Semester One: Quote Assignment
There is something to be said about quotes. The way the knowledge of achievers is brought down to just a few lines. It gives us a sense of both reflection and wisdom. They are relatable and can guide us to a conclusion of where we are and who we aspire to be. In our quote assignment we are told to choose three quotes from a selection that was posted on the board every week. All of them can be related to my life in some way, shape, or form. However, these are the three that I believe relate to me the best. The first quote I have chose is a quote by Aarnold Nicolson, “We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideas; others by their acts.” Nicolson bluntly stated the truth. We know our stories and our past experiences. We know every reason behind every action we perform, and the emotions behind the reason. Whereas with others we tend to only see the action performed. My personal experience with this has to do with my siblings. I have a younger brother and a younger sister. I’ve always seen them act quite childish, and I often get irritated by their
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She said, “You don’t get to choose when you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live.” This is my favorite quote out of the entire lab. It clearly states that you need to live every moment to the fullest. You never know when you are going to die, because life is unpredictable. We often say to ourselves that we are going to take risks, live life to it’s fullest, and succeed in our wildest dreams. How often is this actually true? We wait around for something to happen, but we never take the full stride to get there! The more waiting we do, another bucket list, the next new year, the next month, another five year plan, all of those are going to run out. There is going to be a time when we will run out of days, hours, and minutes. Which is why we all need to make a decision on how we are going to
Jonathan Kozol revealed the early period’s situation of education in American schools in his article Savage Inequalities. It seems like during that period, the inequality existed everywhere and no one had the ability to change it; however, Kozol tried his best to turn around this situation and keep track of all he saw. In the article, he used rhetorical strategies effectively to describe what he saw in that situation, such as pathos, logos and ethos.
Though the passage I have selected is short, I believe it is the most obvious indication to the main theme of the book, as well as a common goal for not only Duddy Kravitz, but countless others, fictitious and not. I could have chosen a longer quotation from the book, but I felt that this phrase clearly communicates to the reader that the "American Dream" has been a preoccupation with Duddy since he was very young.
“On her knees, she sucked in the air and listened to the groans beneath her. She watched the whirlpool of faces, left and right, and she announced, ‘I’m not stupid.’” (79).
“Inside every cynic is a disappointed idealist.” This quote by George Carlin perfectly outlines the reasons why many people are bitter toward the world in their everyday lives. While cynicism is justified for those who have had a tough life, countless people become exceedingly pessimistic because life didn’t meet their expectations.. An example of this would be Holden Caulfield from J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”. Salinger does an admirable job of portraying how Holden’s attitude leads to a massive downward spiral. When a person holds too high of standards for the world around them, it can lead to an unrelenting undue criticism of people around them and even hypocrisy.
Director Steven Spielberg and auther Markus Zusak, in their intriguing production, movie Saving Private Ryan and book The Book Thief, both taking place during World War II. However , in Saving Private Ryan Spielberg focus on a lot of complications that occur during war , but guilt was one difficulty that stood out to me. Zusak, on the other hand , showas that having courage during war can be a advantage and also an disadvantage depending on the situation. Both director and author grabed the audience attention with emotional and logical appeal.
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” is a short psychological thriller. The murder of Fortunato haunts Montresor so greatly that he feels the compulsion to tell the story some fifty years after the fact. He appears to be in the late stages of life desperately attempting to remove the stain of murder from his mind. That it is still so fresh and rich in specifics is proof that it has plagued him, “Perhaps the most chilling aspect of reading Poe’s ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ for the first time is not the gruesome tale that Montresor relates, but the sudden, unpredictable, understated revelation that the murder, recounted in its every lurid detail, occurred not yesterday or last week, but a full fifty years prior to the telling” (DiSanza).
