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Discovery is a broad topic which encompasses a range of experiences for an individual, group or society. This idea is explored through Go back to where you came from in which a group of people made discoveries as a whole but also as individuals. I have come to the conclusion that no discovery is ever the same for two different people. Different individual perspectives of the same discovery experience can and will render completely different outcomes and ramifications. Adam and Darren are an example of this, although both were exposed to the same situations the two in many ways had beliefs and values that were the opposite following the social experiment. I further understand that meaningful and confronting discoveries can cause individuals to reconsider their assumptions about human experience and the world. The essay enabled me to come to a more specific understanding that discovery is a powerful concept that can catalyse complete reassessment of firmly held values and beliefs. This concept was explicitly explored through ‘Saul’s Conversion’ in Acts 9:1-31. Saul has a rapid transformation in his beliefs, values and actions, highlighting the significant impact which a meaningful sudden and confronting discovery may have. Through both texts the understanding that discoveries can be intensely meaningful in ways that are emotional, physical and spiritual has stood out to me. It has developed a broader knowledge and understanding in me that discovery is more than the physical aspects but can be about emotional, spiritual or intellectual discoveries.

My imaginative writing response considers the transformative notion of discovery in a physical and spiritual sense. The extract highlights a boy’s fear for water. His experience is at a friends party in which he is rendered powerless by his mates and thrown into a pool however he cannot swim. The boy explicitly describes the process of him falling to the depths of the pool where he is at the hands of the water and the devil around him. All hope seems lost for him as he is engulfed by his greatest fear; water. But then a sudden discovery, a floatation device, maybe a pool noodle bumps into him. He holds on to the object and is pulled out of the water. The persona explains this transformative discovery in ways that are physical and spiritual. This discovery transforms an experience void of hope, reviving the persona’s spirit and enabling the teenager to surface the water. The discovery provided life in a physical and spiritual sense as the persona describes breathing in the air as if it were spiritual cleansing of the body. This he describes as a remedy which transforms his body  which he believed was engulfed by the devil in his fear of the water around him.

Upon gaining this task I was dreading keeping Advanced English. The task to begin with looked like so much work, all of which I needed to be doing whilst completing assessment tasks or studying for tests for every other subject. The main reason it was so daunting is that it consisted of four different components. However, the task proved to be not so difficult after all. Ms Atkins helped in many ways to make the task easy and smooth running, making it quite a success. One of the reasons as to why I was so motivated to complete the task was my choice to use a passage from the bible as my related text. My first priority in life is giving glory to God and learning about him, since he is my Creator, Saviour and Heavenly Father. Therefore being able to use the story of ‘Saul’s Conversion’ made the P-E-E-L analysis for my related text thoroughly enjoyable as it impacted upon my understanding of discovery and my full understanding of how significant Sauls discovery was. Go back to where you came from was also a very interesting text to use for discovery. I much prefer using films or documentaries than plays or poems which also kept me interested in the task, helping me not to procrastinate. Although all of these things benefited me in my success to be motivated to do the task I was still worried about the time constraint due to the captaincy role I had to fulfil. This is where credit goes to Ms Atkins for my success in this assessment. Ms Atkins gave us a three day extension which both allowed me to finish this task at a higher quality as well as my Business report and CAFS IRP which have also been due around the same time. Moreover, I have had success from the feedback I received from Ms Atkins indicating where I could improve, for all parts of this assessment. This made the process a lot easier and gave me confidence that I would be able to get closer to achieving full marks. Also, in addition to this, the notes that Ms wrote also allowed me to have a synopsis of each episode, assisting me in finding key meaningful discoveries for me to use for Raye and Adam in my essay. Although I was away for the lesson in which the class used padlet, I gained a quick understanding from Ms Atkins in one lesson. I am not phased by this website due to my uncreative nature. I do like how it separates the different parts of our assignment for viewing, however I only copied and pasted my assignment once everything was done as padlet was not as easy to access as Google docs, and would be harder to gain feedback from it. Overall, I’m happy with how I progressed in this assessment and the final result of all parts I’m submitting.

