Introduction About Oscar Lewis Oscar Lewis‚ born on December 25‚ 1914‚ was an American Anthropoligt. He is best known for his vivid depictions of the lives of slum dwellers and his argument on a cross-generational culture of poverty among poor people transcends national boundaries. Lewis contended that the cultural similarities occurred because they were "common adaptations to common problems" and that the culture of poverty is both an adaptation and a reaction of the poor to their marginal position
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RIGHT AND WRONG AS A CLUE TO THE MEANING OF THE UNIVERSE C.S. Lewis has presented many intriguing ideas in regards to how right and wrong relate to the universe. The moral law is a genuine thing‚ whether we agree with it or not. Lewis presents there is an absolute good and an absolute bad within the laws of human nature. As human beings‚ we tend to have a great deal of trouble interpreting our own selves. Within Mere Christianity‚ C.S. Lewis provides me with useful insight to help me understand my own
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A Grief Observed is a reflection of C.S. Lewis on the process of grieving for his wife. In his book‚ he wrestled with death in harshness and honesty‚ and he tried to understand his anger with God and his world without her. My focus in this report is on the issue of latter part of his book about him developing a new relationship with God and his deceased wife‚ and he returned back into proper life. Lewis questioned the care of God in his book. He faced the fact of his lack of faith and he explored
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In “Mere Christianity”‚ C.S Lewis describes how hard it is to be a good Christian in his statement “now we cannot‚ in that sense‚ discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing)” (265). In this statement‚ Lewis is arguing that struggling to be good and having faith in religion takes a tremendous amount of willpower. Faith in religion takes conscious effort because it can become difficult to hold onto faith over time. I can relate this to my own personal
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remember‚ they leave legacies‚ and they make an impression in our world. I happen to be one of those people who took a chance; for that is why I’ve become one of the most remembered people in all of American history. Hello‚ my name is Meriwether Lewis. Most people probably already know that I was a co-leader in the Corps of Discovery‚ but many do not know my entire life story. For that reason I’ll start where it all began. I was born on a warm summer day in August of 1774 in the small county of
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition- The people of the United States knew very little of the land they had previously gained from the French as the Louisiana Purchase. President Thomas Jefferson decided to send out an expedition of explorers to discover the unknown land. This became known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition or the Corps of Discovery. Jefferson decided the leader of the expedition would be his secretary William Clark‚ and Meriwether Lewis. The expedition officially began in the summer of
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that quote without a doubt. Although she was a fictional character‚ along with everyone else in the book she did commit atrocious acts the still happen today. The lion‚ the Witch‚ and the wardrobe is a very intriguing novel written by C.S. Lewis. Now C.S. Lewis was an army veteran he also was very good friends with J.R.R. Tolkien they hold each other’s writings accountable that’s part of the reason this book is so mindboggling. The book was published on October 16‚ 1950 on a bright sunny day inside
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Unstable Ground “Friendship is unnecessary‚ like philosophy‚ like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”-C.S Lewis. In the preceding quote by C.S Lewis; Mr Lewis explains what friendship does for a person. To paraphrase it in an understandable way‚ he seems to have said; Friendship is not necessary to survive‚ it only enhances life and makes life more interesting. This is my personal viewpoint exactly! Throughout life many
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Lewis Lapham stated that the “American faith in money easily surpasses the degrees of intensity achieved by other societies”. As time goes on‚ it has become apparent that “money means so much to us” but it is only paper and that in actuality it cannot bring happiness. In my opinion‚ Lewis Lapham’s take on the attitudes toward wealth in the United States are correct. Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and the rising rate of depression that is extremely apparent amongst the adolescent
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In this photo by Lewis Wickes Hines titled “Riveters attaching a beam”‚ we see four men working in a dangerous workplace‚ on top of the Empire State building mid-construction‚ with no visible safety measures in place. There are no women at this worksite‚ which is understandable because during that time‚ women were the stay at home housewives. This photo is my favorite because the men don’t look fazed by the height at all. Hines took a direct approach when sharing the workplace of these men‚ there
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