Writing assignment:\u00a0 Applying Paradigms
Directions: \u00a0 Be sure to explain clearly and completely how the paradigms referred
to below apply to the situations described.\u00a0 Type and double space your answers and
submit them as a Word or PDF file on Canvas Assignments.\u00a0 NO GOOGLE DOCS
OR PAGES FILES–CANVAS DOES NOT LOAD THOSE TYPES OF FILES,
AND I WILL DEDUCT CREDIT.
Part One (one half to one page double spaced):\u00a0 Choose one of these two moral dilemmas to
write about:
1.
You are a police officer who has received a number of messages from various reliable
sources that a terrorist group is going to explode a gigantic bomb the next day in some very
crowded market place, although where is not known.\u00a0 A high-ranking member of that terrorist
group is in your custody, and when you question him about it, he sneers and laughs at you as if
he knows all about it.\u00a0 You have complete authority over what happens next.\u00a0 You can torture
him any way you wish for information, and none of this will be revealed to the public.\u00a0 What
should you do?
Evaluate this situation from both the paradigm of Christianity and the paradigm of a culture
whose people believe they have the bloodline of a god they worship (a sacred bloodline).
2.
You are an eyewitness to a crime: A man has robbed a bank, but instead of keeping the
money for himself, he donates it to a poor orphanage that can now afford to feed, clothe, and
care for its children. You know who committed the crime–in fact, he is a friend of yours. If you
go to the authorities with the information, there’s a good chance the money will be returned to
the bank, leaving a lot of kids in need. What do you do?\u00a0 Why?
Evaluate this situation from both the paradigm of a Buddhist and the paradigm of
Christianity.\u00a0
Part Two (one and a half to two pages double spaced):\u00a0 Apply the paradigms of a feminist
who believes in the goddess theory and an animist such as a believer in the Shinto religion to
the story below:
Demeter and Persephone
Zeus, King of all the Gods, had three sisters: Hera, Queen of the Gods, was also his wife and the
Goddess of Marriage; Hestia was the Goddess of Home and Hearth and Demeter was Goddess
of the Harvest, responsible for the crops and for feeding the people.
Demeter was loved by all humans for her gift of soil and gentle, mild weather to grow their
crops. They worshipped her for her caring and kindness. She was very much a \u2018hands on\u2019 and
\u2018happy to help\u2019 sort of Goddess.\u00a0 Persephone was Demeter\u2019s only child. Like her mother, she
was kind and caring, with a happy nature and the most dazzling smile. She was the sort of
person who spread light and happiness wherever she went and so, naturally, she was loved by
everyone but most especially by her mother.
Hades, mighty ruler of the Underworld, had spied her on one of his trips to the world above. He
was dazzled by her beauty, her elegance and her charm. He decided that he must have her as
his wife. Knowing that Demeter would never agree to her daughter living with him in his
gloomy world of the dead, he decided to visit his brother, Zeus, to discuss the matter.
Surprisingly, the great god Zeus agreed to Hades\u2019 plan, to abduct the young woman and take
her to his realm.\u00a0 He rode his chariot to the upper world and kidnapped her.\u00a0 At first,
Persephone cried and cried, until she had no more tears left to weep. She refused all offers of
food, for she had heard the legend that those who eat in the Underworld can never return. So
she determined not to let a morsel of food pass her lips.
In revenge on Zeus, Demeter withdrew all of her fertility power from the earth, so the earth
turned dry and barren, and people began to die.\u00a0 Finally, Zeus agreed to allow Persephone to
come back to the living world.\u00a0 But Hades made Persephone feel sorry for him because of his
loneliness in the underworld.\u00a0 Before Hermes could come and get her, Hades held a
pomegranate in his hand and said,\u00a0 \u201cPersephone, my love, I am so worried that you will fade
away if you do not eat. Look at this sweet fruit, taste just a little for pities\u2019 sake.\u201d Looking deep
into his eyes, the girl carefully reached out her hand and took the luscious fruit to her lips.
Deliberately, she swallowed a few seeds, just six.
That is why Persephone can only come back to the living world six months out of the year and
the rest of the time she keeps Hades company in the underworld for the other six months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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