Transcendentalism When an average person seeks happiness, most often they search in the wrong place: "If only I could have that I would be happy." For ages, man has been seeking happiness from outside, not within. People have the misconception that material things and materialistic goals wil...

If you knew that you only had a few months left to live, what would you do? Would you "wither up and disappear", or make the best of your time left. Morrie Schwartz (Tuesdays With Morrie) chose to touch others lives with the knowledge and experience he had gained througout his life as a teacher. ...

The American Dream We would all like to one day live a life of easy success and wealth. In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy believes wholeheartedly in the American Dream, but he never achieves it. In Arthur Miller's eyes, the American Dream is said to be fulfilled when people...

A Review of Elisabeth and Other Poems Elisabeth and Other Poems reflects the many aspects of life, including relationships with family members and other loved ones, religion, and hardships of growing up. Many of these poems explore difficult experiences, such as a battle with Cancer, as well a...

Way before technology, doctors, hospitals and healthcare there has always been mans idea of using something to further the human race or make it better. Shamans know hundreds and hundreds of plants that have different uses for different things. Certain animals have also been evolving and making cert...

"Dying Well" Death is one of the main pillars to Life because it proves that nothing is living forever, and everything in life even life itself will end. Death is part of the life every creature in this earth. Everybody is written to die someday by God either a good death or a bad death. Altho...

Leo Tolstoy is one of the greatest writers of the last two hundred years. His novels tend to convey an insight on life; whether it be about suffering, death, religion, art, or education. Tolstoy was a man with many strong beliefs, and one must understand these beliefs to fully understand the meaning...

The Duality of Human Nature Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher, left us a very important heritage giving knowledge and understanding of the ancient Greek way of thinking that can be applied to modern world. One of the most memorable words of wisdom, "Bad men live that they may eat and dr...

"Everyman" is a medieval allegory and also classified as a morality play that is majorly devoted to the demonstration of how temporary everything in life is as death approaches, except good deeds. We witness the struggle of salvation that takes place throughout the play by the main char...

"The Rocking-Horse Winner" was written by D.H. Lawrence. This is a story about a young boy who is desperately searching for luck and money in order to please his unhappy mother. In the end, this search leads to Paul's untimely death. One can easily view this story as a fantasy in which Paul b...

Life is not always what it is cracked up to be. Hardships, struggle, and crisis happen every minute of every day. We go through life not really knowing or understanding what life really is about. Essentially, to have a life you must be alive, but that is not necessarily the most important aspect. Fo...

In 1886, Tolstoy wrote a story entitled, The Death of Ivan Ilych, which is about a man who discovers that he lived his life in vain. The story of Ivan Ilych offers commentary on the bourgeois class, and it's effect on the human soul. Ivan Illych lived his life trying to conform to a set standar...

One of the characteristics of the Romantic Movement was exploring nature and natural phenomena. This can be observed in two works of the era, "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. Both works followed a script common in the Romantic Era, there is a brooding p...

The Living World How often is the soul of man, especially that of the child, deprived because one does not put him in contact with nature. There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all the life to be found around them, in a real fore...