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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Tuesdays With Morrie‚ a memoir by Mitch Albom‚ narrates the final Tuesdays of dying Morrie Schwartz life. Mitch was Morrie’s past college student‚ and during Mitch’s college days they shared a great bond. Every Tuesday‚ after Mitch viewed Morrie’s interview on the news program Nightline‚ Morrie would share stories and valuable life lessons with Mitch. Although all of these lessons held great value‚ the most important lesson of all is‚ “ Once you learn how to die‚ you learn how to live.” Morrie wants
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pars. 5). They became more independent in their lives without the need of men to support. But the question is that was this change good for women or not? The American author Kate Chopin gave an example of those independent women in her short story "Regret". In the story‚ a woman called Mamzelle Aurelie lived alone in her farm. She has never got married and never had children. But one day the silence in Aurelie’s life was broken as she carried the burden of looking after her neighbor’s four children
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Mitch failed to show that he was the best version of himself many times throughout the book‚ many of those times involved him with his work. When he graduates from Brandeis‚ he promises Morrie that he will visit him after graduation. He does not go through with that promise after college because he becomes too consumed with his own life. Mitch went back to school to earn his Master’s degree in journalism. He becomes so imprisoned by work that he barely appreciates life. He is not the person he hoped
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to life. Morrie believed that it was better to rather perish than to live a life without any love‚ as he was quoted to have said "If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family‚ you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said "Love each other or perish""(Albom 91). This quote illustrates Morrie’s views of love and is of the opinion that it is better to die than to live a life devoid of love. Although Morrie grew up
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Course Code: PCR0025 Course Title: Critical Thinking Topic: Never Regret Group: PM01-05 Group Name: Huge Family List of group members’ Name and ID. Lecturer’s Name: MasyitahBintiMahadi Never Regret Introduction Each and every one of us will do things in life that we will regret afterwards. There are many forms of regrets that we all will have to deal with and it is impossible for anyone to go through life without making a wrong decision or saying something they wish they hadn‘t. As we know‚ there
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I was suddenly awakened in the middle of night.As I glanced around there was no one except me‚laying on an uncomfortable bed.Slowly‚I got down from my bed and tiptoed to the window.A slight of cool breeze whipped to my ears.Dead leaves rattled in the wind.There was a stony prickling silence except for the eerie sound of chilly wind howling in the air.Goosebumps sprouted on my skin all over my frail body.A sliver of moonlight glimmered through the wind‚slicing my pallid face.Slowly‚I swept my dry
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you knew that today was your last day on Earth what would you look back on and wish you could change? I strive to make my answer to that absolutely nothing because there isn’t anything I would regret more than living a life full of regrets‚ full of wishing I had done something differently. We should never regret our decisions‚ no matter how terrible life seems at the moment. Everything that happens in life makes us the exact person we are meant to be. “You can’t change who people are without destroying
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Integration Day 3 Assignment The Career I have chosen is Child and Youth Worker. To begin in this career you need to have the educational back round for the field which includes Early Childhood Education‚ Social Work‚ Child Care‚ Social Work Technology‚ Criminology‚ Phycology‚ Pychoeducation‚ and Care Counselling. Although you need the education requirements for this career‚ it is important to have personal attributes and characteristics such as Strong Communication Skills‚ Team Work‚ Patience
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thinking and experiences of regret Introduction Counterfactual thinking is the cognitive process in which individuals can simulate alternative realities‚ to think about how things could have turned out differently‚ with statements such as ‘what if’ and ‘if only’. Counterfactuals can be either upward‚ in which alternative realities are improved‚ or downward‚ in which alternative realities are worsened. Reflecting on previous outcomes can make individuals experience regret and this review will focus
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