Transcendence

What It Is Like to Go to War (2017) Karl Marlantes Thesis: Although maintaining many of the themes expressed in Vietnam war narratives, Karl Marlantes’ What It Is Like to Go to War provides a new, twenty-first century viewpoint on war that challenges the homeland culture and the military chain of command in sending a generation of a country’s young men off to war. Unlike previous eras in the United States’ history, the nation is no longer led by men with military experience. (By the numbers:…

might not have known true freedom, due to the constant scrutiny and injustice they faced by both authority figures and the public. Antigone acts are justifiable because her brother’s afterlife depended on her burying the body. A proper burial and transcendence into the afterlife is a massive part of Greek culture and not receiving a burial is considered one of the worst punishments a person could receive (Sophocles 77-78). If Antigone would have failed, Polyneices would have returned to haunt…

a summary of reasons for one’s existence. It proposes that each person is unique and that they must discover their own meaning, it cannot be given to them or defined for them by another. It is also under this concept that Frankl speaks of self-transcendence, which is related closely to life purpose and encompasses doing something or creating something that reaches beyond ourselves for others (Smith & Liehr, 2014). One also finds meaning through loving or connecting with another person. Finally,…

Communism as Marx claims, is not merely the disavowal of the bourgeois society but its transcendence in the contradiction of ideas, the continuation of what is traditional and creative value in addition to the effectiveness of authority of the societal and intellectual forms which avoids all men possessing those values since they were expressed…

4.4 Moving from “Pilgrimage” to Heimat Fans in my sample cultivate the celebrity image as a place of comfort, enjoyment, and solace. This “being at home” with the celebrity image is something Sandvoss refers to as fandom as a homeland or Heimat or what Aden calls a “promised land” (1999). The conjuring of the notion of a promised land, for Aden, stems from the importance of place in fandom, yet Aden still refers to this place as one of spiritual significance, but replaces religious language…

Reflection of When Breath Becomes Air The story of both a neurosurgeon and patient provides a unique understanding of the concept of mortality. There is a strong disconnect between patient and provider in health care today, yet Kalanithi offers a perspective anybody and everybody can relate to. I felt comfortable exploring death and mortality with Paul on his journey through what turned into terminal lung cancer, and questioned my values and faith along with him. This book delves into…

Identity is defined as the set of characteristics by which a person or thing is definitively recognizable or known. From Lord of the Flies to Things Fall Apart, identity was an integral part of literature produced in the twentieth century. Identity crises in literature are most often faced by adolescents and migrants, both of which accurately describe James Gatz in The Great Gatsby. Young James Gatz, also known as Jay Gatsby, migrated all the way from North Dakota to the southern shores of Lake…

physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs and self-actualization. However, later Maslow criticized his own theory as he realized it was not completely full, one level was missed – actually, the highest possible level – the transcendence. By Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs”, it was commonly considered that once a certain level of the…

When people think of the word “rape,” they usually associate it subconsciously with a man sexually assaulting a woman. Many people forget, or even disregard the fact, that women are not the only victims in this area of crime. Due to this common fallacy, justice for males who have been sexually assaulted is not sought out properly or nearly enough. This stereotypical perception of males and rape acts as a handicap in the realm of social justice. As a society, we know a lot more about the sexual…

Getting a bit of the Other, in this case engaging in sexual encounters with non-white females, was considered a ritual of transcendence….. an acceptable rite of passage.” (). This represent the hypersexualization of the Black female bodies and consider it as an object, as “fucking was a way to confront the Other” ( Eating the other: Desire and Resistance- Bell Hook). Mulu’s work…