Essays on Loneliness

I would like to start with the words Megan Chao (1998): “For many centuries, discovering the fountain of youth has been just a dream for humans. Aging is an inevitable process in human life, the result of a highly variable biological cycle. (p.1) Nevertheless aging people continue living full of life, continue working and changing conditions of their lives to the better side. Czaja and Moen (2004) predicted “by 2010 the number of workers age 55+ will be about 26 million, a 46 percent increase since 2000, and by 2025 this number will increase to approximately 33 million.”( ...

The Main Features of Introverts' behavior in the social environment

As is known, introversion is one of the most common categories or indicators to measure personality traits. Introverts are people whose personality traits are very different from those of other people, who can also be called extroverts. Introverts tend to accumulate their energy and direct it to their inner world, while extroverts waste their energy on the interaction with the outside world. If an extrovert needs a constant dialogue with the people, an introvert can successfully do without it. An introvert is capable of minimal contact, which is also necessary, but it happens rarely and only in the companies ...

Compare and Contrast

“One never understands anything from a photographand that understanding starts from no accepting the world as it looks” (Sontag 23). It is true as the person can be easily mistaken by what he sees, especially if we are talking about a photograph. Many photographs can be either deceitful or intentionally make the audience’s perception wrong. Therefore, different worldviews and different perspectives allow seeing different images on a single photograph. The two suggested pictures may seem to have nothing in common. One sees two different people, two different backgrounds and two different stories. However, one may find a drastic ...

Today’s’ world is contingent upon the use of the internet and mobile phone technology, and every personal and impersonal task is carried out with the help of this technology. While connectivity between people has decreased and they have come closer to one another with mobile phones, it has also opened up to people, various other ways of connecting to each other and using internet services. One of the most common and popular uses of mobile phones and speedy internet is that of online dating. Although, online dating is not a new phenomenon and people have been using it ...

‘Love’ is among the majorly debated themes by both the modern and postmodern poets. Fundamentally, love refers to a deep affection for something towards another thing. The poems “A&P” by John Updike, “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, “a leaf falls” by E.E. Cummings and When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman vividly provides a depiction of love, as some of the major thematic issues. This paper, therefore, provides an analysis and the discussion of ‘” love” as one of the major thematic issues portrayed in “A&P”, “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord “a leaf falls” ...

Edgar Allan Poe, the celebrated American writer, critic and editor, holds a prominent place among the literary circle. He is famous for his excellent short stories and poems, surrounded by an aura of anonymity and obscurity. He can rightly be termed as a Romantic who is often recognized as the forerunner of the detective fiction and science fiction. His personal life endured many ups and downs. The tremors of love and feelings find persuasive expression in most of his works. The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell- Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death are some ...

Tennyson, “The Eagle”. Discussion Question: How is the solitary eagle’s strength emphasized in the first stanza? Does the reader “join” the eagle in the second stanza? How or how not? The reader joins the eagle in his dive in the second stanza through the metaphorical comparison with a thunderbolt. Captivated by the bird’s masterful and exact description in the first part of the poem, the reader has no choice but to follow the eagle’s majestic fall towards the water. This is also achieved by the personification of the predator, as the author uses pronouns “he”, and “ ...

Elvis Presley the king of Rock N Roll was born in 1935 Tupelo, Mississippi. His first interaction with the music happened at the local church where he sang along with his family (Wallace, p.101). Elvis was an only child. He comes from a poor family, that did not stop him from reaching a peak in his career and becoming an internationally acclaimed artist of all times, but before that he had to go a long way from a truck driver to a talented singer. Indeed, he used to think to become a truck driver that was eventually replaced by ...

Phobia is an irrational uncontrollable fear, persistent manifestations of various fears. Traditionally, fear is an ancient companion of humankind. Most scientists believe that the feeling of fear is common to all higher animals, and, to a larger extent, to human beings with their finely developed psyche (Popescu 2013), 406. But if an animal can only be afraid of specific dangers, then a human being thanks to his imagination and the ability to analyze the environment has learnt to experience fear ahead of time (Popescu 2013), 406. What are people afraid of? Of course, each person has various reasons to ...

