One Person Essays

  • The One Divine Person

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    Jesus, our Lord and Savior, had to become man in order to save us from our sins. After humanity was corrupted by Adam and Eve, God the Father knew that He had to save us from sin and death. He chose to save us through His son, the Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ by assuming a human nature so that He could die thus ending death. Christ’s death on the cross, resurrection, and ascension proved God saved us and opened the gates of Heaven. God became man so that all of humanity might be saved

  • One Ordinary Person

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    One Ordinary Working for One Giant Leap for Man Kind The words you are about to read are from a man far in the background of one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments; Putting a man on the moon. Everyone knows the outcome of the space race, but this story is a personal experience of a man, in the American workforce, who contributed to something more than just working to provide for his family, but for the American people, and ultimately people worldwide. This man, also happens to be my grandfather

  • Cyrano the Bergerac Love in Cyrano de Bergerac

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    animals, one answer comes to our minds - that humans can love.  Love is a state of mind that cannot be defined easily but can be experienced by everyone. Love is very complicated.  In fact it is so complicated that a person in love may be misunderstood to be acting in an extremely foolish manner by other people.  The complexity of love is displayed in Rostand’s masterpiece drama Cyrano de Bergerac.  This is accomplished by two characters that love the same woman and in the course neither one achieves

  • Changing the World in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Cavendish’s The Blazing World

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    takes one person or one event to change the course of the world. Eve changes the world and the course of humanity when she eats from the tree of knowledge in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. In Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, the Empress single-handedly changes the world she rules for the worse, and then changes it back again. The message is that our worlds are not fixed; they are ever changing—fickle and subject to one event or action. Humans must realize that the actions of even one person

  • Weakness, Jealousy, and Manipulation in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

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    The Crucible - Weakness, Jealousy, and Manipulation In every conflict there always seems to be at least one person to blame. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, many problems arise that deal with live and death. Many innocent people in this play were hanged during the Salem Witch Trials. Of course, there are many people that may be blamed. In The Crucible, one may find Abigail Williams, The Putnams, and Mary Warren to blame. Abigail was manipulative, The Putnams were very jealous, and Mary

  • Symbols, Symbolism, Imagery, and Theme in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken

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    Symbolism, Imagery, and Theme in The Road Not Taken The Road Not Taken is told by one person - there is no designation as to sex, station in life or age.  This person has come to a crossroads in their life and has two options to choose from.  The place in this poem is a fork in a path in a forest, and time is not specified though it could happen today, so it would be considered a contemporary piece.  The premise of the poem is that the subject faces and then makes a life decision.  Symbolism and

  • Definition Essay - Can Love be Defined?

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    feeling we get when something nice pleases us. Love is a verb. Love is the action of giving yourself totally to one person without expecting anything in return. Love is being willing to put aside your own needs in order to meet the needs of others. Giving up your weekend trip to the beach in order to take care of your sick mother is one example of love. A destitute mother giving up her one piece of bread to feed her sick little boy is another example of love. The ultimate expression of love is being

  • Capital Punishment is State Sanctioned Murder

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    killing of one person by another.  Capital punishment does just that.  It takes the life of one person and uses another, "the executioner," to do it.  In the state of Indiana, the warden of the state prison acts as "the executioner."  The killing takes place before the hour of sunrise on a fixed day.  The warden, "executioner," flips a switch that sends electrical current into the body of the convicted prisoner, thus ending the prisoner's life.  What happens during the execution is one person's

  • Picture of Dorian Gray: Influence, Corruption and Conscience

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    Influence, Corruption and Conscience in The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, explores the themes of influence, corruption and conscience. “The obvious influence of Lord Henry upon Dorian shows how one may corrupt another to such an extent that one's own conscience withers and dies”(Weintraub 116). Basil Hallward, a painter, knows the corruptive influence that Lord Henry can impose upon his model, Dorian Gray. Basil does not want Lord Henry to even

  • A Comparison of The Handmaid's Tale and Anthem

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    A Comparison of The Handmaid's Tale and Anthem The two novels, The Handmaid's Tale and Anthem, are both haunting, first person tales of personal hardship in a closed and controlled society.  In this essay I will point out similarities and differences between the two books.  There are similarities in the setting of each work, and the between the two societies in which the stories take place, as well as more important differences between the main characters. To start I would like to

