Values and Crossroads of Life

The two stories I'm comparing are Crossroads: A Sad Vaudeville by Carlos Solorzano, and Nobody is Ever Missing (NIEM) , by Catherine Lacey. In Crossroads, the main character, a woman, hides her age by doctoring photos of herself before posting them online, where she meets men, and wears a physical veil when meeting them. Unsurprisingly, none of the men she meets recognize her (at least not after seeing her true face), and so she suffers for her lies. The main character in NIEM, Elyria, is a woman

impending danger of racism and cultural conflicts. By describing his life events, Achebe demonstrates that the cultural backgrounds between Christians and non-Christians had arisen differences throughout the years. Achebe believes that the two sides bear much significance and, therefore, they should be held together without any tension. This means that Achebe wants to display that both his religion and culture play a significant role in his life, and he doesn’t want their differences to tear him apart. He

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, life is the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual. While the definition is technically correct, life is a force so complex that it cannot be governed by technicality and should be’s. Life is a journey that people embark upon because they are on a quest to discover the answer to their questions. The routes they take are determined by the question they are trying to answer. Many people spend their lives trying

I am excited to be qualified to have the opportunity to apply for the Rose Marie Beard Woman of Spirit Honors Scholarship. I immigrated from the Philippines to the United States with my father and two older sisters. My mother joined us after a few years. My parents instilled in me the importance of education, as well as the obstacles that may stand in the way. When we arrived in the United States, my father enrolled me in a Catholic school, where he believed I would receive the best education. I

Shelby Foote once said “But the Civil war defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things. It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.” In this famous phrase he states how the civil war shaped the future of generations ahead, and was the collision of our beliefs, which led to issuing many policies and the burst of many disagreements, which were later solved with violence. His statement is valid because it interprets the situation

231). Creon thinks that he is justified in his treatment of Polynices because the latter was a traitor, an enemy of the state, and the security of the state makes all of human life—including family life and religion—possible. Therefore, to Creon’s way of thinking, the good of the state comes before all other duties and values. However, the subsequent events of the play demonstrate that some duties are more fundamental than the state and its laws. The duty to bury the dead is part of what it means to

The women here are all different: backgrounds, marital status, age, race, sexual orientation, education and income levels. The status of “homeless” does not discriminate. Attitudes, emotional maturity, perspective on life and everything in between differs with the women of CrossRoads. Women are complex individuals in general. Homeless women are a completely different creature. They are prideful, boundaryless and have no sense of standing on your own and not blaming others for their own situations

2015. Information used from the text explains the myth; Oedipus is represented in Sophocles’ dramatic works. The supernatural depicted in these excerpts explains that Apollo uses man of royalty, and the innocent to undermine the social and religious values, though in the end he sins against man. Oedipus and Jocasta believe in the Gods, but at times question them or the reasons given to them by their ministers. I can use this information to show that even man questions their fate / free will when the

‘Castaway ‘, directed by Robert Zemeckis, is a 2001 film starring Tom Hanks. Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx delivery man whose life is headed in the ‘right direction’, until his plane crashes and he is stranded on an island. He must adapt to his new life on the island; overcoming many obstacles in order to survive. ‘Castaway’ explores three different journeys; physical, inner and imaginative. Chuck Noland is a filmic representation of the philosophy of time equals money equals fulfilment. Zemeckis

Taken", is a profound philosophical approach illustrating the paradox of free will.  In the first line, Frost uses the metaphor "Two roads diverged" (1), to establish not only the dilemma of the traveler in the poem, but life itself.  The decisions we make in life, like the traveler in "The Road Not Taken", are not to be taken lightly.  There is a desire to be adventurous, yet we fear possible regret for 'what might have been'.  Either way, we must live with the choices we make.  "The