Q1- How does the world end in Dr. Strangelove?  How does the idea of initiative suffer in the face of the actions of the dedicated crew in Dr. Strangleove?  What is a mineshaft gap as mentioned in the film?

Q2- Trace the development of Travis Bickle’s odyssey from ordinary cabbie to that of the hero who rescues Iris.  How effective are the slow motion scenes as we watch Travis watch the street action?  What is the purpose of the cafeteria scenes as Travis meets the other night cabbies?

Q3- Compare Michael to Lyle in Red Rock West.  Remember that one drives a white Cadillac, the other a black Buick.  GM has the hierarchy of cars with Cadillac bearing more social cachet than a Buick.  Consider that as you compare the two characters given the incidents in the film.

Every answer of a question will be 3 pages minimum.

Topic: philosophy

Order Description
Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion textbook edited by Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis
chapter eleven on Paul Tillich

Paul Tillich’s thought. For the discussion, please explain why he claims that “God does not exist?” (p. 137)
Tips: you may choose to consider the existential situation of non-being as it relates to God as being-itself; Tillich’s account of religious symbols that participate in being-itself; his notion of the human experience of religious symbols as matters of what concerns us ultimately; and/or, the adequacy of being-itself as a literal term for God.
Graham, and Trakakis, N. N.. 2014. Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion. Durham, GB: Routledge. Accessed April 10, 2016.
Pyysiainen, Ilkka. “RELIGION, THEOLOGY, AND COGNITION: ON READING PAUL TILLICH” Literature & Theology 28 (2014): 258-269
McAnnally-Linz, Ryan. “The Multivalence of Participation in Paul Tillich’s Systematic Theology*” Journal of Religion 92 (2012): 373-391.
Rowe, WIlliam. “Paul Tillich” in Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion, edited by Graham Oppy and N Trakais, 133-144. N. Durham: Routledge, 2009.

Foster, Rachel Ann and Babcock, Renée L. “God as a Man Versus God as a Woman: Perceiving God as a Function of the Gender of God and the Gender of the Participant.” The international Journal for the Psychology of Religion11, no. 2 (2001): 93-104.
Nelsen, Hart M., Neil H. Cheek Jr, and Paul Au. “Gender differences in images of God.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1985): 396-402.
Rowe, WIlliam. “Paul Tillich” in Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion, edited by Graham Oppy and N Trakais, 133-144. N. Durham: Routledge, 2009.
Tillich reading
• What is meant by non-being in this context? Being-itself? p. 133-34
• Why doesn’t Tillich think God exists? p. 137
• What is meant by ultimacy? p. 138
• Why are religious symbols so important to Tillich? p. 141
• Why doesn’t anyone experience being-itself? p. 141
• What is the metaphysical shock of non-being? p. 142ff