Man's Search for Meaning

Although released from the hospital a week ago, Freddie has not eaten for two days and needs to find a place for continued existence. Depressed and hungry, he searches for a rare telephone booth, that he hopes will be in working order. After a search that has taken him the majority of the day, he spies one on the corner of a Seven Eleven. Walking to the booth Freddie drops in his very last seventy-five cents and dials the digits beginning on the advertisement he had circled in the paper…

Since the beginning of time, people have found infinite amount of ways to mistreat people that they saw as inferior, mostly in the time of conflict. People have been mistreated emotionally and physically just because they were seen as “Different”. There have been able to deal with this mistreatment and recover even if they don’t survive. Those people still influence us today. People like Anne Frank in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Elie Wiesel in Night. They can show us that having a…

illegal substance. Because the dog was alerted by the scent, the officer then had probable cause to search him. As he searched the man, the officer did find illegal substances that the dog smelt. The man was then arrested and charged with possession of illegal substances. The dog’s alertness gave the police officer all of the probable cause he needed to then conduct a search on the man, or on the man’s property; a police drug-detection-dog has a reliable, trained nose that police officers can…

Some may argue that the past should remain in the past, meaning that they try to not obsess over unchangeable events in the past. While this method to dealing with past events does hold merit, the ability to examine or in the least learn from the past proves a more important skill. Ignoring the past in favor of the task at hand can lead to a repetition of mistakes that could have been avoided. Insights from the past often offer the most valuable aid in the present, acting as lessons or merely…

Imagining aiming down the sights of a weapon and seeing your neighbor that you used to consider your friend in the sights. No, you do not want to do this but this is what you must do for survival in an apocalyptic scenario. This is an example of what a world deprived of morality would look like. Humans would never survive in an apocalyptic environment if they were forced to turn against each other at every waking moment. No matter what, there will always be a portion of society that will hold on…

Malcolm X, an American Nation of Islam minister and a prominent Black Nationalist leader, dedicated his life to finding a solution to the “spiritual, mental, moral, economic, and political sickness” (X, 251) that plagued American’s black population throughout their history in America. Malcolm X’s motivations behind his radical activism varied throughout his life. However, each motivation was deeply rooted in both his ideological influences and his desire for a sense of belonging and purpose.…

expression of transformative ideas, varied perspectives and exploration of meaning. It is this amalgamation of radical multifarious viewpoints that have endured and remained poignant both on intellectual and emotional levels. The reactionary nature of the movement itself characterized a set of antithetical values to the preceding age of reason. Logic and rationality gave way to imagination, an individuals search for meaning, intense emotion, idealistic perspectives and pantheistic views of the…

For example, if we are overweight or underweight there is a prescribed meaning and judgement that attend, universally. But that prescription does not equate to “Truth”. Well, it might represent Society’s Truth, but who says we must sign on to that in the first place? I, for one, have chosen to acknowledge Society’s Truth…

over something that was not the elderly man's fault. Stating that the reason was because the man was blind in one eye, the protagonist thought that was a valid reason why he had attempted such a heinous crime. The protagonist waited over a week before taking action. After killing the elderly man, the protagonist hid the…

long-standing beliefs in love, faith, loyalty and morality, and forced people to set new standards to man’s transgression and brutality that was so mercilessly experienced during the war. With traditional notions of society shattered, members of the post-war generation found themselves with a profound emptiness and no standards to lean on. The narrator, Jake Barnes, embarks on a futile search for meaning in an effort to fill the gaps left by the war. The void from a dismantled moral code of…