Comfort is a complex term and carries different meanings for different people. Comfort can be defined as an act of soothing a person who is in distress. It is expected to provide relief to the person from the previous distress and helps to make life easy. A thing or a person or a quiet environment can offer comfort to a person who is uneasy. Comfort can also be defined as a calming process or a process that makes the person cheerful or hopeful. For example, an elderly person who lives alone, may feel comfortable when there is someone to ...

Today, the internet is a prime avenue among the youths as well as adults for social interactions. Through internet tools and applications such as chat rooms, email, newsgroups, instant messaging as well as other means, individuals share all sorts of information such as their interests with others, aspects pertaining to their daily lives and keep in touch with their friends and family members. In essence, today, the primary use of mobile phones and personal computers is social interaction. In the process, online social interaction has also brought about people seeking to form relationships with others whom they have met ...

Parallel Worlds in “Bridge to Terabithia”

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson is the story of two children, adolescents, who came up with their own, fantastic country, hiding from the world that does not accept and understand them. This book is about life and death, about the fragility of life and the way of life, about that how hard to find friends, and that people should forgive even enemies. It is sad, but incredibly touching story of friendship, loyalty and love, the first mistakes and incorrigible consequences that children faced living in parallel worlds. Bridge to Terabithia is a story about the friendship of two ...

Literature is the reflection of the contemporary society. Early 20th century was generally known as the modernist era in art and literature. The contemporary society was majorly affected by the fatality of World War I and World War II. During the period, the whole generation had become very pessimistic about everything. They were trying to find the meaning of life and their existence due to the political situations and horrified incidents such as holocaust, concentration camps, and the drop of nuclear bombs on Japan. The feeling of nothingness, futility is very strong in contemporary English literature. The literature of ...

History is the study of past events especially involving human affairs. It also includes the study of following past incidents in the history of humankind connected to someone or something. Studying history assists humanity in understanding how the society has transformed in time. It also helps students relate various modern trends in the society and compares them to the progression from the early times (Bartolome 4). History is also an element of filtering the learned from the unlearned. Historians believe that by use of historical knowledge of facts and figures one can be able to determine the level of ...

The stories presented by Lawson are characterized by realistic illustrations of limited desires and needs of common domestic life and many hardships. Isolation is a very prolific theme in this the Drover’s Wife because the whole story explores the issues of loneliness, separation from mates and hard work by the women characters in the absence of their husbands. The woman is used to being left alone and it even states that she was once left alone for eighteen months. As a young lady, she desires to live like a princess and have a good life, and that is ...

Raymond Carver is an American poet and short story writer famous for his realistic style. This outstanding writer is well-known for the short story collections, one of which is called What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Why Don’t You Dance? belongs to this collection and is considered to be one of the most outstanding and unusual short stories created by the writer because of its non-traditional structure and plot. In Why Don’t You Dance? Carver uses such literary devices as symbolism, binary opposition, sad and depressed tone in order to convey the themes of ...

English 1100

Today more and more people are getting the feeling that they are living a draft, and someday later, their life will be transmitted onto a clean copy. Trying to fill in the void inside, they still get no satisfaction. It leads to various outcomes, some better, and some worse. What people eventually want is a piece of happiness – an abstract term that everybody interprets individually. Elizabeth Renzetti and Gabor Mate each describe the factors that contribute to and symptoms that arise from loneliness and substance abuse, respectively. Mate claims that some people find chemical substances give them what they ...

