Man's Search for Meaning

relates to the topic of meaning and relationship. Among all types of relationship, Frankl found intimate relationship has given him the strongest sense of meaning for his life. The simple thought of his wife made him stronger and have the ability to survive in the brutal working condition out in the cold. According to “Social connectedness as a source and consequence of meaning in life”, it has shown that intimate is one of the two type of relationships that predicted meaning in life (Stavrova,…

Text 1: Racism It Stops With Me poster Text 2: Rita Hayworth, still image, from the film Gilda (1946) A picture can tell a thousand words. The two given tests are photographs of two people from different positions: a prominent actress, Rita Hayworth, and a black man without any form of identification. While both texts purpose is to attract the attention of the masses, the manner in which the texts do so is greatly different. Whereas the Racism It Stops with Me poster creates an unnerving and…

Emily Smith is author of Atlantic website, she published the article ‘There’s more to life than being happy’ in January 9, 2013. Her points of the article argue different perspective of happiness, her claim “Meaning comes from the pursuit of more complex things than happiness” (Emily Smith, 2013) suggests live in a meaningful life is what human beings should pursue rather than being happy. Author builds her credibility by proposing logos of many psychologists, revealing an ethos of human…

The Tell-Tale Heart is a classic story, beloved by many for its dark and creepy atmosphere and its portrayal of a man's slow descent into insanity. It is only natural that one would think to adapt it to the stage, and cost effective too. The story only takes place in one location, only requiring one simple set, and is mostly dialogue save for the murder scene, and even then, fake blood and trapdoors are easy to come by in the drama industry. This particular low budget adaptation included in…

2013). This really stuck out to me because if you really think about it, it is very accurate. When someone is happy, most of the time it is because their needs and wants have been satisfied. This article introduces an idea that when someone finds meaning for their life, it doesn’t always lead to happiness, but it does lead to a life worth living. In the beginning of the article it begins to tell us some…

In his essay "On the Nature of Man", Lavater expounds his opinion that " an intimate correlation exist[s] between man's spiritual internal essence and his physical constituent parts" (Lavater 98).…

their pet peeve may lead them to take the path of faint distortion toward the world if one does not control their mind. The symbolism of the old man’s “eye” haunts the narrator throughout the story by his disgust feelings toward the appearance of the eye. The combination of the anonymous narrator being mentally ill and his fierce hatred toward the old man’s eye, both dragged his life to take the unrighteous road; later on, he will receive the consequence of letting the evil dictate his actions.…

Man’s greatest invention: the wheel, Man’s worst invention: homework (especially on the weekends) The constraint from which reasoning entrapped differences to the freestyle hippie ideal of living now. Puritans soul search, self scrutiny, self-disciplined and moderate themselves for they praised the light of god. Deists rule to acknowledge what's there while opening the gate to individuality, staying curious but witty. To transcendentalists completely individualistic, self reliant, live in the…

successful. There is also a commentary of the event, “The July 16, 1969, Launch: A Symbol of Man’s Greatness” by novelist Ayn Rand. The last is a political cartoon, “Transported” by Herblock that appeared at the time. All texts are able to engage…

divinity, where man is the centerpiece of a master plan. The consequences of the theocide of which Nietzsche sighted as the sign of the nihilistic era can be discerned in this vision. In a mechanical cosmos, man is a victim; a significant reduction of man's spiritual position since the pre-Copernican time. Like an unstoppable juggernaut, the oblivious cosmic machinery relentlessly pours forth hapless creations. Man is powerless before the process. Another source of nihilism in Heart of Darkness,…