...Reflections on Man’s Search For Meaning INT 101 Dr. Walker December 4 2013 Thomas Jefferson wrote – “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”1 The pursuit of happiness seems to be the end game for life, but is it? Viktor Frankl is a concentration camp survivor and goes one level deeper in his book Man’s Search For Meaning. Finding the true meaning in life is the key to self-actualization. Frankl quotes the words of Fredrich Nietzsche – “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”2 Frankl reveals what life was like in the concentration camps. He also discusses Logotherapy, which he created. Frankl was subjected to four different Nazi camps and was dehumanized to a mere number: 119,104. Moreover, Nazis murdered his wife, mother, father, and unborn child, yet Frankl was able to find a purpose for living in all his sufferings. Frankl goes into detail on the concentration camps. Life was hell on earth. What appeared to him was the mind’s power to protect. The longer the stay, the more numbing all human emotion became. There are some behaviors I would like to highlight. They are strong and appear based on Frankl’s experiences in the camps. Hope People died daily in the camps. The guards played a finger game. They would randomly point, and if you were picked, you died. The simple act of pointing delivered your fate. Prisoners who focused on the WHY to live had a better chance at survival. Frankl determined that a youthful face and eagerness to work increased...
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...Academic Freedom Kimberly Melnick Amystique Y. Harris Church Wilmington University Reviewed by: Dr. Edward M. Jackson, Educational Consultant/Professor Academic freedom is a complex and at times, abstract concept that is not easily defined. The common goal of society depends upon the search for knowledge and its full exposition. Academic freedom in universities is essential to both these purposes in teaching function of the university as well as in its scholarship and research. Academic staff shall not be hindered or impeded in anyway by the university or faculty association from exercising their legal rights as citizens, nor shall they suffer any penalties because of the exercise of such legal rights. The parties agree that they will not infringe or abridge the academic freedom of any member of the academic community. Academic members of the community are entitled, regardless of prescribed doctrine, to freedom in carrying out research and in publishing the results thereof, freedom of teaching and of discussion, freedom to criticize the university and the faculty association, and freedom from institutional censorship. Academic freedom does not require neutrality on the part of the individual. Rather, academic freedom makes commitment possible. Academic freedom carries with it the duty to use that freedom in a manner consistent with the scholarly obligation to base research and teaching on an honest search for knowledge. USA case law seems at first...
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...it used to be. America was simple a great dream like pioneers on the plain. It seems like the author is saying that America has changed to something that is unfamiliar and new to society. America was a place of love and romance; a place where no king was up to schemes or no man was better than another. “O, let my land be a land where Liberty - Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, - Equality is in the air we breathe. (There's never been equality for me, - Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")” By the author saying “let my land be a land where Liberty – Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath”. The author is saying give everyone the opportunity to live the American way and not have double standards for certain race or groups of people. Let Americans live the good American way without judgments or harsh radical. The opportunity for freedom is available for all people that walk on the land of freedom. “I...
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...the land of freedom, justice, and opportunities. All your dreams will come true if you come to this country. Sadly This is not true , Many of the people who came here have wanted a better life for themselves and for their children ,but they really do not know what is going to happen to them. They decide to move away from their places from the place which they born at and come here. They thought America is like a money fountain, they though that they can find work easily and we will be rich in small amount of time. Sadly that’s never happens. The American dream never can true expect to those who are rich already .You come to this country, you work, you receive a lot of money, you buy a very big and beautiful house, you have perfect kids, and you then decide to buy an expensive car so it can match your social status. The idea of moving up the social ladder is attractive, yet it is literally nothing but a dream , not a lot of people can go up this ladder some of them just stay at the same level and some of them should thanks god that they are not going down this imaginary ladder. The American Dream is that dream of a nation in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, no different between black man or white man, Christian girl or muslim girl with hjab and also Jews men and woman should be the Same ,no different between no one. I belief that every person has the chance to achieve success. and this dream only going to come true for those who...
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...JEmma Goldman: The Most Dangerous Anarchist in America Emma Goldman, known as the most dangerous anarchist in America, committed her life on absolute freedom. The definition of absolute freedom in the mind of Goldman is the freedom of expression, freedom of free love, equality and independence for women, and worker’s rights. Although Goldman took many risks to fight for these freedoms; however, at the end she was left with disappointments, still she never gave up. Goldman believes in the liberty, harmony, and social justice of modern society. A true non-conformist is a person who takes risks and committed to make changes in the society that will have benefits. Emma Goldman is a true non-conformist for the risks she took to challenge the idea...
