Intertextuality and Re-contextualization

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Your fourth exercise is an exploration of “intertextuality and re-contextualization.” You’ll begin by reading at least one of the four articles assigned for this week. Then, you’ll choose an idea or concept from one or more of these articles to use as the inspiration, the “spark”, for you to create your own intertextual/re-contextualized work. 
Read at least one of the four articles (I encourage you to read all four).  
Choose an idea or concept that you find intriguing, an idea that inspires you to re-contextualize media objects you are familiar with.
Create you intertextual media object. This doesn’t need to be complex: remember that a meme that uses an image from a popular film is an appropriate intertextual object.
You can work in any medium for this: video, sound, music, still, etc.
Your goal is to take pre-created media objects and building something new out of them. Therefore, you are encouraged, demanded, to steal someone else’s work and alter it. And the bigger the steal, the better.
Return to the Storey and Orgad articles: you should be thinking about you’re using the possibilities to create meaning in your intertextual object. 
Write a 1 1/2 – 2 page double-spaced explanation of your intertextual object, the concept from the readings, and the ideas of meaning production that you are utilizing in it.
You’ll submit two things: your “re-contextualized” media object and then 1 1/2 – 2 page essay. 
I’ll be looking for:
A clear citation to idea or concept from your chosen article.
Appropriate use of the terms from the Storey and Orgad article to justify the meaning you’re trying to produce. 
By Sunday Nov. 22nd at 11:59pm, you will upload your intertextual/recontextual assignment: essay and object.  

My idea is to do what the professor suggests; a meme using an image from a film.
I chose an image from the film Four Rooms (directed by four different people), to recontextualize it into a meme. The image will have a text that reads “When summer 2021 hits and they tell you to take your mask off”. The image is attached as well as the articles he wants us to mention.

Complete the Ethical Theories Comparison Chart

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Complete the Ethical Theories Comparison Chart:

Over the course of thousands of years, various theories have been offered to explain the best way to determine what is ethical. The search for good or correct actions and thoughts has provided several strong approaches that are actively used today. While all of the various ethical theories seek to lead one to being ethical, they differ on how this should be accomplished. Each approach has its own strengths and weaknesses. It is important to understand these differences when analyzing ethical decisions from various perspectives.

For this Assignment, using your own words, you are to complete a chart for the first four ethical theories (utilitarianism, ethical egoism, Kantianism, and Divine Command Theory) based on the following criteria:

1.How is good determined? Explain in one or two sentences what the theory argues is the correct way to determine what is right. This is the main argument of the theory in a nutshell.
2. Most Noted Philosopher(s): Name the philosopher or philosophers most closely associated with the theory.
3. Major Strengths: Using phrases or sentences, list at least two major strengths that are specific to that theory.
4. Major Weaknesses: Using phrases or sentences, list at least two major weaknesses that are specific to that theory.

You may format the chart any way you wish to include all of the required elements, but you can use the provided template if you prefer. You will be adding to the chart in Units 3, 5, and 7.

Balance of Family and Ministry

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Billy Sunday once said, I have gained the world, but lost my family. As you have learned from the module videos, Billy Sunday was a successful evangelist who left a legacy of family failure. He had three sons and a daughter. His daughter died early in her life, and all three of his sons died before they were 40. His three sons had cumulatively been married nine times. William Carey translated the Bible into approximately 37 languages; however, his wife went crazy and tried to kill him twice. Adoniram Judson lost two wives and several children on the mission field.

What is the difference between Carey and Judson?  Is a righteous mission justified at any cost? Do you trust God to take care of the things you neglect when you pursue His will? Should there be a balance between ministry and family?

I attached an article with my view of family and ministry.
https://churchleaders.com/pastors/260138-never-try-balance-family-ministry.html

Dr. Martin Luther king’s Speech “The Other America”

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In the second half of the 20th century, racial tensions rose in the United States as African Americans began to challenge unjust laws that supported discrimination and segregation. This movement found its leader in the patient and inspiring minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Explore how Kings deep-seated commitment to nonviolence contributed to the expansion of social justice, economic inequality, and racial injustice in the United States, particularly for African Americans.  Choose one of the two Dr. King’s speeches posted in this folder and write a 7-10 page position paper, excluding the title and reference pages, using the theories explored in the text. Utilize at least 3 peer reviewed articles to support your position. In your essay draw on the following concepts from your readings socioeconomic status, education and class, race and class, gender and class, globalization, meritocracy, class mobility, class consciousness, poverty, work ethic, functionalist and conflict views on class, inequality, etc.

The paper should be formated using APA style, 12 pt New Times Roman font, double spaced.

Due Date: November 22, 2020