Contentment

“Nature is silent in our culture….”(Manes:15) This is the reason Man always considers himself superior to nature as he is the only creature on this earth who is bestowed with the ability to speak and is destroying the physical environment for its contentment. This statement can be clearly found in the novel where the writer serves the unkind behavior of timber merchants towards our environment. This incident proves to be the best example of degradation of green culture by Amitav Ghosh as he…

Ferlinghetti’s The World is a Beautiful Place is a literary work with a sense of great sarcasm and satire. While the title suggests that the author holds a rather optimistic and positive view about society and its underlying allure, the actual poem is about the disguised charms of the world through the lens of cynicism. A quick glance at this poem is enough for readers to notice the author’s unique structural choice, and combined with a distinctive poetic pattern, alongside the use of…

Candi Scott Essay Prep 2 February 14th 2017 SYG2430 WEB Infatuation, “XO” Beyoncé In Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love, from person to person, infatuation is a careless commitment to satisfy ones all consuming lust. The song “XO” is told from Beyoncé’s perspective of her relationship with her husband Jay-Z. Romantic relationships often start out as obsessed love and become romantic love as intimacy matures over time. Without progressing into intimacy or commitment, infatuation in love…

Irving called Rip “ one of those happy mortals…[and] if left to himself, he [sic] would have whistled life away in perfect contentment” (Irving 311). Instead of being like the European, who works his life away in search of monetary comfort, Rip posed as the ideal American, who enjoyed the simple pleasures in life, and was willing to do without the riches that European men cannot…

“Gwilan’s Harp,” “The Washwoman,” and “The Last Leaf” all short stories that hold a very different theme, but could there be anything significant that could tie these stories together? From “Gwilin’s Harp,” a story about a woman, who finally learns to love her voice and to embrace the change, to “The Washwoman,” who learns she must prevail though the hard times, all the way to “The Last Leaf,” where a young girl realizes that there is always hope no matter how dark and dim the case may seem.…

Nursing as defined by Leininger, M.M. (1979) is a learned humanistic and scientific profession and discipline which focuses on human care and activities in order to assist, support, facilitate, or enable individuals or groups to maintain or regain their well-being in culturally meaningful and beneficial ways, or to help people face handicaps or death. When I was young what I enjoy most is talking, explaining to my 3 younger sisters how things work, baby sitting them and giving handmade cards to…

How Do the Scriptures Characterize the Love of Money? During this time of the year, Christmas, it easy to see how our world is consumed with the need for material things. Social Media and media at large inundate us with material items that promise to provide happiness, status, and security. There is an overwhelming feeling of not being able to live without a surplus of material things. Material items come with a price: money. Our lives can become consumed with the pursuit of more money. The…

Philosophy is more prevalent in some people than in others and the level at which we interact with our surroundings differs too. The Allegory of the Cavemen and the Good Brahmins Voltaire seek to depict how society, norms, environment, history and religion play a role in either ensnaring or enlightening people and how the past, present and future are all shaped by philosophy. The Apology and Allegory of Cave Readings is a tale that is initially set in a dark cave where nothing else seems to…

a life that is standard amongst everyone that he knows and for the majority of his life he believes he is happy. “Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible” (Tolstoy 102). Although he was striving for contentment and following all of society’s rules, Ivan Ilych was most unhappy. After falling ill he began to realize that the life he had lead and everything he thought he had achieved was worthless because he was never truly happy. “Maybe I did not live…

In the summer before seventh grade, still näive and unaware of the world around me, I arrived at a small, humble, yet well-known summer camp on the outskirts of San Antonio, with no clue that I would leave as a completely different individual with a completely different mindset. I would leave as someone who believed that things happened for a reason and that you are never alone, no matter how lonely you felt. In the six days that I spent at TBarM sports camp, I grew up and learned more about…