When is the right time to honor our veterans? Always. Our veterans have risked their lives, fighting for us, fighting for our great country, fighting for our freedom. Why would they risk their live, fighting? Do they fight for honor? Do they fight for some sort of reward? No, they fight for our freedom, they fight for our safety, they fight for our lives, but at what cost?
Thousands of American soldiers have died in war, but by sacrificing themselves, millions of American civilians have lived, yet what do we civilians think about these American heroes? Nothing. We pay no attention to those who have saved our lives, and now those people who have saved our lives need us to save theirs.
Hundreds of the veterans who come home from war are relieved that now they can relax, only to find that there is no job awaiting them, there is no house awaiting them, there is no life awaiting them. 40% of all the homeless population are veterans from wars; that's almost half of the homeless population. These heroes have risked their lives-indisputably one of the most brave and courageous thing to do, and they do this to save our lives-and all they get in return, is a little bit of respect on one day of the year, and then they have to start their lives over.
Everyone starts their life in a hole, metaphorically, but there is a ladder leading out of the hole, so when you make it out of the hole, you can choose what you want to do. These great brave people chose to protect our country, and when they come back from war, they find themselves back at the bottom of the hole again, only this time, there is no ladder leading out. We can build them a ladder though, for we are at the top of the hole, and at the top of the hole there is material to make a ladder. It will not be easy, building this ladder, but veterans across the world deserve ladders much more than the rest of us.
They have risked their lives, only to save ours, and we do almost nothing to commemorate them. They have one day, even though for years, every day could be their last. They deserve every day of the calendar. They’ve earned the right to be honored every day, so we should present them with that right.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Good Earth Essay.
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In the novel, The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck, the author illustrates how we as people are never satisfied, and how when we get what we’ve always desired, we find out that we now crave more, and we now have what is needed to acquire our next longing, but all we have is enough to obtain our new wish and nothing else. Our desires are near impossible to obtain, but we must always have them, even after they are accomplished, for that is how we are as people. Therefore when we reach our goal, a new desire that is harder to obtain comes along, and we will once again do anything to obtain this new goal.
When Wang Lung was brought into this world, he was brought into poverty, and he never complained once of his lifestyle;surely he wanted to be wealthy and to never have to work, but he never mentioned these wants of his for he knows that every poor person wished for the same exact thing. Although he wished to be wealthy and to be a lord, he was always satisfied, with his life, just working in the fields, from sunset to sundown, “they worked on, moving together—together—producing this fruit of this earth—speechless in their movement together.” This quote clearly illustrates how when Wang Lung was poor, he was completely satisfied, and had no complaints whatsoever.
Wang Lung soon earns extra silver, from a terrific harvest, and he has no idea what to do with it, for he has never had any extra money in his life. Then he hears from somebody that the Hwang’s land was for sale, so he decided to find out about this, so he heads to the House of Hwang and he finds out that their land was in fact for sale, so he decides to buy it. He then believes that he is satisfied, knowing that he has enough land to always provide for them, although he then promises himself that he will obtain all of the Hwang’s land, no matter what it takes. He just got more land, one of his many goals, and he almost instantaneously creating his new desire, to gain control of all of the Hwang’s land.
Wang Lung is then forced to head south for his crops were not growing due to a massive drought, which has caused many casualties. When he gets south he is able to survive, by hard labor, by pulling people in a rickshaw, a cart like contraption, earning only a few pence a day. He survives off of all you can eat rice, you pay a pence per person, and you can have as much rice as you want, and he makes a goal to get back to his land, because he know it still lies exactly where he left it, and there is a bountiful amount of land there for he bought more, before the drought came about. Before he had bought some of the Hwang’s Land, he would have been happy with just enough to survive, which is exactly what he had when he was in the south, but now that he has some good rice land from the Hwang’s he must now get back to it, for he believes that land is his life.
Wang Lung had absolutely no way of getting back to his land, and even if he did make his way back, he had no way of getting seeds to plant his crops, or money to buy an ox, he had no way to restart his life. He had wanted to get back to his land so much he almost ended up selling his daughter, but instead he decided to steal from a great house, something he vowed that he would never do, but he desired to get back to his land so much he would do anything. After he stole from the house he had found jewels and gems, enough to supply the life he was living forever, and he would not have to do any work, but instead he decided to invest that money into more land, for that is what he desired more than anything else. With the extra money from the jewels and gems, he decides to invest it into his poor earthen house which was always enough for him, before he the money, and since he has more money, he feels he has to spend it rather than save it. So, he adds another house to his land, and he uses the other house for the workers he employed to live in, and his new house is lined with limestone and other rocks, to decorate it more. Since he now has enough to afford more things, he buys more things, he buys more luxuries, such as limestone, when his old luxury was a simple cup of tea.
