matter to someone with no experience with the topic. It is permitted to only use our textbook as a source. You may use outside sources if you like, but your own reflections in your own words are preferred.
Your essay should be about 2 pages long, double spaced (40 lines).
Please answer the questions marked in RED on the reading response template that I attached on this order. Do NOT change the template, just fill in the blanks. Answer questions 1, 3, and 4 only referencing from the article attached (do not find answer anywhere else). Please use in-text citation for questions 1, 3, and 4.
Example: ... (Bourdieu 47).
For question 5, please do a simple research and use footnotes to cite at the end of the page.
In some ways, we as a society are accustomed to think about sexuality as intensely private. Yet our sense of what sexuality means and how it feels is always shaped by our social context. On this note, #MeToo founder Tarana Burke recently said that she hoped we would re-socialize ourselves about sexuality and sexual violence. How do you think we can re-envision sexuality as a dimension of our lives that is justice-centered, that helps us end sexual violence, and that promotes our flourishing as humans?
Be sure to define your terms carefully here.
Sub-questions to help spur your thinking: how do we need to think and act differently to combat sexual violence effectively? How would both Christian and broader secular views of sexuality and sexual violence have to be transformed? How are people of all genders respectively implicated in this work?
Let's now turn to another example representing the internal diversity within Hinduism. Please read the following two articles on the epic Ramayana. The first is an overview of the epic from Professor Vinay Lal from UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles.) The second is a 2011 news story from the Sunday Guardian about how an influential essay entitled 300 Ramayanas from the renowned scholar A.K. Ramanujan was removed from the B.A. syllabus of Delhi University.
Keeping in mind your reactions to both the readings above, please share your reflections in the discussion board. What surprised you in these depictions? What did you find compelling or challenging? Please post your response and respond to the posts of at least two other people. The sources are below
http://www.sunday-guardian.com/artbeat/ramanujan-a-the-ramayana
http://southasia.ucla.edu/religions/texts/ramayana/
