Wandering

the Wild is a dog who was thrown into the Klondike gold rush and is trying to survive harsh times. Farah Ahmedi in Escape to Afghanistan is a young girl living in Afghanistan who is trying to get to Pakistan away from danger. Aengus in The Song of Wandering Aengus a lonely man searching for love. However, although all persevered to accomplish their goals, not all of the individuals were successful. Buck from The Call of the Wild starts his life simple living the easy life but, gets…

The staff at St Peter’s Residence at Chedoke need help finding a better solution to prevent residents from wandering into other residents’ rooms. Many of the residents suffer from Alzheimer disease or a related dementia (reports from long-term care institutions range from 11–24% [1]) and numerous experts agree that all people with dementia are at high risk for wandering due to their cognitive deficits and unpredictable behaviour [2]. The client (staff at St Peter’s Residence at Chedoke) has…

The Ever Wandering Constraint “Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.” (Ecclesiastes 6:9 NKJV) in this text from the Bible wandering is constrained to a negative meaning but, in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, constraint is found and broken throughout the poem. Milton uses constraint as a major thematic element throughout his poem. In this essay we will be examining the characters of Adam and Eve with their personal constraints…

The Odyssey is a famous epic poem written by Homer. The main character, Odysseus, is a suffering wandering hero, “a man of constant sorrow”. After spending ten years away from home fighting in the Trojan War, he spends the next ten years trying to return home to his family. Along the way he is put through numerous trials by the gods and faces hardship after hardship, before finally returning home. O Brother, Where Art Thou? Is a movie set in Mississippi during the great depression and it is…

stacks of paper towel or cutlery but she began to hoard any items that she can find regardless of its worth or value to her. Her cognition test indicated impaired thought, insight, judgment, and thought formation. She also suffered from significant wandering and hoarding behavior, with auditory and visual hallucination. For instance, she was found “shouting at the mirror”. She had been living alone and was able to carry out her daily tasks despite the presence of chronic cognitive deficits, but…

Buddhism: Origin, Beliefs, and Diffusion Buddhism originated in India around the the early 5th-century B.C.E. and has grown to the most popular religion in the East. There are approximately 360 million Buddhist followers across the globe, over a million of which reside in the United States. Despite the prominence of this religion both in the East and in America, many people still have a limited knowledge about the Buddhism religion. How did this grand religion come to be? What are the…

and plot devices. Transitions are smooth and fast paced, dialogue is pithy and heavily directed, not one second wasted on narrative “blank space”. But what happens to this model when the story a film strives to tell is a story not of action but of wandering? This question is raised by Iranian filmmaker Marzieh Meshkini in her 2004 film Stray Dogs. In order to tell this gripping tale of two Afghani children living on the streets of Kabul, Meshkini employs some tools of conventional cinema such as…

Almost everyone in the world has realized that life is one big cycle. Wake up, go to work, have a long day, then go back home to whichever life you may have. Then continue this cycle, again, and again, and again. Compared to some people, this cycle is not that bad. If you have an exciting life that is. But whether the life is good or bad, according to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, that is not the proper way to live. Thoreau gives off the message that mankind should stop rushing their lives with…

and their surroundings. This is not comparable to losing oneself but rather getting lost in your unknown surroundings. Solnit mentions Jaime de Angulo, a Spanish storyteller-anthropologist who believes there are two outcomes to wandering in one’s surroundings, “wandering can lead to death, to hopelessness, to madness, to various forms of despair, or that it may lead to encounters with other powers in the remoter places a wanderer may go” (19, Solnit). The state of mind of a person has to be…

Poe writes: “Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering / to seek for treasure in the jeweled skies, / albeit he soared with an undaunted wing.” (lines 6-8). The bird that the poet is personified as is not specifically named but Poe implies this idea by explaining that as a poet he strives to soar and wander through the skies exploring, however the science vulture is deterring his adventures. The wandering that Poe describes is his own imagination; as a poet, he wants to let…