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"..NO YOU... YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!"
I can't stop it now . My brain is madly calculating options and routes to get me out of here, this feeling, this party, this sensation. I am bound. One holding each foot, one holding each hand. I am stretched and torn like a victim of some kind of medieval torture.
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I can hear cackles from the crowd and music blasting from inside. They think it's a joke. But they don't realise I can't swim. I am thrust into the air, breathing in one final breath. I let my lungs suck in everything they can. My chest, completely expanded.
All music and chatter is muted. I can still hear everything - it's just not… sharp. The light similarly dulls the further I submerge. My heart begins to slow as the devil attacks.

Then it hits me. I feel it, and grab hold of it and hug it tightly to my chest. It pulls me out from the depths of the darkness. I’m tugged away from surrounding high pressure water trying to invade my soul, like the demons do.

I surface.

I feel the remedy of the free whispy spirit roam inside of me, it fulfils my empty lungs. I’m saved. The demons are gone and I’m healed, cleansed, safe.

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An individual's discovery and process of discovery can vary according to personal, cultural, historical and social contexts and values. Saul was influenced by his cultural  background and grew up to become a Pharisee; a Jewish religious leader who tried to obey and enforce God’s laws from the Old Testament, adopting the historical Jewish values. These values consisted of a strict way of life in which people should conform to rules which regarded the way men and women should dress, speak, act in response to a variety of situations and even days of the week. For example no work or activities may be conducted on the Sabbath. “Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples”, the use of negative emotive language in ‘murderous threats’ highlights Saul's hatred toward Christians. This enables us to understand Saul’s hatred toward Christians due to his very strong Jewish values. This is because he believed that anyone who claimed to know the son of God must be killed for blasphemy. Therefore the personal values and cultural values which Saul held, due to the social and historical contexts caused his hatred toward Christians

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An individual's discovery may be sudden or unexpected which they have no control over and cannot foresee. Sauls initial discovery of God on his way to persecute Christians in Damascus was completely unexpected. “As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.” Luke is recounting Saul's experience through the use of a metaphor to symbolise the presence of God as ‘a light from heaven’. The adverb ‘suddenly’ describes the immediacy of the discovery. It was like a flick of a light switch in a dark room, God revealed himself to Saul at an immediate occasion without warning. God engulfed Saul in his presence as conveyed in ‘flashed around him’ allowing us to understand Saul had no control of the situation, it was completely unexpected. This situation caused Saul to truly discover that Jesus is the son of God, the Messiah, God in flesh and that the Christians he had been persecuting were right.

The discoveries we make are often most impactful when they are confronting and provocative. Saul’s discovery was immediately confronting ‘He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him’. “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” The firm, questioning tone gives us a reflection of God’s power as Saul falls to the ground due to the complete shock and immediate confrontation from God. When God speaks he uses repetition of the name ‘Saul’ to emphasise this message is to Saul specifically and further begs the question ‘why do you persecute me?’ God is provoking Saul with this confronting discovery to realise the ironic and hypocritical nature of how he is living his life. It is ironic because Saul believed he was doing what was right before God by punishing Christians for committing blasphemy. However, Saul was actually doing the opposite of what God wanted. He was rejecting Jesus; God’s son as the Messiah and furthermore killing those who believed He was the Messiah. This explains why God chose to instigate a confronting and provocative discovery for Saul. It was because it allowed him to be most effectively challenged so he could realise that he was disobeying God.

