An Essay On Man Sparknotes

Imagine you and your group of friends were responsible for a man's life who desperately sought for help, but your group mocked or even ignored him instead. This was the major plot that occurred in the story "The Man in the Well" by Ira Sher. An interesting theme of this story is that groups of people tend to act based on their groups impulse and not their own. Though the negative effect of peer pressure might be the cause of why groups, cliques, and gangs do what they do, their behavior alone tends to be much different than when they are alone. It's as if each character themselves goes through a sudden temporary transformation. However, an interesting p three key concepts, which are personality, actions, and decisions, tend to be influenced...show more content...

When the man in the well started calling the kids for help one more time, instead of answering him, they "got up and began running, filling up with panic." When the author wrote the emotion, "panic" right after the children's careless actions, it illustrated to the audience how the children were doing something they usually wouldn't do. Not only that, their actions as a group led the one person, Wendy, who had stayed by the well, to run as well. When the author said that Wendy "stayed by the well for a while, watching us run as his calling grew louder and wilder, until she finally ran too" However, the funny thing is, when they are alone their actions towards the man are generosity and kindness. For when it says "The next morning we came back, most of us carrying bread or fruit or something to eat" most of the kids came back to give food to the man in the well. Once the quote is read deeper, the author mentions how "most" of the youngsters brought food but not all. Both part of the kids, the ones who brought food and the ones who didn't, acted based on their morals and not what the group had thought. Their actions were not influenced by their group members pressuring them to bring food, but they did it based on their

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Sparknotes Machine Man

The novel Machine Man by Max Barry starts off with the introduction of the main character, Charles Neumann, who misplaces his cellphone and comes to realization that he is completely helpless and disconnected from the world without it. While he is contemplating his thoughts, he discovers his cellphone. He is working on heavy machinery at the time of discovery and the distraction of finding his cellphone results in him accidentally getting his leg crushed by the heavy duty clamp. Due to the workplace related injury, the company that Neumann works for, pays for the prosthetic leg. However, Neumann is not happy with the prosthetic and refers to it as a "bucket on a stick". Neumann decides to build himself a better, more powerful, and a smarter...show more content...

The behavior of Charles regarding his misplaced cellphone is one which I can empathize with. When we use certain types of technologies, we become used to it and become part of our daily lives, gadgets such as smartphones and tablets become an extension of our bodies. In a way they are limbs of our bodies and a loss of such objects can cause us much discomfort before we get used to it and adapt to the new situation. The character of Charles is relatable due to the fact that the choices that he faces and world that he lives in is similar to our own where we face similar choices as an individual and as a society on issues that are relevant to us today. In our world people are already using developments in technology in order to influence outcomes of events in fields such as sports. The use of performance enhancing drugs to improve body function, the use of clothing that reduces air friction in order to break records are issues in sports that are relevant in today's world. The main question that comes to mind is regarding the "fairness" or "unfairness" of the issue and the varying degree of assistance that can be considered fair or unfair. In case of using prosthetics, is it enough just being able to walk, or should the loss of limbs and the subsequent use of prosthetics lead to a more enhanced and improved human experience as Charles does in the

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The Third Man published in 1949 by Graham Green is a fascinating book. Graham Green (1904–1991) was said to be one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, writing everything from short stories, autobiographies, to children's books. What I found most interesting about the book was that the whole story is told from the viewpoint of Major Calloway and not from Rollo Martins. This is determined from the beginning of the book that Rollo Martins, a broke writer from London, has been presented as a man who is loyal and believes that friendship is almost like a marriage. It is evident when he arrives at the cemetery in Vienna and is told by Calloway that the body being buried is his best friend from childhood, Harry Lime. Rollo Martins...show more content...

