Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The way one views the world is essential to their survival. If someone believes that people are trying to kill them, they’re digging a bigger hole for themselves. But if someone believes that everyone is doing their best, their life will be changed for the better. The novel One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich is about life in a Russian prison camp. Life there is hard, and one’s perspective of this brutal life is vital in their ability to survive. However, different people have varying…

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, “the battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” Humans have a choice from the very start, to chose sides between good or evil. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn believes that the choice of humanity derives from the heart of all humans. What about human nature? Is it a choice? Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nathaniel Hawthorne believed that humans from the dawn of time were constructed evil. Through the parable of “ Young Goodman Brown” Nathaniel…

Both myself and Solzhenitsyn believe that the issues facing the world can be traced back to what the Russian scholar called a "lost awareness of a supreme power..." (In The World, Pg. 146). In my list, I highlighted the complacency with which many people consume morally filthy forms of media, such as movies, video games, music, and even books. The things that people watch today would have caused an uproar 50 years ago; it is as if America has become desensitzed to evil. Solzhenitsyn, despite…

During the lives of two very intelligent and popular leaders, they shared their perspective on how we can look at our own beliefs and prepare ourselves to be more tolerant. President John F. Kennedy said that “Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.” He is basically saying that there is no need for us to enforce our core beliefs onto others, but rather accept people for who they are and not try and change them. The…

Since I have participated in Duel Enrollment English, my writing skills have improved through each paper and exercise that I have written. I use longer and more diverse vocabulary and write more complex sentences that vary in length. Each project that I worked on helped me overcome obstacles that I previously struggled with. This English class has truly given me an chance to practice and improve my writing skills. The first project, "Writing Process with Metaphor," gave me an opportunity to…

Frederick Douglass The pieces One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (ODIL) and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass texts that were published over a century apart and written under different circumstances. However, the stories that these Solzhenitsyn and Douglass tell in these books are very similar: ODIL presents a slice of the life of an everyman, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, who has been sentenced to ten years in a Soviet labour camp, but On the other hand Douglass's Narrative is an…

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “New Generation” wants us to understand that the nature of the universe is open to any possible thing. He addresses that the world changes when he talks about women. In Solzhenitsyn’s “new Generation,” he mentions “in only a few short years women have acquired personal freedom in their intimate lives-sexual liberation.” From this I understood that the world changes and the universe is open to it. The universe has no effect whether changes occur, therefore it is open to…

nation. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich tells the story of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner of Russia’s notorious gulag system under Joseph Stalin; the novel takes the reader into the gulag camp for a day, depicting the daily struggles that Shukhov, along with the other prisoners, must face, and emphasizing, firsthand, the Russian struggle against societal oppression. One Day made such a significant impact on its audience primarily because Solzhenitsyn…

In today’s society, the word “privacy” has become ubiquitous. Author Daniel J. Solove, wrote, “The Nothing-to-Hide Argument”, published in 2013 by Yale University Press. He argues that while people are under the delusion of being watched publicly, then they should have nothing to hide. In Britain, for example, surveillance cameras were installed throughout the cities and towns. The government declares, “If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear.” (735) Commentators disagree…

In the book, Cancer Ward, a clear villain is never fully identified, however, the book uses symbolism to described the omnipresent fall of the U.S.S.R and the state under Stalin's rule. This is represented by the character named Pavel Rusanov, which is emitted into the cancer ward and forced to undergo treatment. Rusanov is both a standard worker for the state, as well as an informer working for the secret police. This unnerves Rusanov, as recently a man he helped arrest over eighteen years ago…