Kayla Taul
Anthony
A.P. Language and Composition
14 March, 2014
Eat, Pray, Love
People read books for many reason. Some of these reasons vary from simply wanting something to do to while they occupy time to actually wanting to gain knowledge about different matters of life. While all of these people read for different reasons, they never realize that there are always many things that go into the books themselves. Some authors concentrate firmly on the themes that their book portrays, whether or not those themes will be universal or pointed toward a specific group; while others just casually write and they end up writing books with amazing themes that teach valuable life lessons. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is one of these books that the author just causally wrote and produced something that gives its readers good themes, or morals, to think about.
In Eat, Pray, Love the first part of the book is mainly based on Gilbert trying to remember what it is like to enjoy everything around her. Therefore, the first theme that can be found is that people need to enjoy all aspects of ...
Summary/Response Essay 1 In David Zinczenko’s article “Don’t Blame the Eater,” Zinczenko explains that during his childhood, which was in the mid 1980’s, his parents split up and he lived with his mom. Her income was barely enough to pay the bills, so they lived paycheck to paycheck. Under this circumstance, fast food was the only food that they could afford to buy in large quantities because it is generally cheaper than most other restaurants. Due to eating fast food for both lunch and dinner on a daily basis for his entire childhood, when he was 15 years old, Zinczenko weighed 212 pounds.
Prior to reading this book I have to be honest and say that I had some false conceptions about worship. That sounds kind of scary to say but, through this booked I learned again and at a deeper level the importance of living in communion with God.
contain. These books help readers affectively—giving them pleasurable experiences with reading and boosting their self-concept; these books help readers culturally and
Many literary works have love as a theme. By reading different novels, one receives a glimpse of all the different kinds of love and their purposes. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston represents love as the sea. By reading this novel, the reader comes to the conclusion that our capability to love deviates with every person we come across. Love is in some ways an art, and it transforms as people transform. Janie Crawford, perhaps one of the greatest love philosophers and the protagonist, says, “Love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore” (Hurston 191). The Janie Crawford’s dream of true love is combined with understanding, and equality between lovers. This advice should be shared across nations. Sometimes people “love” for the wrong reasons and need to figure out, like Janie, the definition of true love. When Janie finds this true love after looking for such a long time she finally feels that she has lived a whole and fulfilling life. Love is not as merciful to others, though. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, teaches that money cannot buy love. Jay Gatsby is trapped in this utterly obsessive kind of love that make makes him unable to basically do anything except think about Daisy nonstop. No money or material possessions will entice her, but that sure does not stop Gatsby from trying to win her over. The narrator, Nick Carraway reveals to the reader that Gatsby “hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from he...
Human to toad. Beautiful sirens. Homer’s text and the video “Oh Brother Where Art Thou” are similar in some ways and different in many. There are multiple versions of one story. People think differently, so when they read something they may get two completely different things from it.
Documentaries are a great way to be informed, entertained, and persuade a call to action without forcing the viewer to form a particular conclusion if a case is to be made a documentary should show both sides of the issue so that the viewer can get an enhanced understanding of the subject. Hostage to the Devil is a very complex and captivating documentary about Dr. Malachi Martin who was described as a tantalizing man a former Jesuit Priest who was released from two of the three vows that they take when entering the priesthood. After his release, he moved to New York City from Rome and became a well-known Author, and he began to perform exorcisms which caused a lot of controversy in the United States and among his fellow colleagues in Rome.
As a child during frequent road trips through East Texas, I would press my face against the cool window of the family station wagon, look out, and wonder, “Who planted these rows of cotton? How did they make them so even? What are these black lines in the sky stretched between poles? Where do they begin and end? Who made all of this?”
Austen intends to show how human happiness is found by living in accordance with human
The current American people favor a pleasure seeking lifestyle, this fits in well with what Fitzgerald's writings had to offer his readers; proving that Fitzger...
Ezekiel grew up around the temple in Jerusalem and was a young priest. When Ezekiel was in Babylon he gave hope to the exiles. When the first exiles came o Babylon he started preaching to them about God. He helped the exiles only worship he only living God with all of their hearts. He received God’s messages through visions. When he got these messages from God he realized that God would still care for his people. Through God’s spirit the people of Babylon got new life and was returned to their land. Through exile God brought the people closer to him. Each person had to share in the groups responsibility.
He closes his argument by saying that when reading adds these two things in a person’s life, it gives the reader a way, “to better understand themselves and others” (Gillespie para. 19). Christina Chant Sullivan also supports this argument by giving real life examples of her experience with this with her own students. She gives evidence to prove her point with her first example being how her students reacted to the well-known book, The Hunger Games. She describes their reaction to the book as engaged and interested in the twisted and demented fiction book that Suzanne Collins created. Sullivan says that, “Even my most reluctant writers exceeded the four page minimum I had set for them” (52). This shows that the writing prompt over this book not only stretched the boy’s mental imagination, but also their writing imagination. She later supports the empathy that is input in readers by the description of how the same kids reacted to a book that was more realistic and heart touching. She describes her children’s reaction to the book, A Long Walk to Water, in their writing assignment as, “pages of outrage, compassion, and fundraising ideas” (Sullivan
I have been waiting for these readings for a while. Why? Just like how the Ark of the Covenant was my favorite part to the Old Testament, Jesus’ Passion is my favorite part to the New Testament. These readings are my favorite because I am able to connect them to the musical Jesus Christ Superstar.
As long as the world has been spinning their has been a revolting chaos, that today's Christians need to recognize. In the poem “ Why I Hate religion, but love Jesus,” Jefferson Bethke enlightens us on how religion is based on man made laws rather than the focus point of God.
Doing what consequenally hurts the least of people is ethics. The article “Who Will Save the Savior” by Maura Dickey, does not do the right actions by highlighting the importance of not having a savior sibling ; the artical, “Mascots” shows the commonly practiced hypocrasy and racism; the song “Independence Day” by Grechen Peters isn’t exaclty ethically right either.
In one way or another, this novel, as Silas Marner, calls for a universal theme of love and kinship. Life cannot be based on reason, and materialism. It can be based on kindness and friendship. To have the mind and heart in peace.