...A Journey into My Life My personal enlightenment came about when I was married. When we first met everything was good. The feeling was like nothing I had ever felt for any woman and I wanted it to last forever. It was like how Alexander O’Neal said, “She touched me with a smile that glows; I can’t go a day without my sunshine.” She was just that. We eventually moved in together and were a normal, happy couple. We had our ups and downs like any couple does. We were having our first child and were very happy. So, I guess the darkness came when finances were getting kind of rough and we had to move from where we were living. It happened a lot and I couldn’t understand why when she was the one that was handling the bills. She was spending the money elsewhere, and not on our bills. We went to go live with her mother. While we lived there she used to get calls from other guys and letters from a guy she met while she was in jail and I was running around trying to get the money together to get her out, and here she wanted to be with someone else. Her brother always checked the mailbox. He and I would sit and read all the letters she got from her friend in jail. They were planning to be together and if I got in the way he was going to bring harm to me. So months passed by and she ended that with him before somebody was seriously hurt. We found a new place, but she started talking to other different guys and hanging out with cousins and “friends” from work. We had a discussion...
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...I was sitting at the boarding gate waiting to board a flight with a burger and fries I just purchased from Macdonald’s. It was in New Delhi, India. After I took that flight and flew into the United States, the first thing I saw after immigration was a Macdonald’s. But it was not just the twist in hamburger I saw that day. I never thought that fusion of two different cultures felt so appetizing. Americanization just didn’t bring a new form of food to the historic land of India, it was much more. India is a land of vivid taste buds, an emerging economy and home to a very wrong conception about American culture and Americanization imported with it joy, the wrong conception about American life, and hard work, which in fact are shaping the Indian culture today. As an Indian I have seen how local Indian flavors restricted American giants like KFC, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to be successful in the Indian market. Who in the whole world ever thought that KFC would include more vegetarian options than chicken on its menu? In his article “In 2000 Years, Will the World Remember Disney or Plato?” Mark Rice-Oxley frames a picture in our mind through his writing, describing a usual American day but in London. Thus leading us to his main argument, in 2000 Years, Will the World Remember Disney or Plato? He claims basketball is climbing the ladder, becoming more important in our lives each day and it’s not just basketball, but we are under the skies governed by American soft power. We can find, through...
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...A common question posed throughout time is whether people can feel love or joy without also feeling grief and heartbreak or not. Neruda answers if human beings can feel true joy without first experiencing sadness with his use of stars throughout his poetry. Neruda uses a star motif to indicate a positive feeling or outlook surrounded by the harsh darkness of negativity. A star signifies a light in the dark. Neruda suggests that there can only be light if there is also darkness. The emotional highs and lows in life must ultimately balance out. In his poems, Neruda uses the motif of stars to portray positive emotions that contrast the negative emotions of the night, showing the reader that people can have two or more consecutive or simultaneous...
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...Thommy Jacquet Jr English 101 2/8/12 Joy in Relationship and Family Joy is an emotion by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of processing what one desires: from the American Webster dictionary. Is life really about the 'money', the 'cash', who has the biggest gold chain or who drives the shiniest or fastest car, who sells the most albums or who has the most respect? Today happiness is viewed in many different ways. Everyone defines happiness according to their personal perspectives. Each individual describes their inner feelings in a way that can't be compared with another. Joy originally and logically means the inner state of well-being or a pleasurable or satisfying experience. It enables people to profit from their highest: thoughts, wisdom, intelligence, common sense, emotions, health, and spiritual values in life. Also joy can be anything a person finds success or good fortune in. For example, if a person enjoys reading books for fun, for their spare time so that is saying that the person finds happiness behind reading books or if a person enjoys spending time with their family so that is saying that person finds happiness being with their family. Most of the joy that we experience comes from the feeling of love. So many people look to their relationships, especially marriage to give them the joy that they cannot find on their own. Love is not enough to provide joy, then there must be many frustrated lovers in the world. The belief that love...
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...The Joy Luck Club: The Generation Gap “The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!—it is too beautiful to eat.” (The Joy Luck Club). The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, takes you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions with the heartbreaking truth of the harsh realities of the world around us. Bringing serious topics to the attention of her audience, she is informing them through her work, what the hardships of life are. As this story progresses, the viewer will see a various amount of themes, but the generation gap is visibly present. With her mother nearly dying,...