Martins at that point decides to go home and then tell Calloway: "I'll be getting back to England (Greene 110)." Martins gained some hope from an inspiration to investigate accusations to find out if they were true when he believed he saw a figure that resembled Lime. Later in the book, Martins set up a meeting with Lime and hearing Lime's own confession, Martins' belief and loyalty in his best friend disappeared completely because Lime's disregard for human life produces a sad disappoint for Martins. Lime won't stop committing penicillin racketeering, so Martins thinks it's up to him to do something to stop it. This fact brings evidence in showing that Martins' opinion of humanism must be placed over friendship. He decides to tell Calloway that he will provide assistance to the police to help arrest Lime. By making this decision and the fact that Martins manages to kill Lime, Greene, undoubtedly, wanted to convey that no matter how strong a friendship may be, that it means very little compared to the value of human life. Last, it is interesting to look at the use of viewpoint used to help express the theme of the book "The Third Man" as perceived through Calloway's point of view. By using Calloway's point of view, Greene interprets the theme through the viewpoint

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When it comes to the fate of the United States itself, Dick puts out his interesting notion that the country has been divided and shared between the two allies. Nazi Germany has taken east of the Mississippi and so forth, in the very middle a buffer free zone in the Rocky Mountains area, while Japan has taken primarily the West Coast. Both set up a puppet government in their areas. In The Pacific States of America readers right away meet on of the very few important protagonists in the novel, Juliana Frink.

In the novel, the few ordinary characters reside in several parts of the divided United States of America. Being regular individuals, they have no special qualities other than some recollection of what life was exactly like before the war. "This is most authentic of dying old U.S. culture, a rare retained artifact carrying flavor of bygone halcyon day" (Dick 45). Any citizens living prior to the invasion are now brainwashed, dead, or living in silence with no objection to what has happened. Juliana Frink and her ex–husband Frank Frink originally resided in San Francisco before ...show more content...

Although the twisted outcome of the victory from WWII is adapted from, the point brought across is that any historical event could have went either way and each way brings a totally different outcome. The idea of ungratefulness and forgetfulness in humanity is something very visible yet not paid much attention towards. Through this Dick wants readers to mentally comprehend that the past is something that clings onto the future and affects it in many different ways, big or small. The presence of every single individual plays a crucial role in these moments and most importantly their actions, good or bad, as Dick's characters determine

Here, we have one of Earth's evilest men to get ahold of an excruciating amount of power. Saloth Sar, later changing his name to "Pol Pot" was Cambodia's communist leader from 1975 to 1979. He was the 8th of 9 children and was the second of two sons. His family was prestigious and the Cambodian King Sisowath Monivong made many visits. Along with theKhmer Rouge movement, Mr. Pot managed to kill about 1.5 million Cambodians out of the 8 million at the time. His rise into power is a story of great triumph to evil, but for now let us see the origins of the Evilest Man on Earth.

Pol Pot was born in Prek Sbauv, a small village in 1925. This village was approximately 100 miles north ofPhnom Penh, the Cambodian Capital. His family was a little more than middle...show more content...

After that, he began to go to a French Catholic primary school. He continued his learning until 1949, where he went to Paris, France. He studied radio technology and was an avid communist. After his arrival back toCambodia, he had found that its people were rebelling against French rule, a year later they got their independence. From 1956, Pot had taught history, geography and French literature, all while he had joined a secret communist party and plotting a revolution. In the 60s, he made the party exclusively focusing on Marxism–Leninism. The group moved deep in the countryside and in 1968 they began a national uprising that led to his total command of the country. In 1970, while the Prince of Cambodia was out of the country, the group started a civil war. The Prince had been kicked out of power and turned to the Khmer Rouge movement. He supported Pol Pot in the uprising. By 1975, the Khmer Rouge took control of the capital. As its leader, Pol Pot became the leader of the country. Life under the Rouge was deadly. Everyone was stripped of their belongings and worked in the fields as part of a re–education program. Anyone that refused would be taken to detention centers,

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Man's Search For Meaning Sparknotes

