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    religious to follow this journey. In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie’s focus appears to be on learning how to live in the time he has left. Morrie decided the day he learned he would die, that he was not embarrassed to die and would make the most of his days left. This is seen when Morrie says, “Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live" (Albom, p. 82). Morrie wanted to remind people to slow down, and pay attention to the here and now (Albom, 1997). Morrie also decided to have a living…

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    Tuesdays with Morrie is a story about an old college professor, Morrie Schwartz with his most preferable student, Mitch Albom, who is the author of the novel. There were no connections among the sixteen years between themselves after Mitch’s graduation from Brandeis although he has promised Morrie to keep in touch. Mitch was decided to meet Morrie after discovered the appearance of his professor on a television show ‘Nightline’. At that time, Morrie has already affected by Amyotrophic Lateral…

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    emotion, mental, and physical. A win win relationship would be between two people that benefit each other in any situation. Some examples of win win relationships were George and Lennie, Max and Kevin, and Mitch and Morrie. In the book Of Mice and Men, The Mighty, and Tuesdays With Morrie. They all had a win win relationship with one another because they benefitted each other. There are three categories emotional, mental, and physical are going to be discussed in these three body paragraphs.…

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    In the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom ,Mitch reunites with his old college professor named Morrie Schwartz who he has lost touch with for at least 15 years. When Mitch first sees Morrie, Morrie tells Mitch that he was recently diagnosed with a disease called ALS aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease. ALS a disease that slowly deteriorates the body. Morrie knew that he did not have long before his body started failing him. Every Tuesday Mitch goes to Morrie’s house to participate in a class that…

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    struggles, and it is also its most certain occurrences. Many of us find great difficulty in coming to terms with this fact so much so that it is not uncommon to completely banish the thought of death. However, in Mitch Albom’s bestselling book Tuesdays with Morrie his readers are sat down next to a professor who can help one answer these questions. He is not a professor of science, English, math, or of any of the other subjects which one might expect a professor to specialize in. No, we are…

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    all of the time, we do not accept losing and when we do lose, we beat ourselves up for it. In reality when we lose, we do not lose because we learn from that experience. In the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, Morrie believes that being average and not always being the best is okay. Although Morrie has a terminal disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), he is an optimistic person. He believes the…

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    which ends up captivating the audience watching,“...and the anchor asked if my professor had anything to the millions of people he had touched.” (39 Albom) Morrie, throughout the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie, was put onto a broadcasting platform which ended up helping millions of people cope with medical issues going on in their life. Morrie used his power to broadcast how to live every day the best and positivity to millions of people throughout the world. The idea of a person being powerful…

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    they are unable to make changes. In Tuesday with Morrie, Mitch Albom, the main character, narrator and author, establishes a documentary about his reunion with his favorite professor after sixteen years .The author uses literary devices to show how Tuesday life –changing classes influence his lifestyle to live a better life and reject the society’s false culture in order to avoid guilt and regret later on .Irony and flashbacks are used to show how Morrie gives him a new perspective of life…

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    understood way; that’s how Morrie Schwartz lived his life. Mitch Albom, the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, a biographical fiction, he writes about his old college professor, Morrie Schwartz, who he hasn’t seen since 16 years after he graduated from Brandeis University. Later on Mitch spots his professor on T.V. being interviewed for a terminal disease called A.L.S. How did Morrie learn this throughout life, what caused him to think about it? In the story Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom…

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    Impressions In Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, Mitch grows throughout the book. At the beginning of the book Mitch is very involved in his work and is making a lot of money but he is missing something in life; he is unhappy and very self-absorbed. Mitch sees online that his old Professor Morrie whom he was very close with is sick and he decides to visit him. As Morries’ death is approaching Mitch begins to visit him more often. During these visits Mitch gains a lot from Morrie.…

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