Promise Keepers Essays

  • Suzanne Pharr's A Match Made in Heaven

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    beliefs can converse and in the end benefit from it. Upon boarding the plane to Portland, Oregon, both Pharr and the Promise Keepers(The Promise Keepers are a group of white men organizing around issues of women and people of color) have stereotypes of each other.(237) During the flight, Pharr stops "trying to escape through reading" (238) and begins chatting with one of the Promise Keepers. They talk about the stereotypes and misunderstandings they had. By the end of the plane ride, the two passengers

  • A Pentadic Analysis of Two Pleas for Christian Unity

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    Christian unity through a return to the clear and unambiguous teachings of the New Testament, in many ways chartered the course for the movement the Campbells led" (Hughes 11). Wagner's book is chosen because of the contemporary prominence of the Promise Keepers movement. This essay will proceed by explaining relevant aspects of Kenneth Burke's works, including the methodology to be used, applying the methodology to the two pleas, and discussing the results. Dramatism and the Pentad Burke saw

  • Moral Complexity in the Making and Keeping of Promises

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    The making of a promise involves the voluntary giving of one's word that, if and when a particular circumstance or situation comes about, one will undertake to act in a manner defined by the terms of the promise one has given. The act of making the promise, in other words, implies a willingness to keep it. What is being agreed is that, on the basis of something said in the past, one's future actions will, insofar as the future is foreseeable, follow a particular course and no other. On the related

  • A Tale Of Two Cities

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    to her. When The two meet, Lucie is informed that her father is alive. This news awakens fear and trepidation in her breast and the two journey to Paris. They proceed to a wine shop in the Saint Antoine region and there they meet Ernest Defarge, keeper of the wine shop and a former servant of Dr. Manette's. Defarge has been caring for the doctor pending the arrival of Lucie and Mr. Lorry. The Shopkeeper takes them to a garret room where they see an old, white-haired man making shoes: it is Doctor

  • Not Just for Laughs: Remembering the Porter

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    temptations from the witches and his wife) decides to assassinate King Duncan and claim the throne for himself. The Porter scene in Macbeth occurs at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3, just after Macbeth's offstage murder of Duncan. The Porter is the keeper of the Gate at Inverness Castle, and he occupies the stage while Macbeth, who hears the knocking at the end of the second scene, wishes that that the knocking could bring Duncan back to life (II.ii.88-89). Though the Porter scene is only 40 lines

  • The Consequences of Responsibility in Dubliners

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    the characters find some form of light at the end of the story which gives them a new start on their lives. “Eveline” is a story about a girl who wants to escape from her life at home and marry a man that loves her. However, she is torn between her promise to her mother to stay in this miserable place and her fiancé that wants to take her away from it all and give her a better life. With the story “The Boarding House,” Bob Doran has to figure out if he is ready to take the responsibility of marrying

  • The first time Jane and Mr Bingley meet, the air is filled with promise

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    The first time Jane and Mr Bingley meet, the air is filled with promise and romance. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. There are many women and men in this world that state that they don’t need bind in holy matrimony in order to feel complete or happy about their lives. Obviously, these women and men don’t live in the world of Pride and Prejudice. Even the opening line declares a subtle truth so well that

  • Beth Blue Swadener's Article Children and Familes: At Promise

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    “At Promise”: Children and Families When an individual hears the words, ‘at risk’, they immediately think of all the negative characteristics of terminology: teen pregnancy, troubled teens, gang bangers, drop outs, substance abusers, and so on. I know I sure did. In reading Beth Blue Swadener’s article, “Children and Families “at Promise”: Deconstructing the Discourse of Risk”, I’ve learned that there are so much more to labeling at student ‘at risk’. There is actually a history behind the meaning

  • A Promise Is A Promise

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    A Promise Is A Promise The room was ridiculously cold and my skin was damp against the sheets. No matter how extreme the temperature, I am addicted to the calming lull of the air conditioner as I sleep. It’s what they call my “white noise.” The afternoon sun was playing peek-a-boo with the clouds as its rays snuck in through the blinds. The muscles in my neck and shoulders were throbbing. I was still trying to get used to my awkward dorm room bed. A muffled voice traveled through the paper-thin

  • Philosophy-Who needs it

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    answer the question “is there anything I would willingly die for” I would want some reassurance that what I was dying for would be successful. But without some type of guarantee it would be hard to know for sure if I would be able to complete my promise. Of course I would like to be able to say that I would die for any of my beliefs but I have to admit that if I was forced to choose dying for my religion or declaring another I would superficially accept the other religion to save my life. I would

