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...Since penning “Things Fall Apart” at 28, the writer has had a prolific career as a public intellectual, outspoken activist, professor, and postcolonial patriarch. He has written multiple essays, a book of poetry, and several other celebrated books, including “Arrow of God?? and “No Longer At Ease.” The themes that Achebe tackles in “Things Fall Apart” are emblematic of those he has negotiated throughout his career. Achebe traverses cultural boundaries by integrating them. In “Things Fall...
...centuries, comparable to racism in that it is something to be outgrown. This belief’s increasing prevalence is reflected in the 28 percent of American adults today who have left the faith in which they were raised. And when Sarah Palin says, “I think God??s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,” an age of disenchantment with religion seems understandable...
...Even though Nadler does not truly make an argument for any of the ways to view the world or fit them within a larger argument of his own, he offers the reader an introduction into the world as the three philosophers saw it.The three philosophers focus on questions of God??s identity and his intentions in creating the world the way it is. Is this the best world that God could have created? If it is, why does evil exist? If God could have created better worlds, why would he have chosen to create this one? Liebniz argues...
...testimony. Chambers, a long-serving political dynamo and a member of the state senate’s judiciary committee, considered the woman’s suit such a waste of time for the county’s justice system that he filed his own suit—against God??apparently to make the point that, within county law, literally every case has the right to be heard, regardless of its apparent merit or validity...
...case, Chambers likely made his point; time will tell whether the sideshow he began will actually have any meaningful effect on the form or function of Nebraska courts. One fact has been confirmed, however: An attention-starved state senator is no match for an all-knowing God??at least before the appeals process...