Scott Schwartz

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a novel on the end of Morrie Schwartz’s life. This book has many examples of the four reasons we do not express emotions and many examples of those reason being broke so people can express their emotions. Morrie was Mitch’s professor back in college and after college Mitch never contacted Morrie again until he saw Morrie on “Nightline”. Morrie was dying of ALS, which is why he was on “Nightline”. Mitch calls to see how his old professor is doing and they…

The short story called “Insignificant Gestures”, is written by Jo Cannon and it`s about a doctor that looks back at his time as a district health officer in Africa and he ponders over the choices he made and his time there. The narrator remains unnamed through the story. He used to be a district health officer in Africa at the age of 28, and ten years later when reflects back on his time he has retrained as a psychiatrist. He emphasizes a lot that he isn´t the person he used to be back in…

Extreme Industrialization: Has America Gone Too Far? Football season is finally here! Would now be the best time to invest in a new flat screen TV? I bet if I shopped around, I could find one for under $400. My chief concerns include: What store will have the best deal? What screen size do I want? Is any specific brand of better quality than the others on the market? Will the store offer a warranty? How about a delivery and return service? Do I want something I can mount to the wall or something…

Discussing art can be a difficult task due to the complexities intertwined with a topic that encompasses many aspects of human life. Art has been defined and redefined throughout history by some of the prominent minds who still influence our thinking today. While conversations about influential topics are necessary in the human condition, we should decipher which philosophers’ points are the closest to accuracy in today’s time period. In our current society, Hume’s perspective on art, however…

The novel Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, tells the true story of Professor Morrie Schwartz and his student Mitch Albom. Morrie is diagnosed with ALS, a life threatening illness that affects the muscles. Meanwhile, Mitch is a successful news reporter who is dissatisfied with his life. He soon visits Morrie and they begin having classes on Tuesdays in which they talk about love, life, and death. Although it is not plainly stated, faith and hope are very important themes in the novel because…

in fact, three certainties in life. Life will always present you with adversity. In the books Tuesdays with Morrie and Night, Mitch Albom and Elie Wiesel present the absolute epitome of adversity. Tuesdays with Morrie is a book all about Morrie Schwartz teaching Mitch Albom the absolute necessities in life. Morrie is suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, better known as ALS. In this book he demonstrates exactly how to live one’s life to the fullest, even with death looking one in the eye…

Morrie shared these aphorisms with us so we can relate to them and truly know what he is talking about.The automatic beliefs in these aphorisms is only but a thought and can only be achieved by thinking them over. Morrie not only shared these things for us, but he shared them to remind himself. In essence,“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do”, an aphorism, relates to me personally because that quote can be shown as a person having their limits and seeing what they…

An exhausted man named Mitch Albom received insight about life from an old college professor dying of ALS. In Tuesdays With Morrie, a poor old man named Morrie Schwartz is trying to teach the world to learn how to accept death in order to live life to the fullest. Morrie teaches Mitch how to abandon his old selfish ways and learn to live, love, and accept the thought of death. Throughout the book one topic never wavered: love. No matter what people do, no matter what they stand for, the one…

Lissa Hughes College Prep Freshman English Ms. Gentene Wednesday August 6, 2014 Tuesdays With Morrie 1. One of the significant lessons Morrie had taught Mitch during one of the annual Tuesday lessons was spent discussing money, and the negative impact it has on ones personality. As Morrie had said to Mitch during this lesson “ We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives” (Albom 123-124). I believe that this means that some people get all caught up in having…

Who is Morrie? Morrie in his heart, and by every conceivable measure is a teacher. Morrie teaches at Brandeis University, by every metric he is an outstanding professor, he retires once he starts to feel the early symptoms of Lou Gehrig’s disease. Lou Gehrig’s disease is the true villain of the book, the disease makes Morrie a prisoner of his own flesh; while at the same time leaving his mind alone. Mitch has to lay in the horror of being completely paralyzed, as his time is winding down. Rather…