Beowulf follows the epic battle of one man’s quest to conquer evil once and for all. Beowulf’s fearless battle with the monster that terrorized people for over a decade reflects one’s own battle of good and evil within. Grendel possesses a cruel nature as well as a strong sense of revenge and cruelty which is a mere image of one’s own sinful nature. He is the darkness inherent in mankind that must be triumphed only through virtue.
Throughout Beowulf, Grendel shows an evil, monstrous side that most people know they possess, but very rarely let show through their facade. What is inside of Grendel is a tortured soul, alone and angry at the world and those who surround him. So he takes out his anger on the Danes. Feared by everyone except Beowulf, he defeats and kills anyone who challenges him. The same can be said whenever one tries to fix a problem alone. By fighting alone and quite unprepared, one is asking for immediate defeat. Without the help of one strong, virtuous warrior (i.e. Beowulf, who, in turn, represents Christ), you cannot defeat the monster within.
Grendel represents the dark, aggressive persona that has come naturally to mankind since the Fall of Man. The hate and anger he portrays is displayed in the way he disrupts the Danes kingdom, and with the shedding of innocent lives. Said hate and anger can only be defeated by one brave enough, strong enough, and virtuous enough to rid the world of what should never have been. In a similar sense, mankind cannot beat own spiritual battles alone. Christ is the Savior, the only one who can truly defeat the monster of our natural selves.
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Discussion 6: Could/Should This Type of Study Include Randomization to Condition?
Have a look at the article (https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/study-do-self-help-programs-work-as-well-as-therapy-0828171) about whether self-help is as effective as professional therapy. (The article includes a link to the original study, but no need to read it.) Discuss whether and how a study of this type could be a “true” experiment (which includes randomization to condition). Notice, too, the experimental stimuli for the self-help condition, which is either a book or an online program. There are a few wrinkles, which are explained near the end of the article, but the bottom line is whether we should trust the results given design issues. Should we? And/or how would you design a study to test the hypothesis that professional therapy is more effective than self-help? (Note the directional hypothesis.)
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Discussion 7: Response Rates Matter. Or Not?
Recent election polls in the US and UK have been fairly inaccurate–the 2020 US presidential election might be the worst of the lot. Read this article (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/18/pollsters-2020-polls-all-wrong-500050). Response rates have been pretty poor and/or the “wrong” sampling frames have been used. Or the wrong questions were asked. What response rate would you be comfortable with assuming a useful sampling frame? Notice that we can determine if a pool is accurate by comparing it to election results. If a poll is off, is the response rate and/or sampling frame always the culprit? How about a social scientific survey? How can we trust the results if we don’t have a population to compare it to?
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