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    Morrie Schwartz, simple man living his life step by step just like he wanted to. Spring of 1979 it was time of graduation for Brandeis University hundreds of students sit and listen to there favorite professor Morrie. Yet there was always Morries favorite bud, Mitch. Mitch was special to Morrie, as the day ended Mitch had promised Morrie he would always keep in touch. As the years roll by without keeping the promise, Mitch became a famous sports writer. Traveling constantly made Mitch forget and

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    Mitch's Visit To Morrie

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    At the beginning of the story Mitch was a self-absorbed person who was only worried about how much money he was making and the latest celebrity gossip. He was basically like any average person his age, he didn’t understand the meaning of living and was mostly worried about trivial pursuits. On his first visit to Morrie’s home, he didn’t run up to greet his professor who he hadn’t seen in about sixteen years instead he ignored the old man who came out of his house to welcome him. Mitch was more interested

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    The writers both have incorporated ideas from the novel Tuesdays with Morrie in the shows. In the Simpsons Homers dad Abie has become sort of like Morrie, he tells a writer his stories who then creates articles and posts them in the newspaper. Just like Morrie many have taken a liking to his experiences. In The Middle Mike’s father-in-law has read Tuesdays with Morrie and has been inspired by the book. He decides that he wants to tell Mike his stories, and have his own Tuesday sessions. I know they

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    Tuesdays With Morrie

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    “Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. if you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say ‘All right, its just fear, I dont have to let it control me. I see it for it is.”(Albom 105) Tuesdays with Morrie is about an old man dying of AlS teaching a younger man, Mitch, how to love, forgive, and be grateful. While reading Tuesdays with Morrie, I found many examples of what someone can learn by reading the book. There

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    What can one learn from Morrie and Mitch? That's the question that can be asked about a thousand people. Whether it be parents, grandparents, friends, friends parents, or total strangers. One can learn a lot from people's mistakes and achievements, but it’s what you do with what you learned that matters the most in life. Either listen, or pay attention, to the things you learn or ignore them. What can one learn from Morrie and Mitch? Well let’s break it down to two questions: what can one learn from

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    Morrie Schwartz, a man with the ALS disease but with that fact stated his personality doesn't show he suffers from a disease. Morrie is a very wise old man and while his last months from being interview and in the spotlight he taught many people about how to live the life they were given, as well as an old student of his by the name of Mitch. Morrie teaches how to live life right by talking about death, Speaking of emotions and the importance of forgiveness. First of Morrie teaches life by speaking

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    The novel, Tuesdays with Morrie, is much like the lyrics “It's the remix to ignition, hot and fresh out the kitchen” from the song “Ignition Remix” by R. Kelly. Tuesdays with Morrie brings you “hot and fresh” life lessons with every new chapter that you can learn from just reading and it sticks to you forever. It’s just like R. Kelly’s remix of his song “Ignition” where it brings you a “hot and fresh” new remix that sticks with you for many years to come. Three of the many life lessons I learned

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    In the Novel Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom illustrates the experience of a man living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Mitch is asked a series of question that question his virtue. Mitch is now opening up the can or worms he buried 10 years ago after grad school. Mitch uncovered that he is not being true to himself. Mitch had been so caught up in the bliss of media that he forgotten the true moral values Morrie indoctrinated. Mitch once promised himself that, “He would never work for

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    has no cure disables a person starting at the legs and continues up till it reaches the head while this happens the person infected slowly dies, but even when dying one man named Morrie continued living and teaching despite being retired. Morrie Schwartz was a retired sociology teacher who was at the time infected with ALS. Although having a disease which was incurable he was still teaching, not sociology but teaching people how to live life. A former student of Morrie, Mitch Albom started to visit

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    Mitch Albom explores a rarely traveled intersection between life and death. Therefore like countless other works, Albom’s writing teaches us about death in a dialectical sense. In Tuesdays with Morrie, Albom uses real life experiences to add first person in sight to his writing when he tells the story of Morrie Schwartz’s last class, ‘The Meaning of Life,’ and his recollection of his life as his time grows shorter. Albom’s narrative does not focus exclusively on death, but instead is used as a reminder

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