A Difficult Life

Crossing several different boundaries in the human experience, religion is notoriously difficult to define. Still, many attempts have been made, and while every theory has its limitations, each perspective has contributed to our current understanding of this complex phenomenon. We can now identify several of the characteristic elements that religion consists of. To followers, religion is a way of life guiding thinking, feeling, and acting. It usually provides something or someone requiring…

Important and memorable moments in life will have an impact on people depending on the magnitude of the event. Particularly, in the short story “Araby” by James Joyce and the poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes which present the themes of childhood and adulthood in different situations, and from distinct gender and age. In “Araby”, a young boy discovers how blind and innocence he was because of false beliefs. While in “Mother to Son”, a mother talk about how life have been for her. Both,…

of perspectives of life. For this diversity and global awareness assignment I visited a nursing home and interacted with the residents. Visiting a nursing home is completely different from other events that I would normally attend. Not only are the people that reside there a different age but there are also other factors, like illness and diverse cultures that differ between the residents and I. Throughout this paper I will reflect on my experience and how it has impacted my life. The nursing…

In life, people struggle with forgiveness and grief. Society mostly hangs on to grief than forgiving their problems. In The Ultimate Gift and the River, they both have analogous literary themes throughout the story lines. The literary theme us the universal truth the story teaches, it is what the main character learns. Throughout these stories, both of the main characters are struggling with the conjoint theme of forgiveness breaks the bondage of grief. Occasionally the main character in The…

The sky was a smeared mess of yellow and black the day Victor returned to London. The city was exactly as remembered from three months ago; a hub of gang violence, smothered with the sick smell of fear. He made his way along the rooftops- careful to keep his precious packages concealed as he jumped from building to building. The sooner he got to the bunker the better; he had good news to deliver. Robert had come up with the idea five years ago- when everything…

In Hamlet’s most recognizable soliloquy, he muses about death, wondering if it is harder to live with a life full of pain and difficulty or to confront the unknown: HAMLET To be, or not to be—that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them (3.1.56-60). Why does the text use Hamlet’s contemplation of suicide as a platform for displaying a philosophy of death? The…

were just too difficult to express publicly. Of course, I could relate any number of events in my life that were touched by my mother. I know that each of you who have also lost a parent – which includes all of you -- could do the same. So, I won’t bore you with a lengthy recital of personal recollections about my mother. It is easier to say that everything that she ever did for me was based on her unconditional love…

Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was the author and wrote his own biography of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly on March 6, 1997, was full of life and worked as the editor for the French Elle Magazine had a Massive Stroke in his early forties while enjoying life with his two beautiful children. Jean Massive stroke took over his brainstem and he was in a coma for 20 days. Jean was a person who was very outgoing and active, sadly, his massive stroke turned into a locked-in syndrome and was paralyzed…

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This week has been the best week for learning for me. The different topics we have discussed have always been of interest to me as I try to figure out what part of life could be so bad they need to take their own life by committing suicide. I have experienced suicide in a traumatic way a few years ago. I lived in Georgia a few years ago, and the Walgreens I had worked at I had been at for quite a while therefore the employees were all one big happy family. I was the manager one day and one of my…