Reflection Paper on the Movie the Flowers of War in Relation to Metaphysics and Ethics

According to secular humanist, there is no life after death. When you die, you die. There is no one to pass judgment on you. There is no heaven or hell. Your legacy that is left behind is the only thing left to judge. It is very important to leave this earth knowing that people will remember you with good thoughts. However, it is even more important to know that God has written your name is the Book Of Life because you have accepted salvation.

According to the Bible, there is life after death. When people die, the body becomes separated from the spirit and the soul. It is the body that remains on earth while the spirit goes back to God (John 11:25). Here, depending on your deeds on earth, the spirit may be accepted into Gods kingdom (heaven) or it may be subjected to punishment through hellfire (Matthew 10:28). (625 words)

A difficult choice such as life and death is not an easy decision to make. In “Woman’s Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros, there is an important passage that through its language and structure provides the protagonist with a strong internal conflict. The passage comes with strange words and sentence structures which lead the reader to question why Sandra Cisneros would do that. The short sentences and the strange fitting words provide a reason why Cleofilas is different from the legend of “La Llorona”. “La Llorona” represents the women who committed suicide while suffering as victims of abuse. Through the lens of Gender Trouble by Judith Butler, about categorizing women into a general scope based on their common experiences is not correct

Robin Jenkins effectively conveys loss of innocence and ant war through sophisticated symbolism in the short story “Flowers”. It tells the story of a young girl, Margaret, who was evacuated from the city of Glasgow to the highlands of Scotland in an attempt to avoid the inhumanity of war, but it is in the highlands where she truly witnessed the brutality of war.

I choose this story for several different reasons. The first reason I choose this story is I like a good psychological thriller. I like being taken on a journey into someone’s mind, and discovering all the twists and turns during someone’s break of sanity. Second is I am interested in what goes on inside the human mind. The human mind is complex and ever changing, and today we only understand a small percent on how it works. Two people can look at the same exact thing, and have two different thoughts about it. It is very intriguing how people come to conclusions, and why they think the way they do. The most important reason I chose this story is because I feel somehow connected with these women in my own life experiences. I grew up in a traditional Italian family, and I was taught at a young age that a woman’s place is at home cooking, cleaning, and being a housewife. My dad worked everyday while my mom stayed at home. Which is fine, but that shouldn’t be forced upon. I was taught to be a slave to my husband and children. I was never taught how priceless an education is; consequently, I was never pushed to expand my knowledge. Like many 18th century when women were confined in their home and forced to be the man 's “slave” and If they got any type of idea on their own the men would make them feel like they were idiots and it would spiral into depression and then they would have to suffer the “rest

Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, “The real question of life after death isn 't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.” The idea that death is inevitable is well known by everyone, yet no one is certain as to what happens afterwards. Even though the subject of life after death has been argued for centuries by many philosophers and theologians. In the article Sign Here If You Exist, Jill Sisson Quinn adequately employs figurative language, rhetoric questionings, and personal anecdotes to demonstrate a controversial argument on the topic of life after death.

The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides, is a novel that deals with the complexities of being a teenager, dealing with related themes such as growing up, loss of innocence, adolescent sexuality, loneliness, unrequited love. These seemingly innocent themes however, develop a darker side, as they lead to the suicides of the main characters- Lux, Bonnie, Celia, Mary and Therese: the 5 Lisbon sisters. The themes of objectification and The Male Gaze also become relevant through the nature of the detached male narrative; The story is told retrospectively through the the viewpoint of an unknown number of anonymous boys, now middle-aged men, who grew up in the same middle class suburban neighbourhood in middle America as the girls. This first person plural narrative, as well as various stylistic devices such as diction, imagery, metaphors and tone all affect the way the Lisbon sisters are represented to the reader.

In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, heavy influences of opinions towards racism, religion, and worldly views in the 1930’s are very prominent through the writing of Harper Lee. Specifically through chapter 24, Lee uses various types of diction and narrative techniques to portray her opinion on racial and religious views. Lee fills this chapter with various dialogue and diction. The scene starts as the women of the church converse lightly about various topics, “fighting the good fight all over the house”. (Lee 228).