Introduction

Modern technologies make it possible to communicate interactively with other people all around the globe, despite distances and time zones-related differences. Nowadays the Internet has already become a ‘background part’ of everyday life, penetrating a variety of communication-related areas, such as work, entrepreneurship and interpersonal relations. Instant messaging and self-reporting are especially important for modern children, who perceive these phenomena for granted, along with telephones and TV sets (Kraut et al. 1017-1018) Moreover, the Internet significantly increased cooperation opportunities for colleagues, living in different cities and countries, brought together the representatives of different cultures (e.g., via special interest groups) ...

Coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street composed by Sandra Cisneros represents a mosaic of various events that shaped life of Latina girl named Esperanza Cordero. Due to the writing style and vignette form this novel presents reader with vivid but at the same time incomplete pieces of memories that are aimed at conveying particular emotion rather than facts. It should be mentioned that inspiration for writing this novel was Cisneros`s life along with stories from people she knew or met. With this in mind one may observe mixture of semi-real and semi-fictional stories that reveal reality of ...

Introduction

Bullying is one of the most hurtful actions that a human being can face. Bullying is one of the social problems that divide our society into two groups; the first group claims that it is a criminal activity and others who believe it has been part of our culture for generations and calling it criminal would be unfair. Bullying is experienced by people in different walks of life, such as as a child in school, as an employee, etc. It is the factual evidence majority of people have been bullied at least once in their life. Some are able ...

Abstract

In the novel ‘Black Hole,’ teenagers who engage in sexual behavior contract a decision that leads to genetic mutations which are hard to conceal. The disease is a replica of the Aids Pandemic and the struggles which teenagers have to endure during their adolescent years. The importance of the study is to identify how teenagers in the book the black Hole relate to the youth in the current society. Teenagers experience hormonal imbalances which cause them to lose control and are mostly controlled by their sex drives. Sexual attractions are common during this developmental stage of life, and most ...

Significance of the play

The play captures the themes of loneliness and love, in a way that makes the reader, or the audience, awe at the depth of creativity of David Henry Hwang. The structure of the play targets the general audience, as it brings out the kind of feelings that someone keeps in the face of rejection and failure to fit in society. Two characters, a man and a woman in middle age, tell their versions of loneliness and their lack of human company. The man confides to the woman that he had to sleep in a waterfall in the previous night ...

Abstract

Everyone has their own individual character. People’s characters may be similar but definitely are not the same. Most people do not have issues with it and have no problems with their interactions in society and compliance with its laws and regulations. However, some personal features are very different from the expected norms and from generally accepted rules of behavior that cause irritation, discomfort and lack of understanding of others. Such features of temper can cause problems, which affect not only patients but also their close and distant surroundings. Such condition is called personality disorder. Worth noting, that patients ...

The Guest is a short story written by Albert Camus and first published as a part of the collection Exile and the Kingdom in 1957. The main character of the story is a teacher in a remote school Daru. The man was alone because of the snowfall, until gendarme Balducci with the apprehended Arabic person appeared. Daru was asked to take prisoner to a nearby town Tinguit where he would be tried for relative’s murder. The teacher did not want to take part in these events, but Balducci still left Arab in the school. Daru did not treat ...

Research Methods Sp2016

Abstract The dominance of commercial technological innovation in the context of modern society has resulted in a form of technological dependence for some individuals, causing them to pay less regard to aspects of the physical world. Technological innovation has assumed a noteworthy role in the flow of our daily lives, such as through the methods we employ to maintain interpersonal connections. Numerous individuals are included in a matrix of connections facilitated by technological innovation and an increasingly digitalized culture; however, the vast amount of these affiliations can leave individuals the global community feeling subjectively void. The effects of technological ...

An African-American writer, Nikki Giovanni, wrote the poem under consideration. She was born on June 7, 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is important to note that she has won numerous awards for her work as a poet, writer, educator and activist. People refer to her as the new voice of African Americans (Nikki Giovanni). This particular poem represents a remarkable piece of writing due to several reasons: it clearly has no rhyme, it is quite long and it has an unusual structure. Visually, one perceives the lines of the poem as steps of some stairs. In terms of the ...

