Hermit

and hurt and abandoned and endlessly asking himself why. From now on, he would make his own way. He would find his own route to happiness, as his father had said. He’d prove to his father and to himself that he could do it. He wasn’t going to be a hermit and live completely alone.” This quote means that Joe was about to give up on everything and that there’s no point in getting up every morning because he was just so lonely and unhappy. However, he wouldn’t let himself do that and waste his…

it acts like a human: “I am not one given to projecting human traits and emotions onto animals, but many a time during that month in Brazil, looking up at sloths in response. I felt I was in the preserve of upside-down yogis deep in meditations or hermits deep in prayer, wise beings whose intense imaginative lives were beyond the reach of my scientific probing” (Martel 7). Because Pi states that he never put human traits and emotions on an animal, his action which is thinking the sloth into…

One of my favorite books in my elementary years was the Horse and his Boy, the fifth (or third) installment of the Chronicles of Narnia. The plot follows a boy named Shasta who lives in another world, different from ours. He lived in village near the sea with an old fisherman. The fisherman mistreated Shasta and treated him little better than a slave. Shasta was used to this sort of treatment, so he did not feel as unjustified as we would have assumed. Shasta goes on a variety of adventures…

Pope Urban II’s Speech at Council of Clermont With the purpose of spreading the territory of the Catholic Faith (Christianity) and the control of the Holy Sea in the East, Pope Saint Gregory VII had by now urged the devoted Christians to take up weapons toward the Muslims, the Pope himself pledging to guide them to Asia. In his letters, St. Gregory VII conversed on exactly how the grief of the Crusaders in the East had affected him to the place that he anticipated fatality. He believed that he…

As stated by Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, courage is “when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” (Pg. 128) What Mr. Finch means is that courage has to do with perseverance when doing the right thing whether they win or lose. It can also mean sticking to what one believes is morally correct, even when other people go against him/her for their efforts. Courage comes in many forms, even in quiet conviction…

Call to Your Tribe For most of my life I have always felt a little out of place, like I am walking around in a humans body, but that’s not who I really am.I am often the guardian of the lost and protector of the week. While this road I am on is not the always the easiest,I understand now that this is the contract I took on when I came to this life. As much as I have tried to fight it, it’s who I am. This road that I have chosen is one that can be quit lonely and this is the part I have…

“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” This quote once proclaimed by the notable Benjamin Franklin tells us much about the status of group mentality at the time of its spoken word. Aside from practical advice, these words were recognized and proliferated that the people of the United States must work together to defeat their foe, the British King. Keeping this in mind, we can apply the same analytical set to other stories of cultures around the…

Mental health is affected by more than the ill person's brain. There are many environmental factors that can affects their mental illness. One of the most influential environmental factors is in the form of social interactions with peers and family. Often times things like support groups can help those with mental illnesses Throughout both the novel and the movie, we see the protagonists' mental illnesses helped or hindered by their interactions with other people. When the male protagonists are…

Yet in Northern Europe the Middle Ages continued longer than in the South: there Humanism[4] was a purely literary, not a general cultural, phenomenon. When, therefore, Martin Luther, Doctor of Theology and priest of the Order of the Augustinian Hermits, came to Rome late in 1510, he was for the first time in his life confronted with the Renaissance—and this gave him a decisive trauma. He was not (as a pious legend likes to have it) shocked by profligacy and promiscuity, since the Middle Ages…

lacking in the emotional department. Hannah, the most analytical thinker in the novel, takes the cake for being the most cynical and unhappy character in the cast. She appears pleased with herself for her thorough accumulation of research on the hermit of Sidley Park, but ended up completely repelling any potential relationships with others in the process. At the beginning of act two when Bernard was conversing with Hannah about Lord Byron, Hannah flat out rejected him when he invited her to go…