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Chris Pratt & Defining Our Terms

In our present time, it’s no use denying the importance of language and terms. Within literary theory is a view that the meaning of a text comes primarily from the reader and not the author. While I won’t deny that an audience plays a role in interpreting and applying a text, I think the author plays the key role in defining what the text means. If this was not the case, then we or those around us (like politicians) wouldn’t spend so much time arguing what we said was not what we meant, or that this group or that group was twisting our words or taking them out of context. THE TERM: TINY BUT MIGHTY The term is one of the key components of language. Turn on the news, find a story with controve

Sep 5, 2018
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Twilight Zone and the Fear of Getting What You Want

Editor's note: This article was originally published for LifeHouse Theater's blog, "The President's Perspective." When I was teenager, I needed to get some tests done in the hospital. Nothing too out of the ordinary, except that it required me to arrive the next morning at the hospital sleep deprived! So the night before my tests, my mom and I pulled an all nighter. We bought a night’s supply of popsicles -- or we already had them and I just ate that many -- and prepared to stay awake. But the task suddenly became less daunting when we discovered that on TV that very night was a marathon of “The Twilight Zone” (original series). FEAR AMID MORAL FRAMEWORK What a great show! One episode will t

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