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Tuesdays with Morrie is a beautifully written book by Mitch Albom. On the writer’s part‚ this book deals with Erikson’s identity versus role confusion stage of psychosocial development. This book is a result of partly an effort to compensate for the guilt of not being able to fulfill the perceived duty or responsibility towards friends and families and partly an effort to find identity within the competitive and ambitious self. The primary character (Morrie) is living the final days of his life with
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“tuesdays with Morrie‚” Mitch writes about his relationship with Morrie‚ an old college professor of Mitch’s. The two reunite after several years because Mitch learns of Morrie’s terminal ALS diagnosis‚ also known as the Lou Gehrig’s disease. Mitch decides that something is missing in his own life‚ so he challenges himself to set aside every Tuesday for visiting Morrie. During those visits‚ Mitch becomes aware that he takes on the student status and starts to learn from Morrie. Mitch also refers
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Mitch’s long time professor Morrie also has ALS. Despite having this unfortunate disease‚ Morrie is still optimistic and teaching lessons to Mitch. In the Memoir Tuesday with Morrie Morrie teaches people through loving and trusting family‚ accept aging and realizing love goes on even after a person is gone. Firstly Morrie teaches that sticking and trusting family is important in life. Morries childhood was not easy nor happy. Morrie´s mother died when he was very young. Morrie knew that family love
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giant boulder up a hill for eternity‚ only for it to return to the bottom before he can finish his task. Similarly‚ Tom‚ Daisy‚ Gatsby‚ Nick from The Great Gatsby‚ and even the 1920’s society itself move both forwards and backwards simultaneously as they navigate the waters of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald addresses this aphorism throughout the novel‚ and the final lines summarize it very thoroughly: “So we beat on‚ boats against the current‚ borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald‚ 189). As described
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TKM Aphorism Project “I wanted you to see what real courage is‚ instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win‚ but sometimes you do.” (Lee 149). True bravery is when you’re aware that the odds are against you‚ however‚ you have the ability to persevere through it. Even though you don’t want to complete the task ahead of you‚ an inner force brings
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Benjamin Franklin once said “If your head is wax‚ don’t walk in the sun”. Franklin had created an aphorism. Webster’s dictionary defines an aphorism as “a short phrase that expresses a true or wise idea” (Aphorism). Franklin modified most of his aphorisms to correspond with traditional or folk sayings‚ known as proverbs. This aphorism is parallel to a Russian proverb that instructs‚ “One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down”. What do these proverbs mean? How are they similar? Why do
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Morrie Schwartz was a smart professor who was struck with ALS. He believed in many things and his aphorisms are what kept him on his feet. He taught Mitch about love‚ death‚ and life and how to live it to the fullest. He also taught him how to appreciate life and everything that comes with it. In the novel Tuesdays with Morrie‚ morrie’s aphorisms are his everyday life lessons. "When you’re in bed your dead" (Albom 131). Instead of sitting around your whole entire life‚ do something. Morrie didn’t
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learn from”. • I’m on the last great journey here on we all got to take”. • “When you know how to die‚ you’ll know how to live”. • “All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie” • “We must love one another or die”. 2. The main theme from Tuesdays with Morrie is life and death. 3. What I consider to be successful in life is having a loving and healthy household‚ and financially stabled. Three ways I can live more successfully is making peace with everyone that you meet‚ do not hold a grudge and forgive
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The aphorism from Confucian Analects that is relevant in China’s history states‚ “17:2 The Master said: By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart.”. This is significant to intellectual history in China because that emphasizes the need to excel among the rest. The aphorism conveys the fact that those who possess intelligence‚ stand out among those around him. Confucius is stating that every men is born with the same amount of innate potential. However‚ the
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