The film “Lost in Translation” is really about the difficulties in translation, but not so much in the linguistic sense, as in the human, - translation of others’ feelings ("Lost In Translation (2003)"). The film is not so much the words as the information, the mood and emotions are not concluded just in words. This is perhaps one of the few movies, where the characters’ silence can be comfortable and talk about many things. A slow, as it might seem, dragged action is not the lack of pictures – that's the essence of the whole atmosphere of loneliness – the characters ...

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Introduction The world “Existential” refers to the experience of existence, and “existence” refers to a complete and “whole” life (Sykes, 2010). Existential therapy works on a belief that inner conflicts within a person occur due to certain issues of existence that are considered as “existential vacuum”, also referred to as “existential frustration” such as meaninglessness, apathy, boredom, and isolation (Yalom, 1980). It is a philosophical way of treatment (Sapp, 2010), and helps the client by showing him or her that the counsellor is with him or her rather than by doing things for the client (Iacovou & ...

Bullying, while physical in nature, can have lasting social and psychological consequences that can profoundly effect the emotional and cognitive development of young people. Aggressive behaviors, both in traditional settings and in the virtual realm, have been shown to have deep and lasting challenges to their capacity for personal relationships, emotional stability, and overall success. This is true for both the victims of bullying and the bullies themselves. In assessing the research that has been done in the field of bullying it will be possible to establish a general criteria to determine the overall consensus in regards to the ...

What is a Friend? A Friend is a person who is willing to take you the way you are (Ashton). The word ‘friend’ traces back to England in the early 12th century and continues to be utilized throughout the world today. Though, it was originated from German where it is called as “Freund.” Having too many friends can be stressful and dramatic at times, but they can also help resolve personal issues, assist in loneliness, and help you in your overall emotional and physical well-being. Friends are those people in your life that you can rely on when a ...

Abstract

Domestic violence is a worldwide issue. In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly created a declaration to help eliminate violence against women. Since then, ample research has been conducted on both the effects and individuals who conduct domestic violence. Over the years, researchers have discovered that certain personality traits that become apparent in childhood are also apparent in perpetrators of domestic violence. These studies suggest that children and adolescents who display these personality traits should be placed in early intervention treatment in order to limit the likelihood of domestic violence abuse during adulthood. The following discusses five different personality ...

3 pro: perfect solutions for busy parents (refutation: Some children feel strong attachment with their parents may become frustrated) Lots of parents choose to send their children to boarding schools for study. Students could take part in the activities and improve their skills or teachers can help students who confuse about what they can capable do. In addition, students who study in boarding school they will get used to well-ordered way in life, and foster independence. Boarding school it’s a best choice for busy parents, children can have healthy meal there. However, for the children who have strongly ...

Literature Review

Anthropology is all about learning the nature of humans and their works with studying the nature and essence of humanity. Anthropology is a science that revolves around exploring different aspects of humankind such as their origins, distribution, biological characteristics, cultural and physical development, social beliefs, history, and social customs. Moreover, it also studies similarity and divergence between animals and humans. It deals with finding out the ancestors of humans that came through space and time and relates to culture, physical character, and social and environmental relations of humans with each other (Lavenda, 2010).

Culture shock

A new cultural world is always ...

Introduction

Members of the LGBT or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in 2016 probably are accepted more in society than even a decade ago. A research report published by the Pew Research Center in 2013 showed that over 55% Americans viewed LGBT members favorably which was a rise by almost 20% when compared to 2003. Lesbians were viewed slightly more favorably than gay men – 58% people had a favorable opinion about lesbians while only 55% had a favorable opinion about gay men. In contrast 92% of LGBT community felt that they had been accepted by society. In sharper contrast, ...

