Emotion

Everyone endures a different type of life. During a deep sleep, I envision the spirits of my past, present, and future shaping me into the best version of myself through the use of my older sister. The past spirit showing me the negative aspects of my character. The present spirit showing me the growth and…

In Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour,” Louise Mallard emerges as a newly freed slave after the untimely death of her husband. Within the context of the story, it being written in a time of a male-dominated society, Louise’s joy with her new life without her husband seems radical. An even more…

Motivation is the desire for change from either external (extrinsic) or personal (intrinsic) forces guiding human behavior to accomplish set goals. In order to better understand behavior and help to correct problems that may arise, psychologists have set forth several different theories. The best-known theory explaining the principle motivators driving human behavior is the physiological…

The Never-Ending Guilt of Stealing Many times in life, people do things that they regret doing later on, and it often comes back to haunt them. This can often cause fear and paranoia in one’s life. In Gary Soto’s autobiographical narrative, he steals a pie from a German market, and then feels guilty about the…

What causes guilt? There are many things in life that cause guilt. Some of those things are; doing wrong, lying, and cheating. One of those things is when someone does something he or is not supposed to do. An example would be smoking or drinking. If someone were raised in a Christian home and knew…

To what extent do personal attributes affect Ways of Knowing and why, if at all, does answering this question matter in the first place? Personal attributes affect Ways of Knowing is a large way, however answering this question is still important. Personal attributes are traits or characteristics that make people individuals. Personal attributes can be…

Joe is certainly one ‘of God’s sort’, in fact a ‘gentle Christian man’, and his ‘industrious good heartedness stands out so boldly’.9 His capacity for forgiveness is immense, especially for his father, who despite having ‘hammered away at [his] mother’, Joe creates a poem: ‘what sume’er the failings on his part/Remember reader he were that…