Life beyond

soldiers should experiment and explore different ways of living or approaching life as American society had in the previous 19th century. Thus, the dream

For my summer reading, I chose to read Mountains Beyond Mountains: the Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World. I chose this book without reading the description and mainly based my selection on the great reviews for this book online as well as the fact that the author, Tracy Kidder, had won a Pulitzer Prize in the past. Ultimately, this book turned out to be as remarkable as the reviews stated it was. 2. Paul Farmer had a very unusual upbringing in Massachusetts, Alabama, and

In his article, A Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love’, Gordon Marino discusses his conferences with his students about figuring out what their love to do is. Many times Marino comes across students who are doing what they need to do to pass through life, not what they want to do. “Many of them are used to delivering papers at 5 a.m., slinging shingles all day or loading trucks all night.They are accustomed to doing whatever they need to do to help out their families.” (Marino 2) Throughout the article

lived centuries ago valued. Nowadays, people strive to see characters focus on loving and taking care of others to get what they want. In fact, people can gain this satisfaction through people they can possibly meet in real life. Tracy Kidder, the author of the book Mountains Beyond Mountains, introduces his audiences to Dr. Paul Farmer, a man accountable for his tremendous work for his

In the past one hundred years, multiple events have led to people questioning the basis of human nature. The World Wars, 9/11, the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War are all just a few instances that challenged the perception of the extent to which humans have the capacity to maliciously and savagely harm one another. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies serves as a perfect fictional example of such questioning. Set on an island during World War II, a group of British schoolchildren

of the Western world’s deepest thinkers because he calls so many things into question. He felt that everyone would benefit greatly by questioning everything. In 1887 he wrote On the Genealogy of Morality to expand on his ideas he expressed through Beyond Good and Evil. On the Genealogy of Morality consists of three different essays that question and critique the value of our moral judgements. The first and the one I will focus on, being ‘Good and Evil’, ‘Good and Bad,’ in which Nietzsche discusses

morality. This group of people do not set values and morals, but create them. They use the term “good” when referring to themselves, and use the term “bad” when referring to the “slaves”, “who by virtue are of their weakness are not capable of living the life of self-affirming physical exuberance” (Nietzsche 1884). Correspondingly, the slaves end up developing hatred for their masters and

In Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder documents and admires the work of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard University graduate with a Ph. D. in medical anthropology. Kidder becomes interested in Farmer’s character, philosophies, and motives, so he shares Farmer’s story to inspire others to be the change they want to see in the world. He writes about the doctor’s compassion towards those stricken by poverty, particularly in Haiti and Peru, and tells the story of Farmer’s aid to them. Tracy Kidder, the

someone to quit a job that is necessary in order to provide for something bigger than oneself, that working or indulging in comfortable positions makes people miss out on the traditional connection of talent and duty. In Dr.Marino 's article, " A Life Beyond Do What You Love", he creates an effective argument about the traditional standard of self-fulfillment which is the capability of being able to avoid indulging in personal interests in order to serve something bigger than oneself. He builds his

“Dokte Paul.” the first part of the book titled Mountains Beyond Mountains, begins when author and journalist Tracy Kidder first met Dr. Farmer in Haiti. Kidder describes Dr. Farmer as a “big-shot” Boston doctor who has chosen to do humanitarian-type work in Haiti even though he could have an easy career as a lecturer back in Boston. Kidder realizes that Dr. Farmer is the atypical doctor who would rather get to know his patients as people and cares about their health holistically instead of just