The addiction simulation exercise using ice cubes as the drug of choice has become a truly revealing experience showing how easy it is to become addicted and how hard it can become to keep leading a normal life, meeting with friends and family, studying and doing any other activity during addiction. This exercise showed how easy it is to lose connection with the reality during addiction that makes a person view everything from the perspective of addiction. However, indeed, this exercise could not demonstrate the hardships people can experience when trying to break free from the addiction, since I ...

With the evolvement of the society, increase of our Planet’s population and accessibility of gained information the number of times the news about occurred serial killings escalates. It is logical to assume that the general number of active serial killers increases with time at least due to the statistical approach to the question. Based on the conducted research this work will explain what makes a serial killer kill on the example of a fictional character form a popular TV show Dexter Morgan. In order to understand the serial killer’s actions the paper will examine all of the ...

The black and white photographs selected for evaluation in the essay is from the Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57th street Suite 1406, New York and Yosso Milo Gallery, 45th Tenth Avenue, New York. The photographers are Willis Hartshorn Howard and Ken Schles. The objective of the paper is to evaluate how successful is black and white photography in making an impact on the audience, despite the lack of colors. There are some excellent examples of black-and-white photography regarding composition, lighting, and perspective.

Sleeping Passengers in the Terminal Waiting Room, 1947

The work is a part of an exhibition - A Democracy of Imagery, which is a ...

The early fiction of Capote usually descends into a subconscious and explores a world of blurred realities and uncertainty whose inhabitants are trapped in unbearable isolation. The short story “Miriam” was first published in 1945 and depicts the psychological deterioration of the protagonist, Mrs. Miller. The sense of captivity and fear overshadow this short story and results from the individual’s inability to respond and accept the reality. Mrs. Miller is given an opportunity to accept someone disturbing and strange and push back the frontier of darkness in the soul and the surrounding world. More essentially, it means that ...

Summary of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The story of Madame Bovary is an undeniable piece of classical literature, which narrates the story of an infidel woman – Emma – whose behavior led to irreversible processes (Bart 14). Young doctor Charles Bovary first saw Emma when he was called to the farm of his father, who had broken his leg. Charles had already been married to an ugly and grumpy widow. Soon, however, the wife of Charles suddenly died. And after some time he married Emma. Charles was devoted to her, kind and hard-working, but Emma was missing something in him: she wanted her man to be strong ...

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. (McNeese, 2006, p.105) Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881-1973) is one of the main representatives of the 20th century art, and the co-founder along with Georges Braque of Cubism. With significant contribution to the formation and development of modern and contemporary art, Picasso is one of the most prominent artists of the previous century, an artistic mastermind who managed to ...

1.0 Introduction of a Developmental Issue Hong Kong primary and secondary school students are under constant academic pressure since they have no spare time to relax leading to psychological stress. In fact, it is difficult to change the education system. Since the beginning of the school year to the present day, the number of Hong Kong students who committed suicide rose to the highest levels. According to most of the students, school workload is just a fuse with “no joy, no hope, and no help.” There is a case that happened in a middle school in Hong Kong. The ...

Introduction

Effective parenting is essential to the moral development of a child. In fact, lack thereof compromises the ethical beliefs maintained by the child, and this could result in the indulgence in unacceptable behaviors. According to the Journal of Family Violence, females are more vulnerable to the effects of distant parenthood than the male gender (Bowles, Dana and Jennifer 681). As a result, witnessing traumatizing events in their early developmental stages could negatively affect their social abilities and integration with other people. With this in mind, it is worth appreciating the fact that most of the female inmates had instances ...

Relating Literature to Experience: Literary Masterpieces that Speak.

Literature has existed in our lives since the invention of formal standardized writing. Writers have used literature to express their thoughts and opinions on various subjects relating to human life. Fundamentally, literature has always been about relating to the human life and experiences. Literature employs elements of writing such a plot, point of view and dialogue to express the ideas of the author. In most cases, authors approach a subject by writing about experiences and using humor to pass the point across rather than approaching the subject head on. Literature has been used over time to record experiences and ...

