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Summary In The Outsider by Albert Camus is a work fiction; it contains two parts and it is divided ‎into two equal ‎sections: part one with six chapters, and part two with five chapters. The novel ‎begins with the protagonist ‎Meursault receiving a letter informing him of his mother’s death. ‎‎He asks his boss for two days leave in ‎order to attend the funeral‎‏.‏‎ After coming back from the ‎funeral‎, Meursault conveys on life as if nothing ‎tragic has happened. He goes to the beach with ‎his…

We all live by different or many quotes, a quote that I live by is, “It's better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life,” because in life you have to take risk, not everything is going to come to you easy. Sometimes you have to lose somethings in order to gain what you really want. In 2005, Steve Jobs gave a speech at Stanford University, he spoke about how he was close to death at a time, for him being close to death always made…

Randy Pausch, an American professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, gave an inspiring last lecture full of life lessons and ways to look at life in a positive way with just months left to live. Randy knew he was going to die, but he also knew that he had a message that many people needed to hear; he changed lives just before his ended. The concept that people are more important than objects is used constantly throughout the book, from winning the parent…

Dead men can tell tales. It may sound weird, dead men telling tales. However, it’s true. They tell tales in many ways. One way they tell tales is explained in the article called, “Identifying the Victim.” On page 21 the text says, “Joints help tell a person’s age because they break down as they grow older.” In other words, joints can be examined on a victim’s dead body, and the people studying them will be able to tell how old the victim was because of how old the joints are. This piece of…

Question #1: "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I’m not yet dead. I'm sort of ... in between." (Albom, 32-33). What is a bridge, how does a bridge symbolize Morrie's current situation, and how else does Morrie relate to a bridge? A bridge is a structure that helps to link one place, to another. As mentioned, Morrie symbolizes himself with a bridge because he is in between life and death, and he tells people what they should pack or how they should prepare…

I Am Mordred is a novel based on Mordred who is the son of King Arthur of Camelot and his sister, Queen Morgause of Lothian. After Mordred was born, King Arthur found out Mordred was fated, by Merlin, to kill him. With this knowledge, King Arthur makes a decree to have all babies set out in coracles to be killed. The coracle Mordred was in was found by a fisherman and Mordred was the only baby alive among the many he was sharing the coracle with. They take him in and when he is only 6, a woman…

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…

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…

“The Second Tuesday” 1. In what ways do you agree or disagree with Morrie's perspective on self pity? I believe that Morrie has a very enlightening view on self pity and I agree with most of . Not everyone is mentally capable of accepting what is wrong in their life, so I don't really believe that everyone can do what he states. Some people recover and reflect on negative things going on in their lives in different ways and that may mean that some people spend more time pitying themselves…

Tuesdays with Morrie In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie did and said many aphorisms that positively affected people. Morrie taught important lessons that changed they way people thought and lived their lives. Morrie touched people and taught them to move past material objects and focus on the important material in life. The objects that one cannot purchase. As Morrie grew up, he learned and experienced things that he shared with others. Morrie was now dying and had many experiences and lessons he…