Like Sisyphus

As a young boy, I never truly put much into school. I put as little thought about college as well, but it took one moment that made me want the desire to succeed in my life and make something of it. Working for 12 straight hours in the middle of the hot sun, making minimum wage wasn't how I wanted to live. Going to multiple jobs and having to work all weekend, even during school occasionally was extremely difficult. This just gave me that extra drive to be more superior than anyone else. Yet, I never gave up and still pushed to be the best student I could be. Staying up late nights just to finish homework so I was able to make the best grade in class. The simplest moments in life made we want to be the best

The Myth of Sisyphus tells of a mortal who was punished by the gods to push a rock to the top of a mountain which would then roll back to the bottom where he was to start pushing again. Sisyphus was to continuously repeat this task or all of eternity. Many similarities in philosophies can be seen between this myth and The Stranger, both authored by Albert Camus. In The Stranger, Meursault often noted what interested and disinterested him, similarly, the narrator of the myth mentions that Sisyphus return trip down the mountain peaks his interest. Additionally, Meursault never developed any faith in a higher power which correlates to the narrator of the myth stating, “...there is no higher destiny” (Camus, paragraph 9). Next, Meursault clearly

With everything going on with the upcoming presidential election, the political community has been very prominent in society the past several months. While doing research on myths, I came across The Myth of Sisyphus and immediately made many connections between the two subjects. Both of these topics have a lot to do with manipulation and deception. With politics especially, people today have a lot of opinions on the dynamics of that community. They both deal with continuous repetition and constantly giving your all to make accomplish a task. What is interesting though is exactly to what extent can The Myth of Sisyphus be related to our modern day political community?

Once upon a time, there lived a king named Sisyphus, who deceived others for personal gain. One day, he exposed Zeus’s affair with Aegina and was punished to push a boulder up a mountain for all eternity.

In Greek Mythology, Sisyphus, a sinner condemned to eternally roll a rock up and down a hill, is believed to be a man who lives a meaningless life. Envision the idea that we are able to give Sisyphus a drug that makes Sisyphus want to roll a rock up a hill for all eternity. Would Sisyphus’s meaningless life be revived with meaning as a result? In this paper, I will explain what it means to have a meaningful life and argue that Sisyphus’s life will still remain meaningless.

School is the most important to me. I try so hard to keep up on my grades and because I don’t want to disappoint my parents or if my future jobs or my kids look back on it and I will hopefully be a role model and they follow my steps and say I want to be like her. My parents push me to get good grades. My parents are pretty strict but not in a way that you are probably thinking. If I asked to go out with friends or to like a football game or basketball they asked me if I have my stuff done and they will check my grades and wouldn’t be able to unless I had good grades. I might have been so

Now, let's talk about the charitable gift annuity. A charitable gift annuity is a simple contract between the donor and the charity. In exchange for the donor's irrevocable gift of cash, securities, or other assets, the charity agrees to pay one or two annuitants that the donor has named a fixed sum each year for life. The payments are backed by the general resources of the charity. The older their designated annuitants are at the time of the gift, the greater the fixed payment charity can agree to pay. In most cases, part of each payment is tax free, increasing each payment after tax value. If the donor gives appreciated property, the donor will pay capital gains tax on only part of the appreciation. In addition, if the donor names themselves as the first or only annuitant, the capital gains tax will be spread over many years rather than all due in the year of their gift.

I hated k-12 school up until my junior year of high school. I hated the busy work, the homework, how long school took and just the fact that we were forced to go. If it weren’t for sports to keep me sane I probably would have dropped out of school (no not kidding). Then one day something just clicked (crossroad) and I started to see the reason behind the madness. I started to see why teachers pushed me and why it was necessary to go to school and even college. I saw that my goals were within reach, but that I had to apply myself way more than I was currently if I wanted to reach them. I was challenged to take charge of certain things in my life and able to establish new plans and goals. I do however still find myself coming to crossroads often and being “forced” to pick a direction and go with it.

