Loss has everything to do with writing a research paper. It starts with a loss of words when nobody knows what word to pick. Then there is a loss of money because you’ve had to fuel your car up to go to the Auburn Library and make tons of copies of your research. By the time the thesis is due, a loss of words comes back with a disappearing reason why the word is important. With the etymology most students are completely lost because, despite being given a crash course on how to read the Oxford English Dictionary, they have no idea what they are reading. At this point the students have started working on the paper, but all the sources are suffering a loss of meaning and the students are back to the library. With the paper due in a week many different types of losses are experienced: loss of a social life, loss of sleep, loss of patience and loss of sanity. When the paper is finally finished the students will get to experience a final loss: surrendering the research paper for the final judgment. Loss is a disappearance. Loss is an unavoidable part of life.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines loss from many different directions. From the loss of blood and a war to tennis and finances, all the different definitions involve something going away. Loss sometimes involves things not coming back, like a life, and some coming back, like car keys. But, overall loss is a disappearance of something or someone that may or may not return.
The word loss originated from three similar words: loose, lost, and lose. This word began in the Germanic languages with lausa which means “the breaking up of an army.” Then it moved to Lyien, which meant “to loosen, untie, slacken.” After that there was leusanan which means to “to lose.” By the twelfth c...
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...inevitable. Whether trivial or life changing, loss is an opportunity for change.
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In the non-fictional book, The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama and the fictional poem, “ The Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani has character(s) that lose something valuable. From both book and poem I can related to the loss that I have endured during my life. However, the loss of both are different for The Samurai’s Garden, Matsu loss her sister from leprosy and Sachi loss her best friend. In “The Suicide Note” the Asian-American student’s family loss their daughter because they think she was never good enough.
The sympathy of loss is persuaded as a devastating way on how a person is in a state of mind of losing. A person deals with loss as an impact on life and a way of changing their life at the particular moment. In the book My Losing Season by Pat Conroy he deals with the type of loss every time he plays basketball due to the fact, when something is going right for him life finds a way to make him lose in a matter of being in the way of Pat’s concentration to be successful.
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In the story, Nectar and the Sieve, loss is a tragedy well known to the protagonist Rukmani. Rukmani finds loss in her children leaving and dying, but her relationship with Kenny helps her through the many hardships she faces. When the tannery comes to their villages many more jobs come available but the attraction of people raises her families rent, which causes starvation to courses through her family.
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To lose is to win. These words are come from ancient China, which means a loser can gain something profitable to be defeated deliberately. People always want to win to satisfy own sense of superiority, especially teenagers and boys. In the noble, Crash, written by Jerry Spinelli, there is a boy named Crash, who always wants to win and attention. However, he lets a boy named Penn win, because he wants him to run at next Relays, to return for Penn’s gift for Scooter, and he thinks too much about his opponent. Also, he gains profit to become a loser, for example, he learns a loser’s feeling, he learns friendship, and he learns to think other’s minds.
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Cognitively the person keeps pondering about the loved one. When the loss is announced very often there is a disbelief that prevails among relatives, they take time to realize that the person is gone. Loss causes a lot of confusion, the person is unable to stick to one thought f...
Loss in lullaby is a theme that shows the fall of a culture. Ayah, the main character, through the story laments the death of her son Jimmie. When the white doctors came and took away her children, she mourned that Jimmie was not there to defend his family. Ayah lost her family, and it seems that she also lost the connection with the nature.
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Love can take many shapes and forms. There are many different kinds of love between human beings. Though it is often overlooked, intentionally or not, loss comes hand in hand with love; it is the second face of love that no one wants to see or experience. With love comes the potential to lose it as well. Nicole Krauss’s book, The History of Love, is really about loss.
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