Positive Living Analysis

Response to change is a major key people’s success in life. Everyday people make decisions on change. The way people act on those obstacles makes or breaks a person. Responding the right way can be one of the most challenging objectives a person may face.

Should people put the value of life into monetary value or should life be kept solely as an emotional quantity? People and societies throughout the ages have been trying to answer the problem of putting the value of life into terms of dollar bills. The ancient Egyptians buried their dead with all of their worldly belongings. They believed a person’s monetary worth on Earth was over, and they should take all of that earthly worth with them to the afterlife. Modern day Americans are different from the Egyptians. Today people believe that the families of the dead should be compensated for “their” loss.

The movie “A Better Life” is about an illegal immigrant Carlos and his son Luis. They are constantly at odds and his father works very hard and is still very poor. His son Luis is being influenced by local gangs that his father doesn’t approve of. Carlos strives to be self-employed however his vehicle is stolen and he and Luis set off to find out who took and get it back. Once he gets his vehicle back he is arrested and deported. His son and he have one last meeting before he is sent back to Mexico and he begs him to succeed. The end of the movie show Carlos being led back across by a coyote and is determined to go home.

Nowadays, it seems that we are too busy making a living that we tend to forget how to make a meaningful life. We are all dreaming of some magical things will happen instead of enjoying a beautiful little thing happens around us. The main thing is we don’t know if we will wake up tomorrow when we go to sleep tonight. Therefore, rather than hardly put off a living, reminds ourselves to enjoy every minute of our live as if it is the last minute. Denise Levertov, the author of the poem “Living”, illustrates the philosophy of living a simple life is to live entirely in the present without thinking about what will happen next in the future. The reason for that philosophy is because happiness is not what you have but how you feel toward what you have and how you accept it.

Rebecca Gilman’s The Glory of Living is an ambitious piece of writing. The playwright takes on the challenge of exploring how an eighteen-year-old girl has ended up on death row, convicted of multiple murders. The play’s opening scene is exciting and engaging, and Gilman has a strong grasp of the characters she has created, but as the action progresses, it becomes evident that the play is missing something. The Glory of Living’s shortcomings exemplify the need for playwrights to focus on developing a Major Dramatic Question, and a protagonist with a strong want.

How does Lear’s remark “I am a man more sinn’d against than sinning” reflect his development as a human being within the play?

Distancing oneself from culture allows for new roles or new dynamics to take place. In Middlesex, the first place the siblings give way to their feelings are when the Greek are retreating, a symbol of their culture departing, ultimately allowing Lefty and Desdemona to have a more intimate relationship. They both put on a show for the other passengers since their arrival onto the ship, acting like they met for the first time, they had "fabricated memory, improvised fate" (Eugenides 68). They were married not long after, but even in light of this, the star-crossed lovers could feel "the wrongness of what they were doing" and how it was "easier to pretend" in the dark that they were sleeping with "a stranger" (70). The phrase 'star-crossed lovers'

Brave New World, a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, is about a society that gives into pleasure to form a happy society. The society functions on the idea that everyone is happy because no one denies themselves the things that give pleasure, such as drugs and sex. However, hinging the entire structure on such an abstract concepts of happiness is dangerous and scary. Researchers today still don’t know everything they would like to about happiness health. Although there is a science to happiness, a societal happiness is a much more complicated concept than Huxley imagines.

Through his memoir, Dr. Abdul Qayum Safi looks back on his remarkable journey in search of education.

Prior to viewing “Life Affirming Choices”, I had not put much thought into the topics of euthanasia, suffering, life or death. I did not realize the importance of this issue and all of the people who are faced to make a terminal decision about themselves or loved one. Countries have different stances on the issue of euthanasia. Although euthanasia is illegal in the United States, some states allow the practice of physician assisted suicide. Everyone who debates euthanasia agrees that its definition is the killing of a person for the specific reason to stop their suffering. There are two types of euthanasia, voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary euthanasia is when euthanasia is conducted with consent of the sufferer. Involuntary euthanasia is

How would you define an individual’s value in life? When put into a life or death situation, our outlook on life changes. We start to appreciate the little things that we usually do not. Throughout this selection, we have witnessed different perspectives on the way individuals value life. Various of the texts, gave us an emotional outlook on the value of life; Hamlet’s soliloquy that deals with whether or not to commit suicide, the film Seven Pounds where the main character sacrifices himself to gain back and to give life meaning to others, and Kenneth Feinberg's article which speaks on the subject that a price tag is put on an individual’s life depending on your social status during the most devastating times in the United States. When comes to defining an individual’s value in life, a price tag should not be used to evaluate how much their life is worth in society but illness should impact the way we value life.

For thousands of years, philosophy was seen as a practice only available to white males that answered questions dealing with reality and ethics. However, throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, there have been calls for a more universal and inclusive philosophy that deals with more relevant issues such as discrimination and poverty. In the documentary Examined Life, nine different philosophers share their views on several types of subjects and all agree that philosophy is a tool for learning about the world around them. Their ideas show that, as philosophy continues to grow, so should its range of ideas and questions answered.

The film, Life is beautiful is about a man named Guido, a man who has a great sense of humor which causes women to fall for him. This trait helps him gain the love of a very beautiful and smart girl. He ends up starting a family with her and then has a kid with her a son named Joshua. His imagination and personality end up helping him and his son get through the tough times that are going to happen during World War 2. They are taken to a concentration camp where the little boy must hide so he does not get killed with the rest of the children by the Germans. Guido father dies when they first get to the camp because he is old. While there Guido does everything he can do to protect his little boy. Which in the end winds up getting him killed by the German solider. Joshua ends up getting picked up by US soldiers in a tank, he finds his mother while the soldiers are guiding the Jews to safety.

In, “This Too Is Life”, the author, Lu Hsun, writes about his thoughts on life and its values as he is dying of illness. Hsun first explains the duality of exhaustion and rest, the fearfulness of exhaustion and not being able what you have to do as you have already done too much. The fear of missing out on the active, productive parts or life where you feel like you are truly living, coupled at the same time with the blissfulness of rest and simply doing nothing and having nothing to do, experiencing the comforts of idleness. In these moments of inactivity, it is easy to feel as if one is not really living life, that life has no purpose if one is not being productive. But, what Hsun is trying to express

The movie begins with a scene of the ongoing process of an interrogation that turned out to be a lecture given by Captain Gerd Wiesler. This scene introduced the background of the era that was portrayed in the movie. The movie took place in East Germany during the 1980s, where Stasi government was in control. In this Stasi government, there was minimal or no personal liberty. The suspect was not allowed to sleep throughout the integration, which lasted around 40 hours because Wiesler believes that the suspect was hiding the truth. The suspect no longer can do his will freely as the there was no personal liberty. Despite being interrogates for 40 hours straight, he could not sleep whenever he wants to because he was forced