Sanjuro's Unearned Suffering

The article “Man-Made Misery” by Thomas M. Colicino, discusses how some love stories aren’t meant to last. Thomas describes the day he first met a girl named Katherine during his sophomore year of High School. By senior year of High School the author writes how he decides to make a move on Katherine. Thomas confesses his true feelings to her however she ends up telling him she has a boyfriend and pretends he knew the whole time.

In Game Changers: Play Makers by Mike Lupica, point guard Ben McBain realizes he is quick to judge. Ben and his best friends, Sam and Coop are coming off of the apex of their young football careers. In the last game of the season, Ben threw a last second touchdown pass to Sam for their school, Rockwell, to beat rival school Darby. But for now, eleven year old Ben McBain is on to basketball. Hoping it will end up being as fun as football was.

They were the defective products of their time, and the poison that fed their roots run deep, deep, and even the future children of this village will not be spared from it entirely. The barbarism will end, but the lingering specter of their life and culture - shinobi - will always echo, onward, perhaps to perpetuity.

Roberto no longer felt in control or safe in his current surroundings. The pending termination of his marriage most likely amplified his feelings of lack of stability, protection, and structure. Roberto represents the results of a person who identifies that their safety and security are in turmoil, and for him the only escape was the threat of ending his own life. This echoes Young’s (2017) teaching where “Threats of physical harm, assault, tyranny, or wild animals prevent individuals from satisfying their safety needs and cause them to focus their energies almost exclusively on eliminating these threats” (pg.

To begin, the theme one's own selfishness can end up pushing away and hurting those close to them is shown through

Endo’s Deep River opens up an unsettling encounter with the spiritual vision of India described through the experience of five Japanese travelers from vastly different backgrounds each of whom faces a troubling personal crisis. By exploring the depth of the human need to understand ourselves and our purpose in life, Endo illuminates his appreciation of the workings of grace from a God present in the sufferings of humanity. Endo delves deep into the human condition through his characters that reflect the complex individuals and personalities we are.

He shows it by saying to Meira, “I’m willing to die for the cause, and expect nothing less for the rest of you.” This statement shows Sir’s dedication to protect his home, even while knowing it could take his own life. These character’s show the theme, all for the greater good. At first the theme appeared to be “all for the greater good.” However the theme is actually love blinds those who embrace it.

One must have hope to resist the cruel challenges such as loss that they are faced with from oppressive figures of authority, in order to achieve self wellness. This can be seen when strange men massacred Amari’s village.

In this essay I am going to talk about the five stages of life and also demonstrate my knowledge and understanding of the theories of Erikson and Maslow. I am going to apply these theories to a member of the madga family from the case study.

Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering: Death and The American Civil War tackles a subject that is not widely written about: the ways of death of the American Civil War generation. She demonstrates how the unprecedented carnage, both military and civilian, caused by the Civil War forever changed American assumptions of death and dying, and how the nation and its people struggled to come to terms with death on an unimaginable scale. The war created a veritable “republic of suffering” and Faust vividly portrays the United States’ ordeal, transformation, and

In the novel Kokoro, Natsume Sōseki uses his character Sensei to represent how guilt can weigh too heavily on a person. Throughout the story, Sensei's interactions with the Narrator, both verbal and nonverbal occurrences, showcase how guilt leads to other negative emotional experiences, such as loneliness and misery. Sensei's internal struggle with guilt shapes the entirety of his adult life and the unfolding of the events in the book. This paper aims to show the implications that Sensei’s guilt has upon his life, especially his relationships with others.

In Ozu’s film, the Tokyo Story, has many scenes that define the human struggle, such as the struggle to make a living, aging and death of loved ones, and the way children eventually fall apart from their parents when they get older. The one human struggle from Ozu’s film that influenced the most empathy is the inevitable truth of life that the struggle for survival in society eventually drifts individuals apart such as parents and they're children when they begin to live independently and become to take care for only themselves because of their daily busy lives.

Conflicts affect the mood of the main characters in a story, by expressing the insecurities, Death,” a couple of conflicts are exposed throughout the piece. In the story “The Masque of the Red,” a couple of conflicts are expressed throughout this piece. The conflicts man versus fate and man versus himself are the conflicts that are displayed several times within this story. From major conflicts to minor conflicts, this story clarifies the problems that Prince Prospero faces within himself. In addition to Prince Prospero’s problems with himself, this story also explains the conflict of how death is uncontrollable.

Theme is an integral part of this story and is mostly presented through the narrator. One of the major themes of the story is conscience, in which many of the conflicts in the

In the novel, The House of the Scorpions, an example of how the theme is aptly portrayed is when Matt understands that he is not inferior to other humans because he is a clone. A quote from this moment states, “Matt had to swallow hard to keep the tears from rolling down his face. He wasn’t alone after all. With friends like these, he would triumph, as El Patron had triumphed over death and poverty and death so