...Deepak Chopra once made a statement, “When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.” (Deepak Chopra). In Breath, Eyes, Memory, Martine and Sophie both had many struggles that were caused or involved with one another. Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat, was an intriguing story about an impoverished, close knit family that experiences many challenges through another due to their many differences. Throughout Breath, Eyes, Memory, Danticat used hyperbole, imagery, and symbolism to develop that struggles within a person can impact others around them. Moreover, Danticat used hyperbole to develop the struggle of Martine. While Sophie visits her mother, Martine explained why she cannot have the baby: “He calls me a filthy whore. I never want to see this child’s face” (Danticat 221). Danticat said “he calls me a filthy whore” causing it to be a hyperbole. Hyperbole classified the preceding quote because Martine was exaggerating that the baby was...
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...Friginal Mrs. Chupp English II Honors 11/2/11 Pain is a Useful Thing Have you ever had to do something hard to get somewhere? Well in one way, shape, or form all of us have had to do something difficult to get where we want to be. Whether a student stays after school to get help from a teacher or an athlete wakes up for an early morning jog they are showing Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote, “No Gains Without Pains” that he wrote in Poor Richard Almanac. Franklin tried to show the people that you could not get anywhere without a struggle now and then. The United States of America, athletics, and even school have shown that there are not gains without pains. The United States of America is such a tremendous place to live. We could not have gotten this far without some growing pains. Even the great United States has had to go through some arduous times. But, because of those hard times we are here today. Our country has gone through a Revolution, a Civil War, and even a terrorist attack on our own country. Even throughout these excruciating times we have made it through tougher and better for it. American have become a super powers in the world and we would not have gained this much without some pain. All this pain didn’t feel good at the time, but it was worth it in the end. These facts prove Franklin’s point “No Gains Without Pains”. The United States of America is an exceptional example of how there are not gains without pains. All sports are difficult and very tough at times...
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...Updike’s short story, “A&P” takes place in a small conservative town. Sammy the protagonist struggles between conforming and rebelling against the conservative society of the 1960s. I argue that the narrator’s point of view, setting, and dialogue relates to Sammy being overwhelmed by internal struggle, power and pain. These rhetorical devices will allow younger audiences to feel Sammy’s struggle. The first person narrator Sammy has an internal struggle between conformity and rebelling against the status quo. The story begins by Sammy stating, "In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I'm in the third check-out slot, with my back to the door, so I don't see them until they're over by the bread". The first sentence establishes a connection and draws interest to readers. Sammy’s colloquial tone allows younger adults to relate to Sammy and the position he is in. Also his tone allows readers to experience the situation at first- hand. Although the reader’s view of the character is limited through Sammy lens and what he sees as his truth, he shifts back and forth of his limited opinion of people he sees For example, he refers people as sheep’s and followers. The author incorporates the use of animals and clothing as symbols in ways to characterize the town and people throughout the course of the story. Sheep’s are described as close group animals that do the same routines and don’t have a mind of their own. This symbolizes how the people in this town are not risk-takers...
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...Life Struggle's In our life, struggles are everywhere. Life contains a number of ups and downs that people try to deal with in their own way. Many face the toughest struggles in their everyday lives. Struggles might change who we are or how we look at life in a different perspective. Life is a continual battle, one's pain, challenges, and inspiration helps defeat and overcome their struggle's. Pain is a part of life, people endure pain by being hurt in some way. When life throw's you an unexpected curve ball, many suffer from the experience which can cause lasting affects on a person. Some find their way in life by being confronted with a hopeless situation of grief. People can hit a mental breaking point by being at their lowest point in life and giving up on their stress by changing themselves. Dealing with a loss of a loved one, loosing ones job, or injuring yourself inflicts pain. Although, mental 'scars' last longer then physical scars. By holding onto the lasting memory of a loved one, it gives you more sorrow always thinking about the past times rather than thinking of when you hurt yourself physically. Life gives you many challenges and opportunities to overcome those challenges. There is a different obstacle to conquer each day to get closer to where you want to be. Having challenges only means you want to push yourself to be a better person and feel accomplished. When you go through something difficult it is important to always rebuild yourself from the situation...
