Forgotten There are two truth known in life: we are born and we die. A 16 year old boy is driving home late one night after a party, he was drinking while he was there but since there were no passengers in his car, he felt it was ok to drive. He suddenly finds himself in a crumpled mess of what once resembled a car after he lost control of the vehicle in his altered state of mind and was killed on impact when he collided with a large tree only feet from the road. Even though people believe that we are remembered for our good deeds and values, we are remembered for our faults or completely forgotten. Live everyday like it’s your last. All of Greece hates Helen and after she dies she is only remembered for her flaws and cons. “Remembering past enchantments and past ills.”(H.D.). All of Greece remembers Helen for her ‘ills’ which means her flaws or aspects of her. Nothing we do has an impact nor does it all matter, why not make yourself happy? This doesn’t to be a selfish brat, it means that we’re given one life. Don’t live life as if they’re are …show more content…
He was a straight A student, star on the hockey team, active member of the student council as well as a handful of other school sanctioned programs. He was a great older brother to his two younger sisters, and even with all of that he made one poor decision, one lapse is conscious, one move that changed him forever. When people hear his story they all assumed he was a screwed up kid or “not right in the head”. This incredible specimen remembered only for his one choice. Without opposition, despite our efforts to impact the world we are remembered for out flaws so live life to the fullest. Since nothing we do matters in the grand scheme of life, live everyday to the maximum. We’re remembered for nothing our greatest downfalls; not strengths. All we do is just ‘dust in the wind’. Life DOES go on, live while it’s
In life, there will always be ghastly memories standing in one’s way of achieving eternal happiness. It is up to mankind to determine how individuals
The White Male Fantasy of Total Recall After saving the planet from a ruthless dictator and barely avoiding death on the hills of Mars, Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger) puts a final spin on Total Recall with his final lines: "I just had a terrible thought. What if this is all a dream?" This last statement by Quaid leaves the audience pondering the question of reality, wondering what truly was 'real.' By the end of the film, one could easily argue a whole realm of possibilities: The events were all real; they were all a dream; they were the Recall implant fantasy played out; or they were the Recall fantasy gone haywire. In addition, the film seems to reject imperialism and the domination of white males, also rather postmodern in ideology.
The people in this story go through a great transformation from hating each other to being as close as brothers but I do not feel that the end result is the most important part. These boys had very difficult decisions to make. I think that all these young men were raised to be racists to varying degrees. This graveyard moment was a very clear message that could not be misunderstood. They learned tolerance for those of their loved ones that couldn?t or wouldn?t learn as quickly as they did. If we are to ever overcome the misguided beliefs we gain from our parents we need a very good explanation of why we should believe another way. Without this I do not think that the team would have ever come together because they had been raised to hate each other their whole life. The learned the importance of friendship and what i...
His sense of humor was infectious; he saw the world differently and would always see the irony in life. On Monday driving to the airport after the Super Bowl he saw a gun shop and a hospital next-door. Once at a New Jersey Devils hockey game he seemed the only one shocked by the scoreboard message: "Devils welcome the Churches of NJ." He'd always noticed the contradictions in life. But, he was always his own worst critic - never able to bask in his successes with the military, getting his GED, scoring a 3-point basket, getting a goal in hockey or fixing complex computer problems.
As we age, we take a journey though live that is uniquely ours. There is no one else who will have the same experiences that we do. These experiences shape our worldview and from this, we formulate our inherent values. Yet, as we start to face the reality of our own death, we tend to ask ourselves if we lived a good life. The question of a good life comes with sub questions such as we were successful, did we make meaningful relationships, and how will people remember us? The questions that asked need analyzation in order to determine if we have lived a good life and this paper will attempt to figure out what living a good life means.
person lives the more apparent the truth of demise. With birth comes pain; with living comes
He could’ve died beside his friend, but he didn’t want to leave his family behind, he wanted to live his life. This man would remember this for the rest of his life and it would change the way he lived. He would protect those more around him. He wouldn’t take things for granted. This taught him a life lesson.