  • Love In Watching Janie's Values Of Love

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    Janie gained this experience in love as she discovered that the promises of love are not always true. Janie was promised many things in her life and most of them were the promise of finding love and obtaining it. Janie’s grandmother promised her that even if she did not like Logan Killicks that she would find love in her marriage with him, but Janie discovered that no love was to be found in her marriage and that those more elderly than her would think she was wrong for her values (Hurston 21-25)

  • The Importance Of Good Promises

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    The provider of the promise delivers as agreed. And the “customer” acknowledges delivery. Craft promises carefully, and you enhance coordination and cooperation among colleagues. Equally valuable, your company builds the agility required to seize new business opportunities. Good promises share five qualities: They are public, active, voluntary, explicit, and mission based (Sull, Spinosa). As an effective leader, you know that you will only succeed, and the business objectives will only

  • Humorous Wedding Letter

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    Dearest Thingie, Twenty-six years ago you and I took the vows of the most important thing in my life. In front of God and a room full of friends and relatives we vowed Qabool Hai, Qabool Hai….. that was For better or worse, in sickness or in health, for richer or poorer, till death us do part. You were too young but I also knew little that the commitment I was making had no money back guarantee, no magic potion, and no formula for success….. yet, I was willing to stand by you, protect you with the

  • Definition Essay: Understanding The Value Of Commitment

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    When you hear the word commitment I’m sure there are a few things that come to mind; chore, duty, responsibility, obligation, long term, job to name a few. If not then you are already a member of my club or a part of todays society to whom commitment is just a word. It holds no real significance to you and you most likely go around making and breaking commitments without any real acknowledgment. Perhaps you are even unaware that you have done this. Yes, it is possible to do, and often because

  • Paideia, Prejudice and the Promise of the Practical

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    Paideia, Prejudice and the Promise of the Practical In an age of radical pluralism it is increasingly difficult to affirm and sustain the educational aspirations of Greek paideia (Latin humanitas). The most challenging attacks on these aspirations come from standpoints which share a postmodern attitude of opposition towards inherited cultural ideals, especially those which claim universality. This paper first examines optimistic and pessimistic prospects for the educational heritage of humanitas

  • Comparing Executed Consideration and Past Consideration

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    of benefit and detriment e.g., the making of a promise in exchange for an act or it can be anything of value such as an item or service which each party to a legally-binding contract must agree to exchange if the contract is to be valid. If only one party offers consideration, the agreement is not legally a binding contract. In its traditional form, consideration is expressed as the requirement that in order for parties to be able to enforce a promise, they must have given something for it (quid pro

  • Xerxes Company Case Study

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    competitors to hire you away from us, the corporation promises to pay you a pension of $100,000 a year for life.” Pablo stood up and said, “I accept your pension promise with gratitude.” Is Xerxes Corps.’s promise enforceable by Pablo and if not, what would be necessary to make it enforceable? Explain. Answer: No, it is not enforceable because there was no bargained-for exchange. Pablo did not give Xerxes Corp. something of legal value in return for this promise. Therefore, if Pablo

  • Analysis Of Davi David Sedaris's 'The Ship Shape'

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    unwilling to resume our old roles” (Sedaris 5). In life, unreliable people surround us. These people often break promises, bringing disappointment in one’s life. Sometimes the unreliable person may not realize the disappointment the broken promises bring to others. Like in the quote from “The Ship Shape” by David Sedaris, the father expected the family to be excited about the promises, but instead they were disappointed because they had been let down numerous times. Being continuously disappointed

  • Wakan Tanka Research Paper

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    Wakan Tanka created the world and saw it was lonely and made the animals. The animals although they loved each other could not pick up after themselves and asked Wankan Tanka to make another being that would be bigger than them and can help oversee them and help keep their home clean and to be a friend to them and their home. Wakan Tanka agreed to make a being with purpose to serve the earth. He made him to be tall and hands to grasp, to clean the earth and to love the animals. He had legs to run

  • Analysis Of The Cremation Of Sam Mcgee

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    A promise is a samurai’s vow and is to be kept and honored. No matter the cost, one must hold true, the words that they swear upon. Until the vow is fulfilled or when death breaks the tie, it still holds you like an unbreakable bond. A man with a conscience will hold true, and he will not run from his word, like a samurai, he will follow it till death. “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, a narrative poem written by Robert Service, tells the tale of a man who makes a promise to cremate his dying friend