One quote that stuck out to me stated by Henry Adams was 'An educator influences time everlasting; he can never tell where his impact stops.' This quote helps express the bond and connections between Mitch and Morrie, our main characters in the novel. ALS, which is short for Amyotrophic sideline sclerosis and known as Lou Gehrig’s disease is a type...
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Morrie is a very adorable school teacher who—in his late sixties—discovers that he is passing on. The narrative of his most recent couple of weeks on earth is told by Mitch, one of Morrie's previous understudies, who happens to catch him amid his last days. Those are the stripped down, however at this point how about we expound a bit?...
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The story entitled Young Goodman Brown is about Goodman Brown himself. The protagonist in the story is Goodman Brown, who was three months married to Faith. He is a religious person who went on an errand, leaving his wife alone. His errand became a journey in a forest where he met an old man holding a staff, which was the...
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Morrie Schwartz was a 78-year-old man with a tremendous amount of courage, wisdom, and many life lessons to offer the world. He shared his knowledge with his students as he taught sociology at Brandeis University. His diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) opened his eyes to many things in life that he never thought twice about before. He began to...
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A remarkable and inspiring story about an old professor and his former student. Based on true events written by the former student himself, Mitch Albom. With a great extent of help from the old professor’s friends, family, and colleagues, they tell and embark the story of Morrie and how he changed the lives of every person whom he came across....
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Literary theories provide limitless perspectives on the way individuals read the text making each interpretation unique. Through different literary criticisms, individuals appreciate Fitzgerald’s portrayal of a theme, event, or character in The Great Gatsby. The Marxist theory analyzes the amount of power in numerous socioeconomic classes, the consequences of these power differences, and the interactions between characters from different classes....
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Macbeth is a play written in 1606 by William Shakespeare and set in 11th-century Scotland. The main protagonist is an honorable man at the beginning, however, driven with ambition, he shows his true nature. With the influence of Lady Macbeth, Macbeth is turned into a monster, with no feelings of guilt or remorse for his actions. Throughout Macbeth, Shakespeare portrays...
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“Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game.” Samantha Martin said this exact quote in the movie, A Cinderella Story. Throughout the lives of others, they often come across complications that can lead to fears in themselves. It is no lie that fear is everywhere. The past, present, and future of ourselves, include fear. Fearing...
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“I had one last chance to make a decision..stand up for Hassan - the way he'd stood up for me all those times in the past - and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run. In the end, I ran”. An important lesson to remember is that life is not always about who is real to your...
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The Call of the Wild is the first novel that I’ve read. This novel taught me how important of relationship between humans and animals is. I learned that you have to use your own feet and don’t rely on others to survive. Also, the lesson that I can take from this novel is that never give up, you have to...
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Aims and Objective: The aim and objective of this research is to study self-actualization as a coping mechanism to deal with the post-colonial identity crisis in the poetry of African poets like Ben Okri, and Langston Hughes. With Post-colonialism comes an age of ambiguity, a battle between appropriation and abrogation concerning assimilation into the now-foreign scene. The chaos in the...
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The Danger of Loyalty Imagine doing everything for someone worthwhile and then knowing that you won’t get that in return. Loyalty is one of the most kingly traits in the eyes of past and current generations. This is why it receives so much attention, as it can be a part of a healthy and inspiring relationship or as a character...
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This is an extract from the moral play called 'Everyman' by Anonymous. Eventually before this extract, the messenger begins by revealing two themes such as sin and death which depict the cause of death to human beings. In the given extract, God wails over people who do not obey His rules and instead choose material things, friends, and money which...
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On its cosmic pedestal, the sun was like the fire that had sent us out of the sky, only worse. It wore and dried us up in the desert for who knows how long. With twenty other people, it was something like a bad dream. So when it came over the mountains like a cupped hand of salvation, we all...