Emily Harr Professor Rohlf Critical Review

October 7, 2015

Critical Review for Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl's thesis found in Man's Search for Meaning is repeated multiple times, in different ways throughout his book. On page 111 he states, "According to logotherapy, we can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering" (Frankl). This is not saying that all of those qualities have to be present to find one's meaning though especially suffering. The only way to find the meaning of life is by answering your own call for life, not what others value as meaning. Each meaning...show more content... This book is didactic because Frankl is indeed trying to teach us what human's meaning in life is. He does this by portraying that even in the most extreme and miserable cases there is potential for one's life. The whole section of part two is an example of why it is didactic because he repeatedly supports teaching us how to find the meaning in our life. Granted that none of us have gone through what he did, we can compare some of our sufferings by using logotherapy and find the purpose in the suffering. However, his main goal is not to teach us about the concentration camps, for one of the first pages of his book states, "This book does not claim to be an account of facts and events but of personal experiences, experiences in which millions of prisoners have suffered time and again" (Frankl 3). It is also rhetorical because he plays with our feelings in order to get his point across. The point he is trying to make is you can find meaning in life in three different ways. An example is the multiple times he thinks about his wife while in the concentration camps. In order to move a reader to feel a certain feeling or make a decision is to tug at their heart. And what better way to do so by mentioning family and how much he loves, misses, and thinks of them. I personally think the book was more rhetorical because to me it was an inspirational book. He wrote about all his hardships and sufferings that he had to endure in the concentration camps. Even when he was out of the camp, he was still suffering because he found out that his wife, who was pregnant with their child had died in the camps. He had to live with that for the rest of his life and he had to live with the nightmares and experiences that he had once

Giuseppe Mazzini was instrumental in unifying the Italian nation as his ideals spread throughout Italy's intellectual community. Although many of his attempts at rallying the common people to a revolution failed, he circulated and popularized the idea of a fully unified Italy for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire. In his work "The Duties of Man," Mazzini establishes that he is largely a romantic nationalist, since he draws heavily on history; however, he utilizes the power of certain liberal nationalist sentiments such as individuals' rights in his own work. In this document, Mazzini largely focuses on how the ideas circulated after the French Revolution regarding the rights of man have corrupted the true nature of a nation by creating a culture of greed and egoism. While he openly discourages the erasure and pursuit of these rights, he is quick to point out that individuals' egoism and each nation's separation of class "... has grown and grows worse in nearly every country, and especially where I write the price of the necessaries of life has gone on continually rising, the wages of the working–man in many branches of industry falling and the population multiplying" (87). He argues here that allowing any nation to be solely characterized by the rights of its citizens causes a nation to define itself based on the millions of individuals, dividing any community or society–which he believes is the backbone of the nation. In Mazzini's view, the solution to this is by fostering a national culture of duty to one another. When he asks, "What is Society but a collection of men who have agreed to bring the strength of the many in support of the rights of each?" the audience is forced to question their own personal hierarchy between rights and duties; for what is a nation if there is no work or duty in achieving and maintaining the rights of every man within the nation (89)? It is through this investigation that Mazzini reveals his ideas of what makes a nation a nation. By using familial themes, much like the Russian romantic nationalist, Khomyakov, he is able to portray the nation's people more clearly as a brotherhood and the nation itself as a maternal figure. Both Mazzini and Khomyakov promote Get more content

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INNOCENT MAN: MURDER AND INJUSTICE IN A SMALL TOWN, by John Grisham. New York: Doubleday, 2006. 368pp. Hardcover.

$28.95. ISBN: 9780385517232. Reviewed by Jack E. Call, Department of Criminal Justice, Radford University. Email: jcall [at] RADFORD.EDU. John Grisham's legal novels are well–known to avid readers of that literary genre. THE INNOCENT MAN is Grisham's first (and so far only) venture into non–fiction. It tells the story of Ron Williamson, an Oklahoma boy with great promise as a professional baseball player. However, the demons of drink, drugs, and mental illness prevented Williamson from fulfilling that potential. Eventually, Williamson's demons also destroyed his marriage, prevented him from holding a...show more content...

