Conserve, Reuse, Recycle

Semrau's point is revealed in the sentence "Reuse provides maximum function for given material and energy input."

This sentence as many other parts of this article hold  a lot of information that doesn't make sense until you read further into the essay.  The information is intentionally withheld from the readers.

This absolutely helps the intent of this essay by taking what would otherwise be a normal recycling topic and then engaging you to a much deeper level on the subject.  Conserve, reuse, and recycle are the key words of the article with reuse being the author's favorite of the three. 

In discussing these, he is not referring to cans, bottles, and reusuable shopping bags.  He is talking about donating his body to the Harvard Medical School.

Once you realize that this is what he is doing, this particular writing strategy proves to be very effective.  As he states in the third paragraph that most of us have things we don't or won't use and that someone else can make use of these things.  He is reusing his body when he can no longer be of use on Earth.  He is fulfilling his dream of going to Medical School while helping others.

"Savior of the Nations, Come"

Martin Luther's, "Savior of the Nations, Come", as I see it, makes an excellent appeal of logos and ethos in regards to the Lord's virgin birth and his victory over sin.  We can first see evidence of logos within the beginning stanzas, particularly in the second stanza, by showing the importance and meaning behind the virgin birth.  Not being born of a virgin would simply undermine Christ's divinity, and as Luther states, "Was the Word of God made flesh--Woman's Offspring, pure and fresh. Wondrous birth! O wondrous Child."  The virgin birth affirms Jesus' life of purity and helps show that Christ was more than human.  In the few remaining stanzas, Luther begins to appeal to the reader's emotions by illustrating Jesus' conquer over death, ultimately saving man.  An excellent verse that I thought said it best was, "Thou, the Father's only Son, Hast o'er sin the victory won."  By dying on the cross, we are saved and, for that, we owe God eternal praise.  "Praise to God the Spirit be ever and eternally."  Luther's hymn, in a nutshell, nicely describes Jesus' great triumph over sin and is a great example as to how grateful we should be for his sacrifice. 

Jesus :D

1. Christ was referenced 28 times in Reverend Borghardt's sermon.

2. Verbs: makes holy, slain, is lamb, died, rose, reigns, lives, took sin, is holy, make pure, make blessings, slows, grabs

3. Edward's sermon predominately spoke of God's fearful wrath and judgment.  In his sermon, he discusses the Law and eternal judgment of God by using petrifying images to provoke fear.  Although Christ wasn't mentioned often in his sermon, his words still provide the realism of terror.  He wanted people to become part of the faith by acquiring the fearful wrath of God.  In Borghardt's sermon, it is the complete opposite.  His sermon contains the gospel and grace of God.  The sermon was to simply tell us how great God is by giving us his grace.  His words are more self- assuring.