Meaning of life

it is only necessary. This mentality doesn’t quite apply to life, but more so to great literature, in which violent scenes do not exist for their own sake. Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner clearly demonstrates the importance of violent scenes in contributing to the overall meaning of the book. In the book, the main protagonist Amir, a young Afghan boy, experiences a violent event in his early childhood that affects the rest of his life and the choices he makes. Throughout the book, other acts…

Chris wanted nothing but to understand how society works so he set off into the wilderness of Alaska to understand the meaning of life. Also, Chris is the young man in “Death of an Innocent”, by Jon Krakalier and the movie Into the Wild by Sean Penn. I highly admire the idea that Christopher was attempting cause you shouldn't always have to depend on a society to survive in life. Christopher McCandless should be admired for his courage to set off into the Wild lands of Alaska to attempt to…

Beginning where he ends, the last moments of Charles’ Foster Kane’s life, Orson Orwell takes us through the process of piecing together the puzzle of a man’s significance in life. As a debuting director, he does this in a way that is in no way mediocre, and if anything- brilliant. Basing the film off of a real life mogul, William Randolph Hearst, Orwell immerses himself into the work, by acting as the lead – Charles Kane. The dedication and importance he placed in this film is shown through his…

with. I used to think our five senses were objective and allowed us to interpret the world in new ways every time. I was wrong. It is true that we use our senses to interpret life and all the things we come in contact with, however, each time we encounter something our mind does not act as a recorder rather, it attaches meaning to the things based on preconceived notions, one 's culture, expectations, past experiences etc. After…

1 The words ontology and epistemology seem like confusing and broad terms, however, an individual makes ontological assumptions and takes epistemological stances throughout their entire life, usually without realizing such. Ontology is "the study of being. It is concerned with 'what is ', with the nature of existence, with the structure of reality as such" (Crotty 1998). Our assumptions about the nature of being, create our epistemology which is defined as "the theory of knowledge embedded in…

com, the word place has multiple meanings that are conveniently all nouns: a particular portion of space whether of definite or indefinite extent, a space in general: time and place, and the specific portion of space normally occupied by anything. To me, the word space means much more than just the black and white, logistical definition. To Tim Cresswell, the author of an article called “Place: A Short Introduction,” the word space has more of an emotional meaning. Within his article he…

Life has meaning Was our life a meaningful one? As people lay on their deathbed, this question will come to mind and potently consume them. They want to know if their actions had an impact to the world, if their life had value. That what they did helped others in some way or if their time here was a waste of a soul. No matter what people 's final good vs. bad list comes to, their life was meaningful because it had an impact. All life is meaningful no matter what you have done. All life has…

people experience life. Specifically, Dewey stated that to fully live one 's life, they must understand and appreciate the art around them in order to enhance their everyday experience. In this paper, I will use Art as Experience as my source to show Dewey 's argument with the use of examples and artworks mentioned in the work to back it up. I will touch on the classification of art and how art can enhance experience, the different experiences that can occur, and how art is similar to life. In…

Does Personality Exist in the World Around Us? Do you ever question yourself what the meaning and purpose is behind some of the most complex areas of life and possibly life after death? In the 2004 movie, I Heart Huckabees, an existential detective couple who is married work together to help people find the answers to all of their existential questions. In particular, the two existential detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe, set out on a mission to help a young adult by the name of Albert…

Elements give meaning and depth to a topic. In poetry elements are interpreted to give the poem meaning and life. Elements of poetry such as meter and rhyme can create a beating heart or a beating drum, giving the poem meaning and depth. Each poetic element is chosen by the writer to add meaning to the poem, the meaning of the element is left up to the reader to interpret. The Waking, Theodore Roethke uses literary elements to talk about how there is not much one can do about their density so…