“How do people come up with a date and time to take life from another man? Who made them God?” – Grant (Page 157)
In my paper you will be pleased to find that I talked about three different quotes that really spoke to me from the book Stiff by Mary Roach. The first quote is from page 82, “the point that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won’t ultimately, be very appealing.” To me this is the main topic of chapter three, and it talks about different things you are able to do with your body after death in gruesome detail. The second quote I pulled from chapter three as well, it comes from page 84, it reads; “… at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.” With this quote I was able to make a very personal connection that may or may not include my last two relationships. For my third and final quote, which came
A rhetoric analysis can be defined as the breakdown of components used to make a persuasive argument or judgment on a particular subject or topic. The ability to make a conclusion or decision on a given thought or idea in a moment of seconds is a result of rhetorical analysis. “Because media rhetoric surrounds us, it is important to understand how rhetoric works. If we refuse to stop and think about how and why it persuades us, we can become mindless consumers who buy into arguments about what makes us value ourselves and what makes us happy”. In Carroll’s essay “Backpacks Vs. Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis”, she discusses the nature of rhetorical analysis, how it affects our everyday lives and explains the role context plays.
One could see the final walk-away as a complete failure to a then seemingly meaningless story. Yet, I do not see it this way. Although Euthyphro walked away without a resolution, there was still much to be learned. The seemingly arrogant man that we were introduced to in the beginning, was not the same man in the final pages of the book. We may not have received a complete answer, but we did find something better; the knowledge that we cannot believe that our insights are always correct. And this is what Socrates strove to do: to evoke thought. When put on trial, we see this questioning is not an isolated occurrence as he states, “I believe the god has placed me in the city. I never cease to rouse each and every one of you, to persuade and reproach you all day long and everywhere I find myself in your company” (Apology, 30e). Socrates believed it was his duty to live a life of service in order to make people open their minds. In order for people to grow in wisdom, they needed to realize their ignorance. We need to be challenged in order to grow and it is through experiences, like Euthyphro’s, in which we become more
In “The Importance of being Earnest” the quote by Gwendolen that states “A home is the right place for a man and yes once a man begins to fail in his house duties he becomes painfully feminine or does he? In which makes him attractive.” shows the reversal of gender roles in Gwendolen’s mind. It shows this by turning around the traditional roles of man and women. This tests the ideal’s that say women should raise the children while men work. Instead it shows how women can have jobs or occupations such as men. Thus showing us in this quote how man and women are equal.
In John Steinbeck’s novella, “Of Mice and Men”, George and Lennie’s dream of a farm was doomed to fail from the beginning due to it being a mere calming thought for Lennie, along with the fact that they tried to do too much too late, as well as the unfortunate fate Lennie was doomed to fall into, which leaves George to abandon the plan.
The Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April of 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of several civil rights activists who were arrested in Birmingham Alabama, after protesting against racial injustices in Alabama. Dr. King wrote this letter in response to a statement titled A Call for Unity, which was published on Good Friday by eight of his fellow clergymen from Alabama. Dr. King uses his letter to eloquently refute the article. In the letter dr. king uses many vivid logos, ethos, and pathos to get his point across. Dr. King writes things in his letter that if any other person even dared to write the people would consider them crazy.
Oprah Winfrey said, “My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” The Consolations of Philosophy, written by author Alain de Botton, is a perfect example showing six philosophers who had philosophies that were relatable and applicable to bettering everyday life. Socrates, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Seneca, Epicurus, and Montaigne each have a chapter based after them, where de Botton discusses their philosophies. What these great men were doing and saying wasn’t always seen as right, and they were often viewed as crazy, but their goal was to show people how to make life easy to get through while putting them in the best place for future success. de Botton does an excellent job of picking the right philosophies to break down and simplify, as Socrates, Schopenhauer, and ______, are three of the philosophers who demonstrate the most relatable, and helpful philosophies for everyday life.
Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid once said, “Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself” (Brainy Quote). Hamid is implying that this quote means the reason humans feel empathy for others is when they can relate to that person in some way. In The Color Purple, Shug is shown to have had empathy for Celie after seeing how terrible Mister treats her and hearing about Celie’s troubled and abusive past. This empathy lead Shug to take in Celie and protect her from Mister before eventually revealing her love for Celie. At one point the pair even absconded to live together in Tennessee after acknowledging the feelings they had for each other.