Meaning of life

happiness, we look for pleasure; the short-term solution for happiness. In this paper, I refute the statement that pleasure is the highest means in a good life, but instead, it is Eudaimonia. Eudaimonia translates to happiness that is achieved when we have reached our well-being at its full potential. While Eudaimonia gives a deeper sense in meaning, pleasure is good to have, as long as it is a result of doing something that is considered ethically right by you or by the community. Aristotle and…

ideas. Your ideology is composed of: your core values, aspects of positive and negative thought, how you behave when you don’t have distractions, how you cope, what you 're grateful for and how you demonstrate kindness, and the things that add meaning to your life. Your core values, while developing over time, help show who you are as a person. Mine includes: freedom, integrity, and enjoyment. I dislike being tied to things indefinitely and never making another choice. I believe strongly in…

Fire and Ice: The End of Our World? In this poem, the rich symbolism seems to curtain over the meaning of what the speaker is expressing, in what seems to be an introspective musing. This seems to be his aim, as the speaker is pondering the world and its demise. The words the speaker uses could have many meanings when reading them from a metaphorical standpoint. The speaker starts out acknowledging two different theories on how the world will end. He essentially states that he agrees with the…

don’t mean anything they have meaning he doesn’t just say them. Everything he says has a tone and meaning to it even if it’s just saying a small sentence. He uses words to describe a lot or give advice. He tells the poet not to do love poems because he doesn’t won’t him to do what other people do. “Don’t write love poems; avoid those poems that are too facil and ordinary;” (Pg.6). He wants him to make his own this something not original. Rilke has a lot of meaning in this letter but…

‘deeper meaning’ but instead cares of a ‘deeper mystery’. While his signature paintings focus around his idea that there is more to the eye than what can be seen, he holds a firm grasp on making people question his work whether it be the works meaning, origin, or mystery.  Artists often use color schemes and brush strokes to design their concealed emotions and throw them onto a canvas for many to interpret. However, artists such as Rene Magritte want nothing more than to…

In the poems “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou both authors convey the same message which is overcoming hardships in life. In the two poems they show their similarities through repetition which will be shown in the first paragraph and literary devices such as figurative language,metaphors and similes, while also showing their differences through parallel structure of both the poems, and through rhetorical questions. Hughes and Angelou show their…

The phrase “I love you” has a substantial amount of meanings simply depending on the context in which it is used. The way one says “I love you” to a parent, a significant other, or a friend all elicit different meanings and connotations. One may treasure and appreciate all a parent has done for him/her but not want to spend the rest of his/her life living with this parent as one would with a significant other. Moreover, one may want to be romantically involved with a significant other but only…

The Symbolic Interactionism: Symbols Define Life and Humans’ Behavior. A college freshman was smoking with his peers at the smoking area, he whistled out loud when a couple of college girls walked by, they all burst into a satisfactory laughing, then they went on with their chatting as of there was nothing interrupted them. The same student I saw in the hallway, he stepped to the side as his female professor walked by him, he smiled at her, and bowed his head low until she passed him. Why is…

would be expected or appropriate. When Kendrick Lamar uses irony, it is in a very serious and thought provoking way. For example, in line 63 the speaker says, “Cause you tried to change your life and now you live in a wheelchair.” This line is ironic because it talks about how someone tried to change their life and instead of it getting better, which is what is expected, it got worse by the person becoming handicapped. Kendrick Lamar also uses irony in line 10 when he says, “I opened my Bible in…

Dark Passage. He created this piece in 2002, most likely with oil paint on a canvas. The theme of the painting is very simple: a road through the mountains to a Dark Passage, but the meaning of the painting is very multidimensional. The painting demonstrates an unknown aspect, which to me, relates a lot to life. Life has a general direction, but there are so many different experiences unknown to us, but the major one is like a Dark Passage. At first glance, the artist draws the viewer’s…