This result required analysis from another technician, who ultimately concluded that some of the samples were consistent with Fritz' hair. It took this expert over two years to do his analysis, and he did so with the knowledge that when he was analyzing Fritz' hair, Fritz was a suspect in the case. (Other hair samples that he analyzed were not marked as having come from a suspect). [*604] The prosecution's case may have been strengthened when it was able to prove during cross–examination of Dennis Fritz that he had lied to the school system when he indicated on his job application that he had no criminal convictions. In fact, he had once been convicted of growing marijuana. (When the police had discovered this fact during its investigation, they called the junior high school where Fritz was working and told them that he was under investigation for murder and had lied about his marijuana–growing conviction. The school system fired him immediately). The prosecution also established that Fritz had lied about the marijuana–growing conviction on an application for a gun permit. Although this testimony may have strengthened the prosecution's case a little by showing that Fritz had lied on at least two occasions, the case in chief from the prosecution was so weak to start with that it is difficult to imagine how the case survived a motion for a directed verdict from the defense, much less provided a

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Charles Lamb's essay, "Two Races of Man," presents a satirical attack upon those who are the borrowers within society. Within this attack his main argument contains the notion that borrowers are negligent and full of greed from lack of money. Lamb constructs this with an ironic undertone, displaying the borrowers as men of "generous manners". That they have no money to their name making them infallible and similar to that of an "Augustan Majesty". In addition, the author rebukes borrowers for attempting to simplify the English language, so the only pronoun that exists is "mine", by ridding the language of "meum and tuum." Furthermore, Lamb ironically exposes the jealousy felt by borrowers due to their lack of money, stating that lenders should...show more content...

In order to create his ideas, Bacon elicits critical diction to serve as the basis for the entire essay. Continually he criticizes single, laymen for viewing marriage and having a family as an end to their livelihood. That children are the "abatement to his riches," and lack of femininity within a man's life causes the development of negative attributes such as being "cruel and coldhearted." Furthermore, that without marriage single men are "facile and corrupt" due to the negative characteristics associated with no marriage. Moreover, Bacon repeatedly creates analogies to criticize the behaviors and views of single men. That they think that "girdles to garters to be bonds and shackles" depicting their view that marriage is an end to freedom. In addition, he claims that single men are more likely to donate since "charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool." That married men would are more likely to hold on to their money due to them needing to provide for their family and having developed the trait of frugality. Bacon ingrained the rhetorical strategies of critical diction and analogy to depict the negative outcomes that men will face with a lack of

"The Man to Send Rain Clouds" is a short story about the death of an old man on a Pueblo Indian reservation and the issues that arise from conflicting spiritual traditions and Christian traditions. As the story opens, the dead body of an old man has been found under a cottonwood tree on an Indian reservation. The sheep that had been under the old man's care are grazing in scattered locations up and down an arroyo (ravine). Two men, Leon and his brother–in–law Ken, have discovered the body, which has apparently been lying under the tree for at least a day. Leon and Ken herd the sheep back to the camp and return by truck to the body.

Ken has brought a red blanket in which to wrap the body, but, before this is done, Leon ties a small grey...show more content...

Leon and Ken carry the red blanket–wrapped body into the house, and Teofilo is prepared forburial in the new clothes. Leon, Ken, Louise and Teresa eat their lunch of beans, hot bread and coffee. Ken prepares to leave to make arrangements with the gravediggers, who should be able to have the burial site prepared since only the top layer of soil is frozen even though it is very cold. Neighbors begin to arrive bearing food and sympathy as news of Teofilo'sdeath begins to spread in the village.

