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    last class of the old professor’s life. Mitch has attended fourteen lessons with Morrie about the Meaning of Life that experienced by the…

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    Everyone has their own idea of how they should live their life. "What Life Should Be" is an inspiring poem written by Patricia A. Fleming. Patricia A. Fleming was the middle child of three and had a middle-class upbringing. She worked as a psychiatric social worker for 36 years and after retiring, she began writing inspirational poems about life. The poem "What Life Should Be" argues what it means to be a human. She uses many different strategies to make the point across to the reader. In…

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    Picture a man, living on the threshold of suicide, believing he’s worth more dead than alive..”Your life has Purpose” means to have impacted someone or even changed certain places , and that’s exactly what George Bailey has done. The story “It’s a Wonderful Life displays “Your LIfe has Purpose” through George Bailey by preventing the death of his brother Harry Bailey, stopping Mr. Fowler from having the accidental poison in his medical pills from being sold, and preventing Mr. Potter from taking…

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    gives our lives meaning? Do we require the love and affection from others in order to feel fulfilled with a sense of purpose? Many people have aspired to figure out their purpose in life, as well as many philosophers have attempted to answer these question with several different conceptions. Irving Singer was a philosopher who argued that love is vital to a meaningful life, that having…

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    What is the meaning of Freedom? Can one ever be completely free? The true definition of freedom becomes a question early in the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, when Pi argues and refutes the claims relating to the cruelty and restrictiveness of a zoo enclosure. Pi claims that an animal is no more confined in its mobility by a physical cage, than, by its survival instincts in which profoundly restrict an animal’s freedom. According to Dictionary.com, freedom is “the state of being free or at…

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    Tao or Dao is a word signifying in abstract- 'way', 'path', 'route', 'key' or sometimes more loosely- 'doctrine' or 'principle'. The Dao is the intuitive knowing of "life" that cannot be grasped full-heartedly as just a concept but is known nonetheless through actual living experience of one's everyday being. The Dao is not a 'name' for a 'thing' but the underlying natural order of the Universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe due to it being non conceptual yet…

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    “Life Almost Straight” a phrase that could be used in quite a few people’s lives to describe a multitude of scenarios, however, in the instance of using it in a high school English class to title a series of articles and images, it really only comes down to a few meanings. One of these would be in reference to graduating and heading off to college. This period is almost the biggest case of “get your life in order” that one could have in their time here, and considering some of the articles are…

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    “Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life”, Jeremy Fink and his best friend Lizzy Mouldon go on an adventure to open a box his father had left for him to open for his thirteenth birthday. Jeremy and Lizzy spend most of the summer looking for the keys that go to the box. But, they have to do community service for breaking into the office looking for the keys. During their community service, they meet some very interesting people along the way, and ask them what they think the meaning of life was. Two…

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    an adventure of her life that helps her to find who she is and the meaning of life. The animated movie was released on november 23, 2016 and was 1h 47m long and it touched audience everywhere. The movie Moana was set at the end of that era, about two thousand years ago, on a fictional island in the Central Pacific Ocean, which drew inspiration from elements of the real-life island nations of Fiji, and Samoa. Moana shows us how we are all ent for a bigger a deeper meaning in life. Moana opens…

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    We have always been trying to understand the universe and the concepts that dominate our daily life. This thirst for knowledge resulted in the development of such things as science, philosophy, and religion. Western philosophy started in Greece and spread further to America and Australia. The word philosophy comes from the Greek word philosophia which means “love of wisdom.” philosophy has many different fields, domains, and branches: Aesthetics, Epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics,…

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