1. Hope: The Human Pandemic
Then when she agreed to swap houses with a total stranger in one conversation proves her spontaneousness. 5) The major conflict of Ria is with her husband, Danny Lynch. ... I find it very stifling (292)." 6) I think the turning point of the story is when Ria gets a call from a stranger by the name of Marilyn Vine. ... It showed how a total stranger could be more consoling than a friend. ...
Second of all a fetus is not a stranger, it's created of woman's "flesh and blood" and can potentially become her child. ... She forgets that the woman and fetus are not perfect strangers and in a normal case of pregnancy there is no aggression or harm being done. ...
Racism tends to be an extremely sensitive topic of discussion. Some people believe racism is fully alive to this day. Silko beautifully expresses her thoughts and experiences. Silko has personally been dealt the hand of racism, up close and personal, and is fully aware of the disturbing devils that ...
Existentialism Existentialism is a philosophical movement that focuses on self-existence. A main idea of existentialism is that people believe that they live in a comprehensible, connected, and predictable universe, however the universe is in actuality irrational, disconnected and predictab...
Personal Response I refer to Benson and Weixiong's article, "Art is subjective", dated 11th July 2003, and Teo Pau Lin's article, "You call that art?", dated 6th July 2003. In my personal opinion, art, is a semantic word. What art is depends a lot of what one defines as art. Someone looking at a ...
The month of September 2003 would remain to be one of my best moment in the world that changed by notion about how I viewed the circumcision. Unlike the other days, this day I had wake up early in the morning than usual. The reason was because I was in a foreign country. I took my camera, packed it ...
I think it's safe to say that Midgley doesn't exactly offer a "short answer to the question of where ethics comes from". Supposing she did, then I"d hate to see her long answer to questions! But that's beside the point. Many of my classmates have stressed that this reading was difficult to fully...
Frankenstein is one of the best books that I have ever read. The creature created by Victor Frankenstein has captured my attention since it has been presented by the narrator:" as his yellow eyes opened to stare at its creator". I choose to analyze this character for my essay because it fascinat...
When a person lists their priorities or whom they care for the most, almost everyone in the world would place their families before their friends or strangers. ... The problem one encounters is that there are a select group of philanthropic selfless individuals out there who do place the benefits and interests of complete strangers or non-family members before even the benefit of themselves. ...
Lord of the Flies This was a very interesting book. I found it is sort of a cross between Alive and Hatchet. Because the book is really addictive and written so excellent, it did not take me long to get into the book, which is something I usually have a problem doing. The characters were s...
Bahaullah taught that each human being is "a mine rich in gems" unknown even to the owner, let alone to others, and inexhaustible in its wealth. The purpose of life is to develop these capacities both for one's own life and for the service of humanity. Life in this world, as Bahaullah presents it,...
On Being a Good Person How to be a good person? This may seem like a simple question, yet it may be a complicated one, too. Generally, there are two sides to every coin. For example, without evil, there can be no good. In order to answer the question, one must ask which factors facilitate doing ...
"Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." If you would have asked me what this phrase meant to me a month or maybe even a week ago I would have said that it sounded nice, but that it had no meaning or great significance to me. However, after having the privilege of volunte...
A person's family plays a significant role in an individual's aspirations and goals. Some aspire to be like a parent, older sibling or relative. Duddy Kravitz's only real family relationship is with Simcha, Duddys scrupulously honest though unbending Grandfather. Not many people, other than Simcha, ...
A startling fact: Almost 20,000 transplants were done in the USA (11,409 kidneys, 4,166 livers, 2,292 hearts and 942 lungs among them) and according to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation in the world were transplanted 48,541 hearts and 11,608 lungs, saving 5% of related victims in USA , or a tiny 0.7% worldwide, meaning that transplantation, an anyhow unnatural practice which implants a strangers" organ into another body, is far away from solving the problem, being the lack of adequate donors is the main reason. ...
The short story "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor, portrays a story of a woman who thinks she is superior to everyone else and is caught up in the illusion she is living the right way by God. The majority of the story is in a doctor's waiting room where Mrs. Turpin has taken her husband Claud for tr...
It is important to understand that a healthy lifestyle is not healthy physical exercises in the morning, but a number of other vital principles, among which and harmonious relations with their close people, friends, colleagues and even strangers. ...
The Broken Leash: Descriptive Essay Do you know a vicious dog in your neighborhood? Isn't he always tied up? What happens when he gets off the leash? Everyone in his or her life one time or another has seen a neighbor's ferocious dog off the leash wandering. This is a story about that dog. Do ...
Over 2000 years into the future, the pensive world still contemplates this inevitable truth. During those 2000 years, Plato's Meno has been scrutinized repeatedly, yet Socrates" ideas still stands strong. In that fateful evening, 2000 in the past, the mouths of Socrates and Menon gave birth to man...
Everyone wants to live with dignity, but rarely does that equate to being dignified. One is usually preoccupied with receiving and wanting to be shown dignity that one forgets to treat others in the same manner. In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, the characters whom are considered the weakest,...
There are many views, theories and opinions on the topic of human nature. I particularly agree with the theory provided by Sigmund Freud which appears to be the most extreme theory of all. Although I agree with Freud it is my opinion that human beings are aggressive by nature but they become altruis...
According to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1985), alienation is "of or belonging to another person or place, foreign in nature or character, the action of a stranger, or a state of estrangement, or a withdrawing or separation of a person or his affections from and object or position of former attachment". ...
Everyone knows someone that can make his or her sunny day turn into a rainy, gloomy day. Or maybe someone has had an encounter with a person on the subway that bumped into you, knocked your bags down and still didn't have the audacity to say excuse me or can I help you with that? What comes to mi...