Life Is A Hard Working Life

With the world being populated by so many people and families, there are several types of people with diverse ethnic backgrounds, culture, and manner of living that are the causes of distinct values within a family. Families that are rich and poor have virtuous family values, however what one may consider as a mediocre family value may seem poor to someone else and vice versa. The purpose of this essay is to address the societal issues amongst our family values and the working class.

No matter what background you come from or how you were raised, family is extremely important. According to Malinowski, “Family is a necessary institution for fulfilling the task of child rearing in society”(Conley, 2013). Society has come a long way when it comes to family and it is much different than it was in the 1950’s. Not all families are nuclear families. A nuclear family is having a mother, father, and children that are all biological (Conley, 2013). This kind of family is what some would call more “traditional.” Today in the twenty first century it is getting harder and harder to find families that have actually stayed together. There are so many different kinds of families in today’s society, and more and more families are becoming blended families. A blended family is when two families come together (Conley, 2013). Many families today have single mons, single, dads, and even same sex parents. Family is not always the people that live in the same house as you, family also consists of extended family. An extended family is a network that goes beyond the main “nuclear” family (Conley,

Please sit down and relax for a moment, and ask yourself the question of all questions: What is most important to you in life? This is a question asked by many psychologists, surveyors and even employers. A common answer is “I just want to be happy and successful and follow my dreams.” But think about it– who really makes you happy? Who helps you become successful? Who inspires you to follow your dreams? To this people generally answer: Family. Now imagine what it would be like to have your family taken from you in the spur of a moment.

Family is a very vital social group for any individual as well as society. It is the focal point around which life of every individual revolves. The day usually starts with family and also ends with family but in between we used to discharge our professional, social commitment. The desire to be with the family reflects the strong emotional bond individual share with family. Family is the basic unit of society and in its most simplest form it may consist of a husband, wife and children .In a broader sense it may refers to all relatives of several generations may be connected to each other by blood, marriage or adoption .The married couple not only lives under one roof but also stay connected physically, mentally, emotionally, socially moreover financially. They are supposed to complement each other by meeting need and aspirations of each other. A family basically based on the institution of marriage. So it is very much significant on the part of both husband and wife primarily about the need to have a healthy functional behavior for a life time to meet the commitment they are extending to each other.

My family, which are my three boys are my world. Every decision, including going back to school and working nights so I could be there for them during the day was made with them in mind. Family means different things for different people. I personally do not think family can just be classified as mom, dad and kids. It is whomever has made the decision to go through life together as a team. The author of our text book, Kendall describes family like this, “As relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young, and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group.” (Kendall, 2014) I personally think family is the foundation that makes us who we are and makes society so

As Lyndon Baines Johnson says, “The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assistance, and private concern — will never be enough” (Danes). He believed that family is the base of the society. The way that family is set up affects children in all ways. Family structure is very important and that no matter what we do,

In The Myth of Sisyphus, Sisyphus suffers through eternal punishment, compelled to push a rock up a hill, only to have it roll down and force him to walk down and start all over. Camus writes that this myth is tragic “because the hero is conscious” (491) of his punishment, because “where would his torture be, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?” (491). If a person can find sorrow in a situation, they have equal capacity to find joy. David Foster Wallace demonstrates this in his commencement address by describing petty and frustrating events, and that he could easily think how disgusting and horrible everything is, but that would be too easy.

Synthesis Essay Most parents/adults are stressed when they come home from work. They, as your parents, may do something you may not like, because of their problems at work. If they yell at you, just take it and don't complain about it. They're not just angry at you or at everybody.

the use of the family in society and how it can take pressure from the

The good life is life that should be focused on it’s true denotation, a present body life, not an afterlife. A key aspect of the good life is that it puts goals, dreams, and aspirations in the main focus. The good life is not a refusal of God and eternity, rather places the religious ideas in the background to allow for full pleasure by the individual. In addition, the good life cherishes the small things in life and places importance on the finite, at risk, unique parts in the journey of an individual. Furthermore, in making sure to not un-properly empathize the “small things” in life, the good life in its whole values the daily “grind” and experiences and aims to avoid becoming attached to material, fragile objects. Montaigne says “In my opinion, the most ordinary things, the most commonplace and best known can constitute, if we know how to present them in the right life, the greatest of nature’s miracles.” (Montaigne, 1227) Both philosophers are trying to find the best way to view life and use their work to try to get there. Overall, the good life shares aspects of both philosophies of Boethius and Montaigne. But, in looking at this idea in this work, the good life accepts and rejects pieces of the two philosophies and follows itself more with the ideals of Montaigne.

While family is important there is great importance placed on individual accomplishments. This is also highlighted in political and economic traditions of the United States, where the pursuit of self-interest leads to economic success and is better for the individual and society as a whole.

Ancient Greek mythology tells the tale of Sisyphus, King of Ephyra – a man described as prudent and wise. Sisyphus was punished for his actions against the Gods when he cheated death. Sisyphus’s zeal of life begot an eternity of struggle and meaningless labor. Sisyphus’s made to push a boulder to a hill summit where it’d roll down to the hill’s basin, thus Sisyphus must traverse back down the hill to repeat this action indefinitely. Sisyphus’s tragedy comes from consciousness of the absurdity of his situation, lack of reprieve, and futility in anything but acceptance; Sisyphus’s not bound by potential for success in his toils and’s thusly aware.

In The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor recollects on the myth of Sisyphus; a Greek who was punished by the gods for eternity and forced to roll a rock up a hill, just for it to fall back down. Taylor argues that it is not the difficulty and length of the activity that made Sisyphus’s life meaningless, it is that his toil amounts to nothing; asserting that the pointlessness of the activity is meaninglessness. In an effort to try and remove pointlessness from the life of Sisyphus, Taylor generates two solutions. The first solution would be to provide a goal for Sisyphus to work toward to give his task a meaning, such as building a Temple. This option is then proved to be insufficient, as completion of the task would result in infinite boredom

What makes life meaningless? Taylor states that there are two characteristics of Sisyphus’s life that make life pointless. The main trademark is the purposelessness of his life. Taylor stresses the way that there is no good reason for the labor that Sisyphus is compelled to do because of the gods. I concur with Taylor that the purposelessness in performing this action demonstrates that his life is good for nothing. Perhaps, as specified in class, if his punishment brought about something advantageous. For instance, when Sisyphus rolled the rocks up the hill, rather than falling back down, they shaped into a beautiful architecture, which would give his life meaning. In the book, Taylor stated, “Activity... even long, drawn out and repetitive activity, has a meaning if it has some significant culmination… activity,” showing that possibly if the rocks did form a figure it could give meaning to Sisyphus’s life. The second characteristic that makes Sisyphus’s life meaningless is the idea of endless repetition of his punishment given by the gods. Taylor claimed that if the act of repetition would have led to an achievement or goal his life may not have been meaningless, yet Sisyphus’s labor did not lead to anything besides pointless repetition.

The belief that work is morally good is the definition of work ethic provided by The American Heritage Dictionary. Work can mean different things to different people. Usually, when we first think of a word and its meaning, we look at its definition. When defining what is morally good, one must remain open to past societal meanings of what was considered moral. Work ethic has developed and changed through different cultures over centuries. Historians and philosophers have developed great insights and theories pertaining specifically to the meaning of work ethic and its meaningfulness in today's modern employment, while some have praised it and some have cursed it. Which leads us to the question, do workers today have a calling or