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    Some people say that success can be achieved only materialistically. However, if success is only achieved materialistically, we will not notice people who achieved their success through a different way. I believe that success is having an influence over a person or society that will eventually remain in people’s memory and give help at the decisive moments. In the memoir by s Albom, Morrie Schwartz, old professor of Brandies University, clearly defines the success and is paragon of successful…

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    When they were done speaking about the good times Mitch still had a busy job to get back to so he promised Morrie that he would visit him every single tuesday. For the rest of the night and day all Mitch could think about is why he missed so many years without seeing Morrie and also all the pain he must be in. So far Mitch hasn't missed a single tuesday with Morrie and he has been getting to know him like if he was taking his class but little did he know, he was…

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    Tuesdays with Morrie is a book about the relationship between a student and his favorite college professor. The book is a memoir and it’s written in Mitch’s point of view, but there are some sections where he discusses Morrie’s life, without actually being there to witness them. This book will take a toll on your emotions and you will let it, due to how good of a read it is. In the beginning, Mitch talks about how Morrie and he spent their last weeks together, spending every Tuesday at Morrie’s,…

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    The book is about the one of the author’s favorite professor, Morrie Schwartz. It focuses on how his professor made a huge impact in his life. It tackles about the Tuesdays that Mitch and Morrie spends today, sharing major life lessons and values. Summary The author started the novel by introducing Morrie Schwartz; he said he was one of his favorites. Morrie could feel that his body is slowing down; he loved to dance but could no longer. When he reached his seventies, he was diagnosed with…

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    Our Stars by John Green, two star crossed lovers, Hazel, a teenage girl with terminal lung cancer, and Augustus, an 18 year old with Osteosarcoma, are left with little time and have to live out the rest of their lives to the fullest. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, Morrie, an elderly man formerly a professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, who is diagnosed with ALS and…

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    Tuesdays with Morrie The author was a man named Mitch Albom, who was very close to his university professor, who was very close to his teacher, ALS, after 16 years of his promise to return to his hometown and to stay in touch with his teacher when he watched the television as a cure for muscular nerve function. I think it's possible. Based on this reality, this book was written for the memory of his teacher. (he was an athletic journalist) Morrie Schwartz was a sociologist at Brandeis University…

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    Mitch Albom has created a heartfelt and moving memoir with Tuesdays with Morrie. The overall feel of the story is captivating. From the very first page, the readers are drawn in and urged by the words to read further and further. Before they know it they have finished reading and have tears streaming down their cheeks. Once the initial tears go away, then sets in the deep personal reflection. Tuesdays with Morrie is more than just a story about a man and his professor, it’s a story about life.…

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    Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a non-fiction book representing as Mitch Albom and Morrie Schwartz final thesis together as “student and professor”. Their “final thesis’ talks about the different and important aspects in life and advice from the wise, passionate, ALS diagnosed, dying man, Morrie. He talks with Mitch every tuesday about certain topics that are involved in every human beings life. Tuesdays with Morrie illustrates the themes love, friendship/family, and death, through the…

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    Tuesdays With Morrie is an enticing story about changes of mind. In the novel, a dying, wise man named Morrie Schwartz, takes on the author and central character Mitch, and guides him towards a brighter tomorrow. Mitch Albom, the author of the book, is a somewhat narcissistic man who has to face the impending death of Morrie by ALS, sometimes known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a fatal neurological disease that attacks the nerve cells responsible for controlling muscle actions in the arms and…

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    In the book Speak and Tuesdays with Morrie the characters both have different background of where they come from and how they were brought up. The characters name in Speak is Melinda Sordino, she is emotional and can only show her feelings with her body language by biting her hands and lips. Which shows why she is emotional and depressed. Morrie Schwartz from Tuesdays with Morrie was a school teacher that developed a terminal disease called ALS at the age of 80. Morrie was a Professor of…

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