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...To what extent do you agree that Angelou’s poetry presents the female struggle for identity more effectively than the male struggle? Angelou writes from many different viewpoints, the main one tending to be from a female perspective. The poem ‘men’ focuses on the admiration and vulnerability a woman may feel towards a man – ‘they knew I was there. Fifteen years old and starving for them.’ By saying ‘they knew I was there’ shows the reader that everywhere the young girl goes men are constantly watching her, looking for her even with the age that she is at. ‘Starving’ is a sense of desperation for something, in this case the young girl may want sexual experience this links to a later line ‘it is your juice’ this is also a simile, which may connote to the physical point, referring to a sexual encounter. However, with the sentence being short it shows us that a lack of detachment was there this also relates back to the young girl wanting experience. Angelou portrayed to us the image of a young girl struggling for identity due to want of a man’s touch, making the female struggle more effective than a man’s struggle. Whereas, in the poem ‘Willie’ Angelou shows the struggle for a man’s identity in a more negative view than the girl in ‘men’. During the poem it states that people call him ‘uncle’ ‘boy’ and ‘hey’ this shows us that Willie does not have a true identity to anybody – meaning nobody actually knows him, suggesting to the reader that he is on his own and has no body. This...
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...reader on a journey through the author’s various emotional, spiritual, and internal struggles by conveying various aspects of his life, taking the reader down memory lane. The author keeps the reader in suspense by combining flashbacks with present day events to pique the reader’s interest in what might come next. In “Sunlight and the Well,” Sam Guthrie skillfully uses metaphors to represent...
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...Harrison Bergeron, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, is for reading deeply. He doesn’t put anything in on accident. Today I would like to talk about his symbolism in this piece. The handicaps, in the story, are given to people, these devices are used in order to cripple one's specialties, who are smart, fast, strong, or even pretty. The symbolism in the piece of literature’s purpose is to show a struggle. The handicaps in the short story are used to convey this, this is relevant since throughout the story mental handicaps get worse and worse, every one of the ballerinas have hideous bags over their face, this just shows that in the real world if we truly strive for everyone to be absolutely equal would come with a great deal of a struggle will...
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...that the world is more empathetic than it may seem. Many people believe that they are completely alone in their struggles, but everyone in the world has had something they have struggled with or has hurt them and I believe that everyone has a story. Every person has a story and it can be between grades at school or feeling like they don’t belong on earth anymore. People I am close with have struggled with many things on different scales. Throughout my life, although short I have heard many of these stories, meeting people through the years that have been severely bullied and made fun at every moment possible. With hurtful words being constantly thrown at them, getting tripped and hit in the hallways. There was a girl I knew when i was little who never fit in and was bullied everyday and people were extremely cruel, but during that time, she also had to cope with her mother passing away from cancer and taking care of her little sister who was also harassed in school. Knowing multiple people who go through brutal depression and punish themselves in terrible ways, cutting open their skin or hitting themselves so hard bruises would form and thinking terrible thoughts of disappearing forever, thinking that no one would possibly miss them and that that was the only way things could ever get better. There are people that go through struggle after struggle, pain after pain and hurt after hurt. I have friends who spend all of their time and effort into trying to live up to extremely high...
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...associates Delia’s character with the symbol of virtue and purity which is evident in her religious commitment to church. The text also describes Delia’s struggle and pain inflicted by her husband Sykes and likens this to the universal motif of the struggle between “good and evil” where good always triumphs over evil. In my opinion this source correctly categorizes...
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...UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Suffering and Pain in the Christian Life Submitted to Dr. Albert Letting, In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of SEMI 500 B22 Introduction to Seminary Studies by Philip Mion January 22, 2015 Outline……………………………………………………………………………iii Introduction………………………………………………………………………1 C . S . Lewis’ Influential Experiences with Pain and Suffering………………2 The Weight of Pain and Suffering………………………………..……….2 C. S. Lewis’ Theological Foundations on Why God is God?………………….4 Divine Goodness…………………………………………………………6 Human Pain………………………………………………………………8 Conclusion …………………………………………………………………...
