A Lesson Before Dying

Life was great for a year or two , I had everything I wanted . I thought that nothing was going to change; I just loved how it was going . But then something happened that changed everything. Something that is unforgettable and it taught me a lesson. I had came home from school, and I had slept for several hours while my mother and brothers were at church . It was super cold that night , I had received a phone call that ended my innocence . The phone call where I learned my aunt had died. This…

In my perspective, as a 16 year old girl, I think that the Earth owns us. I like to think of the Earth a buffet, and the people in the buffet keep going back for more and more seconds. Looking back through the lessons and topics we’ve discussed over the past couple weeks, I find it very interesting that I have been overlooking myself. I have been proved time and time again that I too, am a wasteful, materialistic, consumer. But how can I help it? Today’s society is making it offly difficult to…

Definition: Colored folks asking for the white people to help them. They are thirsty dry and dying, with out the water they will perish. Water being jobs, that black folks have done all along. Cast it down to make friends of your neighbor who may be a different race, cast it down in agriculture, mechanics’ in commerce in domestic service and in…

Christian understanding that Jesus was born in a specific moment in time on earth as simultaneously fully human and fully divine. Although he is the son of God, he walks among man, and, after his crucifixion, has to experience hell for three days before being resurrected, thus emphasizing his…

distress the Joker continues speaking “Okay I won’t shoot him since you asked so nicely but, it’s rude to interrupt, even if you are a bit batty. Get it? Batty? Why aren’t you laughing? Mr. President seems to think it’s funny. Look he’s dying over there. Get it? Dying? As I was saying, for the grand finale,” the Joker grabs the President’s head by his mouth and the back of his skull, and with a sudden, violent jerk he twists it and the laughing stops. “His laughing was getting annoying. You know…

Child I Used to Drink” she starts to have her doubts with her “transcendence and union with nature”. Oliver illustrates in “From this River, When I was a Child I Used to Drink” that when she “came back [she] found \that the body of the river was dying”(44) . She felt that the she was going to lose the river as a friend, because the river was starting to dry out. The river was there for her through her roughest times. Despite, being lonely, and having no one to talk to Oliver had the flow…

Plato was greatly influenced by Socrates and included Socrates as basis of many of his literary works. Meno deals specifically with virtue and whether it can be taught. Phaedo is significant as it reveals the conviction of a truth-seeker just before dying for a cause. Phaedo narrates conversation that Socrates had with his disciples in his last day in the ‘gaol’, ahead of consuming the hemlock. Both Meno and Phaedo comprise long and even complex arguments in a way of philosophical deliberation…

Measuring Happiness: the Vices and Virtues There are many different perspectives on ethics; many question the concept of happiness, this ideology ties in with three short essays: “Character and Self-Love,” “Despair,” and “The Virtue of Humility.” In the short essay, “Character and Self-Love,” Voltaire discusses ideas involving the concept of one’s character and one’s self-love. The meaning of one’s character and if one could really change who they are as a human and their ability to self-love.…

her dying words spoke of how she had a right to speak and voice her opinions despite what her husband told her, Emilia died as a victim of cruelty. Emilia’s defiant nature in the end shows the reader that Shakespeare encourages the breaking of the glass ceiling in the early 17th century when Othello was published. On the other hand, Iago represents the genetic nature of cruelty. People are cruel to a certain type of person, because they have seen others be cruel to that type of person before.…

The beast came barring at me with full force and no weapon was there to assist me in the fight. In fear of dying before seeing my family, I scream to Zeus and Athena, “Give me mercy; I’m am dreadfully sorry for what I have done. Please forgive me for my words! I never meant to hurt the feelings of my fellow muse! Please!” Zeus heard the bagger's words and realized he had learned his lesson of respecting the gods and Athena. He Granted him amnesty and forgave Odysseus for the unrightfully sin he…