The Secret of the Sewer One of the works favorite novels of all time is Les Miserable written by Victor Hugo. Les Miserable is filled with secrets and mysteries. Every page you turn‚ Victor Hugo throws a plot change at the reader. When Marius falls in the barricade the reader would never expect Jean Valjean to leap out into the smoke clouds to save Marius life. If Marius would have never found out that Jean Valjean saved his life by dragging him through a sewer‚ Cosette would have never know that
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Introduction Does death give meaning to life? One might wonder how something so morbid could bring meaning to “life”‚ which is supposedly something more pleasant and sound. Bernard Williams was an English philosopher in the 20th century who suggests that death gives meaning to life‚ and that immortality might not be something that one should desire and wish for (Jacobsen‚ 104). In the average human life‚ everyone has many different desires that bring meaning and purpose to that life. There are conditional
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The Secret of the Soul How does one comprehend [with] the vast wonder life has to offer? Or how does one able to understand the meaning of trials in life? There are a [lot of ways] number of ways in which one can manifest the grandeur of life‚ the complexity of its meaning‚ and the severity of its tragedies. But in order to achieve such‚ one must be totally submissive to an eternal Being‚ who is omnipotent enough to see us through‚ powerful enough that our knees shake‚ lovable enough that our hearts
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In the short story‚ “The Secret Sharer” by Joseph Conrad‚ the young Captain has been placed on a ship which he knows nothing about. This has made the Captain feeling insecure‚ untried‚ doubtful‚ and lost. The Captain‚ at first is not sure on how to establish his authority on the crew as most of the members are older than him and have been on the journey together for eighteen months. While the Captain took control of the ship only a fortnight ago so he is a complete stranger to the ship and its crew
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Compare and Contrast of “From a Secret Sorrow” and “A Sorrowful Woman” In the short story “From a Secret Sorrow” by Karen Van Der Zee a woman who struggles to tell her fiancé a truth that is killing her inside. The story focuses on two main characters‚ Faye and Kai. Faye is a woman who thought that the world was over for her after finding out she was infertile. Faye had no idea on how to communicate such horrendous news to Kai‚ her fiancé. She was afraid that her Kai was going to leave her and
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Walter Trattner‚ in his From Poor Law to Welfare State‚ does a remarkable job of overviewing the major points of early American history‚ particularly the aspects of history that relate to social welfare. However‚ Trattner fails to acknowledge that the groups of people most remembered by history are not necessarily representative of the larger population. History is quick to remember virtuous individuals‚ especially if such individuals are wealthy and socially esteemed. Nancy Isenberg argues in White
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We ask ourselves everyday if our life has meaning. We view our lives and others’ lives in different ways. I agree with life being viewed as a game‚ and life as learning is adding meaning to our life. I disagree with life having no meaning at all. Every human being views life differently and believes your life is influenced by different ideas and lessons. Life as a game creates a theory that we can’t just take our lives too seriously or else we won’t be happy and feel as if we have fulfilled
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lives have meaning‚ there are some lives that‚ when viewed from more than one perspective‚ have more meaning than others. This imbalance can be explained through the discussion of the three main “measurements” of meaningfulness such as the egoistic perspective‚ the reasons of love and the two endoxa as well as how happy or fulfilled people feel in regards to their lives. At the moment‚ the most popular way of thinking about the topic having meaning in life seems to be that meaning comes from ideas branching
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Angelo Esarda I. Characters: Protagonist: Mary Lennox - One of the novel’s two protagonists‚ Mary Lennox is a ten-year-old girl who‚ after the death of her parents in India‚ is sent to live with her uncle in Yorkshire‚ England. She evolves from a spoiled‚ unloved and unloving creature to a girl who is full of spirit and surrounded by friends. She begins the book as its central character. Colin Craven - The other of the novel’s protagonists‚ Colin Craven is Archibald Craven’s ten-year-old
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Meaning in life (Wolf‚ 2010) Introduction Susan Wolf is known as a philosopher‚ she wrote a book in 2010 known as Meaning In Life And Why It Matters. In this book Wolf give a sophisticated philosophical argument on the importance of meaningfulness in life. This book consist of two short lectures here I am going to summarize the first lecture of this book she mainly attributes the idea of meaningfulness in life and present this idea in such a way as it look well-intentioned for ourselves and for others
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