by Tim Ghianni | May 18, 2011 | News Slider, Opinion
Sitting in Intermediate French Grammar class trying to translate English into French, I browse through the French vocabulary stored in my head searching for the right noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and preposition to correctly get my point across. What to say? How to say it? Time is running out. If I do not put something together to say, humiliation will appear across my face. So, French blurts out of my mouth. Of course, immediately my professor corrects me because I used the wrong form of the verb. The past tense of the verb was used instead of the necessary subjective form. Wait. What is a subjective verb? I would guess the majority of people could not classify all the parts of speech and how we use them. Why? Because speaking English is second nature to us. We learned the names of all the different types of speech starting in elementary school. We were like sponges absorbing everything taught to us without hesitation. Now, we use what we learned without thinking about it. However, if we try to break down a sentence now, it is nearly impossible to get everything right. If it is so easy for children to learn and absorb learning the English language at a young age, why is it that schools are not taking advantage of the vital state of mind of these children by teaching them a second language? Most schools in the United States start teaching foreign languages to students once they reach the high school level. Whereas, children in other countries are almost fluent in two other languages plus their own as...
by Hunter Patterson | Apr 22, 2011 | Opinion
Worrying about finals? While they’re fast approaching, a religious group from California doesn’t think you should lose sleep over the end-of-semester tests, because the world is ending in less than a month. What’s that? You thought the world was supposed to end in 2012 like the History Channel and Nostradamus claimed? Well, there is a new group of people telling us that we are all wrong. The group WeCanKnow based out of California claims that “He will close the door on salvation on May 21, 2011, when He returns to take his elect children to heaven.” Harold Camping, founder of Family Radio Inc., made the prediction, and fans of the radio station paid for billboards that can be seen around Nashville and other cities. Their goal is simple– with the message “He is coming again!” nonbelievers are to change their ways and follow. According to Camping’s prediction, the second coming will occur exactly 7000 years between Noah’s flood and the rapture. Camping claims Noah’s flood happened in 4990 B.C., on May 21 in the modern calendar. God supposedly gave Noah one week of warning before the flood. And, stretching the made-up calculations even further, Camping says that one day equals a thousand years for God. So this obviously means that 7,000 years needed to pass between the flood and the rapture. And so, through the magic of improvable dates, algorithms and calculations, Jesus will come again on May 21, 2011, according to Camping. “We hope that anyone would get a Bible out and try and prove that this is wrong,” Camping said. Before I do that, I’ll tell you this. Camping predicted...
by Aaron Schmelzer | Apr 13, 2010 | News Slider, Opinion
Dear Reader, Let me be the first to welcome you to the Lumination Network, a student news network of the department of communication and journalism at Lipscomb University. This website is something that we hope will be a credible, balanced and timely source for news regarding both Lipscomb University and the Nashville community. This network, made up of online, television, radio and print content, has been created, produced and will continue to be run by students at this university. Lumination Network is the response to a challenge given to the department of communication and journalism by Lipscomb’s administration. That challenge was to better our department using the resources we have been given in a way that students who graduate from Lipscomb will be as equipped or more equipped to excel in their chosen career field than students at any other university. And it’s not just communication students who have participated….We’d like to thank the students in AR 4943, Graphic Design Firm, taught by Jonathan Gillette, for designing the “Lumination” logo. Lumination Network will never be perfect, and it will always strive to improve using suggestions given by members of the Lumination community. If you have a story idea, a suggestion on how to improve a facet of our network, or wish to contribute your multimedia talents, send a letter to the editor or submit a story idea. We need feedback to continue to improve this website and the network as a whole. Please take some time to explore the site– we have a lot of content! Visit the Senior Profiles and find out what Lipscomb’s almost-graduates are planning to...
