One of humanities most nagging questions is: “What is the purpose of suffering?” In Moira Crone’s short story, “Pecos Bill”, she does not directly answer this perplexing question, but she highlights an outcome of suffering. Grace. Perhaps pain and hardship serves as a conduit through which grace is granted. Grace, throughout the narrative of “Pecos Bill”, is depicted through selfless acts which serve to alleviate the suffering of an undeserving character, Celeste. The main character of “Pecos…
Do you know somebody who has shown affection, concern, or has cared about you before? Our society today have brainwashed the idealistic concept of being kind of one another. The quality of kindness in today’s world is being undignified. Kindness is an act that your parents teach to you when you're young. Kindness is a trait that grows with you from a child, teenager, and adult. Society should make it a habit to uplift one another, by being polite to others in public places. The online free…
Chunking Kindness-Breaking Down Chesed into Manageable Pieces The Jonathan Larson’s classic song from Rent is so well-known that the first two cords are all Broadway geeks need to hear in order to burst out into song. “Five hundred twenty-five thousand Six hundred minutes Five hundred twenty-five thousand Moments so dear Five hundred twenty-five thousand Six hundred minutes How do you measure-measure a year” The song, “Seasons of Love” breaks the year down into its component parts, the minutes…
“Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” These are the famous words of Princess Diana. People loved and were influenced by Diana. She was a public icon throughout the globe. However, there is one thing that is still strange about this famous figure. Diana’s death is to this day a major point of questioning as the two most common suspicions are a major power murder and an unfortunate car crash. Even…
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Nowadays, kindness without guaranteed return is rare. People live their lives with the mindset that they should only show compassion when others return it. The question, “What's in it for me?” Often comes up because people believe that they should only complete favors if they get personal gain from them. Naomi Shihab Nye disputes this mindset in her poem “Shoulders”. She explains a story about a man carrying his child on his shoulders, and how mankind should show each other the same kindness,…
taught to “not judge a book by its cover” or “walk a mile in someone’s shoes before you judge them”. This relates to “The Danger of a Single Story” where instead of getting to know someone, we prejudge them off what others say or what we see. Without getting to know who an individual really is or where they are coming from, we misconstrue and prejudge unjustly. Within TED Talk featuring Chimamanda Adichie’s speech “The Danger of A Single Story”, “Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples and even in my…
The way in which a story is presented can either be what Kenneth Burke refers to as good art or bad art. Good art is that which conveys multiple meanings through the context; bad art is that which only holds one meaning that is simply understood the same way among all audience members. Hills Like White Elephants can be categorized as good art through the ways in which, depending on the reader, can lead to various interpretations and understandings. Through examination of the story and its…
Learning to Speak Through Writing Introversion is a state of self-concern, the distrust of one’s outside world and resultant fear of its expedition. To prove unable to speak when it is expected of you, for reasons either hesitant or uncertain, is to realize how voiceless you truly are. And it is the goal of this generalized introvert to acquire that voice, to speak freely alongside their peers, and become normal in the eyes of their perceived society. For me and in my pursuit of voice and…
Women in The Big Sleep As I have mentioned before, this was true in the case of the rise of feminism. Before the turn of the century, “Women arrived, en masse, [to the Western frontier], and the ‘male-dominated homosocial world of gold rush California’ gave way to a ‘settled domestic Victorian discipline’” (Hoefer 49). That ‘Victorian discipline’ gave way in the 1920s to a deviant social norm, exemplified by Carmen and to a lesser extent Vivian. Right before Marlowe expresses how much he…