Later that day, after the funeral, Louise mentions to Leon that perhaps they should ask Father Paul to sprinkle holy water on Teofilo so that he won't be thirsty. Leon stares at his grandfather's body and thinks about this for a few minutes. He then leaves to see if the priest is available. Ken drops Leon off at the priest's house and continues on to the cemetery where others are waiting for the burial. Father Paul is happy to see Leon and offers him a chair, but Leon declines the seat, saying that he has come only to ask for holy water to be brought to the cemetery. The priest understands now that Teofilo is dead and asks why he had not been notified so that he could have performed the Last Rites. Leon protests that the ritual is not necessary, but the priest contends that for a Christian burial the Last Rites are indeed necessary. Leon tells Father Paul that everything Get more content

In the 1920's during the Harlem Renaissance, the Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man was first published anonymously, and later published by the author, James Weldon Johnson. The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man, grapples with the concept of modernism by questioning the idea of reality, form, and introducing the notion of an unreliable narrator. While, the title of the book refers to the work as an autobiography, the book is actually a work of fiction that 'passes' as an autobiography, similar to the concept of the book. In the Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man, the book follows an unnamed narrator whose born into a black household and struggles with his own racial identity. The narrator pulls racial notations and white supremacist ideals into his own idea of blackness causing him to struggle with internalized hatred towards his own race. With the death of his mother, the narrator is no longer tethered to his black identity, he leaves home and is able to effectively pass into the white world due to his lack of family relations. The narrator's decision to pass becomes intertwined with his experience of watching a lynching occur. After the Reconstruction Era, Ida B. Wells, anAfrican Americanjournalism, released an Anti–lynching pamphlet during the 1890s, theorizing the various effect of lynching. Her 1st pamphlet, titled Southern Horrors, shows the history of lynching and the reasons why African American can be lynched. While, her 2nd pamphlet, shows vivid descriptions of lynchings because she wants the reader to witness to atrocity occuring (James 8). In her pamphlet, Wells writes, "Lynching was not simply a spontaneous punishment for crimes but an act of terror perpetrated against arace of people in order to maintain power and control" (Wells 3). Using Wells' theorizes about lynching as a tool, what can be examined with the narrator's decision to pass after experiencing a lynching?

In the Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man, the narrator begins at a young age internalizing hatred towards his race. The narrator's epiphany towards the concept of race is shown with his realization that he's black in the first chapter of the book. When the principal calls for only the white scholars to stand, the narrator is Get more content

ohn Grisham is a trained attorney being privy to the laws and mandates of the legal system, he has developed a unique appreciation for the courtroom saga. As a professional, he is aware of what is right and what is wrong. Unfortunately, the outcome of court proceedings does not portray "the right". With that said, Grisham has been able to put into written dialogue descriptions of drama as seen in such novels as; The Rainmaker, The Pelican Brief, A Time to Kill, The Client, just to name a few. In these novels he allows characters to carry out his motifs of fair game. The following essay will interlock four major points that John Grisham uses in his first nonfiction novel The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town to convince...show more content...

Until which, he came across a man named Dennis Fritz. Dennis Fritz was a miserable man without much hope, and with these circumstances he befriended Williamson. Both of their antics led to them spending nights in jail for reckless endangerment or drunk driving, nothing ever too serious though. That was until the case Debbie Carter, a local in the town, had been raped and killed. Five years later, they decided upon arrested both Williamson and Fritz to what appeared to be a false testimony. This never seemed to be enough though for the townspeople of Ada. For them, a raping and killing was more than just jail time. They wanted the truth about the murder of Debbie Carter. This led to Williamson and Fritz being tried for her case, in which unfortunate results came back. Fritz was now imprisoned for life and Williamson was to be executed. The story is more aimed towards Ron Williamson, and his life while in prison. At some points it was sheer luck that Ron was released. One point in the story Ron Williamson is about to be executed in three days after waiting on Death Row. That was until Williamson received a "stay", allowing him to avoid execution. It was not until 12 years later in 1999 that both Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz were both released from Get more content

