Work in progress

the aid of others. One example of having the help of others to overpower one’s hardship was when a girl, Aimee Mullins, had her feet amputated at a young age and had to deal with low-quality prosthetics for a significant amount of her life. “A Work in Progress,” is a personal narrative by Aimee herself on how she triumphed over her lack of real legs. Aimee got help from the workers outside of the hospital who helped make her the ideal legs. On page 496 the text states, "And so I started working…

The author of the natorious novel Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan wrote many works in his time, and he developed new techniques to catch his readers’ attention. Like most of Bunyan’s works, he writes about God and His love, healing, mercy, and grace. Bunyan also writes about having faith and following God, against all odds. His life was full of trouble based on what he wrote about, but that he didn’t stop. He knew that the only way to get peoples attention to try and help them with their life…

Lutheran theology echoes throughout the Pilgrim’s Progress, particularly through John Bunyan’s representations of law and grace. These are two critical ideas that Bunyan presents through his allegory. The ideas are detailed mostly in the beginning of Christian’s journey, as the beginning of one’s faith, where it is easiest to become confused on the nature of salvation. To fully grasp Bunyan’s meaning is to understand what law and grace mean, and how they relate to each other. The concepts, like…

time. In 1660, Bunyan was arrested for preaching, which led him to twelve years in prison. During his long prison life, he finished the first part of The Pilgrim’s Progress, a classical English literary work praised as “the most well-known allegory of the English literature”. Bunyan took painstaking efforts to create The Pilgrim’s Progress, and it has been successfully translated into ranges of languages throughout the world with a reputation that is almost equal to Bible. This book tells a…

children, and the other more appropriate for adults. The episode of Christian fighting Apollyon is better fitted for a children’s version of Pilgrim’s Progress. Christian and Hopeful crossing the River is more fitting for an adult version of the text. The event of Christian and Apollyon fighting is better suited for a child’s rendition of the Pilgrim’s Progress. Although the episode is violent, through it’s thrilling fight scene and incorporation of a monster this episode draws children in.…

History The Weinheimer Community Center was opened to the public on January 14, 1954, which was made possible by Frederick Weinheimer. Weinheimer was a former member of the Highland community before his departure to Gulfport, Florida, where he was later laid to rest in the year of 1948. He was the son of the late Henry and Anna Marie Weinheimer, also members of the Highland community. Although Weinheimer had been apart from Highland soil for many years, the town still held a place in his heart.…

Margret Breen in her writing titled “The Sexed Pilgrim’s Progress”, Bunyan sought to show not only a difference between Christian and Christiana, but the superiority that Christian had over Christiana. “Bunyan uses social placement in order to define spiritual status. At times the two are set at extremes; at times they merge together” (Breen 445-6). Both Christian and Christiana share virtually the same outline of Progression in The Pilgrim’s Progress. Based on the existing resentment between…

Human progress is inevitable when it comes to using one’s reason to make sense of the world in which they live in. It is human nature to question everything, which results in an individual questioning of societal attitudes and values as well as their own. The following essay will explore the themes of human progress sub categorised by slavery, reason, nature and inequality and how they relate to today’s world. Human progress follows new advancements of every sphere that have been implemented to…

In the introduction to one edition of A Book for Boys and Girls, the celebrated English poet and Baptist preacher John Bunyan asks: Here, Bunyan appears to be addressing – and apologizing to – his would-be detractors “for seeming to play the fool” by penning and subsequently publishing a collection of poems that are unabashed in their “simplicity, and [written] in the same pure, idiomatic language” that ornaments Bunyan’s highly renowned Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s (Cheever 109, 106). It…

management traits self-assessment, I found out that I like to work alone, is a self-starter, self-reliant, trustworthy, fair, and loyal person and working with others and being able to change are challenging to me. I feel that I can change to like to work with others more by participating, getting myself used to sharing ideas and training myself to talk more and getting engaged with the work. That way, I wouldn’t feel awkward if I were to do group work later on in the future. But changing is…