When particular discoveries are made individuals will experience a set of ramifications that can be impactful. A motif of Saul becoming blind ‘Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he saw could see nothing.’.....’For three days he was blind’ is used to symbolise Saul’s future spiritual enlightenment from blindness. This motif makes us consider how God used a physical ramification on Saul’s life to impact Saul’s values. When we investigate the reasoning for God causing Saul’s blindness with reference to the context of his preconceived beliefs and values, we find that Saul was persecuting Christians because of the way that they spoke, acted and dressed which didn’t follow the Jewish law. However, God knew that he had sent Jesus so these laws were no longer right and what Saul was doing to other people was wrong. Saul was a person who did a lot of outward judgement of other people but never reflected on himself even though he needed an inward look to see what he was doing was wrong. That is why God removes his sight, so that Saul can have an inward look at everything he is doing wrong. This ramification is what enabled Saul to realise what he was doing was wrong and what they were doing was right, causing him to experience a transformation.

Discoveries may emerge from a process of deliberate and careful planning. This is explored through ‘Saul’s Conversion’. ‘The Lord told him, ”Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight.’ The use of imperative and high modality in ‘The Lord told him, “Go” highlights to us the careful planning and deliberate nature of this discovery. Although the discovery was sudden and unexpected for Saul himself. This was a discovery which the Lord had orchestrated and planned out down to the specific roles each person would have. He used Ananias as the Christian healer who he knew would be near Saul at the time of his blinding. He was specific with Ananias as he knew that he was faithful and that God would be able to work through him heal Saul and answer his prayers. Connecting to the idea that discoveries may emerge through the process of deliberate and careful planning as seen in God’s plan for Saul’s discovery.

Discoveries can be fresh and intensely meaningful in ways that may be emotional, physical and spiritual. ‘Placing his hands on Saul he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord-Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here - has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit”. Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again.’ Saul’s blindness is further explored here as a motif surrounding Saul's physical transformation from blindness to being able to see as well as his emotional and spiritual enlightenment. The motif allows us to compare how God used Sauls physical blindness to explain how wrong Saul had been in the way he used to live his life. By making Saul blind for three days he was symbolising the previous years which Saul had lived blind to the fact that Jesus is God’s son. The healing of Saul's blindness is used to help us understand that Saul made the same fresh and intensely meaningful discovery emotionally and spiritually as he did physically. It impacted Saul emotionally as he no longer had a hard heart that hated Christian’s. Instead Saul had compassion for them and now also connected Jesus to the Jews. Sauls spiritual transformation was just as fresh and intensely meaningful, Saul turned away from the sin in his life and began to seek Jesus rather than condemn him and all those who believed he was the son of God.

The impact of discoveries can be far-reaching and transformative for the individual. The structure used in the recount of Saul’s conversion makes for a clear transformation of an individual. ‘Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples.’ This is juxtaposed with Saul's actions after his discovery;  ‘At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.’ From this we are able to clearly view the transformation in Saul’s life through this, his discovery. Saul was originally threatening to murder those who say Jesus is the son of God and then became one of those people who proactively preached the fact that Jesus is the Son of God. Thus, Saul’s discovery was far reaching with widely applicable effects that transformed how he thought and acted toward Jesus as God’s son and Christians.

Discoveries and discovering can offer new understandings and renewed perceptions of ourselves and others. ‘All those who heard him were astonished and asked, “Isn’t he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?” yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah. As seen clearly in the recount of Saul’s conversion new discoveries can clearly cause us to gain new understanding and perceptions of ourselves and others. The rhetorical questioning of the Christians in Damascus exclaim their renewed perception about Saul. Previously they would have feared this man but now due to his discovery and transformation they have a renewed understanding and perception of Saul. He no longer persecutes Christians but rather supports them. The Jews in the same way were described as baffled by the new Saul and their new understanding of who he is and furthermore who Jesus is - the son of God. This highlights the understanding which others gained about Saul following his discovery. For the other Jewish people Saul further enabled them to gain a new perception that Jesus is the son of God.

