The Simple Life

Everyone has their own idea of how they should live their life. "What Life Should Be" is an inspiring poem written by Patricia A. Fleming. Patricia A. Fleming was the middle child of three and had a middle-class upbringing. She worked as a psychiatric social worker for 36 years and after retiring, she began writing inspirational poems about life. The poem "What Life Should Be" argues what it means to be a human. She uses many different strategies to make the point across to the reader. In…

using ink and needle. These tattoos come in different designs, shape and size; one of the most popular tattoo designs is the depiction of a tree with roots, branches and foliage. The tree occurs in the natural environment and is often used to symbolize life in most cultures. According to tatring.com, trees are seen as long lasting and resilient living objects because they can live for many years and posses the strength to overcome the storms and other elements. Trees also play a crucial…

Was there ever a time you were stuck and had to make a quick decision on what was the right or wrong thing to do? How about trying to decide between life or death for the sake of others because it's what you thought was right? Well in the short story Man in the water an ordinary man is set upon a bunch of strangers in a crash and uses what he think is moral courage to help him. In the story Roger Rosenblatt uses Conflict and P.o.v to develop the theme of moral courage throughout this inspiring…

in her life ( tests, sports, a vain attempt at artistic skills) it becomes a little delusive to continue to believe that one day I will "triumph." That one day I will "get my time to shine." You eventually grow accustomed to always hearing "no", receiving the letter that reads "we are sorry to inform you that..." or simply having another door shut right into your face, and after a while, per say my sixteen years of life in…

Nagel both believe that the state of being dead is not bad but their view differ in the process of death itself. Epicurus believes that even though we suffer before the actual “state of death’ we should learn to embrace the benefits and pleasures of life rather than focus on our non-existence and what happens after death. Nagel, however, does not believe that death is something that we should embrace, it is evil due to the deprivation…

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. A quote by George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm. Anywhere you look or go in life you will find a system in place. It may not be obvious at first, or it may be dominant in that environment, but we have hierarchy wherever we go. This book was written in 1945 and oppression still reigns. Even in first world countries. I won’t even start talking about third world countries. That's 71 years down the way and nothing has changed…

makes a point, to describe Jim Westcott, Irene Westcott and their children, as the seemingly comfortable middle class family. He makes mention of their physical and material appearances seeming to be untouched by the strains of life. Cheever, wants his readers to catch simple mentions, in his text, that the family, though outwardly appearing to have accomplished the American dream with ease and without hardships along the way, is really just pretending. “Jim and Irene Westcott were the kind of…

On the 12th or 13th day the life of the deceased is celebrated with a feast that marks appreciation of their life and the day the soul completes its travel through a ghost world and reaches the land of their ancestors. Hindu’s believed that the human body and universe consist of five elements, air, water, fire earth, and…

while every theory has its limitations, each perspective has contributed to our current understanding of this complex phenomenon. We can now identify several of the characteristic elements that religion consists of. To followers, religion is a way of life guiding thinking, feeling, and acting. It usually provides something or someone requiring devotion. It helps us understand the what is beyond our understanding unknown often through the realm of the supernatural. It provides teachings that…

one could be forgiven for feeling cheated. This story, created from the 1945 diary of a young Japanese soldier stationed in the Philippines, chronicles his experience of day-to-day life in camp as a mechanic in a non-combat unit juxtaposed with an imagined version of his supposedly ideal upbringing and pre-war life at home, in the Japanese countryside. “We try and hold on to some kind of ideals, when everything - ideals, hope, everything is being destroyed.” In writing these words, Anne Frank…