01) “A Man Is Never Too Old to Learn” The world of knowledge is so interesting and enchanting. It is full of different kind of information, a lot of facts and details. Opening its gates you pass into the space of unknown things, you discover something new. As a rule, we study when we are young in order to make a career, to have success and to assure for ourselves a decent level of life. I think it is correct, because at the age when we graduate from school we have to determine ourselves
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The Older Waiter Like the old man, the older waiter likes to stay late at cafés, and he understands on a deep level why they are both reluctant to go home at night. He tries to explain it to the younger waiter by saying, “He stays up because he likes it,” but the younger waiter dismisses this and says that the old man is lonely. Indeed, both the old man and the older waiter are lonely. The old man lives alone with only a niece to look after him, and we never learn what happened to his wife. He drinks
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have met thousands of people, but I have never met someone as good as my grandpa. I am not the only one who agrees with that. Most people who know him agree too because of what he has done with everybody. My Grandpa showed me how to care for other people. Once we were sitting in someplace waiting for the doctor and there was an old man that came into the place. We were sitting and the chairs were full of people so the old man couldn’t sit. So the old man was tired and when he saw that there was a
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connected each other. We can observe this connection in various forms, like crops with soil, soil with water, water with clouds, and clouds with Ossian. Due to these connections Allah invite us for knowledge, research and thinking. We should observe and learn from nature, because we have an active connection with nature and all living beings. So it is human nature to feel a need for a strong relation, to feel kinship, unconditional acceptance, love, connection and belongingness from someone and somewhere
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try other methods. The old man sits in the cafe for hours and tried to kill himself, while Gatsby throws posh parties at his enormous mansion. In addition, since both these characters have an abundant amount of money and live a materialistic life, it’s the need for a purpose to live that leads them to depressed. Everything Gatsby did and earned was to make an impression on Daisy and let her know that he was sufficiently wealthy to take care of her. On the other hand, the old man has no purpose due to
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the main character kills the old man because of the look of the old mans eye. This is highlighted by the piece, which was extracted from the story itself “I loved the old man. He had never wrong me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes it was this” Furthermore it is clearly shown that the madman liked the old man and he didn’t want old mans money. Madman committed the most atrocious of crimes because of the old mans appearance. However the main character
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THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea is the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. For eighty-four days, Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman, has set out to sea and returned empty-handed. So conspicuously unlucky is he that the parents of his young, devoted apprentice and friend, Manolin, have forced the boy to leave the old man in order to fish in a more prosperous boat. Nevertheless, the boy continues to care
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"Happy Birthday, 1951" is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. The main characters in the short story are a man and a boy. We are told that a refugee woman left her baby by the old man and then she never came back - That's how the man got the boy. The man doesn't know something about the boy and that's why they are choosing a day to celebrate the boy's birthday. As a birthday present the man wants to take the boy to a place without war. On their way to the place, they talk about the color of different
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wood and it broke up into small pieces. Qiao smiled at me saying, “My friend, you have found the middle way,” and then bowed to me. Buddha said with a big smile on his face, “You have just learnt the Almighty push. Also, another reason we don't use it too often is because channeling the power of your soul will shorten your life with every use. It is called the Almighty push for a reason. You're pushing out the power that was given by the Almighty God. That tear that I shed was not from sadness but joy
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“Are you a man now, Adam?” Howard Fast’s “April Morning”, is set in Lexington on April 19, 1775. Adam is a fifteen-year-old boy that wants to be treated as man, but he still acts like a boy. Throughout the book, he talks about how Adam changes from an adolescent and transitions into an adult. Adam Cooper is a dynamic character. He is also the protagonists of the story. “Just tonight, I asked him as pleasant and respectful as possible whether I could go to the Committee meeting with him. Oh, no
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