Our discoveries can lead us to new worlds and values, stimulate new ideas and enable us to speculate about future possibilities. Saul’s discovery connects to this as it instigated a complete change in values and stimulation of new ideas. ‘He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.’ The use of positive emotive language in the word ‘fearlessly’ enables us to evaluate Saul’s new found values. He no longer values the Jewish law he kept so precious and close to his heart, but now instead values Jesus as the Messiah - his Lord and saviour and is willing to fearlessly preach it. We learn that Saul’s discovery of Jesus was acted upon by him choosing to preach, thus spreading this new idea. This transformation as a result of his discovery displayed Saul’s new view of the world.

Discoveries have the potential to affirm or challenge individuals’ or more widely held assumptions and beliefs about human experience. This theory is highlighted in Saul’s discovery as we learn about how it brought across a change in his beliefs and assumptions about human experience. This is contrasted in the diversity of Saul's behaviour before and after his discovery. ‘He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.’ Whereas after his discovery; ‘Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.’ This great contrast in Saul’s actions, before and after his discovery, portrays how Sauls beliefs and assumptions about Jesus and other Christians were challenged. Saul was challenged directly by God when he asked “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” God confronted Saul for persecuting other Christians and changed Saul's beliefs on human experience and made him reconsider how he was treating Christians. Furthermore Sauls change, in which he began to preach his Discovery of God also challenged the widely held beliefs and assumptions of other Jews around him regarding who Jesus was. This was through his preaching which challenged the beliefs and assumptions of the Jews who heard him.

The broader society can be impacted upon and transformed by discoveries. Saul’s discovery and transformation in his life allowed other people in the broader society to make their own discoveries through Saul. Saul’s conversion impacted the people around him due to his preaching. ‘So Saul stayed with them and moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. He talked and debated with the Hellenistic Jews.’ The high modality and use of positive emotive language in ‘boldly’ demonstrates to us the passion with which Saul had whilst preaching to the Jews who he used to previously live like. Earlier it explained that Saul ‘baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.‘ Thus explaining to us that the broader society, specifically the Jews were also making the new discovery that Jesus is the son of God, impacting and transforming their lives. The last paragraph outlines the further impact this discovery had; ‘Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.’ Luke’s tone and use of positive emotive language through the words ‘peace’ and ‘strengthened’ illuminate our understanding that the wider church as the broader society was also impacted by Sauls discovery as he enabled others to discover Jesus as the Messiah.

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The life in which each person lives is in many ways defined by their personal beliefs and values. However, what is it that defines and shapes the beliefs and values of individuals? Are there situations that cause a transformation in an individual's mindset regarding their beliefs and values? The concept of discovery explores these questions. Every day individuals make discoveries in the environment around them, some of which are significant, important and impactful. It is the significant discoveries that have the power to enlighten and reconstruct what an individual believes and the values they hold in their current society. A significant discovery will often be most impactful on an individual when it is confronting and provocative. This can challenge individuals emotions and instigate a transformation in beliefs. A discovery in the form of an experience can also cause an individual to have their values challenged and transformed. The documentary Go back to where you came from directed by Ivan O’Mahoney uses a variety of techniques to convey the challenges which the participants faced during their process of discovery. While each participant was exposed to the same experiences, their reactions and perspectives on the significant discoveries varied according to whether the situation affirmed or challenged their pre-existing values and beliefs. ‘Saul's Conversion’ in Acts 9: 1-31 of The Bible (New Living Translation) written by Luke, similarly explores these ideas. It reveals the process of a significant discovery in which a man has his preconceived beliefs and values challenged in an unexpected and confronting meaningful discovery.

