Disobedience And Dishonesty In The Little Red Cap And The Neapolitan Soldier

In the final section of the story, the author uses another clear comparison between a duty of soldiers and a simple household task. The sergeant is at home on Christmas thinking that he should be helping his men decide if a person is a “friend or foe” (211). He sits at the table in silence, not engaging in festivities but feeling that he is not carrying out his responsibility to his troops when the sergeants father asks him “White meat, or dark?” (211). This is another obvious strategy that the author uses to convey how common questions can trigger thoughts of war and symptoms of

Being in the war requires a great amount of bravery. I honestly don’t think I can ever be a solider, because I don’t have much bravery. A lot of soldiers talked about cowardice and how it was a dishonor. They wanted to avoid cowardice at all cost. Whenever they were feeling scared they would pretend to be sick.

“On Laziness” by Christopher Morley, is a contradictory essay written using an ironic diction. Morley shows how being lazy is a beneficial characteristic, and how the carefree lifestyle is theoretically improving the lives of many different people. He achieves this by using his style of irony and satire, which made the essay especially effective.

That semester I had to write a ten page paper in two days because my coworker was out and I had nobody to take my place; I worked two weeks in a row without days off. Another of my worst experiences occurred in the English 364 class because the class materials were unavailable ahead of time, so it was a rush to complete assignments when they were due. I misinterpreted the instructions and chose a person that was irrelevant to the class. I was unable to redo the assignment because I never received a grade for it until week seven. In week seven I was busy working on the final project and lacked opportunity or time to redo the assignment and it cost me my grade and dropped my

A true war story is rather difficult, if not impossible, to share when it goes beyond one’s imagination. Regarding such a story, one morally sound aspect about it is that it lacks morality or meaning to it. Extracting facts from a true war story is a daunting task because what seems to happen is what actually occurs. In what is to follow, I will tell one awful true war story.

My freshman year everyone had branched off from me and I was pretty much a loner. I didn’t belong to any sports group, academic club, or extra afterschool curricular. It was just me, myself, and I. on day in English class, with Mrs. Nelson we were all given projects which consisted of various assignments on the topic of The Great Gatsby.” While Mrs. Nelson handed out assignments, fairly easy grades right? So wrong. When Mrs. Nelson handed me my assignment, I wanted to die (not literally). For the assignment I had to write a song based on something from the book. After class I asked her why I was given the assignment and if I was able to change it, what she told me gave me the confidence to complete the project and get that

I enjoyed reading Christopher Morley’s essay, “On Laziness. Though confusing at times, I found it to be overall essay to be insightful and thought provoking. When I first read the essay I understood the gist of the writing, however there were several parts that left me wondering. After carefully rereading numerous times and dissecting each paragraph, line by line, I have a much better understanding and thoroughly enjoyed this reading.

It is one of the most underrated troubles. For it causes many issues in the world, though the blame always seems to fall upon some other reason of cause. Laziness causes people to not want to fulfill their wildest dreams to refusing to do necessary duties. On the island of the lotus eaters, Odysseus faces laziness at its most extreme. The lotus flowers cause people to magically lose their longing for home. Sailors don’t have much control over their laziness, for it was forced upon them by way of magic lotus flowers from the natives. My troubles with laziness come from giving up because something is “too hard”, when really I just am being lazy. It causes me to not work as hard as I should to achieve my goal of having a happy and healthy lifestyle. Laziness in Odysseus’ story and mine are similar because we both lose the lust for our goal. Luckily we can both overcome laziness with hard work and determination, even if Pandora releases it from the box

Christopher Morley’s article “On Laziness” took a much different approach to narrate his thoughts on laziness than expected. He lists the benefits that come from it, instead of scolding us on why we shouldn’t be lazy. Though Morley does emphasize on the positives that come from laziness, he does warn us even if we’re lazy, we must still eventually be able to accomplish your given tasks. Throughout this essay “On Laziness,” Christopher Morley supports his claim that the world would be a better place if we were more lazy by appealing to logic, appealing to logic, appealing to emotions, and including irony.

Christopher Morley presents the topic of laziness as fascinating and rewarding through the use of rhetorical effect and appeal to human nature. Laziness, which is typically portrayed in a negative light, is introduced as something that could help “enlighten” living. He advertises the attractiveness of laziness by appealing to human desire, ethos, and pathos while using a sophisticated diction and amicable tone.

During the Middle Ages, England was a nation in social chaos. Deception of every kind was rampart throughout the lands. Many people felt that there was a great need for moral improvement in society. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales he clearly brings to light his thoughts and concerns of “ethical cleansing.” No tale more fully expresses this idea than that of “The Pardoner’s Tale” and “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.”

Novelist, Christopher Morley, in his essay, “On Laziness,” explains that laziness not only has a negative connotation but it could be beneficial characteristics that affect our lives positively. Morley’s purpose is to argue that currently people in our society always think that laziness has a negative meaning however he implies that laziness can be positive. The author wants his readers of the essay and hard working adults to respects the laziness. Morley supports his implication by a first mocking slothful people, then he describes the attractiveness of indolent people, finally, he discusses their success. Throughout the essay, Morley uses irony, tone, parallelism, and ethos to develop the purpose.

Attention Getter: So I’m pretty sure everyone here has had an important assignment to complete before like a project or essay. And most of us usually plan it out where we do a portion of it every day. For example, something like this chart here. But then the next thing you know, the deadline is fast approaching and you still haven’t come close to completing your assignment. And we end up somewhere like this. Well, I believe that we can all relate to this and we have all done this to ourselves before. I’m talking about procrastination.

Laziness is often looked down upon as something unworthy and unhelpful. Many tend to demote those who are lazy, claiming that they lack responsibility and effort. However, in Christopher Morley’s essay “On Laziness”, he takes on a point of view out of the contrary. In his essay, Morley sees the beneficial factors of being lazy. Morley uses historical examples, logical reasoning, and sophisticated and powerful diction to illustrate the light and positive aspects in laziness.

Knowing I didn’t study, I held in my breath and closed my eyes as he handed me the three sheets of scribbles and sloppily circled answers. Slowly I opened my eyes and looked down at my grade, and there it was, 49%. My first failing grade. My cheeks turned as red as the sharpie the teacher used to mark my paper. Embarrassment and shame crashed over me. Page flip after page flip, I scanned my mistakes and then immediately shoved the papers into my folder. Other classmates were gawking at their success and I didn’t want them to see my failure. That grade haunted my mind for forever, it seemed.