Abstract

This research paper sought to explain the issue of depression in the elderly population in the modern context and to give the grounds that multifactorial depression is primarily a psychological issue. The analysis included a brief summary of the concept of depression among senior citizens as seen by the World Health Organization and researchers. Moreover, the major theoretical perspective to clarify the onset of depression was based on the necessity to consider the risk factors in terms of psychological, biological, social, cultural, economic and family. The observations allowed centering on the major risks of depression in older adults as ...

As technology advances and researchers develop new applications for technological discoveries, they may open Pandora’s Box by giving consumers too much freedom to try, and very difficult choices to make. In her article, “The Made-To-Order Savior”, Lisa Belkin shows how the modern technology involved in human reproduction can be used in order to save a child’s life. The author compares the story of two children, of whom one had the chance of being able to use this technology, and this saved her life. However, for this to happen, her parents needed to have a perfectly matching sibling ...

Smartphones could be regarded as one of the most remarkable inventions of the century which revolutionized people’s lives. In a research conducted by the Pew Research Center, smartphone ownership on a global scale was reported to exhibit an increasing trend since 2013 . In fact, the report disclosed that the country exhibiting the highest rate of smartphone ownership is Korea at 88%, seconded by Australia at 77%, and with the United States ranking third at 72% . The prolific ownership and use of the smartphone could be attributed to the immense benefits allegedly gained by the users. As such, the ...

Summary

Nouwen’s ‘Reaching out’ presents a model that releases Christians and people in general to live in the ‘Spirit of Jesus’. According to Nouwen, Christians have to learn to outlive the tension created by an elusive state, loneliness and personal hostility. As he opines, the human life often shifts between two poles of fruitful and stressful living and hence, the temptation to be indifferent is real to all hence the inner cry for true spirituality among many. Consequentially, the author argues that there is a need to shift from living in personal loneliness to embracing solitude and from living ...

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The Tension between the Individual and the Other:

New Technological Possibilities People have always found a great disconnect in the heart of the human experience. This may be conceptualized in many different ways, and has had various solutions throughout the centuries. Human nature leads people to have the need to find a place in the universe, and relating to others has always been an interesting and tempting way to solve this problem. Nevertheless, this is also problematic, as the relationships between people are not always pleasant. In fact, one could characterize them as intrinsically flawed because people are ...

Oftentimes in life as a result of complex family situations or events, we experience anxiety and breakdowns. Events in the book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger are powerful examples of this. The experiences in Holden Caulfield’s life lead to academic, social, and mental breakdowns from which he struggles to recover. The events and experiences that Holden goes through cover three days. After being expelled from school he chooses not to go back home to his parents but instead heads to New York to live independently. The challenges that 17 year old Holden faces reflect those ...

Music plays a vital role in the storytelling. I movies, music is used to enhance the storyline development as well as creating a smooth understanding of the scope of the movie to the viewer. Depending on the purpose that the film director wants to portray to the audience, it dictates the type of music to play. For example, when portraying the theme of love, it is certain that “love” as a genre of music will be played. Similarly, when the director’s purpose is to portray a theme of loneliness, the type of music chosen will bear the kind ...

Pet Therapy in Elderly Patients with Mental Illness

The article serves to discuss the effects of pet therapy on the mental processes and the overall well being of elderly inpatients who are affected by dementia, depression and psychosis. The participants in the study include elderly patients in selected nursing homes who are over 65 years old, and has been staying in the institution for 2 months. As a means to determine the baseline cognitive status and depressive symptoms, the participants went through the Mini-Mental State Examination and the 15-item Geriatic Depression scale. Accordingly, the intervention was administered within a 6-week duration in the nursing home, and it ...

Human is a social creature, with one of our basic needs being in communication. The story tells us how essential the need is and how total loneliness leads to the trance of anxiety, fear and delusion. The narrative is supported by a number of symbols, monologues and the overall atmosphere of mystical desolation. For the main character it seems that people have just been here: he finds a lit cigarette, a tap turned on, etc. Running around the solitary island of his consciousness, he feels as if the last man on Earth. Thus, the story sends a message of ...

