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Is injustice still a problem our modern world faces today? Overwork, racism, and unequal pay could still be prominent in 2019. Martin Luther King Jr. and Old Major’s speech in Animal Farm demonstrate how injustice affects everyone in any form. Both Martin Luther King and Old Major use pathos, ethos, and logos successfully in their…

Throughout the story of Beowulf, the author talks of the character of Beowulf and his traits of heroism. This poem explores his tales and his progression within the story. His transformation into a hero occurs gradually throughout his whole life, from his youth to his death. His path for glory and heroism is found through…

This journey with many trials and tribulations trying to achieve this wealth and happiness through the American Dream in short stories, “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller and ”Fences” by August Wilson. Miller presents a fictional character who continues to age as a traveling salesman, the journey of committing one’s life towards an idealistic…

In the second section, the “memoir” aspect of the novel ends and he goes into eighteen subsections describing logotherapy. During his introduction, he begins by defining logotherapy with psychoanalysis, it is “less retrospective and less introspective”. Then onto the development behind the name. “Logos” is the Greek word for meaning. Logotherapy means to find personal…

George Orwell’s book Animal Farm talks about events that happened in the russian revolution written in a fairytale novella and makes the scale smaller by using farms instead of countries.Animal was published on the 17th of August 1945.The events that happened in the book signifies real events that happened during the Russian Revolution. The idea…

“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Sophocles illustrates this in Antigone, by showing king Creon as a man who does not think before taking life changing decisions, while he is angry. Another tragic flaw is also illustrated by Creon, which is rebellious. Identically, these characteristics are also found in ‘Lamb to the…

“The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference,” is one of the countless quotes recited by the legendary Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel as he reflected upon his time spent in Auschwitz at the concentration camp. As the Star of David glistened over and engulfed the concentration camp in Auschwitz, the oppressed had no idea…

Social classes are defined as a status hierarchy in which individuals and groups are classified on the basis of esteem, prestige, wealth, income, education, occupation, and social network. Social class, measured by socioeconomic status, affects all aspects of one’s life. Having a high socioeconomic status can bring a multitude of opportunities that people of lower…

Happiness is the experience of joy, contentment, and the state of positive well-being, combined with a sense that a person’s life is meaningful and worthwhile. It can be as simple as being contented, doing what you love, the ability to pursue and enjoy individual desires, and living who you really are. Happiness is hard to…

In A Man‘s Search for Meaning Dr. Frankl demonstrates the way the “meaning of life” affects a person’s drive and will. Frankl’s main argument is a prisoner’s struggle to find a purpose for his suffering within a concentration camp. However, this idea can be applied to everyday situations the average person experiences, A man may…