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...in need to embark a search for knowledge based on a foundation of solid truths. Descartes establishes that in order to doubt his present opinions, he needs simple reasons, and rather than doubt his all his opinions individually, he has to admit that the entirety of his beliefs is wrong. Everything the author accepts as true he has come to learn from his senses, and though the senses can sometimes deceive with objects that are either very small or far away, he admits that our sensory knowledge is sturdy. In the Second Meditation, after making the choice to doubt everything, the author comes to the conclusion that his body and his senses must not exist, but does that mean he himself does not exist either? And if one doubts the existence of his or her body and senses, then the rest of the world must not exist either, therefore, one is persuaded that he himself does not exist. This leads the author to the conclusion that he exists, since he was there to be persuaded. Descartes reasons that while we must doubt everything, "doubting" is a form of thinking, which is solid proof that the he that is doing the thinking exists, and is a thinking thing. If something is believed to be true by the majority or the ruling class, does not necessitate it to be true. John Stuart Mill in On Liberty emphasizes three types of liberty; the first one he discusses to no coincidence is the freedom of thought. Mill argued that for an opinion or belief to be considered true, they must be challenged...
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...of her. Edna’s inner self, on the other hand, is the one that questions her outer self and is authentic to who she truly is when free of society’s norms. As the novel progresses, Edna’s desire to identify more with her inner self rather than conforming to her outer self increases; Edna begins to devote more time towards her paintings and furthermore, moves out from her residency with her husband. However, in the process of accepting her inner self, Edna is no longer able to fit in as a functioning member of society. She as a result becomes frustrated and depressed. Furthermore, not even those who are closest to her (for example, Robert) are able to understand her needs and desires. As a result comes the ending: Edna’s ultimate death in a search for independence (her swim out to the sea). Such ending comes as a shock with no real solution for Edna other than death. However, such ending is conclusive because of its realistic parallels to society that Chopin is trying to highlight. Chopin’s ending of the book serves as a commentary of society’s expectations of women. Chopin’s main message, as highlighted through the ending, is the expectations society places onto women is an ultimatum forcing women to either conform to its norms or to reject its norms, but face rejection as well. Because of the present society, women are unable to balance both lending to women’s continued subordination and lack of expression. The setting of the ending of the novel takes place at the sea. Edna has...
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...“philosophical movement oriented toward two major themes the analysis of human existence and the centrality of human choice.” If is a philosophy that implies that one can define his own value or meaning of life in a peace that is void of meaning. There’s also an implication that one has the freedom to choose his or own path. Existentialism is a belief that one has the freedom to make his or her own choices and with his freedom comes individuality, authenticity and responsibility. In order to possess a certain amount of individuality you must have a certain amount of freedom to think in a way that conducive to your way of life. In other words, existentialism is the essence of humanity, the thing that makes us different from anyone and anything else in the world. Merriam-Webster defines freedom as the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint; the quality or state of being free: as a: the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action; liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another. Some years ago when there was slavery, people of color had to do as they were told, they had no freedom. They were told when they could use the restroom, which water fountain to drink from, they had no say so. They couldn’t change the status of slavery unless they were killed or died. Even if they changed owners they was still considered a slave. Victor Frankl’s time and experiences...
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...It is very important for people to know to know their true identity for many reasons. One of those reasons happens to be behavior, because a person’s actions revolve around that person’s beliefs, which reflect on their true identity. Another reason why a person should their true identity is because of friendship, which is a huge thing in life. A person’s true identity shows what groups they hang out in, and it determines whether that person is “fake”, which means that person acts a certain way to certain people, but that person does not want to act that way. Hercules and April struggle with finding their identities because they have not realized what benefits come from knowing your identity, and they just want to fit in with everyone else, which is not always a good thing. Other than the fact that they both struggle to find their true identity, Hercules and April have many similarities. One of those similarities has to do with everyone’s common struggle, and that is fitting in....
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...The basic framework of the theory states that due to natural laws of the universe that everything obeys, there can be no such thing as freedom. Sir Isaac Newton is incorrect in his theory, physical determinism does not indicate whether or not freedom is possible in our reality. Like many other scientists, Sir Isaac Newton believed in the concept of universal causation. Universal causation means simply that there is a cause for everything that occurs in the universe, and that one event leads to another event. In Ethics: Theory and Practice by Jacques P. Thiroux and Keith W. Krasemann, they point out that most scientists believe in this for one main reason. In their search for reasoning and acuity for predictions freedom is physically not possible. Thiroux and Krasemann tell us Sir Isaac Newton was a firm believer that, “…our entire realm of nature and the universe is governed by natural laws…” (4). Many of the laws that he speaks of are the ones that he discovered himself, such as his famous three laws and the law of gravity. Sir Newton reasoned that, because humans are also physical beings, they controlled by these laws. There are some issues that arise from this theory however. Thiroux and Krasemann go on to point out that if all of these laws are completely true then there is no true freedom for anyone.(4) If there is truly no freedom then we are all bound just by the laws that Sir Newton talks about. Humans are no more or less than any other being. This would also...