In the beginning of the story the narrator did not feel too good about the blind man in the first paragraph he says that the only experience he has had with blind people was in the movies when they were often the person that moved slowly and did not laugh. The narrator did not have such a positive view on people that were blind because the narrator thought they were people that he could not relate to and were for the most part simple. When the narrator's wife was talking about inviting the blind man over she says the that the blind man's wife had just passed away and then mentions the name of his wife Beulah the narrator then immediately asks if she is a negro. The words that the narrator uses referring to the race of the blind man's wife indicates that he might have a bias or does not have a positive view on interracial marriage....show more content... In a way both the blind man and the narrator are trying to interact with each other the blind man was willing to smoke something he hasn't done before and the narrator is trying to interact and have a conversation with the blind man. Near the end the narrator is asked to describe what a cathedral looks like and then since the narrator could not give a clear description the blind man then asks for a pen and paper the blind man then holds on to the hand of the narrator and tries to draw a cathedral but also is asked to close his eyes finally the narrator is asked what he thinks about it with his eyes closed. The narrator through this exercise he got to see how it is to be like the blind man and even connected with the blind man a lot more then when he first Get

This story is narrated by the main character, who describes a relationship that has been going on between his wife and a blind man for several years. His wife met the blind man as an employer and worked for him during a summer ten years ago. However, a long lasting friendship ensued. They remained friends, exchanging letters and tape recordings and discussing all aspects of their lives. The problem stands, as the narrator is jealous of this relationship. He has not completely ruled out that there is more to the relationship than his wife is letting on. Furthermore, he is also aware that his wife has discussed intimate details of their lives with the blind man and he is not entirely comfortable with that notion. The highlight of the story unfolds when the blind man came to stay with the couple for one night after his wife died. The narrator is very skeptical at first in accepting the blind man into his home but as the story progresses, he let down his guard and he revealed the humanistic side of him....show more content...

As he explained to the blind man what was occurring on the television program. He started to let down his guard. He tried to describe a cathedral that was featured on the television but had a hard time doing so. The blind man asked him to draw the cathedral and he laid his own hand on the narrator's as he drew. Finally, he told the narrator to close his eyes. The narrator closed his eyes and left his eyes close even after the drawing was complete. The narrator began to gain insight into the world of the blind man. What the narrator envisioned as the worst possible scenario, being blind, even though it was temporary and reversible, he was able to identify with the blind man for a fraction of a

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"A Satire against Reason and Mankind" is a poem written by John Wilmot the Second Earl of Rochester. Two things are argued against in this poem. First, mankind and its base nature that causes men to exploit each other for seemingly no reason. Second, mankind's ability to reason which causes them to compare themselves to God. However, at the end of the poem Rochester offers a chance for himself to be proven wrong, but only if a just man can be found. This idea of a "just man" is not Rochester believing mankind can improve, but rather it is him supporting his own argument because he knows that this man does not exist. When this "just man" is described he directly contrasts with human nature and shines a light on man's true baseness and shows...show more content...

Next, a scenario is offered to the reader to allow them to come to their own conclusion. The poem states, "Be judge yourself, I'll bring it to the test, Which is the basest creature, man or beast... Beasts on each other prey, but savage man alone does betray... man undoes himself for no good... But man with smiles, embraces, friendship, praise, Inhumanly his fellow's life betrays; with voluntary pain distress, not through necessity but wantonness" (2305). When animals prey on each other it is justifiable because it is out of necessity for food, but there is no way to vindicate men for attacking one another. Rochester then states that even men who are friends will voluntarily betray one another without provocation. Next, Rochester's argument shifts from being directed towards men themselves, but rather their ability to reason. Rochester introduces a clergyman in poem to act as an adversary that argues for reason and mankind. The clergyman states that he understands Rochester's argument but does not understand his hatred for reason and mankind. The clergyman begins his defense of mankind and reason by saying, "Blest glorious man! To whom alone kind heaven and everlasting soul has been freely given; Whom his creator took such care to make, That from himself he did the image take, And this fair frame in shining reason dressed, To dignify his nature above the beast" (2304). Biblical scripture is paraphrased by the clergyman when he claims that men were made Get more content

