Leave of absence

a dark abyss where you are alone with the thoughts that haunt your every moment. Where the only answer to stopping the pain is to extinguish the flame of life. Sadly, this is the answer that many seek. The concept of suicide does end the pain, but leaves a scar too painful for loved ones. This scar caused by the selfish act of taking your own life away. Suicide is not an act of desperation, but an act of selfishness. When a person takes their life away, it is an escape from the pain that…

This form of bribery is complete against the just way of doing things and would ruin any type of civil obedience that Socrates is claiming to the reason to leave the jail cell. We can even see the struggle with this when Socrates asks for an expert and then asks questions to Crito based off what is considered correct. Woodruff, (2005), shows the conflict by stating, “When Crito appeals to popular opinion on…

in a cramped apartment with two younger brothers and younger sister. His dad works long, hot hours for Carnegie Steel and is rarely ever home because of it. His mother is an alcoholic and stay-at-home mom. Brick’s father’s absence and his mother’s near-constant intoxication leaves him in a parental role and often causes his social life to suffer. Brick is head over heels in love with a girl who goes by “Kitty.” Kitty lives in Shadyside an affluent neighborhood of Pittsburgh and is from a…

particular "pushes" and "pulls" that impact a person's choice to join a posse. People might be forced into gangs due to antagonistic outside elements, obstructions, and conditions in their social situation, for example, neediness, family. Issues, and absence of achievement in school. In the meantime, they may likewise be maneuvered into packs because the posse offers an apparent advantage (Young, Gonzalez, 2013, for example, wellbeing/security, love and support, energy, money related open…

China in the later half of the first millennium during the 8th and 9th centuries experienced a tremendous growth in land during the Tang dynasty. This came with a great cost of supplies, money and people, almost all the burden of which fell onto the poor. Many poets during this time wrote on the duality of China's expansion from both positive and negative viewpoints. While China's constant wars hardly, if at all, affected nobles, they drained the poor almost to the point of bringing China's…

1. Epicurus has a different view of death in the way that since death is not a sensation, we should not fear death. He believed that the good life consists in simple but deep pleasures and the absence of pain, in an attitude of imperturbable emotional tranquility. We should seek pleasure in conversation, friendship, a good but simple diet, and a prudent life (Pojman and Vaughn, 2014, pg. 538). He also thought that death is nothing to us, since long as we exist, death is not with us; but when…

While being invited into a home of a girl he met while walking down the street, Jon expresses, “I had convinced myself for many months that I didn't really mind the absence of intimacy in my life, the lack of real human connection, but the pleasure I’d felt in this woman’s company-the ring of her laughter, the innocent touch of a hand on my arm-exposed my self deceit and left me hollow and aching” (137). With him being…

points, the reader is often left questioning its credibility. The article seems hellbent on sharing an anti-technology viewpoint, and fails to acknowledge the clear benefits these machines provide. The writer embraces many sources, but unfortunately leaves a number of them un-credited, causing the reader to wonder if perhaps the information is unreliable and/or inaccurate. At the same time, the article refuses to acknowledge human nature, and in some ways dramatizes the effects of mobile…

It causes us to realize the suffering the giver endures for the community is not just emotional but also physical. We learn not all memories are jubilant. The memories of pain and tragedy leave him in crippling pain as he relives them, however, the only way to suppress them is to release them to Jonas. He fears if he releases them to Jonas he will lose the son he loves as he lost Rosemary because his intuition is telling him that the memories…

A combination of this “threatened masculinity” and the also mentioned “anxiety of dispossession” is what causes, in my opinion, jealousy among the male characters. Heathcliff’s first sign of jealousy manifested when he feared losing Catherine to Edgar and he realized that he did not have any power over her. Also, Graham is jealous of Alfred because Ginevra prefers de Hamal instead of him. This shows how the fear of losing something that was considered owned causes jealousy, anger and deep…