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Essay Instructions: I am suppose to wached a movie Sin by Silence, and do a reaction paper concerning domestic violence. The movie is about these women who killed their husbands and was telling their experiences of the abuse. They are tying to bring awareness to the legislature about battered women syndrome. Women were Rosemarie, Vergil, LaVena , and Brenda Clubine at the California Institution for women. I would like the writer did the paper on the movie primal fear. They did an excellent job. The professor said that the primal fear paper was an excellent job. I got an A

Essay Instructions: have started an introduction. The paper should prove a point and not just survey the material. The footnotes have to be bottom page footnotes. It should have be Times New Roman and 12pt. font. The references should be scholarly journal articles or books and not popular literature. This is the intro that I have started.

The problem of sin is twofold. First, it disrupts the life of a person from right relationship with God; secondly, it damages a person’s earthly relationships. Paul said in Romans 3:23, ‘for all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God.” This is a universal statement. The problem with sin is not so much that people sin, rather it is that the consequences of sin that have been dismissed as irrelevant, unlikely and of no consequence. Socrates is credited with saying, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” The purpose of this paper is to examine the biblical and earthly consequences of ignoring the problem of sin.

Essay Instructions: The topic for this paper on The Scarlet Letter, should be an anlysis of the theme of Sin and Redemption in the book. The paper needs to be 4-5 pages in length and concentrate on the sin and redemption in the book.

Essay Instructions: TIOPIC FOR ESSAY
Compare the traditional understanding of mortal sin with an understanding based on the concept of fundamental option. What do you think the strengths and weaknesses of each approach are? Which do you think is more adequate?

Reading: Connors and McCormick 11; May 4; Gula 6, 8; Hanigan 5; Haring 5:V, IX; O?Connell 8 and pp. 72-75; Mattison ch. 12; Veritatis Splendor 2:III; Considering Veritatis Splendor, 4: J. Fuchs ?Good Acts and Good Persons?.

Reading
Essential Reading:
1. Vatican II, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes), Part One, Chapter One: Sections 12-17. This can be downloaded from the Vatican Website on http://www.vatican.va, or found in any collection of Vatican II documents. On the Vatican Website, go clockwise around the headings on the outer circle of the home page until you come to ?Resource Library?, then click on ?II Vatican Council?, then on ?Gaudium et Spes?. (N.B. Not ?Lumen Gentium?, the document on the Church.)

2. Freedom and Purpose, chapters 1-4
Other reading for each topic is given after each question, with references to chapter numbers.
Full bibliographical details of the books referred to, which have all been placed on library reserve, are given further below.


Essay Bibliography - please note for referencing details for your essay.
All of these books also provide relevant further reading on different aspects of the subject matter of the unit.
Connors, R.B. and McCormick, P. Character, Choices and Community: The Three Faces of Christian Ethics. New York/Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1998.
Fagan, S. Does Morality Change? Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1987.
Gula, R. Reason Informed by Faith: Foundations of Catholic Morality. Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1989.
Hanigan, J. As I Have Loved You. Mahwah: Paulist, 1986.
Haring, B. Free and Faithful in Christ, volume 1. Homebush: St Paul, 1978.
John Paul II Veritatis Splendor: On Certain Fundamental Questions of the Church?s Moral Teaching. Homebush: St Paul, 1993.
Kelly, K. New Directions in Moral Theology: The Challenge of Being Human. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1992.
Macnamara, V. Love, Law and the Christian Life. Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1988.
Mattison, William C. Introducing Moral Theology: True Happiness and the Virtues. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2008.
May, W. An Introduction to Moral Theology. Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor, 1991.
O'Connell, T. Principles for a Catholic Morality (Revised edition). New York: Harper Collins, 1990.
Wilkins, J., ed. Considering Veritatis Splendor. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1994.
Zalot, J.D. and Guevin, B. Catholic Ethics in Today?s World (Revised edition). Winona, MN: Anselm Academic, 2011.