Just about everyone knows or has heard of Superman. His great ways with words and his good looks, Superman was an instant hit in the comic book industry. During the Cold War the comic book industry became a booming sensation, with novels including Captain America, The Hulk and Superman. Because of the amount of stress during the Cold War of possible communists living in the United States, comic books and comic strips became an American form of entertainment and propaganda. During this time period Superman and Captain America were both drawn up to defeat communist scum off the streets of the United States. The Communist Party was formed in the late 1940s to early 1950s, and these comics were written to help the children of the country have roll …show more content…
models to look up to. The average American citizen was reading the newspapers every day to stay informed with was going on. Comic strips became a huge source of Cold War propaganda during this time period. ****Whether or not Stan Lee, author of such comic books, knew that Superman and Jesus had quite a few parallelisms, there are. Superman’s life was one for the ages. The amount of parallelism between Superman and Jesus is uncanny Superman was born on planet Krypton and was sent to Earth because his home planet was being destroyed. Krypton was a distant planet that orbits a red sun. Before the destruction of the planet, Krypton was home to a sophisticated civilization with advanced science and technology. The planet was named after the frozen state of the gas element Krypton. The planet is filled with icy crystalline like figures. In most versions Krypton is destroyed by natural causes such as internal pressure practically making the planet explode from the inside, out. The explosion of Krypton was due to highly unstable geological conditions according to some comic books. Other comic books state that Krypton’s explosion was due to a nuclear reaction caused by an unstable radioactive core, which caused Kryptonite to form. For anyone who has not read a Superman comic or seen a movie about Superman, Kryptonite is Superman’s one weakness. Superman practically became the savior of the Earth population, with fighting off evil that set foot on Earth. Since Superman’s father knew that Krypton was in a bad state, he sent Superman to Earth to protect his son from the destruction of the planet. This resembles God sending his son, Jesus, to Earth to die for our sins. Superman protected the Earth against any evil villains that could cause too much trouble or cause to much harm to the people on it. It is said in the Bible if Jesus had not died for our sins then we may not be here anymore and that the human race might not be of existence. This goes hand in hand with Superman protecting the people he was governed to do so. Superman had many different types of enemies.
One of the most famous encounters was the Superman and Lex Luther conflict. Lex Luther, with his witty tactics to get into trouble and even wittier ways to get out of it, was certainly a difficult villain for Superman to take down. Lex Luther could be seen as Superman’s arch nemesis because of the amount of trouble he gave Superman. Lex Luther and Superman were at one-point friends, until a terrible lab experiment caused Luther’s hair to fall out completely. This lab accident causes Lex Luther to plan his entire life off ending Superman’s. In the modern Lex Luther, he is rewritten as a very wealthy scientist/CEO who comes off as a great man to the public because of his great deal of involvement, but really is a sociopathic, crazed man. Lex Luther should resemble someone that is believed to have lived through the Christian beliefs. In the Bible it is said that Satan, or Lucifer was once an angel of God and was one of God’s people. After an awful mistake by Lucifer he was sent to hell by God to rule the underworld. Just like Lex Luther and Superman’s confrontation with the accident in the laboratory, Lucifer would always try to get back at God for banishing him to hell. Lucifer and Lex Luther also resemble each other with their lies. Luther hid behind his large amount of philanthropy he was into. Due to this the people of the world would become accustomed to Luther being a great man when he was constantly out to kill or get rid of Superman. Lucifer does this same thing with people in modern time with a thing called temptation. God does not want people to fall into temptation a lot like Superman did not want people to listen to the nonsense Lex Luther had to
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In Martin Luther King’s Jr essay “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” he uses ethos, pathos, and logos to establish his argument. First, let’s establish what all these means to the reader. Ethos gives the writer credibility, Logos is establish to the reader at what is logical, and Pathos is established with sympathy. When you think of Justice for all, we tend to think of your constitutional rights for all walks of life. But King is saying that this is not the case for the African American race back in early history. Some may think that King was only fighting the rights of the African American people, but the truth of the matter, he was fighting for all walks of life.
Oppositely influenced by Nietzsche’s thoughts on Christianity it is no surprise concepts used in Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail can be differentiated between Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche believed that people in charge set the rules for master and slave morality, he also believed that Christianity is a form of slave morality. Nietzsche thought people should only be treated equal as long as they are equal in force and talent. King argues that Christianity to him means that we are all as people equal to one another.