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...Growing Pains Cheaque Gay PSY202: Adult Development 7/18/2013 A person’s childhood is usually the most important time in a person’s life. During this time they experience innocence, develop personality, they build character and they develop maturity. Many people look as their childhood as a time where everything was perfect, no worries or anything. In reality your childhood has a lot to do with our character, personality, and why we are the way we are today. Many children that come from a broken home tend to have more struggles and problems in their adult life, versus children that grew up in a stable home. Although we are all destined to go through something or deal with hard times no matter what background you come from, we all struggle in our own way. My paper will discuss the innocence of my childhood and the not so innocent. You will also see how my childhood and a big impact or the decisions and choices I made in my adult life; it all will represent the pain of growing. Although it was painful growing up, it was because of my growing pains, that I’m a better person today. As a child growing up, I can remember always being out with my parents. We did so much I almost forgot how our house looked. If we weren’t at the amusement parks, beach, my grandmother’s house, we were at another relative’s home. No matter where we were, we were always together. The unstoppable four: my mom, my pops, my sister and I. We lived in a nice single family home on the Westside of Baltimore...
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...they talked about newly hired psychiatrists, nurses, social workers and how they all have one thing in common and tat is being blinded by what was to come with the passage of time. This is true new hires because they are new and haven't been in the field have no clue or idea of what can actually happen to these clients after their recovery. Working in the field is actual work, and many of the things learn in books are not what would happen is real life scenario. There's a quote from the story I agree with and I've been told by many people in the field that "In order to talk to the pain, one must allow oneself to feel the pain and then something can be done" this a touching quote because in order to understand a person's pain and struggle one must live through it to feel the pain and struggles others has faced. If a person hasn't lived a moment of pain they would understand clients and parents struggle to understand the illness. This recovery story wasn't one where it was a first person, it was more about how anyone can recover and tools need to have a good recovery. Typically, when a person has been diagnosed all the responsibility does to the parent, it is up to the parents to seek help for their child. As it is mentioned in the story "Recovery is a process, a way of living and caring" recovery doesn't happen from one night to the next it may take weeks, months, years to be recovered as long as love, caring, and respect is involved in the recovery it will make the process a...
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...joints are all at risk. A person with Lupus can suffer problems involving the joints, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain, and blood. Lupus although not as well-known as many other chronic and serious diseases such as leukemia, it is far more common. While a full life can be lived with Lupus it depends upon early diagnosis and consist treatment. Lupus left untreated can be fatal. More than 16,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lupus each year and many thousands more suffer from the disease without a diagnosis and do not know the disease he or she is suffering from is Lupus. This deadly and debilitating disease does not only strike in America, there are over fifteen million people stricken with the disease worldwide. Living with Lupus is a constant struggle to live a normal life and cope with the things most people do not even think about each day. I know this for a fact because I was diagnosed with Lupus six years ago and my life and my families lives have never been the same. This disease hit quickly and without warning. While there is at this time no cure for Lupus it is very important to educate the public on the diagnosis, symptoms, and treatment of Lupus. There are over 1.5 million Americans today that are afflicted with some form of Lupus, while there are over five million worldwide. (Molly’sfund.org 2011)...
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...Music can often be a get away from reality. It can generate tranquility, relaxation, and healing for both the mind, the soul and the body. Life can be extremely difficult, from losing a love one, experiences as a child, and life’s everyday struggles. Music can be used to disconnect from reality. Music has the ability to help forget about everything negative that happens in life. Music can symbolize many things. In Thomas and Beulah music symbolizes love for Thomas. For Beulah music represents healing from all the pain she feels. There is always a time where pain is introduced into life in various ways. Looking for solutions can be overwhelming and being lost in our own minds is very common. In Thomas and Beulah Thomas goes through many difficult situation. Thomas is an example of everyday struggles. In the poem “The Event” Thomas and his best friend Lem are out in the water when Thomas says “‘You’re so fine and mighty; let’s see what you can do’, said Thomas, pointing to a tree-capped island (Dove The Event...
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...internal guilt. Hester Prynne, the able adulteress, seems to struggle less than Dimmesdale, the cowardice adulterer. Internal guilt seems to do more damage to a soul in everyday life than external guilt. The first type of guilt displayed throughout The Scarlet Letter is external guilt. Hester is the character associated with this type of guilt. Her...
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