Dillard believes she must make her writing interesting, if it is dull people won’t read it. She also knows she must decide what to put in her writing and what to leave out, depending on how people would react to it. Faulkner doesn’t even think about that kind of stuff, he believes you should write about the emotions we experience and “help him endure and prevail.” Each of these duties are completely different, but yet, they both make sense and to help them
This is the only way a man differs from an animal. The poem presents a very poignant and reality of human lives. We too can identify ourselves with it. Each day, every moment, every time we have to make a decision we are at crossroads because social constraints weigh heavy upon our minds. The author uses symbolism to help us understand that at times you do not always have control of your destiny and you must follow the path life.
In the poem “Freedom” by James Kavanaugh, the fact that humans don’t want to be free due to the requirements of freedom is reflected in “Taming of The Shrew” through having the poem’s main points being compared to the events involving Katherine’s struggle for freedom and individuality. Kavanaugh is not giving freedom a negative image, but he is simply laying down how one needs to be in order to maintain freedom. An individual usually doesn’t “want freedom”, but rather “he only talks of it” because freedom requires certain qualities and has results that most would not want. The qualities because of this seem unfavorable, so the only thing men can do is talk about freedom. In terms of the requirements of freedom, man would rather “choose his slavery and pay it homage”.
The character tries to tell through this poem that it is all on people and the choices they made. But it is for sure that whatever the choice they have to spend their life on it weather it’s good or bad. So characters of the poem discuss how people chose their option (Shurr, 2003, 584-590). They exist, but they cannot do anything if someone makes a wrong choice. Alternatively, the main character of “A Worn Path’ is Phoenix Jackson.
Appiah also asserts that both positivism and relativism cannot support the idea of cosmopolitanism because the definition of cosmopolitanism is that every humanity should belongs in to one community, in this community, people respect and communicate with each other in moral way. Everybody shares their thoughts and form a group. Although positivism dose respect each other, their ethics are only judge by right or wrong. As Appiah mentioned that “if relativism about ethics and morality were true, then, at the end of many discussions, we would each have to end up saying, from where I stand, I am right. From where you stand, you are right.”(26) But everyone has different feelings, different perspectives to view different things.
He means that if the venture needs you to be anyone else but yourself, it will lead to no good. This reveals to me that Thoreau believes strongly in the individual, being yourself, and seeking your own path. This quote is also applicable to modern life because many ventures nowadays require you to conform for some purpose. The second aphorism I remembered is “Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity.” Thoreau means that our focus and attention to detail now in society and culture do nothing but to waste our lives away needlessly. He believes simplicity is the better choice.
Do you give up or do you persevere through arduous situations? Well, in the poem “Where there's a wall” by Joy Kogawa, it inspires, motivates and teaches us the importance of finding ways to overcome the walls in our lives either by going through, under or above it. Not only did this poem affect me tremendously by giving words of encouragements to live by, it also made a cliche into something fun and relating through symbols representing hope and perseverance. Where there is a wall...there is a way! This is an important message the poem has reminded me of.
It's situations such as this that makes me not believe in legal obligation to the extent which Socrates does where it's almost absolute. I do agree with him that one should obey the laws of the land that governs them, but only to an extent. While the law may have been beneficial to you throughout your entire life and got you to where you are today, if it were to wrong you, you should be able to defend yourself. Even though I do share the same belief about the soul being more important than the body and it continuing to exist after death, I don't believe all unjust acts ruin the
Map 1 – Help you stay in charge of your life, whether you are up or down. You will discover how to tap the cycle of change for designing the rest of your life, to use change as a major resource for your future life designs. (Life Launch pg. 48) After reading Map 1, I found this map is like an ongoing cycle. Like most, my life is always changing and things do not always work out as planned.
‘but now, like a swarm returning to the hive’ he must remember the reasons why he is still here, why he must work and why he must support his family stopping him, and every other man that has dreamed of doing the same, from leaving behind the wretched world of labour and poor reward. With this the poet succeeds in to the reader because we all have dreams we want to fulfil, things we want to do but the honest ones of us don’t leave our duties behind for someone else to clean-up; But, we have dreams which keep us going though tough circumstances no matter how unlikely they are to come true. So his dreams ‘sail’ back to where they belong while he is at work. In the ‘black eaves’ of the back of his mind. ‘My heart turns to its melancholy work’ has been very carefully worded.