Spiritual elders have been biblically mentioned on various occasions. In the Old Testament spiritual elders were outstanding tribe leaders, rulers or advisors in their community and heads of households. After reviewing Kook's readings, I believe Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook appears to have been an optimistic spiritual elder with an extreme eagerness to help people realize their blessings. Kook was also the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine and one of the most celebrated rabbis of the 20th century. Lark was a Lakota Chief in the late 19th century. He successfully translated many Sioux prayers into English. After evaluating Lark's readings, I feel Chief Yellow Lark appears to have had an intense eager to learn from his God. I believe the readings of both elders are universal and they can be of value to others; even individuals that do not believe in the elder's particular religious faith.
I remember the first time I heard a metaphor being utilized, I was in second grade, and my teacher said to the class “The early bird catches the worm.” I was puzzled by her statement, and I requested an explanation, I did not understand why my grammar school teacher was discussing birds while she was teaching an English class. My grammar school teacher smiled at me and said “ What I am trying to say to everyone is, the earlier you wake up, the more time you will have to study before your test starts.” After school, I ran home excited, I could not wait to tell my grandmother what I had learned.
Throughout my life I have noticed many historical figures have used metaphors to get their point across. (Ex. Martin Luther King Jr.)
Radiant Is The World Soul is a reading that is filled with metaphors. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Koo...
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...see bad things before they occur. Unfortunately, time travel does not exist, although wisdom can take the place of time travel in certain circumstance. Let me elaborate, if God gave me the wisdom at the age of fourteen years of age to understand my blessings, it may not have taken me one year to cure my manic depression; instead, I obtained the wisdom required at the age of fifteen.
In my opinion, “Let Me Walk in Beauty” and “Radiant is the World Soul” can universally relate to all people of the world, regardless of their tradition; because the readings speak in metaphors. Metaphors allow an individual to perceive the meaning of context in a different way than another. The spiritual elders have taught me life is precious, and I should not wait till I am eighty years old to celebrate it; I should crave knowledge, and by the same token, enjoy what I already know!
Spiritual elders have amazing insight and are able to help individuals with their spiritual walk regardless of their personal religious beliefs. Many elders offer spiritual wisdom that we may not receive in our church or from spiritual elders in our families that have the same belief system. All of the spiritual elders that I reviewed were able to give information that was able to help me in my personal journey and wrote in a way that can be understood by others that do not share the same beliefs. Scholarly, spiritual leaders offer experience, knowledge, and wisdom that we may never obtain so, it is important to observe and understand their contributions.
The short story "The Metaphor" is based around this perception. Charlotte admires and looks up to her grade seven teacher, Miss Hancock. Miss Hancock is a very kind and caring person "I could tell that she was feeling concerned and kind, not nosy," (Pg. 69) but unfortunately she is often overlooked because of the way that she dresses "Her head was covered with a profusion of small busy curls, which were brightly, aggressively, golden." (Pg.66) However, as Charlotte and the rest of her classmates discover, she is actually quite a sophisticated person "Miss Hancock was equally at home in her two fields of creative writing and literature. It was the first tine I had been excited, genuinely moved, by poems, plays, stories." (Pg. 66) The more that the students developed, the happier Miss Hancock became "But we were delighted with ourselves. And she with us." (Pg. 67) She took great pride in her job and really enjoyed teaching her students. The more the children got to know Miss Hancock, the more they began to appreciate her as an individual, and the happier Miss Hancock became.
“Metaphor.” Dictionary of World Literature: Criticism - Forms - Technique. Ed. Joseph T. Shipley. New York: Philosophical Library, 1943. 377-8.
During the 1960s inequality was a major problem in the United States. One advocate for making things right was Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. King organized many marches, sit-ins, and boycotting events. But one of Dr. King’s greatest and memorable works has to be the “I Have a Dream” speech. During this speech Dr. King was conveying a message of freedom for all, to 250,000 civil right followers and many more people listening to the radio broadcast. To spread his message Dr. King uses rhetorical appeals like logos to appeal to the reason of his audience, ethos by his examples of practicing what he preached, and his metaphorical language and repetition.
Metaphors can be defined as those concepts where a term is used to portray a different meaning in a phrase than what it literary means. Additionally, metaphors are also used to make rhetorical statements where one is speaking of something else but by the use of words that do not have the same meaning. Moreover, metaphors can be used when one is trying to compare two different items with different meanings to portray the same meaning in describing something (Arduini 83). The book “Their eyes were watching God” has several metaphors, which have different analyses.
Hence, iconic political figures have used language to force individuals to think and act on important issues that encompass society. Activists like Malcolm X and Helen Keller exemplify this power and perspective of language in the realms of approach and progress. History records Malcolm
Both Edward and Henry use metaphors to help develop there arguments. Both speakers uses a stronger force than they are in each speech to emphasize how if the listeners act now they could possible avoid the fate that would await them if they continue to act as they have. Edward uses metaphors to show the natural men how they seem to God. When Edward talks about the stream of water being held back only to grow over time and when eventually let loose would engulf a person in a torrent of wat...
