Dominique LaPierre's The City of Joy Essay

He was forced out of Melbourne where he was attacked physically and destructive gangs came against him because he was praying for the sick.

I want to help you catch a vision of a very different kind of father, the eternal who never fails to

Therefore, their happiness is not even true happiness because it is constantly shadowed by the knowledge of the child’s suffering, and yet paradoxically, they feel morally obligated to be happy for the sake of the child. In a sense, they are so bound to the child that they do not have any more freedom than the child itself. In contrast, there are also people who are so disturbed by this dark secret of the child that they “leave Omelas...toward [a] place...that [possibly] does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going”(47). To leave Omelas for the unknown would need considerable courage, but they know that they will never be truly happy staying in Omelas. Just like how the people of Omelas know that “the joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy,” those who leave understand that happiness at the expense of a scapegoat, such as the child, is also not the “right kind” of joy

Prior to and throughout the late middle ages, women have been portrayed in literature as vile and corrupt. During this time, Christine de Pizan became a well educated woman and counteracted the previous notions of men’s slander against women. With her literary works, Pizan illustrated to her readers and women that though education they can aspire to be something greater than what is written in history. Through the use of real historical examples, Christine de Pizan’s, The Book of the City of Ladies, acts as a defense against the commonly perceived notions of women as immoral.

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal”. This quote by Steve Maraboli may be hard to understand, but the Holocaust texts: Night by Elie Wiesel, “A Three Year Old Saves His Mother” by Peter Gorog and “Jakob's Story” by Jakob Blankitny are great examples of where compassion is necessary to fight the despair in heartbreaking situations. In each work, compassion shows up from unexpected sources, helps motivate people to survive, and creates greater unification.

They had experienced a lot of abuse and neglect. The short story “Returning to Harmony” by Richard Wagamese demonstrates that the energy used for anger and frustration can turn into passion and devotion.

Sacrificed the truth, beauty and the right to think, happiness and comfort is just indulgent, it is the discomfort brought by the misery, responsibility and the bonding give us the weight of life. The world is full of people who try hard to gain happiness, and we all have at least one time the idea of living in a perfect world, a world without pain, without misery, without getting old and without cancers. We always ignored the importance and the beauty of uncomfortableness, just as a quote in this book said, “Stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand”. After read this book, I started to be more objective at those bad things I used to hate, to understand the significance of art and to be grateful to this imperfect world we are

“Compare what the two stories (from Joyful Strains) suggest about gaining a sense of belonging and/or establishing an identity.”

The Director is explaining the reasoning being the class system of their society. He says as long as people are happy with their life, then society can function without problems. He believes

He managed to open the eyes of the wealthy and showed them the brutal conditions of the poor

The use of the phrase “madness had infected all of us” emphasizes on the mental and physical obstacles the Jews had to overcome. His comparison of madness spreading like a disease also reveals the Jews loss of who they are and what they have allowed to overcome them. (negative)

The Book of the City of Ladies During the renaissance many different views of leadership surfaced. Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies, Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, and William Shakespeare’s Richard III each present distinct views of what would make a good leader during the renaissance period. Shakespeare and Christine de Pizan’s views align most closely with Plato’s.

[Sits down, eyes closed and hands gathered] Lord, please forgive my debts as I come to realisation of my wrong doings and sins. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. In your name,

An unlikely candidate to dispute the unfair, misogynistic treatment of women by men and society, Christine de Pizan successfully challenged the accepted negative views that were being expressed about women by the all-male literary world of her era. Part of Christine’s uniqueness stems from the time in which she lived, the middle to late 1300’s. The lack of a positive female role model to pattern herself after made Christine a true visionary in the fight for the equal rights of women. Her original ideas and insight provided a new and more intelligent way to view females. Pizan’s work, The Book of the City of Ladies, provided women much needed guidance in how to survive without the support of a man.

Asking for forgiveness and forgiving to many is the hardest thing to do but we must remember in the book of Matthew (18:21-22) Peter said to the Lord: “Lord if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.” In this paper, the chosen case study will give the reader a better understanding of what forgiveness is to Jesus. Forgiveness is a big part of the Bible and if Jesus forgives us of our sins we too must learn to be as forgiving as him.