Life extension

When discussing his popular work the Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens explains the main theme that “Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself” (Dickens). Death and oppression often go together, with oppression resulting in death or death resulting in oppression. However, they differ in that death can result in something positive, such as the life of another person being saved while oppression only results in more oppression. Specifically, in The Tale of Two…

Value 1: Hardworking, Dedicated Text 1: “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford “In sundry of these storms the winds were so fierce and the seas so high, as they could not bear a knot of sail, but were forced to hull for divers days together.” “Would they do what could be done for their wages’ sake and on the other hand they were loath to hazard their lives too desperately.” In “of Plymouth plantation”, William Bradford acknowledges their determination and hard work for what they wanted…

amount of pain within someone, driving them into the worst imaginable fate: a life of violence. In Shaka Senghor's memoir, Writing My Wrongs (2016), Jay’s life tumbles down into darkness. From when his mom disconnected herself from his life to murdering an innocent man, Jay felt a sense of loneliness throughout many periods of his life. Although his father had always been by his side, Jay felt detached from his father’s new life with his new wife and children. His parents absence in Jay’s future…

In Paul Kalanithi’s memoir When Breath Becomes Air, he teaches the reader that although time is limited and death is inevitable, life can still be meaningful and have a purpose, even if it is as simple as helping an individual find the strength to overcome whatever hardships they may be forced to face. The beginning of the book starts off with Paul reflecting on what death is and what it means. In one event at the beginning of his book, years before being diagnosed with lung cancer, he was…

In Judith Guest's Ordinary People, the family of Jordan “Buck” Jarret copes with the tragic event in which took his life. A family trip turned into a boating accident, stealing the life of Beth and Calvin’s oldest son, and Conrad’s older brother. Throughout the book, this happy family gets turned upside down and faces unthinkable challenges. Even though deaths are thought to bring families closer together through grieving, this was not the case for the Jarrett family. Although the family in…

Life is full of things that occupy our time on a daily basis and most days’ life can hit and be awfully hard to overcome. However, life is not meant to be that way. Everyone should not always be occupied with things to do because it can overlap and cause huge burdens. In the story, “Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli” by Adam Gopnik, it shows how his three-year-old daughter Olivia has an imaginary friend named Charlie Ravioli. It turns out that Olivia never gets to play or see her imaginary friend because…

Aldo Leopold was a professor at the University of Wisconsin who published A Sand County Almanac in 1949. He wrote about nature in different ways throughout his book. The writing varies from the landscape to the animals. He describes different areas he has been to; these range from near his home in Wisconsin down to the New Mexico and Arizona area. Leopold uses a unique style of writing for this time period. Very little is known about nature at the time he published his book compared to today.…

In October 2010, James Sanborn published “Weight Loss at Any Cost” for Marine Corps Times. James Sanborn wrote the article because Marines are hesitant of violating the authoritarian weight policy, appearance standards, and do not want to have to be put in the program called body composition platoon (BCP). He wrote the article to give us the truth behind what Marines actually do in order to lose weight such as starving themselves, taking laxatives and undergoing liposuction surgery even though…

The Birds: Anthropocene Warning or Comical Prank? Humanity was not always on Earth, despite the long debate of how humans came to be, humans have caused many changes to the Earth. Over the many years humans have been on Earth there have been many challenges humans have faced and overcome. They have tried to put together Earth’s record of a timeline through history, which is called Geological Time Scale. In this time scale the periods of time have been divided and called epoch(s). Each epoch has…

the story of a teacher giving one of his former students a “final class”. The teacher is Morrie Schwartz and the student is Mitch Albom. This memoir recalls the many life lessons Morrie taught Mitch and challenges the reader to think about what they believe in. Reading Tuesdays with Morrie allowed me to reflect on many aspects about life in general. Aging is part of the normal human process. Time stops for no one, albeit the amount of time an individual has varies. As time passes and individuals…