On one end of the spectrum lays Superman, an alien who from birth is comparable to god, and on the opposite side lays Lex Luthor, a genius human who comes from nothing and created a financial empire. Superman
Conflict theory details that specific groups of society benefit disproportionately from established social, economic and political arrangements, prompting the advantage to employ necessary means in maintaining said inequality. In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s statement, “We know through painful experiences that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed,” it is the societal imbalance between the white majority and individuals of color that Dr. King Jr. seeks to address and transform. Conflict theory is rooted in the principle that conflict is the energy of change, supporting Dr. King Jr.’s message that access to education, economical advances and freedom can only occur through the effort of the
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One example of this is the Bible. The Bible is the religious text that contains all the stories and believes of the Christian religion. In the Bible it is present many times the menace of the Devil and how manipulating he can be. The story of Lucifer itself is a demonstration of the light vs dark archetype. Lucifer was the most powerful celestial being after God. His power was immense (Preparing for Eternity). But after, as this lines from the Bible show, he decided to claim himself as higher than God, as more powerful than the Creator: “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly on the heights of Zaphon; I will ascend to the tops of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High”(Isaiah 14:12-14). Lucifer, the lightbearer, decided not to stand under God’s dominion. For this reason, the light vs dark archetype can be seen in Lucifer as in the Bible. He was the preferred from God, the next in line after him, but then he changed. He wanted more power, he wanted to be the one deciding for himself not God deciding for everybody, so he turned into a
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr wrote a letter to fellow clergymen after being arrested for civil disobedience in Birmingham, Alabama. I agree with his statements towards the differences between just and unjust laws. A just law is one that abides by the law of God and the moral law. An example of this is when the majority party puts a law into place and are willing to follow that law along with the minority. On contrary, an unjust law is not put into place for the sake of the majority and the minority. An unjust law seems unfair to the group that is least likely to be represented. These laws are not made for everyone that's why Dr. Martin Luther King didn't have a problem with breaking unjust laws because they were just that, unjust. Unjust means not behaving according to what is morally right and fair. He says that there is a difference between law, just and unjust and with morality (good and bad). Dr. King also says that it's
Martin Luther was a former Priest/Monk and that saw some corruption in the Roman Catholic Church. Luther tried to bring his concerns to the Church in his writing of the “Ninety-five Theses on the Power of Indulgences.” When these question that Luther proposed to the Archbishop of Mainz went unsatisfactorily unanswered in 1517, Luther started defaming the Roman Church and pushed for the utter destruction of the Roman Church. What started out as an internal reform of Church’s discipline, turned into a war against the Roman Church for their total destruction. This was the intent of Luther’s sermon of 1521.
Throughout the realm of morality, there are three dominant theories that have prevailed: moral relativism, deontology, and utilitarianism. The esteemed Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement and well renowned for his tendencies to promote nonviolence. He frequently encouraged other blacks to adhere to his path of nonviolence during this time of oppression. Through careful observation of King’s texts, it is quite evident that he conforms to deontology in his early efforts for racial quality and, in the latter part of the Civil Rights Movement, he blatantly expresses a utilitarian approach. Based upon this identification, it is further discernible that Martin Luther King Jr. would, if need be, conform to and support the Just War Theory if nonviolent attempts proved fruitless.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century church theologian, Martin Luther, wrote the 95 Theses questioning the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. In this essay I will discuss: the practices of the Roman Catholic Church Martin Luther wanted to reform, what Martin’s specific criticism of the pope was, and the current practices Pope Francis I is interested in refining in the Roman Catholic Church today.
Thesis statement: Martin Luther was responsible for the break-up of the Catholic Church Martin Luther was a representative during the 16th century of a desire widespread of the renewal and reform of the Catholic Church. He launched the Protestant reform a continuation of the medieval religious search. From the Middle ages, the church faced many problems such as the Babylonian Captivity and the Great Schism that hurt the prestige of the church. Most of the clergy lived in great luxury while most people were poor and they set an immoral example. The clergy had low education and many of them didn’t attend their offices.
From time immemorial, the promoters of social justice utilize rhetorical strategies to persuade theirs opponents of theirs claims. The proponents of the movement for civil rights for African Americans have made an intensive use of those strategies to advocate their cause. On April 16, 1963, from the jail of Birmingham, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote an extensive missive to eight clergymen who had attacked his work for civil rights in a public statement released on April 12, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. primarily aimed this letter at those eight leaders of the white Church of the South. However, the eight clergymen's letter and the response from Martin Luther King, Jr. were publicly published. Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted to convince of the utility of his commitment in this particular area at this specific moment. To persuade his readers, Martin Luther King, Jr. predominantly employs Aristotle's three types of persuasion that are appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos. First, he appeals to his own reputation and wisdom. Second, he tries to arouse emotions or sympathy in the readers. Finally, he appeals to logic, supported with evidence and citations from influential thinkers.
The core of American myth is Superman consists of a few basic facts that remain unchanged throughout the infinitely varied ways in which the myth is told – facts with which everyone is familiar, however marginal their knowledge of the story. Superman is an orphan rocketed to Earth when his native planet Krypton explodes; he lands near Smallville and is adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent, who inculcate in him their American middle-class ethic; as an adult he migrates to Metropolis there he defends America – no, the world! no, the universe – from all evil and harm while playing a romantic game in which, as Clark Kent, he hopelessly pursues Superman, who remains aloof until such time as Lois proves worthy of him by falling in live with his feigned identity as a weakling. That’s it. (Engle, 678).
Wicked, dishonorable, corrupt, villainous, malicious, and vicious all have one thing in common: they define evil. A person or a group of people that display these qualities are often to be defined as evil beings or creatures. Two people that have many of these characteristics developed within them are Iago from Shakespeare’s Othello and Lucifer from the Bible. Both Iago and Lucifer are developed with many “evil” qualities woven intricately into their character development. The representation of each “evil” characteristic gives them something they have in common allowing the description and portrayal of both Iago and Lucifer in literature show the audience they share common “evil” characteristics and that they lead to chaos and downfall.
Five hundred years ago, an obscure German monk published 95 theses for debate and unwittingly set off a revolution that continues to shape the church and the world to this very day (Christian History: Luther and the Reformation). In 2003, there was a movie released about a German monk, named Martin Luther, which depicted his life and journey during the time of the protestant reformation. The movie Luther was not made to be a history lesson, but was to portray the life of Luther, and the events leading up to the protestant reformation. Ever since the movie Luther, critics continue to debate whether or not the movie accurately communicates Martin Luther’s life and the issues revolving the Protestant Reformation?