Significant discoveries can act as a powerful catalyst effecting a change in the preconceived beliefs of an individual. In the documentary Go back to where you came from, participant Raye Colby had her initial beliefs and assumptions about asylum seekers firmly challenged though a social experiment which ultimately provoked a transformation in her beliefs. In Raye’s introduction, a short interview is used to allow Raye to directly express her initial beliefs and emotions toward Asylum seekers:“When I saw the boat crashed coming into Christmas Island, I thought serves you bastards right.” Her use of high modality and negative emotive language portrays her distaste for “boat people” and refugees, especially those coming to Australia. This enables us to understand the strong beliefs she holds, before any discoveries were made. The initial significant discovery Raye made occurred in conversation with Maisara Masudi. Maisara explains that her first child died due to horrible living conditions as a refugee, that she didn’t have enough money to buy medicine as simple as panadol for her baby. Afterwards, the camera cuts to Raye, we see a close up of her looking shocked, stating it was ‘not easy for me to hear that’. Raye connects with her own difficulties with carrying children, and her reflection that she can ‘understand where she’s coming from’ enables us to see how Raye connects to the human experience she shares with Maisara. This step challenged her beliefs that “it’s not fair they just get all this freedom”. In episode three Raye meets with Deo, the brother of Bahati Masudi and his family in a poverty stricken Kenyan refugee camp. After the experience Raye reflects, “Like Deo said; ‘We just have to survive’ and that’s about all they’re doing in there is surviving because it’s certainly not living.” Raye’s tone of voice is soft and a slow calm piano is edited into the background, with numerous shots of Raye looking off into the distance into the sunset showing her saddened emotion. This indicates that the significance of Raye’s meaningful discovery has been achieved through her experiences and connections with the refugees she has encountered. Thus, Raye’s process of discovery is realised through these meaningful moments that have enabled her beliefs about refugees to be completely transformed.

The meaningful and significant moments in the process of discovery are what cause individuals to reconsider their assumptions and beliefs about human experience and the world. ‘Saul’s Conversion’ in Acts 9: 1-31 explores this process of discovery by which Saul; a Jewish authoritarian, has his beliefs about the world and God challenged and transformed. Saul’s predetermined beliefs were outlined immediately in verse 1, “Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples” The use of negative emotive language in ‘murderous threats’ highlights Saul's hatred toward Christians, enabling us to understand the very strong Jewish beliefs he held - that he believed Jesus was not the son of God and anyone who claimed Him to be must be killed for blasphemy. Saul’s initial, strong beliefs in his hatred toward Christians parallels Raye’s initial beliefs in regard to her hatred toward refugees. Saul’s discovery of Jesus had particular ramifications that were meaningful and challenged his beliefs,‘Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing.’.....’For three days he was blind’. A motif of Saul becoming blind is used here to symbolise a link to Saul’s enlightenment and subsequent transformation of his beliefs. The motif explains to us that God used blindness to force Saul to reflect on what he was doing wrong; persecuting Christians. Similarly, Raye had her beliefs challenged when she connected with refugees like Maisara about shared human experiences. Hearing about the death of her baby had ramifications on Raye, causing her to break down in tears and consider the way that she had been pushing refugees aside and not caring about them just like Saul did to Christians. In verse 19, we view how Saul’s renewed understanding caused ramifications based on his transformed beliefs. ‘At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.’ This contrast in behaviour is highlighted by Saul’s change from threatening to murder those who say Jesus is the son of God, to becoming one of those people who proactively preached the fact that Jesus is the Son of God. This enables us to fully understand the great transformation that occurred in Saul’s beliefs due to his meaningful discovery, running parallel to Raye’s transformation where she no longer threatens to shoot refugee’s but embraces them.

Significant discoveries have the power to challenge and transform an individual's preconceived ideas and values. Adam from Go back to where you came from reassesses his values after the unexpected and confronting discoveries experienced during his involvement in the social experiment. Adam’s initial values are indicated in episode 1 through voice-over narration summarises “In Adam’s Australia everyone needs to play by the rules, especially asylum seekers who arrive by boat” whilst a low angle camera shot depicts a stern looking Adam standing on the lifeguard tower. This

