Gulag Camps: A Literary Analysis

People are taught to “forgive and forget” in order to be happy, afterall living with a grudge can being a serious damper in ones life.

Forgiveness is what holds and brings relationships together. If you stay angry for long, your heart stubbornly hardens. But if you choose to forgive, you will be filled with the grace of God. We are all sinners and should never carry a

Forgiveness have important medicinal effect on health. Researchers and study have shown that people who forgive have less chances of health issues like heart attack and brain tumor. “People who hold tolerance views of human nature and don’t seem to nurse grieveness unduly tend to have blood pressures in the normal range” (Callwood, J. 2007, p. 153). Writer in the above findings tells her readers the medicinal effect of tolerance. She beautifully explains the positive effect of forgiveness in contrast with unforgiveness where her contrasting finding says “Unforgiving people, some studies show, are three times more likely to have heart diseases as people who don’t carry grudges”(Callwood, J. 2007, p.153). Writer here is addressed to people who cannot or do not forgive and tells them how harmful holding grudges are to their health. She beautifully explains the finding by telling first the negative effect of not forgiving in comparison to

Forgive today, live in peace tomorrow. Forgiveness; one of the many hardships we encounter throughout life. As Marianne Williamson, an American author, stated, “Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.” Forgiveness leads to peace because it lets go of all the negative feelings and allows freedom from disturbance to take place.

Forgiveness is very important throughout life. If people don't forgive, they are going to be stuck in the past always remembering about the mistake that person did. Forgiving someone can make yourself feel better because you know you forgave that person and there's no negativity between you and that person.

To begin with, forgiving people who wronged you comes in handy since it helps you live a longer and healthier life. According to the informational text “Understanding Forgiveness” written by PBS, it states that people who forgive have “ [f]ewer stress-related health issues” and their

Forgiveness is a voluntary process and only time can heal all wounds. Scratch that- time won’t heal all wounds and forgiving someone is totally and completely up to you. When stating that forgiveness is “voluntary,” it simply means that one is forgiving someone at their own free will. The question is “why? why must we forgive someone after doing something so awful?” The answer might be complex. In the book “Picking Cotton” by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton and Erin Torneo, and in the book “Beauty for Ashes” written by Joyce Meyer, forgiveness is portrayed as a big role. Each person goes through their own struggles and eventually has to forgive someone or be forgiven by someone.

As one grows from infant to adult an even elderly age, we experience many events in life. One only grows from mistakes that are inevitable to happen. Like the Yin Yang theory, for instance, shadow cannot exist without light. Therefor forgiveness comes into play, it is defined as the action or process of forgiving or being forgiven. In The Sunflower, by Simon Wiesenthal: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. It discusses the moral ethics of the matter of forgiveness. Questions are asked by Wiesenthal, what would you do? If a dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness? Forgiveness can often be influenced by religious belief, psychological, and political point of view, one is always capable of asking for forgiveness or granting forgiveness to another, granted or not, one makes a choice and lives with that decision.

Some ideas about justice and forgiveness can go hand-in-hand. Although justice and forgiveness may occur at the same time, they cannot simultaneously be considered as one thing. Forgiveness requires a shift in your thinking towards someone who has wronged you. In order to achieve justice, you must allow yourself to hold onto what happened in order to serve justice. Justice cannot be served if you have a shift in your thinking towards what they have done. Forgiveness and justice will never go hand-in-hand because of the means to acquire them.

This is may be true for some individuals, but the benefits of forgiving are greater. A weight can lift off one’s shoulders when they choose to forgive someone of a debt or wrong-doing. They will not hold a grudge anymore and that dark presence in their life can disappear. Revenge still won’t satisfy justice because it will just continue as a never-ending cycle. The one that takes revenge will only be paid back with a revenge in return. The cycle of grudges and violence will never end until someone forgives. Whatever reasons people may use to validate revenge, they must face the truth that forgiveness is always a better

When a wrongdoing occurs, people usually take two sides, one being vengeance/revenge and the other being forgiveness. The right choice is forgiveness, because it will lead to peace of mind and a clear conscience. Getting revenge against someone for something they did to you, only gives them validation for their actions, however if you forgive them, they will be the ones who look bad. In the Story Ashes of Vengeance, Henry Van Dyke uses imagery to demonstrate that vengeance does not lead to peace of mind, forgiveness does.

Asking myself why forgive? And the conclusion I've come to this is Forgiveness isn't just about validating other peoples wrongdoing but giving yourself permission to let go of the past; to move on to a better future or a better view on everything in

Robert Brault is a freelance writer known for his books and for quotes like the one above. I agree with his statement, I think it is important to forgive even if the person who hurt you for some reason has not apologised, because you will only hurt yourself by dwelling on it.

Within Russia a person can still find reminants of labor camps that once were covering the vast land of the country. From the North, where lie the Arctic, the Siberian East, or the Central Asian South a person could not go anywhere in 1913-1933 without running into a camp. These camps were named Gulag which stood for Glavnoc Upravlenie Lagerei or Main Camp Administration. In an extended version Gulag could also stand for Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh LAGerei which means Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps. Either way Gulags signify two things the Administration of Concentration Camps and death. Later Gulags became a symbol of the system of Soviet slave labor. The system of Soviet slave labor included labor camps, punishment

You have heard the term forgive and forget but what is forgiveness? The book definition of forgiveness is the action or process of forgiving or being forgiven. When you forgive someone you stop being so vexed or resentful towards anyone for any error they have done to you. Forgiving is the first step to finding peace in a unwholesome situation that has occurred in your life. For example, a drunk driver strikes your car and you are paralyzed from your waist down. You have two alternatives, you can despise and feel anger towards the person and be miserable, letting it destroy you on the inside or you can forgive them, feel tranquility and work on rebuilding yourself. If you continue to blame them for their actions and dislike them, you will