Donate Your Body to Science

Semrau's point is best expressed when he writes: “Quite simply, use what you have until it can no longer function.” I believe that the intent of the essay was to pursuade readers into the idea of giving their bodies to science. His writing style was very effective. He opens up with the idea of recycling and going green, which is something that most people know about. This engages readers to his article, which will be important if he is to talk them into doing what he wants them to do. He also tells about his job, which makes him relatable and trustworthy in that people would approach him. His unique way of hiding details is effective in that it is different. This approach can best be described as a sales pitch in disguise. If it does not appear to be like the dreadful sales pitches Americans have grown to despise, it will not scare the reader away and will be more effective in persuading the reader. Instead of directly telling his audience what he wants them to do, he simply states the positives of donating your body to science. This makes the reader feel less pressured and more obligated to donate their body to science. Semrau persuades his readers by being more approachable and fun; he is relatable and creative in his writing.

Savior of the Nations, Come

The overall theme portrayed is that Christ our Lord is powerful, merciful, and relatable. Luther shows Christ's power in the line "captive leading death and hell". This imagery of holding death and hell captive, as if it were a dangerous enemy involuntarily submitting itself to Jesus, helps one better understand Christ's strength and authority over everything. Christ's merciful quality is expressed through Luther's use of pathos when he writes: "Though by all the world disowned, still to be in heaven enthroned". Writing about Christ's death for us, despite a majority of His beloved children rejecting Him, results in feelings of guilt. Readers feel guilty for denying His bountiful mercy all together. Finally, with diction, Luther shows Christ's relatability in the statement: "Not by human flesh and blood". He says that by God's works, not ours, Christ is human. He is human so that He may have something in common with us and relate to us, increasing probability that we would accept Him because we do not see Him as a distant and dissimilar God. Luther's words "flesh and blood" reveal how material humans are in contrast to God's divine power in creating a human-God hybrid that we can relate to and more easily approach with praise and trials.

Sermon

1. Rev. Borghardt mentions the Christ 22 times in the sermon, using the following verbs: makes, slain, took on, died, rose, reigns, does not push, came, smiles, and lives.

2. While the theme of Rev. Borghardt's sermon is that there is something better than Christians have ever experienced waiting for them when their life ends, Edwards' theme is that sinners will be punished for all eternity without relief. Borghardt talks about heaven for believers as an escape from fear and darkness, enticing nonbelievers to believe, while Edwards goes on about punishment and damnation for sinners and unbelievers in an attempt to scare people into believing in Christ. Both sermons share the same goal, to save nonbelievers from damnation, but both have a very different theme and approach to doing so.