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William Shakespeare's 'King Lear' is one of his four great tragedies and one of his most acclaimed plays. His greatest tragedies come from his second and third periods. Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet come under the second period whereas the third period includes Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony, and Cleopatra. Self-delusion is the tragic flaw of the tragic...
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Self-awareness is key to being a good person, no matter how the term “good” is defined. Being self-aware allows one to see when they’re straying away from the path they want to take and to correct any behaviors that drove them off in the first place. The story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne explores how a lack of self-awareness...
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Slavery is the social practice in which someone has property rights over another person, who is consequently called a slave. For a long time, slaves were considered a product. Prices changed according to physical conditions, professional skills, sex, age, etc. The only aspect that did not change was their color; they were all black. In present times, this topic is...
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In Dubious Battle, man’s submissiveness to the group contrasts with how Thoreau wants man to be free. In Thoreau’s Walking, walking is a process where you free yourself from society and discover the inner meanings of oneself. Thoreau believes that “horses and steers have to be broken” and that men “have some wild oats still left to sow before they...
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Leadership is always a big deal in different kingdoms, nations, and countries. Whereby other leaders become ambitious and ruthless. The following piece of writing will outline Creon's law, the importance of his law, the period it took him to change it, and either the fairness or unfairness of this law. Creon establishes his law to reinforce his power and make...
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Reality has flaws and situations that are less than ideal, while fantasy can be filled with nothing but a person’s desires. The disappointments reality can bring are the complete opposite of the bliss of fantasy. Just because fantasy is more desirable, living in it can have its flaws too. Although reality may be displeasing compared to a fantasy, making the...
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Shakespeare is known for his remarkable plays and is often regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of his time as well as today. Enclosed in his anthology of historical plays, he referred to many historical documents to gather the information he needed. But in reality, Shakespeare dramatized many of these historical events, which also included the addition of certain...
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Fear of death is a phenomenon that exists in all animals including humans, the only difference is how each person reacts to their anxiety and fear. But why are people afraid of death? Because of love, people love everything that they own, and they do not want to forfeit them; however, they know they cannot make any changes since their...
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The song “Just Like You” by Luis Tomlinson (2017) is somehow different from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29. Louis Tomlinson used a range of poetic devices to help write his song about him as a girl and the differences in their feelings and thoughts about love. He wants to tell the girl that love isn’t just about cash and cars, but about...
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The transition of how women are perceived from the 20th century to then, post-modern times is differential and quite arguably, dramatic. In both 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Catcher In The Rye' there is a significant pattern of subversion against stereotypes, specifically women. More specifically, this is shown through the contrast of both female protagonists in 'A Streetcar Named Desire',...
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Introduction Readers may find that the way Dickinson wrote is very similar to the way that we text messages - the lines are short, broken, and sometimes as if they haven’t been organized well. The words are also quite clear and straightforward; the paradoxical language she used may make us confused, but it is also to some extent similar to...
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“The Coddling of the American Mind” written by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt is an essay examining the rise of speech restrictions on college campuses, the demand for trigger warnings, and the policing of microaggressions. This book ties in with the theme of where one comes from and their core values affect their chance of getting certain jobs and learning...
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Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, introduction and annotations by Bill McKibben, follows the life and observations of Thoreau as he lived apart from civilization for two years and two months near Concord, Massachusetts. During this time, he encounters many different individuals who assist him in forming his ideas of life and society. Thoreau argues that by living a life...
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Segregation has been rooted in society since the start of civilization. It has been more than just a simple means of separation based on skin color. It is more based on the differences in moral values between each race, and the values that are considered more accepted and “better”. Art has always been an outlet for people to express their...
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Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), is considered a classic text because it consists of these elements; there is insight into the time in which it was set; the 1930’s, at the time of the pre-civil rights movement. It also fits into the place it is set in; in the state of Alabama in the fictional town of...
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Mental instability is a theme that is portrayed in stories and novels by many writers and the stories “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman are not an exception. The setting of the two stories differs and creates a slightly different background force for the reader to empathize with. In both stories, the main...
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