Man's Search For Meaning Reflection

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl was an empowering, impactful, and memorable book. The brevity of the novel was refreshing and allowed me to purely understand what he intended. To me, Part One of this book was similar to the book Night by Elie Wiesel. They were both very honest and raw in their depiction of the holocaust and concentration camps. I enjoyed both books, they were insightful and opened my eyes to the nature of humanity. One specifically memorable thing that Frankl said was that both the people creating the gas chambers and the ones entering them were one in the same. Both books made me think, but Man's Search for Meaning was more reflective and encompassing. Reflection When reading Man's Search for Meaning, the quote "man is more than psyche" and the concept of logotherapy particularly interested me. I have never heard of either. Both of these topics peaked my interest. "Man is more than psyche" At first, I did not understand the simplicity of what Frankl meant by, "man is more than psyche." I believed that there was something more to the quote, but I found that there is not. It is just what it says, "man is more than psyche." Man has many features and characteristics, the psyche is an important one, but basing man on just psyche is unfair to humanity. While, I agree with Frankl, I can see why some would believe that the psyche is what defines man. The psyche influences a large part of our daily lives. Our emotions, thoughts, and actions are influenced by our psyche; these are often the defining characteristics of a person. However, I believe there is something that separates every one of us and defines humans. This is one's life purpose; it is rooted deep within us. Regardless of if we realize it, the life purpose is always within us, it is a matter of acknowledging it. It sets us apart from one another and individualizes us beyond our psyche. Another thing paired with life purpose is responsibility. One thing that Frankl says is that freedom must be paired with responsibility. In this I believe Frankl is saying that the freedom of life is congruent to having a responsibility of keeping the life purpose alive. I agree with Frankl. I think part of living is to be responsible in Get more content

Magical Realism of a Drowned Man and Villagers In the short story of "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" written by Gabriel Garcia Marques has vivid magical fantasies which influenced the readers to picturized the impossible events in Modern generation. In the "An overview of 'The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Rena Korb she highlights some of the greatest examples of magical and Fantastic beliefs, the mythical and religious human perspective of reality. However, those examples follow through the idea of the story are futile in many reasons. The story contains some unrealistic experiences, Magical realism, and communal solidarity of the people in the villages. The story has unrealistic characters such as Esteban and the ladies in the villages. "[...] the...show more content... Such examples are when "[...] hold the most splendid funeral they could conceive of for an abandoned drowned man." (Gabriel Garcia Marques, 926) This statement explains that the people of the village come together and make such decision that everyone was agreed. It further illustrates the communal solidarity with such passion and compassion and "[...] so bright that the sunflowers don't know which way to turn, yes, that's Esteban's village." (Gabriel Garcia Marques, 927) The drowned man had a greater effect to the people of the village so they changed the name of the village to the Esteban's village. As Rena states that [t]he lives of the villagers will continue to change over the next twenty–four hours and on into the future. To honor Esteban's memory, the villagers will build larger homes so that he can pass through freely without shame at his size." They began in the process of the rebuilding their house, chairs, furniture, etc. so, that anytime in future such event happens then they have a better utilities and Get more content

"Man From Reno", a bewitching independent neo–noir film, may trap you in its mysteries and moods while transmits all the anxiety and uncertainty that its characters are subjected to. This is the second time (the first was "Daylight Savings" in 2012) that the screenwriters Joel Clark and Michael Lerman join efforts with the co–writer and director Dave Boyle. They were able to fabricate a wonderful story, set in San Francisco, and involving a popular Japanese writer from Tokyo, Aki (Ayako Fujitani), who in the face of a creative/identity crisis, decides to stop writing and vanish during her press tours in the city. After an unenthusiastic meeting with some old friends from college, she stealthily checks into a hotel, where she meets an astute,...show more content...

