What Is The Purpose Of The Emperor's Three Questions

The Past, an ever growing pool of time, is always biting at the heels of a person. It reminds him of what they have done wrong, done right, or when he did nothing. For most people, recalling the past leads to loose ends and blanks where memories should be. No matter how much a person may want to return to the past, it is not possible. It is lost forever. These forgotten moment lead to uncertainties and confusion in the present, and chaos in the future. Forgetting the past leads to spirals, spinning downwards as people look to what they have lost. They retrace their steps hoping to find a sliver of who they are and what may become of them. In the poem, Itinerary, Eamon Grennan shows how an individual searches through his past, but can never return to it. Through the poem and with a personal experience I will explain how individuals deal with uncertainties in their pasts.

In When the Emperor was Divine, the author, Julie Otsuka, uses her choice of narrator to represent the overall image of Japanese Americans throughout the war. At the beginning of the first chapter, the narrator is the mother who is very proper and clearly trying to fit in. This is demonstrative of how Japanese Americans were treated like any other citizen before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After the attack, the Japanese Americans became isolated and hated and were forced to leave their homes. When the mother receives an evacuation notice, she has to pack up and hide all of her family's possessions. The family has an old dog and she decides that she has no choice but to kill it. The Americans saw anyone with Japanese heritage as brutes who have no compassion and it is this belief that causes the mother to have to commit and brutal action. By using the mother as the first narrator, Otsuka depicts the change of the overall opinion of the Japanese Americans.

Life is short. It is a realization that can take years to realize, and even longer to affect one’s actions. Especially after a loss, the absence of this knowledge can cause many regrets about the past, and what should have been done. In his book Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury argues that being conscious of the fact that you only have a certain amount of time on the Earth gives you a better understanding of how to live life in a way that will leave the least amount of regret.

For my entire life I have been living on the sidelines of Man’s quarrels and accomplishments. Feasting on human history, preparing for the future of the civilization that we have forged over the ages. While peering into our collective past, the greatest of struggles we have ever faced was our pension for peering into great unknown and being afraid of what lies within. Refusing to look further into

The ruler experiences normal life, having to endure hardship, and the loss of a friend. He doesn't get what he wants, as he normally would as a king. Through this grief and

There is only so much time life offers to make the most of. Oedipus King by Sophocles, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, all offer a great demonstration of why life is to be lived in the moment. Life is meant to be lived in the present, not the past or the future. It can only be lived by accepting reality, which allows individuals to move on in life to conquer greater achievements. Subsequently, owning up to the consequences that are caused by the decisions made in life, will allow individuals to forward in life. Ultimately, having the motivation to make a change in life may actually be achieved. Individuals can only move forward in life with honesty, which reinforces the importance of being true to oneself for the reason that everyone else is taken.

Even a king who is superior in status has challenges that he must face. Facing obstacles, helps one's character to develop ultimately rendering one to be a stronger individual. Conjointly, without those irksome experiences life will seem boring. In fact,

In the short story ‘’The Emperor’s Three Questions’’ by Leo Tolstoy a certain emperor began to ponder about these three questions, ‘’ 1. What is the best time to do something? 2. Who are the most important people to work with? , and 3. What is the most important thing to do at all times? ‘’. The emperor began to ask his kingdom about these questions but he received unrealistic and unsatisfying answers. As a result of this failure the emperor reached out to a wise hermit who lived on a mountain. Through a series of events the hermit revealed to him the answers to his queries by utilizing the emperor’s past enemy. However, the enlightened hermit did not reveal the answers all at once. The hermit probably could’ve easily just told the emperor the answer to his questions but then the emperor

Like, we learn from our mistakes or previous decisions pave the way. Unfortunately for us, we have ruined so many things with that attitude… “Way back in the days when the grass was still green and the pond was still wet and the clouds were still clean, and the song of the Swomee-Swans rang out in space…,” Seuss, D. (1971). The Lorax. We don’t even seem to care about the things around us. We only seem to care about the now. Not the future and we don’t pay attention to what happened in the past! “No more trees. No more Thneeds. No more work to be done,” Seuss, D. (1971). The Lorax. Ultimately, there will be no more of anything. No more work to be done! The past is full of hints, lessons, facts. Put them all together and it’s a solution. Just don’t do exactly the same things people in the past have and don’t do things just because it’s what people

“And every full grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he would not become famous.” (206)

His questions are already answered. The emperor wanted the answers to the three questions. He asked the people for other answers but he didn't like them at all. He decided to go to the mountains to ask the Hermit. Hermit doesn't answer the questions, The emperor helps dig his garden. They saw a man with a bloody gash and they tried to save his life. When they woke up they realized that they were enemies. The guy with the bloody gash was the emperor's enemy. The theme of the story is be patient and wait for answers.

‘’The world as it exists today is only a product of its past,’’ is a lesson that really is important to me, and gets me thinking. The fact that everything we do can affect the future, and its inhabitants inspires me to think before acting, and consider the consequences. We never know when our actions will cause a chain reaction, that shapes our life.The men back in the Age of Chivalry didn't know that acting like gentlemen would cause men in the future to act the same way.(Gombrich page 140 A Little History of the World) Also, the people who fought so hard for the ways of the Enlightenment would never have guessed that they are the reason most people today treat others the way they want to be treated with tolerance, patience, and respect.(Gombrich

Expresses the fact that people have made mistakes in the past, and some others continued to make those same mistakes. But why do these mistakes keep reoccurring? It happens because some people, don’t pay much attention from what happened before, or some others, just don’t happen to have it matter to them. Hitler for example tried to invade Russia during winter, Napoleon tried this before, and failed, once hitler made his way to Russia, the battle was lost, Russia had won

It is a big effort to analyze the historical buildings for all Five Good Emperors. This is more text, and it should be done as presentation, and you can use PPT. I agree with Christopher, and as he said, he has a presentation with mostly audio, and mine has more text and visual stuff. If you focus on a single building during the time period of Five Good Emperors, it would be better. Overall, I like your text information about Five Good Emperors.

“Today I understand something I didn’t before: every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” (Coelho 60) In The Alchemist, the idea that everyone has a mission in life is critical. Most people ignore their purpose, and choose to do something safe or easy. When Santiago decides to chase his dream, it becomes a blessing, as he meets the love of his life, learns to be courageous and understand the world. Had Santiago not gone to pursue his Personal Legend, he would not have learned the world’s ways, he wouldn’t have become wise, and his life would’ve likely become monotonous as a shepherd. This is in a way, a curse.