Stoicism

children hates Miss Lottie’s house because it was so ugly, but had beautiful marigolds, and the marigolds ruined the ugliness of the house. Also, she says, “Her smooth skin was a dark reddish brown, and her face had Indian-like features and the stern stoicism that one associates with Indian faces.” (19) She was explaining how Miss…

O’Brien continues analyzing masculinity as he captures the internal emotional struggles that overwhelmed the Vietnam solider. Soldiers hide emotions to prevent the world from viewing them as weak, fragile, and above all feminine. This internal denial forces men to be “actors” in their own lives. Men carry love, hate, fear, grief, guilt, and all spectrums of emotions. Yet, society deems that these feelings need be hidden from the world. The soldier must maintain a “give ‘em hell…a stance based on…

actions, but they also provide a framework on how to be a better addition to society. Stoicism was founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. “The philosophy asserts that virtue (such as wisdom) is happiness and judgment should be based on behavior, rather than words. It is the idea that we don’t control and cannot rely on external events, only ourselves and our responses” (What is Stoicism). The four stoic ideas are: wisdom which…

Authors have been expressing their opinions through writing since the beginning of the new nation. Tom Junod, the author of “The Falling Man,” and Michel- Guillaume Jean de the author of “What Is an American” hope to influence the American population with an epidemic of their own beliefs. Their nonfiction articles exemplify that men become something more than what they were when somebody sees hopefulness, beauty, promise during a specific moment. Tom Junod describes “The Falling Man” as “the…

Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius were known to be as the “Five Good Emperors” who ruled from 96 to 180 AD. What made these men the five good emperors were because they were all adopted, earning the throne rather than inheriting it from the traditional royal families. The rules of these emperors were marked by their moderate policies and defensive tactics that helped maintain the peace, stability, and wealth for the Roman Empire. At the time, despite having Nerva at a…

authority than Plato. The five different views that he introduced was Epicurus- self-sufficiency, Cynicism, Stoicism, Hedonism, and Skepticism. With the views now defined the people were able to think differently or at least knew what to call their differences. The first view is self-explanatory but Cynicism is when you feel powerless if there isn’t a city- state or certain rules to follow. Stoicism is when you believe in self- control and don’t question what life throws at you, and that you…

The 3rd Punic War is a collection of four books from a series of thirty-nine books titled The Histories, authored by Polybius. The books that cover The 3rd Punic War are books 36 through 39. In book 36, Polybius covers the negotiations of surrender between the Romans and Carthaginians. In book 37, Polybius gives his views of how the Romans have become obsessed with power and control, then he jumps to his 1st hand account of structuring a peace deal between the Achaeans and the Romans. Book 38,…

Jill Ker Conway grew up in an oscillating household, experiencing economic failure, personal tragedy, social isolation, and eventual financial success. A gifted student, Conway eventually fled Australia, citing psychological distress and professional stagnation. Conway’s upbringing was largely similar to a rural American girl in the middle twentieth century. Facing social limitations, economic hardship, and controlling parents, Conway received similar autonomy to female Americans. However, her…

Two main characters share similar traits from respective pieces of literature, one is a quasi-ruler of an African hamlet and the other is a soldier fighting deadly robots. In Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, Ezeulu is the chief priest of multiple villages in Africa that is slowly being colonized by the British in the early Twentieth Century. Second Variety by Phillip K. Dick is a short science fiction story set in an apocalyptic future about a military officer named Major Joseph Hendricks, who…

as cited in Sellers, 2011).. Masculine ideology allows the individual to adopt these cultural practices of masculinity. (Good et al. 1994). In the western culture, the connotation of masculinity emphasizes acquisition of characteristics such as stoicism, independence, physical toughness, dominance, restrictive emotionality, competition, and antifemininity (Brannon et. al as cited in Beaglaoich, Cormac, Kiran Sarma, and Morrison, 2015). Characteristics of men with GRC involve following this…