Life is Hard‚ Life is Difficult My message today is titled Life is hard” and it’s about how to live a great life despite the fact that life is difficult. Everybody wants to be happy in life. We all want to live a perfect life. We want that great job or a successful business. We want to be married to Mr. Right or Mrs Perfect. We want to have great kids. We want to have friends that stick by us come rain or shine. We want to be able to have all the material things life has to offer and have all
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LIVING LIFE WITHOUT AN ARM OR LEG The metaphor “cost an arm and a leg” is an expensive and bold statement. The subtext of this idiom is that the price may be exorbitant and nobody knows exactly how life would be without our limbs‚ unless they were tragically removed. The life change without limbs would make us realize the value and purpose of each limb. The reflection now changes to those born handicapped or without limbs in order to make the healing transition less devastating. The overall
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Unexamined Life Not Worth Living? As one of the most influential philosophers‚ Socrates was known as a man who believed in “striving to make oneself as good a person as possible”1. Many of his teachings revolved around his idea that “an unexamined life is no life for a human being to live”2. As a student of philosophy‚ I believe in this way of life due to the following considerations. The central point of Socrates’ proposal is that in order to be human‚ one must actively examine life. People must
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Throughout the soliloquy‚ Hamlet talks about death; in fact‚ his first words are‚ “To be or not to be-‚” meaning to be alive or dead that is his question (III i 64). The idea of‚ ‘is life worth living’ continues not only throughout the speech‚ but also throughout the play. Furthermore‚ Hamlet continues by saying‚ “To die‚ to sleep-/No more-and by sleep to say we end/The heartache and the thousand natural shocks‚” which is stating that dying
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For one to live their life to the fullest‚ a person must have a purpose to live. One must have a reason to wake up every day and feel the sun shine or the rain fall‚ as cold as ice‚ on your skin. A law of life is necessary for one to have this sense of a calling as to why they walk the earth every solitary twenty-four hour day. A law of life is to surround yourself with people who make you a better person‚ inside and out. This holds accurate because the people your surround yourself with can either
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degree rape‚ which could warrant anywhere up to a life time in prison‚ to a simple charge of unlawful fondling of a child. Instead of doing 5 years in prison‚ he got out in 2 months and a year of probation. The attorney who defended this man in court was none other than Hillary Rodham‚ who of course would later become Hillary Clinton. Hillary did not only defend this man‚ but she lied about the circumstances under which she did so. In her book Living History‚ Hillary wrote the following: “[Prosecuting
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Living Wills Imagine yourself lying in a hospital bed oblivious to the world around you‚ unable to move or show any signs of life. Your own existence controlled by an I.V.‚ a respiratory machine‚ and a feeding tube. In essence‚ you are dead. Your body is no longer able to sustain life. Your life’s entire purpose is now replaced by a machine. You are being kept alive by artificial means. At this point‚ the question arises: Should you be kept alive by these means or should you be allowed to
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Living Wills‚ sometimes called Advanced Directives‚ are legal documents accepted in all 50 states. They clearly define a person’s wish to decline life-support or medical treatment in certain circumstances‚ usually when death is imminent. Generally‚ a living will takes effect when a person becomes terminally ill‚ permanently unconscious or conscious with irreversible brain damage. <br> <br>A living will also allows a person to state with particularity the forms of treatment are wanted and not wanted
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torture and neglect the black race. The goal of the black lives matters movement is to stop the violence and the killing of innocent black people by the police. Black lives matter is a diverse moment that aims to bring equality and to strengthen our community. Black lives matter believe that we can put an end to police brutality by coming together in unity as a community. A saying goes that “divided we fall united we stand”. I am a living witness of police bias. On my moving day to St Bonaventure
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Meaning in life (Wolf‚ 2010) Introduction Susan Wolf is known as a philosopher‚ she wrote a book in 2010 known as Meaning In Life And Why It Matters. In this book Wolf give a sophisticated philosophical argument on the importance of meaningfulness in life. This book consist of two short lectures here I am going to summarize the first lecture of this book she mainly attributes the idea of meaningfulness in life and present this idea in such a way as it look well-intentioned for ourselves and for others
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