portrays Adam as prideful and firm values connected with Australian law. Adam’s first confronting and meaningful discovery was his experience at the Villawood Detention Centre, reflecting afterwards,”it shook me up a bit. A bit of a reality check actually.” He discovered, “the guy I was speaking to was on his third attempt. If he get’s denied he’s definitely not going back to Iraq, so it’s suicide for him.” Adam’s shocked tone of voice and facial expressions convey how confronting this experience has been and his need to reconsider his current values associated with asylum seekers he previously referred to as ‘criminals’. We understand that this was unexpected, making it meaningful for Adam as he becomes more knowledgeable on the harsh reality connected with the experience of asylum seekers. In episode 3, Adam articulates his complete transformation, voice over narration informs the audience, “The participants are now 20 days into the experiment, Dr David Corlett has arrived to assess its impact”. During the debrief, David asks the participants for their thoughts on Jordan as a place of first refuge. Adam emphatically replies “they’re got a sh*t house life here there’s no permanent solution for them, they can’t get a job, they’ve got very very limited health care, their status is still illegal here, they can’t go home, they’re in no man’s land.” Adam’s use of expletive highlights his anger and frustration, while the listing of the difficulties facing refugees is reflective of his reassessment of values based around the experiences he has witnessed. He then goes on to state that he would ‘get on the boat’ and try to make that journey to Australia further evidence of his shift from asylum seekers being ‘criminals’. As seen, through the use of a variety of techniques we are able to understand the complete transformation in Adam’s values through his meaningful discoveries.

An individual's values have the ability to be transformed through confronting and significant moments in time. ‘Saul’s Conversion’ in Acts 9: 1-31 explores how a confronting and significant discovery through Saul’s conversion transformed the value Saul placed on upholding the law to be ‘right’ before God. Prior to Saul’s discovery he sought permission from the high priest to punish Christians, ‘so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.’  The use of low modality in ‘if’ and ‘might’ are used to highlight the use of cause and effect of Saul’s actions. It suggests that should Saul finds those who ‘belong to the Way’ (intertextual reference to Jesus who stated ‘I am ‘the way the truth and the life, No one comes to the Father except through me.’ John 14:6) then he would take them as prisoners. This proves Saul’s distaste toward Christians and Jesus, emphasising Saul’s strong connection with Jewish law, like Adam’s firm values connected with Australian law. Saul’s discovery was immediately confronting and was also significant “He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him.” “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting” The firm, questioning tone gives us a reflection of God’s power as Saul falls to the ground due to the complete shock and immediate confrontation from God. The repetition of the personal pronoun when God speaks  emphasises that this message is to Saul. The questioning,  ‘why do you persecute me?’ reveals how God is provoking Saul with this confronting discovery to realise the ironic and hypocritical nature of his current values whereby he would punish Christians for committing blasphemy but reject Jesus. This explains why God chose to instigate a confronting discovery for Saul. Thus, God’s decision to provide Saul with a confronting and potentially transformative discovery offered him the opportunity reassess these values. The use positive emotive language in the word ‘fearlessly’ in ‘He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus’ highlights the transformative power of this meaningful and impactful discovery on his values. He no longer values the Jewish law he kept so precious and close to his heart, but now instead values Jesus as the Messiah - his Lord and saviour which completely changed his actions toward Christians. This connects with Adam’s meaningful discovery when he realises the complexity of the refugee experience, and no longer places such high significance on the law, explaining that he did not see asylum seekers as ‘illegal’ to emphasise his reassessment of his initial values. Through the use of a various language techniques we can understand the transformation of Saul’s values due to his confronting and meaningful discovery.

Moments of significance are those which humans remember and consider when reflecting on one's life. It is these moments which form the basis of an individual's beliefs and values. This has been explored through the documentary Go back to where you came from and ‘Sauls Conversion’ in Acts 9: 1-31 of The Bible (New Living Translation) through the use of a variety of documentary, film and language techniques. The impact of the process of discovery was explored with close reference to how it had the power to transform the beliefs of individuals based around personal experiences. The confronting and significant nature of discovery was explored through Adam and Saul in order to understand how this can cause a reassessment of pre-existing values. Thus, these ideas enable us to understand that through meaningful and significant discoveries an individual's beliefs and values about their world can be transformed.