Morrie Schwartz

Tuesdays with Morrie is about the last lessons between a college professor and his long lost student Mitch, who he was a “coach” to. After graduation Mitch promises to stay in touch and gives him a briefcase to remember him by. He then moves to New York to chase his dreams of being a musician and gets lost in life. When his favorite uncle passes away from cancer,Mitch is determined not to end up like him, who worked for a corporation doing the same thing everyday. So he leaves his…

what an aphorism is, an aphorism is a true statement intended to share a universal truth (Google.com). In Tuesdays With Morrie, Morrie was a 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…

are unable to make changes. In Tuesday with Morrie, Mitch Albom, the main character, narrator and author, establishes a documentary about his reunion with his favorite professor after sixteen years .The author uses literary devices to show how Tuesday life –changing classes influence his lifestyle to live a better life and reject the society’s false culture in order to avoid guilt and regret later on .Irony and flashbacks are used to show how Morrie gives him a new perspective of life and…

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.…

Summary In The Outsider by Albert Camus is a work fiction; it contains two parts and it is divided ‎into two equal ‎sections: part one with six chapters, and part two with five chapters. The novel ‎begins with the protagonist ‎Meursault receiving a letter informing him of his mother’s death. ‎‎He asks his boss for two days leave in ‎order to attend the funeral‎‏.‏‎ After coming back from the ‎funeral‎, Meursault conveys on life as if nothing ‎tragic has happened. He goes to the beach with ‎his…

We all live by different or many quotes, a quote that I live by is, “It's better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life,” because in life you have to take risk, not everything is going to come to you easy. Sometimes you have to lose somethings in order to gain what you really want. In 2005, Steve Jobs gave a speech at Stanford University, he spoke about how he was close to death at a time, for him being close to death always made…

Randy Pausch, an American professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, gave an inspiring last lecture full of life lessons and ways to look at life in a positive way with just months left to live. Randy knew he was going to die, but he also knew that he had a message that many people needed to hear; he changed lives just before his ended. The concept that people are more important than objects is used constantly throughout the book, from winning the parent…

Dead men can tell tales. It may sound weird, dead men telling tales. However, it’s true. They tell tales in many ways. One way they tell tales is explained in the article called, “Identifying the Victim.” On page 21 the text says, “Joints help tell a person’s age because they break down as they grow older.” In other words, joints can be examined on a victim’s dead body, and the people studying them will be able to tell how old the victim was because of how old the joints are. This piece of…

Tuesdays with Morrie. Mitch was supporting Morrie keep his positivity, and to continue to teach him. Morrie has a lot of knowledge in him, and he wants Mitch to comprehend it before his death comes. Mitch has hope for Morrie that he will live and Mitch will help him fight his ALS disease because Mitch returns regularly every Tuesday to listen to Morrie's lessons on "The Meaning of Life." In expanding, Mitch also brings a Sony tape recorder because he wants to record Morrie’s words before Morrie…

Morrie wants to be cremated instead of being buried. He compares himself and other humans to plants but includes that we are only different because we have emotions. Morrie’s legacy will be remembered as a man who had strong beliefs about life. He will be remembered for his kindness and faith in living while dying. The most important part of Morrie that will live on is his need to always want to talk to people and make them happy. After someone I know dies I always think about how much more…