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...Jack Kerouac’s novel, On the Road, is about the journey of a young college-age man across the country in search of something more from his life in post-war America. The book revolves around a young man named Sal Paradise, and the whole story is told from his perspective. The rambling writing, while hard to understand sometimes, offers a detailed record of his pursuit and the ensuing antics. The story starts in 1947 where Sal meets a man named Dean Moriarty, a lively and animated man who was a “sideburned hero of the snowy West” (Kerouac 2). It was Dean who prompted Sal’s adventurous travels west. Along the way, Dean and Sal befriend Carlo Marx, an energetic young poet who shares the same view of wanting something a little more out of life. Sal’s journeys across the U.S. and to Mexico open his eyes to the good and bad, the up and downs in life. His constant stints on the road with madman Dean sometimes got him in trouble with the law. Other times, the trips allowed Sal to truly find out more about himself, and relate to Dean on a more personal level to share and connect The meaning behind the title On the Road lies in Sal’s innate desire for something more. The road in this novel comes to symbolize freedom and the solution to answer life’s problems. Sal constantly finds a refreshing sense of purity once he hits the open road, especially in the company of Dean, whose spirit was the catalyst for the voyages in the first place. However, once Sal and Dean get to Mexico City...
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...taking the verbal and physical abuse as a result. King also participated in nonviolent protest during the March on Washington, using his words to effectively inspire and rally thousands. “Let Freedom Ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside.” Freedom is something that is taken for granted until it is taken away. The United States was founded on Democracy, and freedom is the basis for Democracy. King uses the word freedom as a noun twenty times in his speech. The March on Washington was arranged as a March for Jobs and Freedom. King repeats freedom over and over again in his speech not only as a literary strategy, but also to appeal to the audience's emotion. One hundred years earlier Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves. African Americans were given freedom from slavery that day, but not from the injustices of racism. One hundred years had passed, and still African-Americans were not treated equally. Freedom from slavery was given, but true freedom, the ability to go where they wanted, do what they wanted, and say what they wanted, was yet to be achieved. King proclaims the need to “Let Freedom Ring” to show that true freedom can and must be given to all men including African-Americans. Similarly to the word freedom, King repeats “I have a Dream”. The repetition of “I have a Dream” was so effective that the speech was named after those four words. The effectiveness coincides with the emotional desire for...
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...For Google in 2005, from a business perspective, what are the arguments for and against entering China? The decision of whether to censor data in exchange for access to a multi-billion dollar market or to maintain a level of international integrity was a dilemma Google faced with their opportunity to enter the Chinese market in 2005. Two years after their inception in 1998, Google had enjoyed positive growth leading to them owning 25% of market share in the Internet search market; once search results became censored in 2004, Google experienced the complexities of working with a dictatorship when posed with the opportunity to enter a communist market, China. In 2005, Google’s Board of Directors met to discuss the pros and cons, and the costs and benefits, of entering the Chinese market, knowing that they would be required to limit the information they made available to Chinese users. If Google chose to enter into agreement with the Communist Party, they would be able to tap into an enormous market opportunity. Google would thereby be able to establish a dominant presence within one of the world’s most rapidly growing countries, getting potential access to over 1.3 billion people and 103 million Internet users. Furthermore, China has been able to break barriers in every market, quickly demanding the attention of foreign investors: “As a result of these [Mao’s successors] reforms, China’s GDP grew tenfold over three decades” (Ibid., 471). Worsfold’s Google in China case...
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...Profit Vs. Freedom of Speech: a Cross-Cultural Perspective It is no secret that in a business profit is the bottom line. It is the reason someone starts a company, the reason employees crawl out of bed each morning, and the reason why sometimes ethical values are bent or broken. On the small scale, such as a local grocery, ethics of the owners and employees can be easily maintained because the area they are operating in shares the same values. This, however, is not the case with global businesses. Instead of a local community for profits large businesses rely on the global market, thus exposing and challenging their original ethics for the sake of continued profits. This cross-cultural perspective will examine a recent example of this challenge when the company Google began to expand into the Chinese and other Asian markets. Google is a multi-billion dollar company that was started in the garage of two Stanford students in 1997 (Google, 2012). The initial goal was to produce an internet search engine that would be able to find and provide access to an immeasurable amount of information. Since its inception, Google published several values that were believed to be the essence of the company. Among them were that all focus should be on the user of the product and that any ad revenue should not come at the users cost, examples include pop-up advertising and manipulated searches (Google, 2012). Google also started with a relaxed approach to business, believing that employees worked...
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...Themes Indian Freedom versus White Civilization Throughout the novel, Richter clearly differentiates between the natural, free world of the Indians and the restricting, "civilized" domain of the whites. Whereas Indians roam the land free from the burdens of earthly goods, whites are concerned with creating stable settlements in which they can set up industry. As Bejance points out, white people gradually force you to conform to their standards of behavior. True Son eventually discovers that outsiders lose their freedom little by little, and before they know it they are living in a house, sleeping in a bed, and eating with knives and forks. The last paragraph of the novel leaves us with a particularly ugly idea of white society: True Son is forced to leave the "wild, beloved freedom" of the Indian country for the empty and prison-like world of white society. Furthermore, whites are portrayed as more intolerant and exclusive about who can exist within their "civilized" society, and they have been known to betray Indian converts and enslave blacks. As Bejance and True Son's stories suggest, Indians are willing to include members of any race in their free culture so long as they are loyal. White captives adopted by Indians become loved and fully assimilated members of Indian families, as we see in the case of True Son. The Conestoga Indians, however, are never fully accepted into the white community they embrace. Even though they have done nothing wrong and consider themselves...
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