Sisyphus's Accomplishments

She is employed as a Personal Support Worker at a retirement residence in Gatineau. She is not currently working because of health concerns, she has been asked by her doctor to stop work. She reported that she has been with her husband for over 17 years. She reported that her husband is supportive, that he is kind to their children and very supportive of people in their Congolese community. She stated that Peter is quite stressed by his physical health challenges. That he is the main bread winner of their family and they have an autistic child who needs a great deal of attention, therefore, he worries that he may be unable to be there for her and the children. She stated that her husband’s main problem is the asthma and sinus problems, that

I had completed all my races the day before and was a spectator when the coach asked me to be a substitute in the relay. As the youngest runner, I was not as fast as the older girls, but I was determined to help in whatever way I could. The coach rearranged and built the team around me, placing each runner strategically according to her strength. I was good at getting out of the block and running the curve, the second leg runner had the

Although I had only participated in the school Cross Country team for two years, I felt very connected to the team and wish I had participated my sophomore and freshmen year as well. Over the two seasons, I have made many great friends and learned the importance of working hard to achieve my goals. Throughout my life, my parents have pushed me academically, but never really encouraged me to try hard in sports or physical activities. Cross country filled that void for me and helped me become a more well-rounded person.

Sisyphus is the king of a city. He is very smart, but a cheater and lier and is known for being evil. At one point he even got his niece pregnant in an attempt to kill his brother. The gods are not happy with him and so they send Thanatos to keep Sisyphus in the underworld but then Sisyphus outsmarts Thanatos and escapes. He is also able to escape a second time with the excuse that his wife

1). Phil’s scenario is similar to Sisyphus’ because they are both stuck in a situation where they have to repeat doing the same thing over and over. For example, Phil keeps reliving Groundhog Day while Sisyphus has to roll a rock up a hill for eternity. Another example of how Phil’s and Sisyphus’ scenarios are similar is how they got themselves into repeating the same day over. Phil was rude to people and did not enjoy the little aspects of life during his stay and news casting in Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day. Unlike Phil, Sisyphus created many crimes that the gods did not appreciate. Phil’s scenario is different from Sisyphus’ because Phil got to change the way he wanted to act and the things he wanted to do. For example, after he realized that he was going to keep reliving Groundhog’s Day, he decided to take advantage of the situation. On one of the days Phil decided to drive foolishly around town with two drunks that he met at a bar and ends up in jail. Since he is reliving the same day many times, he decides to steal money from the money truck. Sisyphus however just gets stuck with continuously rolling the rock up the hill and he has to deal with his “hour of consciousness”.

One day Prometheus mad Zeus mad by giving fire to mankind. So Zeus decided to punish Prometheus by chaining him to a rock for many years. Now Prometheus had a brother named Epimetheus who was very lonely since his brother was gone. So Zeus decided to also punish poor  Epimetheus. Zeus had the gods’ handyman make her out of clay. She turned out to be a beautiful women.

In all my life, I’ve never had a commitment that required so much of me as track and field, both physically and mentally. Towards the end of my high school career, track and field for me meant having to push through a difficult physical condition known as tarsal coalition, a condition that causes inflammation in my feet. With help from my coaches, I had to learn to endure past physical limitation and strengthen my faith in my abilities. By doing so, I became more confident in myself and I was able to help lead other team members to do the same. Not only did track and field teach me to lead, but it also taught me how to be a part of a team. I learned the value of teamwork through building relay race teams. In all relay races, I was either the

When I was twelve years old, I enrolled in my local Catholic school after being homeschooled my entire life. In the spring of seventh grade, I decided that I wanted to try track and field. This seemingly minuscule decision would become something that would greatly impact me for the next few years when I fell while jumping over a hurdle and tore my ACL and meniscus. I was told that I would need surgery, and I was devastated. To my twelve-year-old self, it seemed as though the world as I knew it was coming to a drastic end. However, my outlook on the situation would soon change in an unlikely way.