Therefore, it is by creating a balanced, truthful communication, supportive and caring environment through the fading of a human life that death becomes meaningful. Every death is memorable, whether it happened in a hospital, or at a home, or in the street of a suburban neighborhood, on a royal bed, on an airplane, having dinner, during patrolling, at a war zone, or perhaps at the moment of birth. Dying with dignity was and will be the right to being born in this
Many individuals have different aspects as to how life should be valued. Some individuals live life a day at a time while attempting to make the most as if their last breath was upcoming. In a Stanford Commencement in 2005, Apple CEO Steve Jobs quo...
In BJ Millers TedTalk, “What Really Matters at the End of Life?” BJ Miller discusses on how we think on death and honor life. He speaks to the audience about how for the most people the scariest thing about death is not death itself, it is actually dying or suffering. The targeted audience is everyone in the world, because eventually everyone is going to die and everyone thinks about death. BJ 3 has big points in the article saying, Distinction between necessary and unnecessary suffering. Also by having a little ritual that helps with this shift in perspective. Another point is to lift and set our sights on well-being. We need to lift our sights, to set our sights on well-being, so that life and health and healthcare can become about making life more wonderful, rather than just less horrible.
According to googles’ online dictionary, sculpture could be defined as the art of making two or three dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster. The above sculpture, Forgotten Something, is by French artist Bruno Catalano. When studying different sculptures, it can be shown how each piece can stand for different things. While researching this specific sculpture, I learned that Bruno Catalano created this piece to depict a world citizen. During this assignment, I will be focusing on giving an in depth description of the sculpture, telling about the sculpture’s “in the round” point of view, and the building of this bronze sculpture.
As a young girl at 14, I used to reminisce about the future, how badly I wanted to grow up, to drive, to be popular in high school, go to college and land an amazing job, have a huge home, nice cars, and an extremely handsome husband. The older I got, the more I began to realize all of the things I once desired for were not what I truly wanted. I began to realize the value of happiness, adventure, and creating memories rather than the value of temporary popularity, material items, and physical appearances. What I realized was that when one is lying on their deathbed, because the only thing guaranteed in life is death, they will not think, “oh what a lovely car I drove” but rather, “I remember when I went on my first road trip with my friends.” As mentioned in “Tuesdays With Morrie” by Mitch Albom, Morrie emphasizes the idea, “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live,” meaning, remembering that one day we will all depart from this world, one will realize what it truly means to live. Another pointer that can essentially alter one’s vision of living life: to live simply, as discussed in “Where I Lived and What I Live For” by David Henry Thoreau. Although thinking about death is a harsh reality on a young teenager, it is rather helpful to wrap our heads around it at a young age. Why? because as one grows older, they will see more death. Living a simple life may seem boring to a young teenager, but as one grows older and their schedules become bustled with work, and responsibilities, they will wish that they could step back, and choose a simple lifestyle.
Life is short, and also very precious to forget so value it to the fullest. Take every opportunity you have that will benefit you and even sometimes others. To me just do what you love no matter what anybody says. Life is about believing yourself if you don’t believe yourself then you will never get anywhere. Take life seriously, don’t mess around because one day it will come back on you and it will tear you apart. This is well illustrated by the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Roger Ebert, by Chris Jones, The Lady with the Dog, by Anton Chekhov, What Is the Value of a Human Life? By Kenneth Feinberg, and lastly but not least, you’ve got to find what you love; Jobs says, by Steve Jobs.
In the poem “Helen” by Edgar Allan Poe, and the other poem by the same name by but a different author, H.D, the poets created two different tones with these poems, love and hate. The narrator was different than the speaker. So, in this writing I will tell the details about the differences between “Helen, thy beauty is to me” to “All Greece hates” poems.
Living life to the fullest has different meanings to every person, and we all live our lives differently, but we all choose our outcomes. As writer Dylan Thomas writes about how to go against dying in his poem “Do not go gentle into that good night,” old men that are near their ends of living should resist death as much as they can, they should only go out kicking and screaming by raging “against the dying of the light.” On the other hand, Gwendolyn Brooks has a different perspective on living, in her poem “We Real Cool,” a group of kids does what they want when they want, getting into mischief for fun, leading them to “die soon.” Two different viewpoints but also two different scenarios. Thomas writes about one of his loved ones, specifically his father, who is a role model to him, and one part of