  • Essay on Manipulation through Language in The Memorandum

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    Manipulation through Language in The Memorandum How one utilizes language to perpetuate certain images or perspectives can greatly influence the way people think. One can use language to manipulate the minds of others and bring them under some form of subjugation. In Vaclav Havel's The Memorandum certain characters use this tactic of manipulation through different means that involve language, and in the process, they gain the authority or recognition they are seeking. Ballas promotes the new

  • Life Sucks in Pat Conroy's Fiction

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    people do not know how to accept praise; others cannot live without it; people everywhere have difficulty living with each other. If anyone claims that he or she has found the way to live, that same person is lying. If anyone one person says that he or she has found the best way for him or herself, that person is probably lying. With all the twists, jolts, and flips in life, it is impossible for anyone to successfully navigate the river without breaking bones and spirit. Conroy's works The Water is Wide

  • Medical Technology and the Separation of Man's Body and Mind

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    before, but somewhere in his journey to the present, he lost himself. His mind and body have become separate identities that are unaware of each other's existence. Modern society reflects and encourages those thoughts very well, in my opinion. If a person believes his body is broken, ill, or in need of upgrading, he will seek out a medical professional specialized in the area of distress. Arriving to the specialist, the patient demands quick and efficient treatments that will cure/fix/upgrade the weakness

  • Traditions in A Moment Before the Gun Went Off and The Lottery

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    in this story is one by the name of Mrs. Hutchinson. Mrs. Hutchinson is a devoted mother and housewife. She is the one who eventually gets singled out to win the lottery. So it is Mrs. Hutchinson who is impacted the most brutally by the lottery. However the other people of the village are affected differently by the lottery. It is very unlikely that the people of the village kill people for the sake of killing people. More likely there is a deeper reason. One possibility is

  • Dangerous Secrets Exposed in Susan Griffin's Our Secret

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    at the dark secrets that lie in the abyss of the human heart. Griffin claims that the darkest secrets of each person are similar in the sense that these secrets are perverted and prejudiced thoughts. These concealed evils are so deeply imbedded that people forget or choose to forget the existence of these malicious thoughts. However, these are often the thoughts that will encourage a person to take to violence. Griffin believes that people share similar forms of hidden desires, biases, and savageness

  • Physical and Emotional Destruction in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    Physical and Emotional Destruction in Wuthering Heights Often the lifestyles of a person and those around them are affected by one's concern for his/her own welfare and neglect of others. This attitude is a reflection of self-love and a feeling of self-righteousness. In the novel, Wuthering Heights , Emily Brontë describes the lifestyles of late 18th century and early 19th century rural England emphasizing selfishness. From the very beginning, there is an obvious tension between the households

  • The Theme of Death in The Garden Party

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    The Theme of Death in The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield explores profoundly the world of death and its impact on a person in her short story, "The Garden Party." Enter the Sheridans, a wealthy, high-class family who live in England. They are your everyday rich snobs who think themselves better than the common person. There is, however, one person who is quite unlike her family, and that is Laura Sheridan. Laura started off in a bubble, and has lived in it all her life. She has been protected

  • Reaction to The Reader

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    Bernhard Schlink's The Reader, the first-person narrator Michael describes reading the account written by a concentration camp who had survived along with her mother, the soul survivors in a large group of women who were being marched away from the camp. He says, "the book...creates distance. It does not invite one to identify with it and makes no one sympathetic..." The same could be said of The Reader. The book is written in such a way as to distance one from the characters. It prevents people

  • Food Consumption in America

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    make meals for the family and they mostly have all food groups included. They can prepare a lot of food and most of it will get eaten. For example, a parent can make a bag of frozen vegetables, and most of it will get eaten by the family. If a person living on their own wanted vegetables, the bag would have more servings than needed. When someoneís food is prepared for them, they will be very willing to eat it and they will not need to do any work themselves. When children move away from

  • Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide are Murder

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    Assisted Suicide is Murder "If suicide is a right, then it is one that has remained undiscovered throughout the ages by the great thinkers in law, ethics, philosophy and theology. It appears nowhere in the Bible or the Koran or the Talmud. Committing suicide wasn't a "right" a thousand years ago, and it isn't one now. That's why most societies, including our own, have passed laws against it" (Callahan, pg. 71). Assisted suicide is murder! In all of history, "there are only three circumstances