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In the Line of Fire
No full textWritten for the author's First-Year Writing Seminar, this paper aims to explain the role of napalm and napalm's media portrayal in fueling the movement against the war in Vietnam and the effects results of that role.
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School Investigation and Analysis
Full text linkThis essay contends the introduction to Croft Middle School in Nashville based on online research and interviews. The author focuses more on the student population school-wide support for English Language Learners, and the learning environment. From the school visit, the author noticed the ESL classroom decoration was very creative and attractive, and it was also the valuable learning resources for English learning. Besides, the story books in the classroom were related to students’ funds of knowledge, which could raise students’ learning motivation. In addition, during the class observation, the author noticed some strengths and learned great teaching skills of Ms. Levy’s class. On the other hand, based on theories from previous researches and articles, the author also provided some recommendations in order to have students get more benefits in ESL classes
I Wish We Could Fast Forward It: Negotiating the Practice of Preaching
No full textThough recent decades in empirical homiletics have significantly contributed to the understanding of what happens in preaching from the listener’s point of view, empirical homiletics needs to do another turn and ask: What do listeners do with preaching? This article introduces children into empirical homiletics as a new group of listeners, and by a thick description of preaching as a practice. Children seldom become full participants in the practice of preaching, mainly because they do not understand what preaching is, they struggle to follow the rules, and they have different ends for the practice than the preachers. One implication for homiletics is that if preaching is considered a practice, it can also be taught. This might help children more easily become participants in the practice of preaching
Rape and Genocide
No full textThis essay, composed for a first-year writing seminar on war and human rights, examines the 1994 Rwandan ethnic cleansing. The author argues that Hutu extremists systematically disintegrated Tutsi communities by employing rape as a weapon physically directed against women with the expressed intention of unraveling the fabric of entire Tutsi family networks which placed women and mothers at the heart of their kinship groups.
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Kimberly Johnson, The Womanist Preacher: Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric from the Pulpit
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Jacob Daniel Myers, Curating Church: Strategies for Innovative Worship
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