Contentment

Why is it that some people feel absolutely comfortable and at home in a place while others feel uneasy or uninvited? For example, one who loves shopping for anything and everything would feel right at home at The Mall of America, while one who could care less about material possessions would not be thriving. In Yi-Fu Tuan’s book, Space and Place, he discusses the concept of perspective in relation to space and place. Essentially, everyone is not going to have the same feelings or attitudes…

Children literature includes books, magazines, stories and poems that children enjoy. It can be traced to stories and songs which were part of the oral tradition that adults shared with their children before the advent of publication. The development of children literature is difficult to trace. However, from the 15th century AD, a large volume of literature, often with a religious or moral message, has been targeted specifically at children. Many of the children books acknowledged today as…

The origin of argument from desire dwells on the God’s existence and the divine afterlife, which holds that human’s natural yearning must be capable of contentment (Kreeft, 2008). The implication is that all natural craving are capable of contentment (Kreeft, 2008). The philosopher, Peter Kreeft is person who is an advocate that argues God’s existence from desire (Kreeft, 2008). This philosopher offers two (2) premises to justify his argument that God’s existence from desire is a reality that…

Throughout the films I have watched this semester, American Indians have been constructed and represented in many different ways. Different films in different eras have led to stereotyping American Indians and poorly portraying the construction of American Indian life. At the beginning of this semester, films portrayed American Indians as savages who could not kill a Cowboy, but at the end of the semester, that stereotype changed into American Indians represented as helpless people who cannot be…

In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood links the United States of the past with the present totalitarian state of Gilead through the use of techniques and themes. Atwood utilises language techniques and literary devices to build the themes of infantilisation and paternalism, acceptance, and division between women. The use of these techniques, which link the past and present, highlight the past’s influence on Gilead’s current values. Atwood’s use of figurative language, flashbacks, and repeated…

“not a handsome family; they were not well-dressed… but they were happy”. The family was grateful for what little they had, even their small Christmas dinner. They’re portrayed as kind, grateful, loving, and moral in spite of their poverty. This contentment and gratitude differs to the belief, which prevailed at the time, that the people in poverty were incapable of being appreciative, were immoral and largely criminals. Dickens presents the Cratchits as positive and upstanding citizens because…

Never Forget To Lie The people that were survivors of a war that took the lives of the Jews and the Europeans during World War 2 were The Holocaust Survivors. This war all started when Nazi enforced a law to get rid of all the Jews, the sad part is that the people accepted the rule. As a result, in order for the Jews to survive this war they had to change their identity, go into hiding, and even change the religion that they believe in. Holocaust survivors in Never Forget to Lie demonstrated…

Darkness is an overwhelming concept not fully understood until experienced. Many people live in darkness unknowingly. Without being aware, the Price’s lived in the dark for a long time; they drowned in their material possessions and corrupted views of life. The poem We Grow Accustomed to the Dark brings to light the horrors of darkness and how prevalent these nasty things are in everyone’s life. In the Poisonwood Bible, the women of the Price family learn to acknowledge their darkness and gain a…

Narrative Therapy Narrative therapy was introduced with the chief objective of helping clients externalise their problems in order to separate the self from the problem (White & Epston, 1990; White, 2000; Wllis, Burns & Capdevila, 2011). The nature of narrative therapy assumes the client has sufficient inner resources; such as skills, abilities, commitments and beliefs, to alleviate the problem. Thereby, when clients believe their problems stem from their character, it is becomes more…

Many of the GREASES spoke on some common subjects but for my essay I would like to discuss William Yeats and Sinclair Lewis. Both of these authors spoke on social issues and society in their era's. I think the main subject they both highlighted in many of their stories were women and the way society viewed them. They both tell stories of a young women but the stories are in the voice of a man. For instance, "Leda and the Swan" and "Main Street" there are clearly idealistic views for both of…