The Bet

“ Lawyers, I suppose, were children once” Lee started her novel with a quotation by Charles Lamb, she is perfectly choose the magnificent opening for her novel as the fact it is narrated from a child perspective by using this Lee tries to show the reader how God creates non-racists and pure people. Saul Mcleod explained that” Freud believed that when we explain our own behavior to ourselves or others we rarely give a true account of our motivation. This is not because we are deliberately lying. Whilst human beings are great

I was born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland to William and Norma Marshall. My father was the grandson of a slave, who worked as a waiter at an exclusive club. My mother was a kindergarten teacher. Both set of my grandparents owned grocery stores, but my father wanted to be independent of them. Fortunately, my family and I enjoyed a comfortable, middle-class living. One of my father’s favorite pastimes was to listen to cases at the local courthouse before returning home. Then he would debate the lawyers ' arguments with my brother, William and me. I believed debating court cases with my father and brother sparked an interest in me becoming a lawyer. Also, my parents placed great importance on education, encouraging my brother and I to think and learn.

Bryan Stevenson began to second guess himself while he was in law school. In his senior year, he came to the realization that with his major in Philosophy, “no one would pay me to philosophize”, and the only graduate program that didn’t

No one likes being defined by the things in which they don’t excel at. These are the things that challenge our character and really force us to evaluate who we really are. My extensive time of struggle in science put me on an intensive pathway towards the excellence I knew I could acquire. After finding an effective learning style, I not only aced the class, but I also won “The Most Likely to Pursue a Science Major.” This accentuated how far knowledge could get you. I was able to conclude that knowledge was truly power. But, its power is limited unless the knowledge is allocated to others. After witnessing countless injustice over a long period of time, I decided to learn about the law. How beneficial would it be if I were to keep this knowledge

Death is among the greatest mysteries of the human existence, one of the issues being that neither science, religion, or philosophy have definitive explanations on it. Although Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet explore death and dying, the former advocates for people to be more optimistic in these circumstances than the latter. Station Eleven’s characters focus their thoughts on living and improving their situation to achieve their goals while Hamlet's characters concentrate on dying and how to end the misery of life, as they are hopeless to change their fate. The ability to make decisions result in opposite outcomes for the characters in each text as Station Eleven’s characters have free will and are rewarded for using it, whereas Hamlet’s characters are punished for seeking to control their future. The development of each character’s life is due to their respective text favouring or punishing free will. The consequences of exercising free will in Station Eleven yield positive results because humans can control their own destiny in a world of death, while in Hamlet, contrarily, humans are controlled by fate and have to endure the consequences of attempting to defeat it.

“...every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one’s mine...Try fighting with your head for a change.”(76, Harper lee)

• Does God Oppose Gambling? • Is Gambling Sin? • What Does the Bible Say? Dr. Russell K. Tardo According to St. Augustine, “The devil invented gambling.” Whether or not one accepts Augustine’s conviction, gambling has been around for thousands of years. Augustus Caesar is said to have sponsored the first known public lottery in order to raise funds to repair the city of Rome. The Bible records that Roman soldiers gambled for the garments of Christ (Matthew 27:35), an action predicted in the Old Testament (Psalm 22:18). In the latter eighteenth century, lottery proceeds helped to fortify Colonial America against the British. But if the history of its use is long, so is that of its misuse. Loaded dice were found in the

What is the good of that man's losing fifteen years of his life and my throwing away two million? Can it prove that the death penalty is better or worse than imprisonment for life? No, no (2).” The author Anton Chekhov has showed that change can be a good thing for people. He shows that the banker changes his way throughout the book and how he acts and feels toward the lawyer.

Almost everyone has fears, whether it is growing up, or even a simple circus clown. For others, their fears might be as common as public speaking, failing a test, or not achieving a specific job. There is only one fear, which no matter how hard society tries is unavoidable: dying young. However, Housman explores the idea that dying young is not always negative. In A. E. Housman’s poem, “To An Athlete Dying Young,” he addresses this very common, fear in human nature. The unescapable outcome of death, as a fear, is due to human nature, with every single person wanting to live the longest most successful life, they can, but in the end never avoiding death.. Housman, unlike the majority of people, embraces dying young in a positive

Time is long, but life is short. Both Affirmation by Donald hall and the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Millar discuss the theme of death. Both works are successful in showing that the course one takes in life is of little importance, as death is inevitable. This is shown through old age, ignorance and how people come and go in one’s life.

In the short story, “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov, a banker and a young man make a bet with each other based on capital punishment and whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. The terms of the wager state that if the lawyer can live in solitary confinement for fifteen years, he will be given two million dollars. When examining the story, the Marxist lens would offer an insight to the ability of symbols and its forms, styles and, meanings. Chekhov connects these themes by utilizing the literary elements of Power. More specifically the power of money, knowledge, language, and competition.

The lawyer even comes out and states his thoughts clearly on page 10—“To befriend Bartleby; to humor him in his strange willfulness, will cost me little or nothing, while I lay up in my soul what will eventually prove a sweet morsel for my conscience”. The lawyer believes that if he were to help Bartleby, his conscience will be even cleaner. This helps to illustrate the way the lawyer thinks; everything he does in the story is for his own gain. This begs the question, is the lawyer a moral person, or is he a product of a capitalist

Our lives are full of uncertainties. Will the sun come up tomorrow morning? Will the moon rise tonight? Will the tide come in and go out? These are just a few examples of those things that happen so often and with such predictable frequency that we take them for granted. The sun might not come up tomorrow, and the moon might not rise and cause the tide. When you think about it, there isn’t that much in our lives that we can really be certain of. We might make a lot of money, we might get married, we might have a family, and we might be happy and lead a productive life; but will we? There’s a good chance, and steps can be taken to achieve this kind of status, but we can’t be sure. There are just a few things we can be sure of as the world turns. Among these things is something that has crossed the minds of people everywhere at least once; death. I can say with the uppermost confidence that I will die. Everyone has thought about it, and been frightened by the idea. Why are we so afraid? Death is inevitable. We know it’s always coming, and getting a little closer with each passing day. So why are we so anxious about it? We do all we can to escape it. Only at the bitter end do we accept it and fade into darkness.

The lawyer here is not the same sort of lawyer we know of in our society today.  Leon Morris states, “A lawyer would be concerned not with secular studies, but with the law in the Jewish sense, the first five books of the Old Testament.  Arising from that he would have studied the rest of Scripture and matters incidental.  He was thus a man who might be expected to be both interested in and knowledgeable about religious affairs” (Tyndale Commentary on Luke 1974: 205).

In this paper, I plan to explain Dostoevsky’s criticism of Western Individualism. Dostoevsky’s first criticism resides in the idea to “love life more than the meaning of it, “which is presented by the character Alyosha (Dostoevsky 3). Allowing this character to discuss this topic, along with the commentary of Ivan, demonstrates their mindset to solely focus on their own lives, opposed to caring for others. This leads to them living for the now, and not focusing on how their decisions will affect their future or others. Dostoevsky disapproves of this notion because living by this mentality encourages the guidance of logic, which is dangerous because it could tell you to kill yourself. From Dostoevsky’s Eastern Orthodox background, he believes that the only way from living from this situation is to deny it. By denying this way of living, the focus toward life will not be directed toward yourself, but toward the way you can impact the environment around you. Ivan clearly does not believe in these values, due to his intentions to commit suicide at the age of thirty. As said before, living by the idea to “love life more than the meaning of it” leads to death, and Ivan indulges in this to the fullest (Dostoevsky 3).