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...Rationalize the reasons behind customs Student’s Name: Institution: Date of Submission Joy is the state of happiness and a sense of satisfaction as an individual. We all seek to be happy at all times and in fact humans struggle, come up with inventions, at times are cruel to others in wars, we study, start revolutions and follow certain belief systems all in the quest of finding happiness. Customs are the practices and systems followed by particular people or even a religion. They are also the generally accepted ways of behaving and doing things in a particular society. The customs followed can be a good way of differentiating the affiliation to one group from the other. The customs are so much intertwined with the human quest for joy and happiness. We in fact follow customs that we feel convicted that we are going to get the sense of fulfilment from and be better individuals. We can therefore attribute human actions and believes to their quest for happiness and joy. For example in religion, most individuals practice it all because of the promise of the joy to come later in life. Among the Christians, the believers are persistent and resilient in life despite the challenges that they go through to remain faithful to the teachings of the Lord God as is prescribed in the Holy Bible that they use as a point of reference. They are able to beat the challenges on earth and even an illustration of Job in the Bible who went through very traumatic experiences as a test from Satan but...
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...had dies of heart disease--of joy that kills” (Roberts 342). This is the final and pivotal line in Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour” written in 1894. The story tells a tale of a woman named Louise realizing her husband had died in a railroad accident. She goes to her room only to find a new found freedom she now has without her husband. “She began to weep again and then she was young, she was new, she was somehow reborn” (Fatima). This freedom is crushed when she finally emerges to see her husband alive. The sight kills her where she stood. “When she sees him she dies instantly … she has to continue living a depressing life that has no meaning or excitement included” (Fatima). I am going to show how through the use of such literary devices as irony and connotation Chopin added a depth to the story that moves the reader. The story has one of the best examples of irony you can find. The very last line of the story states that Louise had died of heart disease—of joy that kills. The tragic irony is that it was both joy and sadness that killed her. She dies from the sadness of knowing the joy see realized through looking out her window has been crushed. This joy of freedom and independence is what killed her. Without filling herself with this joy she would not have anything to be destroyed when she realized her husband was alive. So the joy killed her because without it there would be no shock when her husband returned, yet the sadness of loosing this joy caused her death just as well...
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...Onuoha Professor Geoffery Saari ENGL 1302 05/08/2018 The Significance of Joy/Hulga’s two names in “Good Country People.” The name Joy means happiness, bliss or delight but these are not words Joy Hopewell use to describe how she feels about herself. Joy does not mean happiness because happiness is based on material things such as celebrating birthdays or graduations. In fact, Joy is deeper, it is something special from God that can be felt even when one is sad or unhappy. Joy Hopewell is a very intelligent woman with a Ph.D. in Philosophy but has disabilities that make her a sad and angry person. The name Hulga represents her incomplete self because she wears a wooden leg and she has a heart problem. Joy does not see anything joyful in her life, so she changes her name to Hulga. Because she feels it is an ugly name fit for an unattractive woman....
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...Inside out movie is one bizarre, imaginative and authentically psychedelic animation as anything produced animation directed and co-written by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen as a co-director. This 102 minutes story is about a girl named Riley Andersen who was born in Minnesota. The headquarters in her mind automatically installed as she was born. In the headquarters, there are five emotions such as Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger in her mind that created over time. As she grows up, all her experiences become memories which are saved in the crystal balls with different colours. Different colours of crystal balls indicate the different five core of emotions. All the crystal balls of memories will be sent to the long term memories every...
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...Country People: Tension in Relationships In the short story “Good Country People”, O’Conner used dialogue between Joy/Hulga and her mother, and narrative point of view, to illustrate the tension between the two protagonists and how their actions affected their relationship. In an attempt to ignore the pain and suffering of the traumatic accident, Mrs. Hopewell would treat Joy/Hulga as a child. When Joy/Hulga was only ten years old her leg, from just above the knee down, was completely blown off in a hunting incident. As a result, she would be a completely changed person, as she was conscious for the entire horrific accident, for the rest of her life. Months following the event, she used a wooden prosthetic that would fit snugly over...
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...usually seen in American literature, this made her stand out among the rest of the authors in that time period. These types of factors not only helped O’Connor, but hurt her as well. Critics and reviewers tended to see her work as violent, brutal, and “witheringly sarcastic” (Whitt 2). None of these people saw the true meaning behind all of her stories, which was a “representation of orthodox Christianity” (Whitt 2). Flannery O’Connor, diagnosed with lupus disease, died at the age of thirty nine years old. After her death, Flannery’s works were continued by a man of the name Robert Fitzgerald. He collected and edited her short stories, which led to her gaining a higher reputation in literature. O’Connor did many great things throughout her life and wrote in a way that made everyone want to read all of her works. She worked hard to make a name for herself and ended up getting very successful results, such as winning the award for the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. The first short story of O’Connor’s that will be discussed is a “Good Man is Hard to Find.” In this short story, a grandmother is spending time with her son and his family. They are all wanting to go on a trip to Florida but the grandmother would rather not because of an escaped convict called The Misfit. She instead wanted to go visit some family in Tennessee, but in the end the family makes her agree to go with them to Florida. On the way to Florida, the grandmother talks nonstop of things she remembers as a child...
