The Wanderer

In Plato’s Apology, Socrates examines his own life by “discuss(ing) virtue every day” and “conversing and testing myself and others”. In this way, he gradually learns the fact that he does not know something. Realizing the impossibility of knowing everything, he becomes more calm and reasonable regarding to the process of pursuing knowledge. By interacting with various people, Socrates treats various people different but appropriately based on his observation and thoughts on their personalities.…

Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British. She was born Jul 29, 1945 in South Euclid, OH. The colleges she went to were George Mason University and Hiram College. The awards she got were Newbery Medal (2001, 1995), Carnegie Medal (2002) ,Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (2003), Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young…

as an outcome of it. With the advancement in Technology, this resulted in the change of labor forces. The majority of the current workforces now transit from the traditional style of permanent to the part-time employment. Nomadic entrepreneur or wanderer entrepreneur is bound to a certain place, but they invest on talent and follow their creative instincts. The nomadic entrepreneur can operate from anywhere they want, or when the creative light bulb is lighted up. But if there is a place that…

Sagittarius is the ninth sign of the zodiac, is the home of the wanderers of the zodiac. Sagittarians are truth-seekers, and the best way for them to do this is to socialize, talk to others and get answers to what they are questioning. Knowledge is key to these sagittarius people , because it fuels their broad-minded approach to life. The Sagittarian-born are strongly interested in philosophy and religion and often have faith and are optimistic. The story of a sagittarian begins with greek…

folks who live in accordance with nature code and in harmony with it. The Villains of Faulkner break this nature code; they ruthlessly exploit nature through an artificial design for their benefit. For example, V. K. Ratliff is like Wordsworth’s wanderer, but he may not be as saintly but could the stories and loves nature while Sutpen, Popeye, or Jason Compson is all unnatural and are even scared of the natural world. According to Brooks,”Faulkner and Wordsworth are much closer in their…

no meaning in their lives. They were restless wanderers of the earth, like as was Cain mentioned in the Bible. George and Lennie had started out hopeless in their lives - Friendless, lonely, no jobs to be found for them, yet they with the hope in their lives, their dreams, they could obtain their inspiration, their hope for living on in their lives. Here, Steinbeck would express about how much we are just like those children of Cain. Restless wanderers, people of no hope, doomed to death and…

Vampire Suicide vs Human Suicide, is it the Same Thing? This semester we were assigned three novels and as a final assignment we were to determine if the characters in “The Night Wanderer” were the same when their thoughts were about committing suicide. Suicide is when someone hits their all-time low and does not know what else to do so they take their own lives to end all the hurt they feel. Tiffany Hunter is a teenage girl that was dealing with a lot of different things such as her mother…

they serve under a rule and an abbot; anchorites (or hermits) who have already persevered in the cenobitic life of the monastery; sarabaites, who have forsaken the monastery and essentially make up the rules as they go; and the gyrovagues who are wanderers and “slaves to their own wills and gross appetites. In every way they are worse than the sarabaites” (RB 1.1-11).…

According to George S. Patton Jr., “The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”In the Odyssey, Odysseus tries to get home, but he fails. Along the way, he travels through many islands. Odysseus shows he is not a hero because he has left his men, he killed lots of people because of jealousy, and he taunted the Cyclops after he and his men escaped the island. Odysseus shows he is not a hero when he taunts the Cyclops after escaping the island. The men had just escaped the…

In the early times of the Greek civilization, there were no written language, and no written history. However, this is the time where two of the most influential Greek stories were created. This was the birthplace of the greats, The Odyssey, and The Iliad, and the template of all Greek writings to come. The man said to write the epics stated above was ironically blind. Homer, the greatest epic poet, was also the first. He is arguably the most influential man in the history of western…