No man's land

In Lear’s book Radical Hope, he talks about the cultural devastation of the Crow Indians. He proposes to cling to radical hope, because with the combination of courage and hope anything is possible. If Fromm were to approach the question of what to do in the face of cultural devastation, he would say that man must stay true to his original identity to be free. If Frankl were to respond to this question, he would say to search for a will to meaning, because when someone has meaning in his or her…

It is dependable to express the assumption that Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning has made a potentially lasting impact on my perspective of existence itself. In the first part of the text, Frankl discusses his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during the Jewish genocide in World War II, and how these sufferings were only a component of his overall purpose in life. As a result of his background in psychiatry prior to the initial admission to Auschwitz, arguably one of the most…

Victor E. Frankl, the author of, "Man 's Search For Meaning", talks a great deal about suffering throughout the book. One of the main topics he discusses regarding suffering is that of hope. Without hope, there would be no point in anybody enduring the suffering that they encountered in the Nazi concentration camps. That suffering is life and that to survive suffering, one must find a means for the suffering. So, finding a reason for a person 's suffering will help that person to survive…

Heart Of Darkness vs. Apocalypse Now Coppola puts a vietnam war spin on Conrad 's story Heart of Darkness in his movie Apocalypse Now. There are countless similarities between the two along with very noticeable and important differences. Both Coppola and Conrad share a common idea regarding the psychology of man and the effects on the human mind. Through the use Conrad 's use of descriptive language combined with writing style and Coppola´s stylistic and thoughtful film techniques to highlight…

Victor Frankl was a psychiatrist in practice in Vienna before World War II; he survived many years Auschwitz and other death camps. In Man’s Searching for Meaning he manages to convey his experience of living inside one of these death camps from the unique perspective an inmate who is also a healer, ever watchful and caring towards those around him. From his descriptions, we know that he live through an extended horrific nightmare that we do not even want to imagine. We can really only bear this…

Another one of the promises made in “The White Man’s Burden” was to help the people by protecting them. This promise, as well as the promise of stopping famine were both broken. In “The White Man’s Burden”, Rudyard Kipling had promised they would protect and help the people of color from around the world. “...when we failed and our rubber was short, the soldiers came to our towns and killed us. Many were shot, some had their ears cut off; others were tied up with ropes around their necks and…

problems. The infamous idea of the crusade refers to the medieval era, 500AD-1500AD, where there was a rise in European military expeditions. This rise in military power created a series of European “crusades” and campaigns in attempt to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims. Even in present day these crusades of the past get the new name, the “holy war,” which is believed to never end by a lot people. What makes the crusades very unique in its own and not just some random war is that this is…

Arielle Macpherson Dr. Jessica Murphy English 603-HSE-VA 17 11 April, 2016 A moral compass Morals teach us right from wrong as well as give us hope. They are found in all forms of entertainment: from articles, to magazines, to movies, to television shows and books. The novel Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, although originally meant as a training manual for horses, has a main message that comes directly from the main character’s attitude throughout the book. Even though, the children’s book The…

win back the Holy Land from the Muslims” (Backman 313). This happened during a time of religious persecution and a rise of the Christian faith and “proceeded the centuries old struggle for control of the eastern Mediterranean shore” (Backman 313). The Crusades have been seen as a holy war, deemed justifiable through means of religious property; yet others see the Crusades as merely a way to expand the Christian empire, through a facade of “religious attempt to regain the holy land” as a…

There’s No Place like Oz Caroline lived in the midst of the great North Carolina piedmont with Jamie, who was her mother, and Alex, who was her older brother. Their house was made of brick, and sat upon a tall, grassy hill overlooking the road below that no one ever drove on. When Caroline stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray small town on every side. Neither a Starbucks nor a Forever 21 broke the broad sweep of mountainous country that…