(Written for Prof. Bulger’s Intro. to Oral Communication [COMM100] class at George Mason University.)
How many of you have known somebody your entire life? You know, that somebody that you’re just unbelievably close to. Somebody who you just can’t live without? I met somebody like that more than eighteen years ago.
Have you ever really been hungry? For most of us the answer is likely no. I know I haven’t, I’ve been firmly rooted in middle-class America for my entire life (as far as I can recall, anyway). Surely most everybody reading this has lived much of their life with a firm sense of property, control, and stability.
(Written for Prof. Nichols’s Composition [ENGL101] class at George Mason University.)
History has demonstrated thousands of times the importance of individuals in the shaping of events. For example, if George Washington were to be removed from American history our nation would likely not exist today, at least not in the form that it does. However, in this work, I would like to focus on an even more important shaper of events on this planet. I would like to focus on the person who created the Earth as it exists today, Professor Mel Nichols.
One of the first things I was supposed to do at college was this silly University 100 class. The final assignment was to make a site for the class, and so with the others in my group we threw this together. Made in 2000.
‘Joke Website: University 100 Ad’ is copyright © 2000 Scott Bradford, Luke Yost, Lauren Geerdes, and Megan Nicholas. All rights reserved. Used by permission. This content is not licensed under any Creative Commons license.
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you? And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.”—Matthew 25, verses 31-40 (New Revised Standard Version)
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
