To: Morrie Schwartz Hi Morrie! After I learned about your story‚ I was really touched. Your philosophies and ideas were so transcendent; I felt as though I was learning the story about some higher being. I learned a lot about the meaning of life and what things are really important to me in my life. It helped me see a lot of things I couldn’t see in other people nowadays. Morrie‚ I have to admit that you’re one of the most gently living people I know. While reading your story‚ I wondered why everyone
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True love is an unconditional and a selfless emotion. Love can produce unexplainable behaviour in most individuals. Love is a very powerful emotion that can be seen in many forms of literature and music. Love can drive a person to do anything in order to either protect or please the other person. In the famous series Harry Potter by JK Rowling there are many examples where love causes the characters to do inexplicable actions. Professor Severus Snape is a victim who cannot control his actions due
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and overcome. We as people must overcome adversity to excel in life. In a book called Tuesday’s with Morrie‚ Morrie is diagnosed with Lou Gherig’s disease. Lou Gehrig’s disease also known as ALS destroys the neurons of the brain and spinal cord‚ which are responsible for voluntary movement. After a certain time any patient diagnosed with ALS becomes paralyzed and often dies within a few years. Morrie was a professor Brandeis University teaching Sociology. When he was diagnosed he taught until he was
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to choose fools over knaves.” Discuss In King Lear virtually every character is either a fool or a knave; however these terms contain multiple layers. The crucial scene in which this idea is presented in the play is act 2 scene 4 when the Fool talks to Kent after he has been put in the stocks‚ and more specifically his line “The knave turns fool that runs away;/ The fool no knave‚ perdy.” On one level the Fool is mocking Kent for his loyalty towards Lear despite the fact that Lear’s fortunes have
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reveal truth and suggest a journey of self-discovery‚ within a character. Shakespeare uses clothing imagery within King Lear as a central theme in which readers may discern the complexity of the characters presented in the play. Garments can be used to reveal as well as conceal a character choosing to show either of these feelings. They can deceive through the means of a disguise. In King Lear deception is an underlying issue that is expressed in many characters. Goneril and Regan use their elaborate
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Alondra Elizarraras English IV AP/DC – period 7 Ms. Stokes October 6‚ 2013 Woolf: Shakespeare’s Sister “Shakespeare’s Sister” by Virginia Woolf describes a story about Shakespeare’s sister and how being a woman she would have been treated and what types of opportunities she would have had compared to men. What kind of life would she have? What kind of education would she be given? Would she be a playwright like her brother with the same kind of talent? During the time of Shakespeare‚ his
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Analysis of the Quotations in Tuesdays with Morrie “Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.” Dying is one sad moment; living unhappily is thousands‚ millions of sad moments spread over the years of your life. Someday we are all going to die. Even though we all know it‚ most of us spend our lives pretending as if we will live forever. Like Morrie‚ we should all live urgently‚ intensely and
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Tuesdays with Morrie explores life after death to the columnist Mitch Albom. “All endings are beginning‚ we just don’t know it at the time‚” stated Albom. The meaning of the following quote is if you pass away‚ you still live after life. However‚ the quote can not be empirically proven that there is in fact afterlife of some kind. There is not enough evidence for it to be proven that one exist. Love is the one medicine that can help anybody through a difficult situation he or she is in. Ultimately
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Tuesdays with Morrie R1 author’s purpose Essay What would you do if you were told you were going to die in a matter of days or weeks‚ and life as you know it would completely change? What would you do in your last days alive? One of the things our generation struggles with the most nowadays is finding their place in life and through the process‚ they get lost and forget what truly matters. As we progress‚ we tend to forget all the things that are essential to what we all deserve‚ our happiness.
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The book tells the Story of a Sociology professor‚ Morrie‚ who has contracted ALS (Lou Gehrig Disease) and therefore has just a few weeks left to live. Instead of just waiting for his death‚ as most people would do‚ Morrie decides not only to make the most of the time he has left but also share his experience‚ knowledge and unfortunate situation with the world: “A professor’s final course: His own death”. The story is told by Mitch‚ Morrie’s former and probably favorite student‚ one who he used to
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