The whole aim of a fable is to create a laugh but yet, under the laughter the fable conveys an instruction. Fables are designed to teach a lesson in morality or judgment. The lessons are implied within the fable itself.
The construction of a fable pays particular attention to the narration itself, the deduction of the moral and a careful maintenance of the individual characteristics of the personages introduced into it. The narration itself relates to a simple action and is not over laden with details. Further there are not a variety of circumstances and is always precise to the point. The moral lesson is so simple and plain that it becomes very easy for a person to deduce it the way it is supposed to be deduced without any room for misinterpretations or distortions. For example in the story "The appointment in Sammara," we learn that it is fruitless…...
During this time in history all community organizations interacted at many levels within towns and communities to address needs, emergencies, agendas, projects, and what was deemed important and many times these meetings took place at the local schools in the area which community level civic engagement and participation occurred. Therefore, having named national regulations and rules, standards, and quantitative data in testing to have played a great role in the lack of civic education in schools, as well it is necessary to address the importance assigned to education in the United States. While politicians, policy-makers and legislators all want to declare that they and their political party and organization has assigned the utmost importance to education in today's schools then a new fable in school education curriculum is discovered as under-funded and understaffed schools with horrendously unfit schools much less computer and other technology learning equipment required for today's…...
Myth to Reality
The Hidden Meanings of Fables and Parables
Since earliest times, human beings have sought to improve the world in which they live. As Man is a social creature, the day-to-day interactions between himself and his fellows take on at least as much importance as his contacts with the natural world. Certain standards of ethics and morality must be maintained if a society is to function smoothly. hile the particular standards may vary somewhat from culture to culture, the necessity of upholding them is universal. Often, a fanciful story - a fable or a parable - can express ideas that might be difficult to discuss in a more straightforward manner. People are sensitive to criticism, and frequently are blind to their own faults. They need a way to stand outside of themselves, to be an observer looking in, in order to obtain a truer picture of the real conditions…...
Guiton, Margaret. La Fontaine: Poet and Counterpoet. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press 23, 1961. Hall, James. Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art. New York: Westview Press 274, 1979.
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Lowell
In A Fable for Critics, James ussell Lowell pays tribute to his contemporaries with a sort of poetic roast. Although Lowell may not be joking, the overall tone of the lengthy poem is satirical. The assessments of authors like Emerson, Bryant, Whittier, Hawthorne, Cooper, Poe, Irving, and Holmes occasionally come across as jibes. Yet often, Lowell gushes with admiration and respect for his fellow writers. Lowell consistently and liberally uses hyperbole throughout A Fable for Critics. For example, he calls Emerson's words "like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on," (line 2). He also uses romantic imagery and metaphors like the one describing Emerson as having a "Greek head on right Yankee shoulders," (2nd stanza). Just as Lowell seems to be admiring Emerson, he launches into some harsh criticisms. For example, Lowell states that Emerson speaks about ideas like they were "fossils stuck round in a cabinet" and that…...
marathon is among the most fabled athletic events of all times. The modern-day Olympic Games, arguable the largest athletic spectacle worldwide, are rooted in ancient rites more storied than the traditions of the major religions. While the modern-day games are rooted in the post-war spirit of pacific global competition under the guise of competition, the age-old tradition of the marathon is entrenched in the collective memory of ancient history. More than two thousand years later, the marathon has become the epitome of athletic competition, rivaling the Olympics for rigor, demand, and athleticism. Held in cities all over the globe, the marathon has witnessed a recent event-tide in flourishing popularity with more people taking part each year to be part not only of the history, but reap the incredible health, metaphysical, and interpersonal rewards the race offers.
The ancient Greeks were no strangers to long-distance running, marathon scholar Charlie Lovett writes.
Central message
This Matthean Bible passage falls under the concept of eschatology (Matt. 24:1-31). One of the eschatological occurrences foretold is the return of the Son of Man (Matt. 24:29-31). The focus passage (Matt. 24:45-51) falls in-between a group of successive passages (Matt. 24:32-25; 46-51) which are advices on how best to live currently in line with this eschatology. The verses preceding and succeeding “The Parable of the Good Servant and the Wicked Servant” has several repeated warnings which states that, though the end is foreseen, there is no one who knows when exactly the end will come (Matt. 24:36, 42, 44; 25:13). These exhortations are concerned with the time between the first and the second coming of Christ, this time in which the master has embarked on a trip which he will return from (Matt. 25:14), as explained in the Parable of the Talents (Matt. 25:14-30). Since the time when…...
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References
Hagner, D. A. (1995). Matthew 14-28. Word Biblical Commentary, gen. ed. Bruce M. Metzger, vol. 33B. Dallas, Texas: Word.Tasker, R. G. V. (1961). The Gospel according to Matthew. Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, vol. 1. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans.Carson, D. A. (1984). Matthew. The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, ed. Frank E. Gaebelein, vol. 8. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House.Aland, Kurt, ed. (1987). Synopsis of the four Gospels: Greek English edition. 8th corrected ed. Stuttgart: German Bible Society.