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...Midterm: Joy Harjo English 375: Literature of the American Midwest Joy Harjo Can we separate the artist from the art? If you read something written by Hitler, could you really understand his intent without knowing what the man himself was about? An individual may read thousands of books, articles or poems during their lifetime, but how many of us really try to understand what sort of background or values influence what we are reading? There is a reason that the Literature of the American Midwest is a collection. Each story or author has something in common that in some way has connected them to writing about what we define as the American Midwest. “If the Midwest is to act as a region, it must know what it is. It must define itself. It needs a unifying portrait, a communal myth. To paint this portrait, we look to our writers, especially our novelists (Longworth, 2010, pg. 1).” Joy Harjo is an example of a writer whose work uniquely defines the Midwest through her heritage, values, accomplishments, and social and political views. Joy Harjo is a particularly interesting writer whose accomplishments and values can help you to understand a great deal about how and why her writings define her as much as she defines them. “Joy Harjo was born in 1951 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Native American and Canadian ancestry. Strongly influenced by her Muskogee Creek heritage, feminist and social concerns, and her background in the arts, Harjo frequently incorporates Native American...
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...Has an ordinary object ever brought you an immense amount of joy? A simple object in both “This Is Just To Say” and “To a Poor Old Woman” by William Carlos Williams brings great joy to ones within the poem. Both of these poems share many similarities, consisting of similar subjects, tones, themes and imagery. “This Is Just To Say” is a short poem in words, but endless in interpretation. The imagery within this poem is so vivid. As one reads the poem, one’s mind gets flooded with images the words of the poem provide. Vivid pictures of a kitchen, an icebox, and purple plums fill one's mind. The words give the reader a chance to bring the scene to life. One of the subjects in this poem are the plums. The plums were so irresistible, that they tempted the man in the poem to steal and eat them from someone he loved. Eating the plums caused him to have serious guilt, leaving one to infer that whomever he ate them from valued the plums....
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...Woodard- ENG 102 1/26/13 Kate Chopin’s thesis in “The Story of an Hour” Chopin’s thesis in “The Story of an Hour” was that women in the 1800’s lived in a world of patriarchy and chaos. The 1800’s were a time when women worked at home doing house work and raising children. They had not been given the right to vote or be heard like men had. Chopin wanted to express the struggles of what women went through, through the life of Mrs. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard was given the news of her husband’s death which took a large toll on her being that she had a heart condition. Chopin included the detail of Mrs. Mallard’s heart disease to ensure that the reader understands why she fell to her death at the end of the story: “Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble.” Chopin included that, “When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.” This quote was given to us to show that Mrs. Mallard had not wanted anyone to see the emotion she was to express. Mrs. Mallard was soon to see the new spring life growing upon the tree tops. Chopin uses words like, “delicious” and “new” to explain the spring time outside the windows. Chopin also uses “blue” to express the sky in which is seen through Mrs. Mallard’s eyes. These adjectives would seem alarming to the reader due to what had just happened in the recent paragraphs. Mrs. Mallard should be grieving her husband’s death, but instead notices how beautiful the world truly is. Chopin...
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...Us" (pp. 285-301), Bill Joy expresses a powerful pessimism about the dangers of technologies that may be developed later in our century. Joy also a muted optimism about humans' ability to use ethical principles to avoid those dangers. What are Joy's best reasons for being pessimistic? What are his strongest reasons for expressing optimism? As you consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of those reasons, explain whether and why you find yourself more pessimistic or more optimistic about the issues that Joy raises. (PL 401) INTRODUCTION The development of technologies in the modern world has been seen to many as blessing. The use of technology has greatly affect the living style of human race as most of them are develop to improve life of human being and also prolong their lifetime, for instance the use of technology such as robot in carrying out surgical operation in the hospitals to treat diseases like cancer, genetic engineering in farming to increase production is a great promised that the technology has brought. On the other hand, Bill Joy who is a well known computer elite expresses his fear that the technology advancement in the modern world could bring more harm than good to human race and the planet at large. Joy feels that the technologies that may develop later in the 21st century could jeopardize human being and questions ethical role that the communities have on them. Joy urges others technology...
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