What Shall He Tell That Son? By Carl Sandburg

When on the other hand, lies depict an unconfidential way to “protect” the truth from doing unnecessary harm. People lie because they don’t see the truth as necessary, don’t want to hurt anyone, or to help gain love and respect from others. However, this is over powered with the importance of coming into reality because one cannot live in a fantasy created by others meant to shield them from the resentful truth, and of finally “seeing.” All in all, the author’s imagery at the end leaves the reader thinking about the liberation that comes from hope and a fresh start. Lastly, does a lie really protect a loved one from hurt and pain, or is the truth always

I believe that as a Christian we should be as concerned, if not more so, than any other concerned non-believers. We as Christians, have been given the truth about God, His creation and His will. When it comes to His creation He is very detailed about His plans in creating the earth for His people and His purpose (HCSB. Genesis 1:26-30). Sadly, many Christians have fallen into the category quoted by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good." Their time here on earth has been fogged by the aspirations of glory. The contributors of this wasted life is ignorance, greed, and selfishness. Furthermore, our environment suffers for the cause. Nonetheless, this is a major topic of conversation

The Short Story “My Father’s Life,” by Raymond Carver illustrates the difficult task of a son trying to find his own sense of identity and individualism while watching his father’s life unravel. Carver explores the relationships of his parents and his own struggle with sharing the same name with his father and the similarities and differences between them.

The contrast between the son’s first words with his father and his later conversation emphasizes how rapidly he is growing up. At first, the son lovingly exclaims, “not the same story baba, a new one”. However, towards the end, the son’s affectionate speech turns angry, as he shouts,“are you a god, the man that screams?”

Still, through this, the mother sees the children, especially her own son, as fairly innocuous, only posturing as men, but still calm, like "a room full of small bankers". They may be men, she seems to say, but they are gentlemen, and harmless at that. The macho posturing becomes more tangible and tense when one older boy says to a younger one "I could beat you up". This statement puts the reader and the speaker on guard, aware that a change is taking place. One can almost see the mother perk up her ears.

Commonly, people believe that Thomas Jefferson is a hypocrite, due to the fact that one of his most famous quotes is “all men are created equal”. Although that was one of his famous quotes, he owned slaves all throughout his lifetime. The topic over slavery including Thomas Jefferson is extremely controversial today in America.

Even at such a young age the boy is beginning to develop the ability to form morals and values of his own. However, Sarty fears the harshness of his father, so he forces himself to abandon the thought of questioning his father’s judgments as evidenced by his thoughts “Forever he thought. Maybe he’s done satisfied now, now that he has…stopping himself, not to say it aloud even to himself.”

Two distinct points of views can be seen in this poem, one is that of the father and then the son. The father's point of view is more common and used more than that of the son but both displays and add to the complexity of their relationship. From the father’s point of view, he shows his concern for disappointing his son by not coming up with great stories and losing his son as five years old matures which increases his anxiety as he sees the future approaching. The father fears of a fallout in the relationship with his son “...he thinks the boy will give up on his father”(9). The sons point of view

The Civil War, America’s bloodiest conflict, was not lost by Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson or Joseph Johnston. It was lost by a man named Christopher Memminger, the first Treasury Secretary of the Confederate States. Mismanagement of Southern economy was a signal that the South was doomed from the beginning. Money drives every aspect of life, and every aspect of politics. From fundamental beliefs about taxation to everyday life being made impossible by inflation, the Southern economic policy seemed designed to do as much harm to the Confederate States as possible. The Southern economic policy demonstrated that a war can be lost in the wallets and treasuries as easily as it can be lost on the battlefield.

Chaim Shapiro was born in Lomza, Poland. On September 1st, 1939, the Germans invade Poland, quickly annihilating many of the people, including his younger brother Nosson. Soon after the Soviet Union signs a treaty the Germans, giving over Poland to them. Out of fear that he would lose his religion under atheist communist rulership, his mother pleads with him to leave, saying the fateful words “Go My Son.” He leaves war-torn Poland for Vilna, Lithuania, joining with the rest of the Kamenetz Yeshiva. Because of the frequent casualties of war people were forced to move from place to place for safety, because of which he eventually finds himself alone on a train bound Moscow, deep within the Soviet Union. Upon arrival he is sent to work

In the poem, What Shall He Tell That Son written by Carl Sandburg, Sandburg used many statements that show just how contradicting life can be in our world today. “Life is hard; be steel; be rock.” Here Sandburg is trying to get across that sometimes life can be tough and hard to get through, but then he goes on to say, “Life is soft loam; be gentle; go easy.” To contradict his statement about life being hard, Sandburg goes on to say that although life can get you down, always make room to sit down and relax, to go easy and think about all the great possibilities there are to accomplish. Thinking of possible accomplishments is a great way to relax while still getting something done, but Sandburg is also trying to say that goals still need

In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the quote: “Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before" (220) raises the question of what civilization really is. Written by Mark Twain, and published in 1884, the novel Huckleberry Finn follows the travels of a young boy named Huck, who runs away from his abusive father, and partners up with a runaway slave named Jim. As the story progresses, Jim and Huck develop a deep friendship, and Huck begins to value Jim as an independent human, breaking away from his southern way of thinking. The novel explores and satires many aspects of “American life” at that time including civilization’s hypocrisy, as demonstrated by slavery, civilization, human nature, and greed.

Everyone goes through life. It 's weird, to think about the meaning of life. What is life? Why am I here? What is my purpose? Why do we die? It may sound morbid, but these are realistic questions. It is impossible to answer these questions, but to shed some light, this quote from Dr. Suess explains the overall point in life. "Don 't cry because it 's over, smile because it happened." Which leads to the topic that life is about getting to Point B from Point A, but the journey and road to our goals, achievements, accolades, moments, events all create great memories. We must make a lasting impact before we die, that is why we have the drive to live. Treat life as a candy, it 's not going to last forever, but, if you can eat that candy in the most savoring way then you can leave a nice taste in your mouth. Dr Seuss in his story Oh, the places you 'll go!. Seuss proves that there are many destinations in life, one after the other. The point is, that the journey there leaves a mark.

The main focus of Nietzsche writing has been the discovery of self. This discovery of self allows one to become the overman, a being that can be looked at as something higher then humans, yet still not a God. The main opposition to reaching the overman in the Christian Moral Ideal, a set of values that has been instilled in us based on the views of the Christian church. In the text Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Zarathustra begins his path towards self-overcoming. The text, in many respects, represents one man’s journey to self-overcoming. The type of freedom that Zarathustra is endorsing is complete freedom of self. This includes amor fati, which is the love of ones fate. This is meant to mean that pure self-overcoming means accepting all that has

In chapter 2 of the Minima Moralia, Theodor Adorno talks about the disintegrating family unit, the loss of the partitioning between the public and private life. However, there seem to be contradictions, or perhaps entanglements created by virtue of these 2 chapters inhabiting the same text. This essay will attempt to disentangle some of these ideas in a “ludicrous quid pro quo fashion” (Adorno, 1), whilst drawing some assistance from other areas, such as chapter 3, as well. And in doing so, will unravel Adorno’s ideas that violence is inescapable, that certain antagonistic dialectics are necessary, and that not all conflict is bad conflict, thereby ultimately evoking the idea that there is such a thing as benevolent antagonism and