Rudeness

In life morals are self defining laws, they tell us what is right and what is wrong. They indicate wether or not to go through with a thought or to let that thought drift away. Morals indicate wether or not that though in itself is even right. But what is right? We define right as the correct way of doing something, and is the correct way of being. Are morals something that is learned through life events and taught by parents, or are morals something that is tied into our human nature from birth…

I am sorry to inform you that I disagree with your hasty actions to trust the letter that you found to presumably be from Olivia because its means of delivery and significant details composed within the letter signal several red flags to the common observer. While you were fantasizing about a possible love interest in Olivia, which several others also shared, your ego simply overtook your thoughts and you connected several indications within the letter rather illogically. Of course people…

Every comment, touch, exchange of endearments, whisper or wink caused Duke's anticipation to grow ever more intense. Whilst the teasing and banter was enjoyable, and added to his appreciation of the woman, it also increased his desire to do something about it, and prove himself to be a man of his word, and to discover if Karmen was a woman of hers. Not that there was much doubt in his mind she would be. Apart from the few hours he'd slept, there wasn't more than five minutes had passed that his…

to his disability. On the other hand, Grendel did not choose to be alone, he wants to befriend the humans, but none of them gave him a chance. “‘Why can not I have someone to talk to?’ I said. The stars said nothing, but I pretended to ignore the rudeness” (Gardner, 53). Grendel never wanted to be alone, all he wanted was someone to talk to, someone he can ask questions to, but he rejected by the people in the village. Grendel is a curious individual who recently found out about the human world,…

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance” (Sartre). These grim words are spoken by Jean-Paul Sartre, a French philosopher, who was a major figure in the study of existentialism. This term describes the philosophy that one is born without a purpose and the individual has to find purpose in their own lives by themselves. Much like Sartre, John Gardner’s protagonist from the novel Grendel is an existentialist that evolves into a beast with…

many others: "He had announced to his parents that, on principle, he would no longer give or accept gifts" (Krakauer 20). By making this announcement, he suggested that he only needs himself and not others. This does not even begin to touch on the rudeness of not giving gifts due to a personal philosophy of self-sufficiency, one that proved fatal and ultimately unsustainable due to constant shelter, transportation, and money obtained by others. Henry David Thoreau 's philosophies applied to…

Revealing the Unspoken Truth: The Correlation between Letters and Character Traits in Pride and Prejudice Within Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen, letters are often employed by characters to express implicit feelings explicitly. As shown in the novel, many characters often have difficulty expressing their true beliefs: their thoughts and emotions are not truly indicated until written out in a letter. As shown in the text, Lydia Bennet, Mr. Collins, and Mr. Darcy utilize…

In the elaborate book Schooled by Gordan Korman, Capricorn Anderson is a thirteen year old boy, raised and homeschooled as a hippie by his dead parent´s mother, Rain on a farm commune. There, plenty of typical hippie knowledge such as tie-die and Zen Buddhism is deposited in his brain. Though he was in complete isolation of a normal kid middle school.One day on the farm, while Rain is picking plums she falls out of the plum tree and lands herself in a hospital. In the meantime Capricorn, or Cap,…

hes my frend. Boy if I get smart wont he be serprised.” (Keyes 5) Any person who was mentally proficient, would have been crushed to find the people that people one thought was a friend, was merely a heckler. Charlie’s lack of understanding of the rudeness directed towards him by the guys at the bakery, was better left untouched, since all it brought Charlie was…

Going Back to the Basics Many people today listen to songs like Grandpa Tell Me ´Bout the Good Old Days by the Judds and dream of a time when life was simpler, when relationships were made a priority, and there was a social structure that wasn 't a minefield to navigate. In recent years, women in particular have started conversations about the boorishness of their dates and men in general. They long for the time when dating ment simple things like men bringing flowers or other such tokens of…