I hated that stupid rock. I couldn’t move it, climb over it, or swim through the river around it. That wouldn’t count. Part of me hoped that the rock would tip over and fall into the water so I could laugh as it tumbled away, but I knew I couldn’t be that lucky. I wanted to kick it halfway across the globe or punch it up until it was nothing but rubble. I couldn’t though, because it’s a rock, I’m a human and human-rock relations just don’t work that way. Maybe I would get lucky and someone from Romania would randomly decide to make a display of gigantic stones from around the world. I wondered if the rock would pity me and move out of the way if I cried. But it’s a rock, rocks don’t seem to have emotions.

An average person spends about 9% of his or her life in school. That’s roughly 14,000 hours in school from the time you enter kindergarten, until the time you graduate high school. Growing up we almost always swear that going to school is the worst possible thing our parents could ever make us do. We thought of it as a punishment rather than a privilege. I had these same emotions majority of my school career, until I met the one teacher who made me excited to come to school every day.

Homelessness is one of the tragedies that one can face unexpectedly or where one can choose to be as well as being homeless by taking your own risk, which can be positive or negative, intentionally or not intentionally such as family breakdown or leaving a house where you could have been able to live there. Many people are sleeping rough while others are also finding it difficult to secure housing due to the regulations that govern the whole issues on homelessness legislation that is, being entitled for or not entitle for what you will be expecting. Some multi agency workers working under homeless people can also be an advantage of helping homeless people to settle yet there are some people that still needs help to settle down through

Plato and Aristotle made and still have make a huge impact upon mankind, which makes people question their original values.Although Aristotle and Plato had many distinctions both of them impact many different arguments referring to the important components of life.. The two philosophers were crucial to the development of rethoric and made a big impact on society.. Although most of the attitudes towards them where indisputable, many citizens did not agree with them changing people’s perceptions, fearing that they wouldn’t have the ignorance they did before and would strive more for their rights. Plato and Aristotles both talk about how Truth and truth differ and how they denote what is the real meaning of each one of the truth’s and how

My schooling and education are the most important things to me. But it hasn’t always been that way. I honestly didn’t start caring about my education or schooling until I came to Coloma. Don’t get me wrong Benton Harbor Area Schools aren’t bad it was just so hard for me to focus there and the work was way too easy. Making the switch to Coloma has been the best thing for my education. My first semester here was so hard. I was failing test and getting bad grades. I just didn’t understand. I then realized it’s not the school it was me I wasn’t trying hard enough. So I tried harder and now my grades are better than ever and I have big dreams about college and the life after that. Making that switch has taught me I’m much more than people and I expect me to be.

The purpose of Richard Taylor’s, “The Meaning of Life,” is to portray the life of Sisyphus in Albert Camus’s, “The Myth of Sisyphus,” as a meaningless life, in which Taylor portrays as a “perfect image of meaninglessness.” In Camus’s story, Sisyphus has committed certain crimes that got him into trouble with the gods. Hence, receiving a punishment by being forced to push a rock up a hill. However, to make it even worse, once he reached the top of the hill, the rock would just roll back down to the bottom, therefore having to repeat this labor for eternity. The motivation behind this discipline was to demonstrate the pointlessness of life since there was no want to demonstrate his life will never end. The question of what’s the meaning of life is compelling to think about, but the more time spent doing it the more fascinating it gets. There are ways to avoid having a meaningless life, but Taylor’s theory sticks to either living a happy life or a meaningless life.

When I was a kid, school for me was waking up early in the morning. I also have to study a lot in school, then after school I have to do homework. I remember my first day at school. My mom and dad, both were so happy and prepared but I was so nervous and cheerless. I didn’t like to wake up early in the morning for school , but as time flew by I started loving school which made me wake up with energy instead of tiredness. I began to enjoy the school as I made new friends and I got to know how it is like when you meet people out of your neighborhood. With my friends I had lunch together and study together. I started to understand what the purpose of the education system. Based on what I understood I think the purpose of education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn to be on their own. In this journey of education I had a lot of positive and few negative experiences,but the negative experiences also helped me growing. Positive experiences are my teachers helping me improve, and I improved more when I moved to the United States.