From this moment on, Aki starts being followed by enigmatic individuals who scarcely are whom we think they are. In parallel, San Marco County's sheriff, Paul Del Moral (Pepe Serna), runs over a nameless Asian man, after spotting an abandoned car, and starts to investigate his disappearance from the hospital where he was taken. Later on, he's informed about a dead body found in the river shore. The man, in spite of identified as Akira Suzuki, is not the same as the one who met Aki in the hotel. The determined sheriff and Aki, who is guided by an acute intuition gained in her books, will try to search for something palpable in order to solve the puzzle. Sometimes vague and disorienting, sometimes precise and self–assured, "Man From Reno" plays with your curiosity in a complex thrilling exercise, which not being totally satisfactory, presents strong elements to compose a solid detective story. This includes inexplicable clues, secret words, dangerous chases, mistaken identities, undercover paparazzis, an eerie soundtrack, and a constant, if subtle, tension associated to its Hal Hartley–esque

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Grizzly Man Documentary Analysis

Documentaries serve as an insight for the lives of individuals striving to change the way societies think. These individuals bring to light issues that lack coverage and rarely cross the minds of the populous. Many documentaries illustrate their story–telling in ways that differentiate themselves from other types of cinematography. Documentaries utilize master and close up shots to create a close connection between the subject of the documentary and its viewers. In Herzog's Grizzly Man, Herzog pieces together the unorganized footage left by Timothy Treadwell a grizzly bear conservationist, into a well–composed narrative that illuminates the dedication of Treadwell to the conservation and protection of grizzly bears in the Alaskan wilderness. While Herzog does touch upon the need for further protection of grizzly bears...show more content...

For example, Herzog includes a shot of Timothy accusing a group of individuals observing grizzly bears as poachers. In reality these bears lack any threat from poachers because they live in territories monitored and protected by park rangers. Experts on Grizzly bears criticize Timothy because poaching is a miniscule threat to Grizzly bears. If poaching was a problem six percent of the population theoretically could be hunted with no repercussions. Herzog including the interviews of these experts discredits Treadwell's paranoia that park rangers and poachers are harming grizzlies. Timothy's goal was the conservation and protection of grizzly bears, but according to experts in the field Timothy was doing more harm than good. Timothy was habituating the bears making them comfortable around humans, which anticipates his death by a Grizzly. The majority of these experts are not surprised that Timothy ended up getting eaten. Timothy treated these animals as if they were human unaware of the danger posed by Grizzly

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To continue, Goodman suspected something but for sure, not knowing what the people in his village were hiding was disturbing him, for that the elderly person in the forest could only clear his doubts. Talk to someone who assured possession of the absolute power, and that he was a friend of the clerics of his native Salem, that the governors hosted him parties in his honor, only made young man doubt and in a combination of disbelief but also curiosity wanted to know more about that old man with the staff in the form of a snake, and to prove it was the old figure of an acquaintance of Brown. The old man suggested to Goodman hiding, Brown hid to avoid being recognized. Once there the young man saw something that confused him more than he was, the duo meets an old woman. While the Devil continues quietly on the road talking to the woman. Brown observes from another place and...show more content...

But what was so venerable person doing in that forest at night? The old man with the staff really knew Aunt Cloyse. He knew the old woman was destined for hell not him. Not because his life was Faith, she was the one who kept him sane before such revelation. He questioned the old person with the staff about that old woman and only Goodman stay alone. Surprised and overwhelmed by the resent event, Brown stops in the middle of the road. The Devil grants him a maple stick that had previously taken from the floor, so the young man can reach him when he pleases. Brown thinks about going home but before realizing the idea when suddenly in the distance he thought he heard horses, he hid again and presumed he recognized those voices. It could not be, he discovers with surprise that the pastor and deacon of his church are heading towards the same diabolical meeting to which they had invited him (Hawthorne). Then went to a meeting those who by day spoke against sorcerers and distant peoples, for what reasons they skirted them to behave in ways different from everything if Goodman knew about

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