The myth of Sisyphus focuses on a king who was said to be deceitful and spiteful in nature. He was supposedly

During, 2nd period an insane idea came to my head while we had morning announcements. Mrs. Pingree was advertising a program called TRM. Running was a hobby for many people and I wouldn’t think to make it an activity that I would do. In 7th grade, I remember running in PE every Tuesday despising and abhorring every moment, each and every second. It all happened so quickly. I was just positive that I would quit within the first month at minimum. That same evening I went Ms. Pingree’s classroom to join the program. I was more ecstatic than I should have been. I still have no idea why. It was 26 week commitment. It meant that I needed to come to every practice every week. Practices were on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and on Saturday mornings. It was miraculous that some people could make it to all of those practices every one of those 26 weeks, I

Marijuana, Mary Jane, weed, grass; the names of the bud have changed and evolved to fit the modern times, however the archaic laws that surround it are stuck in the 1900s. In 1923, marijuana was made illegal by the government of Canada following previous bans on opium and cocaine. The ban was largely due to increasing disdain towards Chinese Canadians and was used to prosecute and deport immigrants unjustly. In the following years, a dramatic increase in marijuana use in the young middle class prompted a severe crackdown leading to thousands of arrests for possession. In 2013 there were 73000 cannabis related arrests with “59,000 (80%) (being) possession offences,” accounting for 54% of all police-reported drug crime. (Cotter, A. S., Greenland, J., & Karam, M. 2015) The penalties of marijuana laws were found to be “grossly excessive” and with “no real scientific basis” by the Le Dain Commission in 1969. (Allen, K. 2013) After years of funding the war on Marijuana and over $500 million spent annually, the Liberal government has created a new task force headed by Anne Mclellan that will advise the government on the best way to legalize marijuana. (UOttawa. n.d) The task force will produce results by spring of 2017 to fulfill the Liberal party’s promise of the legalization of marijuana in Canada potentially bringing in “up to $5 billion in revenue”.(Cheadle, B.

The purpose of Richard Taylor’s, “The Meaning of Life,” is to portray the life of Sisyphus in Albert Camus’s, “The Myth of Sisyphus,” as a meaningless life, in which Taylor portrays as a “perfect image of meaninglessness.” In Camus’s story, Sisyphus has committed certain crimes that got him into trouble with the gods. Hence, receiving a punishment by being forced to push a rock up a hill. However, to make it even worse, once he reached the top of the hill, the rock would just roll back down to the bottom, therefore having to repeat this labor for eternity. The motivation behind this discipline was to demonstrate the pointlessness of life since there was no want to demonstrate his life will never end. The question of what’s the meaning of life is compelling to think about, but the more time spent doing it the more fascinating it gets. There are ways to avoid having a meaningless life, but Taylor’s theory sticks to either living a happy life or a meaningless life.

One activity that has helped me grow a tremendous amount over the past four years has been my involvement with cross country and track. Running and competing on a team has helped me grow in confidence and as a leader. It has taught me the value hard work and discipline. It has taught me how to embrace challenges, and, above all, it has taught me how to learn and grow from past failures.

Albert Camus was a French-Algerian writer, who made an enterprising contribution to a wide range of issues in moral philosophy. Camus was a moralist as well as a political theoretician and stood in high public esteem not only in France but also all over Europe after World War Ⅱ. Albert Camus spent a dismal childhood with poverty and bereavement of his father’s death. In his school years, Camus became an avid reader, developing a lifelong interest in literature as well as profoundly opened his eyes to philosophy. Therefore, Camus principally dealt with philosophy themes in his work. In this short biography of Albert Camus, we will explore his philosophy of absurdism and its effect on Camus’s morality. Besides, the reader will be examining Camus’s influences on existentialism.

When I was a child, my father always came to me and told me a quote, but over the years I have changed it into my own and now I live by it everyday: “Tomorrow is a brand new day, and a gift from yesterday. If you’ve failed, rise from your ashes and create your own path and leave a trail behind because you cannot take others paths to live your life. Life is your adventure and what you make of it.” I have always loved life and the people that are in it. Since I was a child I have had the biggest dreams of going and doing anything I wanted to be and that nothing was going to stop me. To pursue and make that “any dream” come true I focused on these three things: being determined, encouraging others, and hardworking.