In “Sonny’s Blues”, the two brothers reconnect after much time a part as each attempts to recover from pain in their lives. The narrator and Sonny are facing different difficulties in life and find solace in being with one another as they share a past pain, and find a way to heal by who they surround themselves. The people, the culture, and the way they choose to live helps find a way to heal from their own, by empowering them. Sonny’s use of music helps him find healing, The connection the…
play, which suggests that love’s inconsistency interferes with other relationships and, further, with one’s overall happiness. Love is said to be friendship. Friends have a unique form of love, that cannot be given by just anyone. Although a friends love and bond is so strong, sometimes a wall forms, a wall in which interferes with the friendship. In the play, Hermia has a romantic form of love for Lysander, but Puck the fairy casts a love spell on Lysander, while he is sleeping. Lysander…
Walker’s relationship with her father opens into a summer day. Everyone is getting ready to go the fair yet only one person out of eight can go. Walker, being the prettiest is chosen. Many times after that Walker is ‘chosen’ by her father because of her looks and actions. That all changes however after the ‘accident’ occurs. Walker is convinced that that day was “the last time my father, with his sweet home remedy of cool lily leaves, chose me…” (Walker 43-45) Walker’s relationship with her…
Love is a human necessity. Whether one receives it from friends or family, feeling wanted gives one reason to live their life to the fullest. In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield, a teenage boy, is desperate for true companionship without it being “phony”. He continually falls through hard times without anyone close to him helping him along, as he pushes them all away. In At a Window by Carl Sandburg, the narrator claims he would rather have hunger, poverty, and pain…
To reach a peaceful reconciliation, one must learn to embrace two distinct elements of their personality, the "Persona" and "Shadow." Likewise, in the bildungsroman A Separate Peace, author John Knowles depicts the common rivalry between young adolescents, and how they struggle to accept their identity and the relationship between their unconscious self. Gene, a Devon High student, becomes best friends with Finny and grows jealous of his ostensibly flawless friend, leading him to make a…
In the movie, Sweet Home Alabama, Melanie Carmichael, a woman in her early twenties moves away from her charming town of Greenville, AL to New York City to pursue her dream of being a fashion designer. She becomes very successful and one of the top designers in the city and is enjoying her life in New York until she finds herself engaged to one of the most eligible men in the city. She is then forced to return home to Greenville to tell her parents the news and obtain a divorce from her husband…
The biggest takeaway I have from our class time is the importance of interpersonal relationships in the workplace and how crucial dealing with people as more than just robotic workers really affects both work effort and efficacy. I have always been taught the importance of encouraging your workers, keeping an open environment, and analyzing team dynamics critically, but the class helped cement that both with examples and with actual situations that occurred in my groups. I’d be hard pressed to…
In order to prove how similarity influences friendships, it is critical to ensure that most friends are similar. There is no mathematical formula or accepted list of criteria for friendship formation. Put simply, just because two people are friends doesn’t necessarily mean they are similar. In fact, most people would probably agree that many friends are strikingly different from one another yet get along just as well as those who are similar. However, Dr. James Fowler, the well-known, widely…
Vijay and Suvarna were close friends since childhood as their mothers were long distance relatives. They had fun together, along with the rest of the kids around their neighbourhood. She liked his mother and father, who had a lot in common with her own parents, and this made her gradually come to like him. In addition, he was gradually developing attractive looks, a greater energy for action and a height difference that quickly separated him from the rest. By the age of twelve, her feelings of…
Everyone has faced situations where we don´t know how to act and respond, so we stop, take a deep breath and start thinking “What would Super-someone have done in my situation?” Nearly every one of us has had someone we look up to, it can be a friend, a family member or someone famous, and these figures are important as their actions inspire us and it has a great impact in our lives. For me is no exception as I have also faced this situations, and I will share who is that person I think about,…