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Morrie Schwartz Every year, more than 5,600 people are diagnosed with ALS, but unlike most people, Morrie Schwartz was able to keep changing people’s lives around him dispite his condition. Morrie Schwartz was a sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author. Morrie was a very unique and fun loving person up untill his death on November 4, 1995. He was well liked by everyone of his students and peers, such as Mitch Albom, who wrote a book about Morrie after his death. Morrie was a…

Anyone can look around and see how in society people only care about the latest fashion trend or the newest electronics and so on. The culture today doesn’t focus on what is really important such as the people close to them or how to fulfill their lives with love. The book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a memoir on Morrie, Mitch’s college professor. Morrie has ALS disease, and Mitch is doing his best to be there for him, for he never visited him after college because of his busy life as…

Dictionary.com defines the word “adversity” as an unfavorable fortune or fate; a condition marked by misfortune, calamity, or distress. Most people would agree that death by an incurable disease or murder is an unfavorable fate. In Tuesdays with Morrie, a graduated college student, Mitch, discovers that his favorite former professor, Morrie, has ALS and begins to visit with him throughout his adversity, death, and so much more. Night, authored by Elie Wiesel, also tells of adversity and many…

SAYING MARVELOUS THINGS TO A PERSON Many people believe that we don 't have to care what people think about us. But other people believe that is important to know what other people think about us. As a result of matter what people think about us they made an event called Living Funeral. A living Funeral is an event where the person who will die invite their relatives and friends to meet with them and hear what they feel or think about them. But other group of people believe that this event is a…

“Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved” (Albom 7). This aphorism by Morrie Schwartz explains how you can change whenever you want and if you work hard enough you can change what you want. It is never too late to fix a problem or change your way of life. Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom and published in 1997, is a memoir filled with stories of Tuesdays with Mitch’s professor, Morrie Schwartz. Morrie wasn’t a typical college professor at Brandeis University. He was a…

Plays present a unique approach to story telling over typical novels. The little things, like the use of stage directions can dramatically alter the interoperation when reading a play. This gives the author a lot of power to tell a great story and have control over its interpretation. One of my favorite examples of a well written play is “The Farnsworth Invention” by Aaron Sorkin. This play is a fiction interpretation of the battle of inventing television. You have boy genius Philo Farnsworth…

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…

On the second Tuesday, Morrie begins with a lesson on “Feeling Sorry for Yourself.” Mitch enters the familiar study where class will soon start, Albom starts with an appeals to the mournful emotions of his audience when he describes his professors’ deteriorating physical appearance. Mitch advances into the study and sits amongst Morrie, Morrie launches his lecture with the importance of self pity. “I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for…

Morrie Schwartz was a college 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…

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.(Bertrand Russell) This quote shows on how life is founded on love and we are guided by knowledge on how we live our life. As the quote states Morrie lived his life, having a loving family and was a very knowledgeable life. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie teaches various lessons about life in this essay I will talk about three Tuesdays. For the first Tuesday I would like to talk about is the 5th Tuesday Family, Morrie teaches…