Parable of the Prodigal Son
Among the multitude of lessons taught within the Holy Bible, perhaps none are more widely recognized by devotees and layman alike than the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Found within the Gospel of Luke (Luke 15:11 -- 32), this parable tells of a father torn between his two beloved sons, and the bargain he must make to satisfy a pair of sons both yearning for his approval. By acceding to his younger son's demands for half of the family estate, the father in this parable is demonstrating that he holds an equal amount of love in his heart for both of his progeny, which is tantamount to the love God has for every one of His children.
When the younger son immediately displays his irresponsibility and travels to a foreign land to live wildly, he has forsaken his father's gift of early inheritance, and indeed his love,…...
Parable of the Sower is a complex novel that engages is the post-apocalyptic world of conversation about race and religion through realistic character development and fast-paced action. The novel winds itself through the wastelands of urban warfare, the degradation of the earth at the hands of the worst American vices; violence, addiction, racial tension, cultish religions conviction, where the test of hope against woe is waged with fortress walls and armed demand. Inside the story of Lauren Oya Olamina, Butler narrates the quixotic preacher of Earthseed with the curse of hyperempathy, damning her to the emotions of those around her. Yet, inside these tales of drug wars, migration, and cruel hunger, Butler tells a modern day story of honesty, grace, and warmth that parallels the Markan Parable written two thousand years earlier.
The Markan gospel includes a much-overlooked text subject to much clergical and academic debate. The original Parable of the…...
Parable of the Sadhu
Bowen H. McCoy's 1983 Harvard Business Review article "The Parable of the Sadhu" describes the author's own experience of how he "literally walked through a classic moral dilemma without fully thinking through the consequences" (p.106). During a sightseeing junket to the peak of Everest, McCoy and his moralistic Quaker buddy Stephen have their travel interrupted by the discovery of a religious pilgrim -- a "sadhu" -- found basically naked and half-frozen on one of the high mountain passes. The weather is good and this high mountain pass is not invariably passable for tourists like McCoy, so the fact of the good weather means that all the parties present -- which include various tourists from Japan, Switzerland, and New Zealand -- are more concerned with getting over the pass than with a two-day trek back down the mountain to get the sadhu to a hospital or the like.…...
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Works Cited
Fletcher, Donna and Newell, Susan. (2007). "Tetra Tech EC and risk management." Harvard Business Review. 17 May 2007.
McCoy, Bowen. (1983). "The parable of the sadhu." Harvard Business Review. September-October 1983.
Taleb, N. Nicholas. (2007). The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable. New York: Random House.
Parable of the Sadhu
In the story "The Parable of Sadhu," author Bowen H. McCoy explores the question of ethics while his narrator hikes in Nepal. McCoy himself was the managing director of Morgan Stanley. He was also president of Morgan Stanley Realty, Inc. Bowen McCoy then is a figure who embodies the idea of business and financial gain. hat then could he gain from a trek in the Himalayas but a vacation from the stress of his money-centered world? This is the conflict that makes up the story of "The Parable of Sadhu." It is not only a cultural clash, but a moral and ethical one, which McCoy makes evident through the use of literary devices to make the reader feel the clash as much as he did.
By using a first-person narrator, the author adds authority to the words of the narrator. henever this perspective is utilized by a…...
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McCoy, Bowen H. "The Parable of the Sadhu." Harvard Business Review. Sept-Oct 1983. 103-
It was if he had left his ethical principles behind when he entered a context where fulfilling his ethical responsibilities to others meant less than the competitive drive to reach his goal. The fact that he had tried and failed to make the climb before, as a result of altitude sickness, was a further motivator for his callousness. The other climber's similar lack of care and concern for the man created a context where 'every man for himself' seemed to be the dominant ideology, not 'all for one and one for all.'
Later, Stephen attributed his fellow climber's failure to provide adequate care for the sadhu because sadhu was not a part of the climber's culture in his demeanor, and appearance. (McCoy, 1983, pp.104-106) the sadhu was alien, and disoriented as a result of altitude sickness. It was easy to render the man as 'other' or fundamentally different, Stephen argued,…...
Parable of the Unjust Steward
Parables, The Unjust Steward
Initial issues identified are, the added sayings' (16:8b -13) connection with the parable, its initial extent, and the "master's" identity in verse 16:8 (kurios). If one works back from the last (added) verse, one will be able to identify irregular literary unity. There is inconsistency in content, to the extent that the New Testament scholar/theologian, Charles Harold Dodd, has considered this section to be notes for as many as 3 distinct sermons on this parable. Verse 16:13, which states that a servant cannot simultaneously serve more than one master (from Matthew, verse 6:24), though tangential to this parable's economic setting, can scarcely be deemed as an interpretation, as the steward in the parable is successful at doing what the above mentioned saying forbids -- i.e., he effectively works for two masters. The text's traditional title (i.e., Unjust Steward) may be challenged if one…...
