Mustard College Essays Samples For Students

Different metaphors are used to explain the Kingdom of God. A metaphor is mostly used as a literary figure for comparison; it elaborates a given subject by asserting that it is the same as another unrelated object. Metaphor is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech, and it usually achieve their effects through comparison, association or resemblance since it is an analogy which include simile, hyperbole, and allegory. Most of the prominent examples of metaphors in the Bible aim at explaining the kingdom of God and, how it is like. These metaphors analysis, associates, and compares the Kingdom of God ...

Introduction

Asked to stereotype a criminal, many people are likely to go for a certain gender (usually male), a certain social class (usually low class), a certain race (usually black) and a certain age (usually under the age of 30). In the early days, courtrooms exclusively comprised of white decision makers. Today there is more racial diversity in the composition of judicial benches. In spite of this progress; race, class and gender still play a critical role in numerous criminal justice outcomes. The role of these issues usually comes in handy in the sentencing of convicts. More than 40 studies have been conducted in regard to ...

Reflection Questions

Question One
As a result of the results of the experiment being so close together, and not knowing the margin for error, it would be difficult to determine if the experiment proved or disproved the hypothesis. It can, however, be stated that there is a definite correlation between the amount of trans fats present in the adipose tissue and the chance of a heart attack. In my experiment, I would keep the two groups the same; those who have had heart attacks, and those who haven’t. I would make the number of subjects in each group more even, with 150 ...

The Parable of the Rich Fool; Luke 12: 13-21

In this parable, Jesus tries to explain the aspect of doing things for God rather than for oneself. He relates the story of a rich man who is after harvesting good crop chooses to store up everything for himself so that he may not lack in the future. The lesson is that the food may last but God may choose to take his life, and he will have nothing in the end.

The Parable of the Tenants: Mark 12: 1-12

In this parable, Jesus uses the vineyard (Israel) to explain how disobedience has been going on in Jewish leadership since the old testament up to the time ...

1, Introduction

In the next section of this paper, a brief review of the United States Federal Assault Weapons Ban (FAWB) is discussed. In the third section, the two major mass shootings that prompted the enactment of the FAWB are presented. The fourth section discusses briefly the firearms bans and effects in Australia, Canada, and France.
The fifth section presents the statistics, studies, and arguments proposed by opponents and proponent of stricter gun control. Opponents argue that mass shootings use assault weapons and generally not the firearms owned by the general public. They state the Constitution and other legislation given them ...

Thesis Question: What is the past history and impact of gun control legislation in the United States on violent crime and do the findings recommend future restrictions?

Section 1: Introduction (see proposal)

Perspectives of the general population regarding their responsibilities, rights, and credible information
Legal rights according to the law
Legal rights according to the Constitution (Cook, Jens & Adam, 2008)
Utilitarianism collectivism (responsibility for the collective) (Celinska, 2007; Donovan, 2015)
Contradictions in statistics regarding the effects of gun legislation
Interpretations of statistics by various sources toward supporting their views
Types of statistical analyses used
Section 2: History of Gun Legislation
The Federal Assault Weapons ...

Thesis Question: What is the past history and impact of gun control legislation in the United States on violent crime and do the findings recommend future restrictions?

Section 1: Introduction (see proposal)

Section 2: History of Gun Legislation
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (Congress.gov, 2016)
Explanation of FAWB (Chu, 2013)
Situations that prompted the enactment of the FAWB
Sandy Hook killings (McCarthy, 2013)
Impact of FAWB
Overview of statistics of violent crime involving firearms (Chapman, 2013; Gerney, Parsons & Posner, 2013; Ayres & Donohue, 2002)
Section 3: Arguments on individual rights to own firearms
Opponents of strict gun control
Constitutional right to bear arms
Statistics showing ...

One of the most significant issues in the U.S. today is the systemic policies that have led to the U.S. having the largest prison population in the world. A disproportionate number of socioeconomically marginalized citizens are incarcerated and subjected to discriminatory practices by law enforcement and the justice department. The consequences are wide-reaching and inseparable, cutting across political, social, and cultural lines. In order to identify the roots of these interconnected phenomena, one needs to both understand the historical struggle of marginalized groups in the U.S. as well as follow the money. Socioeconomic discrimination, voter suppression, for-profit policing practices, ...

Introduction

On an average day, people find reasons to buy guns. Some of those reasons involve dealing with a bully at school, protection from the neighborhood thugs, protecting one’s family or protecting one’s belongings. All of these reasons might be good ones, but does a person really need to have a gun to do all of these things, do they even need it to protect their home, why not just take jujitsu lessons of self-defense, why is a gun even needed at all? There are good reasons to have a gun and bad ones too, this essay will talk about those very things ...

Response to R.U.R.
The human fascination with creatures who are like us yet different in crucial ways goes almost to the beginning of literary history. Such fantastic creatures as the Cyclops Polyphemus in Homer’s Iliad and the Leviathan in the Old Testament show the depths of imagination that people possess. When Mary Shelley wrote about a creature who was made by man and yet fundamentally different from living people in Frankenstein, she was not only writing about the ways in which the creature would feel alienated from mainstream society; she was also writing about the hubris that making ...

The specter of Adolf Hitler has made the Second World War stand head and shoulders over what was originally known as the Great War. Oftentimes, casual students of history think of mustard gas, trench warfare and the odd grotesqueness of mounted cavalry meeting armored vehicles in combat and then mentally move on to the images of concentration camps and nuclear holocaust, which are the trademarks of World War II. However, Pat Barker’s Regeneration turns our attention back to the war waged by Kaiser Bill, starting with the open letter of Siegfried Sassoon, dated July of 1917. Its theme ...