Myths and Realities of Aging

When a person hits the age 60, they tend to have various reactions as to what they feel about reaching this point in their lives. Some would say they have a long fulfilling life and its time for them to retire, enjoying the free services meant for elderly. Others would slightly fear this time as they do not know what to do with their spare time and fear boredom consistently, but there are a few who are scared of this time of their lives because of the various myths surrounding aging which influences how they accept this period in ...

Adolescents all across the world use the web for socializing, communicating and interacting. The era of online communication has led to a unique harmful dynamic for social relationships, where there are no faces, and thus a lower personal accountability. This has given rise to Internet harassment, and cyberbullying behavior seems to have become a norm this day. As compared to traditional bullying, cyberbullying gets access to an unlimited audience and increased exposure. Cyber bullying is an addition to the general bullying styles seen in schools and colleges. Several conditions distinguish friendly teasing from bullying which is unwanted, persistent and ...

Nutrition and Fluids

Ms. Fisher needs to be educated on the importance of eating proper meals and the outcomes that may present themselves if she does not stick to a sound diet plan. She needs also be advised about controlling her intake of sodium which has got a direct effect on her body fluid levels. Her diet assessment should also provide directions on the importance of supplementing her meals with fresh fruits and vegetables. The rationale for eating proper meals and not sticking to soups only is aimed at preventing cases of weight loss cases. Her skin losing turgidity translates to her ...

Chungking Express

The opening shots of the "Chungking Express" set the pace: hurrying people, flashing lights, the noise of cars non-stop motion that fills metropolis. Two love stories that don’t intersect at first. Two police officers, whom we know under the service numbers 223rd and 633rd, have broken up with their fair ones. Both characters are similar to each other with their eccentricities. One can’t forget the girl who dumped him, and as a symbol of expired love every day he buys canned pineapples with a shelf life - the 1st of May. And he eats all of the ...

The short story “I’m a Mad Dog Biting Himself for Sympathy” by Louise Erdrich tells the story of the narrator who got into a series of troubles which started from an impulsive decision to get a Christmas for an ex-girlfriend. Despite the gravity of the predicament he got himself into, he narrated all the events in a light manner as if he found all of them more of an adventure instead of the crimes that they really. However, despite the somewhat fun story he delivered, it was apparent that he was a person who was in so much ...

The life of Dorothy Day remains one of the greatest inspiration to believers and the social activists. In her robust life and passion for humanity epitomizes an inspiring story of a socialist whose love for Christianity was unmatched and unparalleled. She has been credited by several high-profile figures as a personality that shaped the society through her social activism. The recent mention of her name by the pontiff is a demonstration of her living legacy that continues to inspire humanity (Cantwell, Daniel and Day 79-107). It is imperative to note that the relentless efforts of Dorothy Day to fight ...

Introduction

The controversies surrounding Mother Teresa of Calcutta became evident through her letters which revealed a huge discrepancy between her inner state and the public demeanor (Van Biema 38). In the public, Teresa had displayed the image of a woman in perfect union with God. However, the letters reveal the doubts that engulfed daughter of Calcutta for nearly six decades. It follows that most of the life of Mother Teresa was filled with doubt about the existence of God. The absence of God in the life of Mother Teresa sharply contradicted her vision and passion regarding the art of giving. ...

Introduction

Most of the modern high school students in the United States are always connected to the Internet. Social media, instant messengers and participation in all kinds of communities are accessible to young people around the clock via their laptops, tablets or mobile phones. The technological advances and its active use are a normal part of modern life, as it gives children the immediate access to the loads of information sources and promotes unrestricted communication possibilities. However, the openness and anonymity of the Internet have created a prolific ground for risks of violence and abuse, primarily in the form of ...