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial more than two score years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King electrified America with his momentous "I Have a Dream" speech. Aimed at the entire nation, King’s main purpose in this speech was to convince his audience to demand racial justice towards the mistreated African Americans and to stand up together for the rights afforded to all under the Constitution. To further convey this purpose more effectively, King cleverly makes use of the rhetorical devices — ethos, pathos and logos — using figurative language such as metaphors and repetition as well as various other techniques e.g. organization, parallel construction and choice of title.
Metaphors make speeches more personal, more memorable and more persuasive, they create a sense of familiarity, trigger emotions, and motivate the audience. They also provide a new perspective and a new meaning that can influence the audience to reconsidered their beliefs on a certain topic. In “The Harvard Commencement Speech” Winfrey says “Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.” She uses a metaphor to motivate the audience and try to make them have a new outlook on failure. She's tells her audience that failure just life telling everyone to make a different decision. Winfrey encourages the students by explaining that failure may be difficult to overcome, but it's a part of life. Metaphors are also used to create a connection of the idea to an object that the audience already knows. In “The Stanford Commencement Speech” to creates a sense of familiarity by saying “what I know now is that feelings are really your internal GPS system for life.” A GPS system is mundane, her audience is familiar with a GPS, which allows a connection between failure or feelings with a GPS. When Winfrey uses the metaphor she makes it easier for her audience to understand and remember her message. Metaphors are effective in speeches because they produce interest in the audience, draw attention to certain ideas, and advancing the flow of
Metaphors are used by Chesterfield, whereby he uses them to portray his son’s values. Chesterfield builds his son up, and provides all the obstacles that could come into his life in the near future. He takes his time to warn his son about the problems, and struggles that he is to face in the future through a metaphor where he says, “thorns and briars which scratched and disfigured me in the course of my youth” (Stanhope 91). He refers to these problems as thorns and briars. He was frightened that his son was going to make the same mistakes he made while he was a youth and so, he had to warn him in advance of what awaits him. He uses metaphors in his warnings just to emphasize his points. Later on, in his warnings to his son; Chesterfield also uses anastrophe in contradicting his points. He uses anastrophe as an understa...
The charge of the light brigade and o captain, my captain both use metaphors but are used in different ways. The charge of the light brigade uses metaphors “into the valley of death” in stanza one and two to describe the battlefield. Uses “into the jaws of death” to emphasize that the soldiers were going to die but they kept on going anyway. In o captain my captain the whole poem is a metaphor towards Abraham Lincoln. The sailor on the ship is grieving towards the death of his captain which is abraham lincoln and the people on the dock waiting for his return is the country. Although both authors use metaphors in many ways, they also use personification in many different ways.
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On the other hand, in the book, Spiritual Leadership, Oswald Sanders talks about Christians having reservation to aspire to leadership. Many Christians are not convinced that it is biblical sound to desire a leadership role in the church. They questioned whether their ambitions are noble or honorable. An ambition that is centered on God is noble but those that uplift one’s own desire should be questioned. Although Sanders talks about ambition, he describes the shortage of leader in the church. He speaks about Christian’s talents and how it is imperative for them to glorify God with their talents. Spiritual leaders are regarded as gifted/talented people; however, the talents do not make them leaders. The talents may accent their leadership but God is the one that makes spiritual leaders. Spiritual leadership combines talents and spiritual gifts. Every spiritual leader should be led by the Holy Spirit. Without Him, it is impossible to be a spiritual
...from the future has given us the secrets to do so? Is it because the future has not been acted out yet? Or has it been, and we are simply the past, seeing it as the present? Time travel has been a long debated subject. One such debate is, can it even be done? Many models of the big bang suggest that it can, while the theory of relativity says that it cannot be done.
I’d like to state the most obvious observation that I’ve made about spiritual formation; that is that I will always need to be seeking for ways to nurture my personal spirituality throughout my life. I know that to most people this may sound like a “duh” statement, but for me it has truly become a reality and one that I must admit I have been struggling to embrace. I was brought up in a church that, like most traditional churches, stayed happy living in the “comfort zone” of their Christianity. They took everything that the Bible said at face value without digging in to find out why they believed what they believed. I had never been challenged to look deeper into the text. In the past few years I have felt the need to tunnel out of this cave of what I feel is best labeled “Christian ignorance”. In the process though, I have had to come to terms with letting go of the things that brought me comfort and provided me with what I thought it took to have a close relationship with God. Some of those things were tangible. Most were not. The things that were the least tangible actually ended up being the hardest to let go of.