The most notable aspect of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides would be its first person-plural narrative voice. Literary scholars have often addressed the issue of the narrative voice and the effect that having multiple narrators has on the story. In her article ‘A story we could live with’ Narrative voice, the Reader, and Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides Debra Shostak addresses how the “we” inadvertently draws attention to the “otherness” of the Lisbon girls. She attempts to dispel the belief that The Virgin Suicides is a misogynistic text by analyzing Eugenides’s complicated use of the word “we”. Shostak’s article gives deep insight into the complexities of the plural narrative and provides a foundation for future analysis of the text. However, what Shostak does not address is how this perception of otherness, by both the narrators and the community in which they reside, ultimately leads to the downfall of the Lisbon sisters. My argument is twofold. Firstly, I will address how the perception by the narrators that the girls are radically different from themselves and their community, combined with the tendency to group the girls as a single monolithic entity serves as one explanation for the girls deaths. Treating the girls as though they are the same person leads to the perceived inevitability of their deaths, which ultimately plays a vital role in their untimely and fatal ends.

The Mirabal sisters’ death have been all over the news. Numerous articles, in honor of the sacrifices these women have given up to bring liberty to our country, are being sold to the public. The clouds have finally been cleared from all the tyrannical years of Trujillo’s regime. Everyone finally feels safe to walk freely down the main streets and not have to worry about what they say in public. And yet, there are some, including myself, who still question the justification of these extreme sacrifices. And as an answer to this question, I strongly believe that the sisters’ sacrifices, which include spending time in prison and orphaning their children, were not justified in that it hurt their close ones.

There are four Mirabal sisters, Patria, Dede, Minerva, and Maria Teresa. They did something remarkable for all women who lived in the Dominican Republic. The girls started a revolution that they were doing things to stop Trujillo. Patria, Minerva,and Maria Teresa Died in the process. Six months after their deaths Trujillo was assassinated. Everything they did for women started then. Minerva was the sister that saw how Trujillo really was first. She felt like she was trapped, “ sometimes watching the rabbits in their pen, she’d I’m no different from you,poor thing.” She went to a Religious boarding school. Minerva met her first actual friend there. Sinita told Minerva things Trujillo did to her family. She didn’t really start believe El

     I am not sure what lies beyond this life. I do believe that we just don’t disappear but that we change forms. I personally struggled with this subject because I have researched several different religions. I saw each had unique beliefs about the afterlife but all believed in one. For me I believe that we are reunited

With each letter in Les Liaisons dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos advances a great many games of chess being played simultaneously. In each, the pieces—women of the eighteenth-century Parisian aristocracy—are tossed about mercilessly but with great precision on the part of the author. One is a pawn: a convent girl pulled out of a world of simplicity and offered as an entree to a public impossible to sate; another is a queen: a calculating monument to debauchery with fissures from a struggle with true love. By examining their similarities and differences, Laclos explores women’s constitutions in a world that promises ruin for even the most formidable among them. Presenting the reader glimpses of femininity from a young innocent’s daunting debut to a faithful woman’s conflicted quest for heavenly virtue to another’s ruthless pursuit of vengeance and earthly pleasures, he insinuates the harrowing journey undertaken by every girl as she is forced to make a name for herself as a woman amongst the tumult of a community that machinates at every turn her downfall at the hands of the opposite sex. In his careful presentation of the novel’s female characters, Laclos condemns this unrelenting subjugation of women by making clear that every woman’s fate in such a society is a definitive and resounding checkmate.

Life after death is a concept that has been around for many centuries. Many philosophers came to the idea that there had to be something after our life ends. For some, they believe in the afterlife. Another concept is that of reincarnation. Reincarnation is the believe that once the physical body dies, the soul is then reborn as a different being. Some religious teachings are actually said to have skewed some of the details about reincarnation.

The movie takes place in 1947, the main character John Nash arrives at Princeton. Him and Martin Hansen are both recipients of an award. The prestigious award was a Carnegie Scholarship for math. At the opening reception, he meets a group of math and science graduate students, there names were Richard Sol, Ainsley, and Bender. He even meets his roommate Charles Herman, and he’s a literature student.