Prophecy

Ricky Tran, Alex Acosta, Okquan Lutcher AP World History L5 19th May 2016 Nostradamus Nostradamus (1503-1566) was a physician who could see the future and is very well known today for his predictions about 9/11 and the rise of Hitler. He has predicted many different accurate things about World History and has also shown to be one of the most accurate future predictors in history. Although his followers and interpreters sometimes twist his predictions and add words to the so called prophecies, all of his prophecies are partially accurate to the point of it being considered “accurate”. Considering the fact that technology back then could not possibly have any influence on what could come present day, it seems that Nostradamus’ predictions are…

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the genre that is described as prophecy. Biblical prophecy can be described as a passage that containing any type of prophecy. This particular literary genre can be consistently found throughout Old Testament writings as well as a few New Testament passages. Throughout the course of this paper, there will elaborate information on supporting points such as essential elements of biblical genre, examples of biblical genre throughout text, interpretive…

Sherry, You wrote some good information on your DB post on the Bible and it’s prophecy. I would like to start off saying the Bible contains various types of prophecies. Prophecies that comes to pass in a single generation can be true, but many not constitute proof to a later generation. A funny thing happens when the Bible is believed. Growing up, I would hear about how in history people thought the world was coming to an end, time after time. I would see on television numbers of preachers who…

The Interpretation of Old Testament Prophecy in the New Testament Ever since the beginning of Christianity, there has been the age-old debate between some Christian scholars concerning the interpretation of the Old Testament (OT) prophecy in the New Testament (NT), and whether or not such interpretation is valid. Perhaps, such disagreement might be the reason for the various sects of Christianity and why some of the Jewish faith still holds true to the OT belief system. Notwithstanding, one fact…

The main focus of this experiment is the self-fulfilling prophecy. It is described as the concept that if we expect something to happen in a certain way our expectation will tend to make it so. In this study, Robert Rosenthal focuses on how self-fulfilling biases and expectancies occur in school classrooms. Rosenthal suspected that when an elementary teacher is provided with information that shows that some students are more intelligent than others, the teacher may behave in ways unknowingly…

Psy 250 Proff Gross Mohamad Zowail The Self Fulfilling Prophecy Psychology has long emphasized the power of beliefs to shape reality (Rosenthal & Jacobson, 1968). Research of the 1940s and 1950s which promoted the idea that perception is heavily influenced by people’s goals, needs, fears, and motives. The self-fulfilling prophecy, which happens subconsciously, is central to this theoretical perspective because it involves the behavioral confirmation of false beliefs (Merton, 1948). In…

he Pygmalion effect is commonly known or referred to as the 'self-fulfilling prophecy.' To fully grasp the Pygmalion effect, it is important to understand the example the book gives. It describes the relationship and interaction shared between teachers and students. The book talks about the impact of teachers on their students. 'When teachers hold higher expectations of certain students (changing their behavior toward these students), these particular students responded by meeting teacher…

According to Dr. Schweingruber’s lecture, “the self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that in itself cause the expected event to occur, thus seeming to confirm the prophecy’s accuracy.” The self-fulfilling prophecy is a funny thing. It is weird to think that if you think that something might happen, it is more likely to happen. The predictions could be both direct or indirect, or even positive or negative. For example, in class we talked about Oedipus, The man who was predicted…

Rosenthal #1 - Rosenthal and Jacobson argue that under most circumstances if students confirm teacher expectations it is difficult to know whether or not this is truly a self-fulfilling prophecy. Why, what other interpretations are there? How did they set up their study so that they could clearly tell if self-fulfilling prophecies were operating? Explain how the results confirmed this. The self-fulfilling prophecy is when the first person has expectations of a second person that leads the…

In class, after I handed in my first observation, we started talking about the self-fulfilling prophecy. The self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true due to positive feedback between belief and behavior. In other words, behavior influenced by expectations causes those expectations to be true. I believe that Johnny is a good kid, I’ve seen him get really excited about work and do well. On the other hand, I have also seen him talk back and…