Mitch McConnell

Tuesday’s with Morrie: Read the Book One of the longest held debates with generation Xer’s is, “The book or the movie, which is better?” Ask any person who loves to read and they will undoubtedly say the book is always better, citing that it gives more detail and explanation to characters and events. But, ask any avid movie-goer, and they will usually say the movie is always better. The movie can bring characters to life and evoke emotion through facial expressions and music. In the case of…

Connected in Many Ways Have you ever wondered if you have made a decision that would not only impact your life, but also someone else's? Mitch Albom's way of creating what his image of heaven looks like, is through the use of different people from Eddie's past to teach him lessons from his previous experiences. Eddie’s first lesson when he get to heaven is that everyone is connected in one way or another, which would be the theme of the novel. The Blue Man taught Eddie this lesson, which made…

Albom began sharing Morrie’s death and the process of dying by sharing one of the very first metaphor’s when he describes the pink hibiscus plant and how it stays beautiful as its leaves wither away. “The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week, in his home, by a window in his study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink flowers.” (Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie, 1997 pg. 56). As Albom visits Morrie on his weekly visits, you notice with the tone and several…

professor up until he was diagnosed with ALS also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Morrie had a student Mitch Albom who every Tuesday the would hold one on one instruction. After Mitch graduated he promised that he would stay in touch. Mitch became a sports writer at the Detroit Free Press. With all the traveling Mitch did he did not keep in touch. One day Mitch saw Morrie on the tv talking about the disease. Mitch then started visiting Morrie. Morrie started giving his final lessons. Morrie…

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a novel on the end of Morrie Schwartz’s life. This book has many examples of the four reasons we do not express emotions and many examples of those reason being broke so people can express their emotions. Morrie was Mitch’s professor back in college and after college Mitch never contacted Morrie again until he saw Morrie on “Nightline”. Morrie was dying of ALS, which is why he was on “Nightline”. Mitch calls to see how his old professor is doing and they…

professor who was diagnosed with ALS. This is a terminal disease that attacks a person 's nervous system, slowly making parts of the victim 's body inoperable. While he is dying, an old student of his, Mitch, visits Morrie every Tuesday. Morrie shares a lot of aphorisms with him that taught Mitch Albom, and myself, how to live a better life. In this story there was one aphorism in particular that stuck out to me, it said “Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it,” (Albom 7).…

Movie Project: Forrest Gump Forrest Gump, a southerner who suffers from an Intellectual Disability, is an excellent example of how perceptions do matter. Gump himself is actually telling his own story in this film. For over half of the movie, he is reflecting on the events of his life to strangers on a bus bench before he reunites with his childhood friend, Jenny. Throughout the film, Forrest Gump talked to four different strangers at this bus stop and he explained his life story to them all.…

The short story called “Insignificant Gestures”, is written by Jo Cannon and it`s about a doctor that looks back at his time as a district health officer in Africa and he ponders over the choices he made and his time there. The narrator remains unnamed through the story. He used to be a district health officer in Africa at the age of 28, and ten years later when reflects back on his time he has retrained as a psychiatrist. He emphasizes a lot that he isn´t the person he used to be back in…

how Morrie Schwartz lived his life. Mitch Albom, the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, a biographical fiction, he writes about his old college professor, Morrie Schwartz, who he hasn’t seen since 16 years after he graduated from Brandeis University. Later on Mitch spots his professor on T.V. being interviewed for a terminal disease called A.L.S. How did Morrie learn this throughout life, what caused him to think about it? In the story Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom expresses, each day there is…

The novel Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, tells the true story of Professor Morrie Schwartz and his student Mitch Albom. Morrie is diagnosed with ALS, a life threatening illness that affects the muscles. Meanwhile, Mitch is a successful news reporter who is dissatisfied with his life. He soon visits Morrie and they begin having classes on Tuesdays in which they talk about love, life, and death. Although it is not plainly stated, faith and hope are very important themes in the novel because…