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References
Donahue, J. R. (1988). SJ, The Gospel in Parable. Philadelphia: Fortress.
Parable of the Sadhu" is a legendary text in business ethics -- it won the Harvard Business Review's Ethics Prize in the year of its publication. McCoy, a managing director at Morgan Stanley, writes autobiographically about a real experience during his leisure hours, but the lesson of McCoy's piece is one about the fundamental ethics of the business community. Bowen McCoy describes how he and a colleague "literally walked through a classic moral dilemma without fully thinking through the consequences" (McCoy 106). McCoy and his friend Stephen are on a climbing expedition on Mount Everest -- crucial to the backstory is the fact that McCoy had attempted climbing Everest six years before, but fell ill just short of reaching the mountain's summit. But in this case, McCoy and his friend Stephen have made it almost all the way up the mountain, and are experiencing perfect weather -- which is…...
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Works Cited
McCoy, Bowen. (1983). "The parable of the sadhu." Harvard Business Review. September-October 1983.
Taleb, N. Nicholas. (2007). The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable. New York: Random House.
Exegesis of Luke 14:14-21
Luke 14:14-21 is situated within the larger context of the Messiah's time teaching the Pharisees and attempting to get them to understand why He would "eat with sinners" (Luke 15:2) and spend time in their company. It is connected to His overall Divine Mission, and MacArthur notes that this mission can be found in Scripture, where one sees the whole of the Will of God.[footnoteRef:1] The main idea of the Parable of the Great Dinner in Luke 14, however, is that the Pharisees are the original invitees -- they are of the chosen people; yet they do not wish to accept Christ's invitation. Their reason is rooted in pride, which is why Christ emphasizes the need for humility (Luke 14:11). [1: John MacArthur, How to Study the ible (IL: Moody), 62.]
This exegesis will show why those who reject Christ are like those invited to the Great Dinner…...
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Bibliography
Aherne, Cornelius. "Gospel of Saint Luke." New Advent. Web. 22 Nov 2015
Frey, R. Joseph. Introduction to the New Testament. New York, NY: Ave Maria, 1948.
Frye, Northrop. Northrop Frye's Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other
Religious Texts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War by: Mark Danner and the Farming of Bones by: Edwidge Danticat. The writer compares the two books and the plots with a focus on the massacres themselves as well as their consequences. The writer uses two sources, the books, to complete this paper.
Throughout history authors of literature have used their works to prove a point or send a message to their readers. Sometimes the message is put out there with a bluntness that cannot be ignored, and other times it is a more subtle undertaking in which the reader is led to the conclusion without knowing they are being led there. egardless of the way the author chooses to address the important points and messages if they do it with finesse the book becomes a solid piece of literature. Two classic examples of authors using their talent to do…...
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The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War by Mark Danner
Epic Poems: Ancient societies passed down stories of heroes, battles, and cultural myths through epic poems like the Iliad, Odyssey, and Mahabharata. These narratives laid the foundation for literary forms such as drama and novels. Folk Tales and Legends: Oral storytelling also included folk tales, fables, and legends, which often contained moral lessons and reflected cultural values. These narratives inspired later literary genres such as children's literature and fantasy.
Written Records:
Cuneiform and Hieroglyphics: The development of writing systems in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt enabled the recording and dissemination of stories, religious texts, and historical accounts. These written records....
Poetry has a unique ability to transform emotions into words through the use of vivid imagery, figurative language, and carefully chosen diction. By tapping into the power of language, poets can convey complex emotions and experiences in a way that is both evocative and resonant.
Through the use of metaphor and symbolism, poets can create connections between abstract emotions and tangible objects or experiences, allowing readers to experience those emotions in a more concrete and relatable way. Additionally, the rhythm and structure of poetry can mirror the ebb and flow of emotions, creating a sense of movement and intensity that....
The Alchemy of Emotion: Poetry as a Conduit of Transformation
Poetry, the art of weaving words into evocative tapestries, holds a profound capacity to transform the intangible realm of emotions into tangible expressions. Through its rhythmic cadences, vivid imagery, and symbolic language, poetry provides a unique avenue for individuals to delve into the depths of their feelings, explore their complexities, and express them in a coherent and resonant manner.
1. Capturing the Elusive:
Emotions, by their very nature, are often fleeting and elusive. They flit through our consciousness like wisps of smoke, leaving behind a trail of sensations that can be difficult to....
Defining the Indefinable in Abstract Art: A Philosophical Exploration
Introduction
Abstract art, by its very nature, defies easy definition. It eschews the recognizable forms and objects of the physical world, delving into the realm of the intangible and the ineffable. Attempting to define the indefinable in abstract art is a philosophical conundrum, yet it is a challenge that has occupied the minds of artists, critics, and scholars for decades.
The Nature of Abstraction
At its core, abstraction involves separating an artwork from any direct representation of the external world. Non-objective forms, colors, and textures become the raw materials for artistic expression. Abstraction allows artists....
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