Eventually he begins to buy more and more, a concubine, slaves, and finally completing the transformation into being completely unsatisfied, he buys the fallen Great House of Hwang, and therefore Wang believes that he is now satisfied, when all in all, he has become exactly what he despises more than anything. He has the great house repaired, he adds decals, and he buys it all so that now he completely owns it, and now he is unsatisfied to the utmost extent. Then he finally realizes that he is unsatisfied upon his death bed, so he decides to go back to his first house, and he becomes partially satisfied once again, as he dies upon the bed of his past.
The novel, The Good Earth, By Pearl S. Buck, proves how as you believe that you’re getting more satisfied, in reality you’re just getting more unsatisfied. As you accomplish your greatest desires, you just become more unsatisfied, for a new desire has come. As you age and gain wealth, the only way to become satisfied with what you’ve done, is to go back to what you once were. As you live, you will accomplish many things to be unhappy about, and only when you’re dying do you gain full peace of heart, peace of mind, and finally be happy again. This novel proves that accomplishing desires only makes you more unhappy, and that you are happier while on the road to accomplishing your goal, than when you complete the challenge you set out for yourself.
Thanks.
In the novel, The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck, the author illustrates how we as people are never satisfied, and how when we get what we’ve always desired, we find out that we now crave more, and we now have what is needed to acquire our next longing, but all we have is enough to obtain our new wish and nothing else. Our desires are near impossible to obtain, but we must always have them, even after they are accomplished, for that is how we are as people. Therefore when we reach our goal, a new desire that is harder to obtain comes along, and we will once again do anything to obtain this new goal.
When Wang Lung was brought into this world, he was brought into poverty, and he never complained once of his lifestyle;surely he wanted to be wealthy and to never have to work, but he never mentioned these wants of his for he knows that every poor person wished for the same exact thing. Although he wished to be wealthy and to be a lord, he was always satisfied, with his life, just working in the fields, from sunset to sundown, “they worked on, moving together—together—producing this fruit of this earth—speechless in their movement together.” This quote clearly illustrates how when Wang Lung was poor, he was completely satisfied, and had no complaints whatsoever.
Wang Lung soon earns extra silver, from a terrific harvest, and he has no idea what to do with it, for he has never had any extra money in his life. Then he hears from somebody that the Hwang’s land was for sale, so he decided to find out about this, so he heads to the House of Hwang and he finds out that their land was in fact for sale, so he decides to buy it. He then believes that he is satisfied, knowing that he has enough land to always provide for them, although he then promises himself that he will obtain all of the Hwang’s land, no matter what it takes. He just got more land, one of his many goals, and he almost instantaneously creating his new desire, to gain control of all of the Hwang’s land.
Wang Lung is then forced to head south for his crops were not growing due to a massive drought, which has caused many casualties. When he gets south he is able to survive, by hard labor, by pulling people in a rickshaw, a cart like contraption, earning only a few pence a day. He survives off of all you can eat rice, you pay a pence per person, and you can have as much rice as you want, and he makes a goal to get back to his land, because he know it still lies exactly where he left it, and there is a bountiful amount of land there for he bought more, before the drought came about. Before he had bought some of the Hwang’s Land, he would have been happy with just enough to survive, which is exactly what he had when he was in the south, but now that he has some good rice land from the Hwang’s he must now get back to it, for he believes that land is his life.
Wang Lung had absolutely no way of getting back to his land, and even if he did make his way back, he had no way of getting seeds to plant his crops, or money to buy an ox, he had no way to restart his life. He had wanted to get back to his land so much he almost ended up selling his daughter, but instead he decided to steal from a great house, something he vowed that he would never do, but he desired to get back to his land so much he would do anything. After he stole from the house he had found jewels and gems, enough to supply the life he was living forever, and he would not have to do any work, but instead he decided to invest that money into more land, for that is what he desired more than anything else. With the extra money from the jewels and gems, he decides to invest it into his poor earthen house which was always enough for him, before he the money, and since he has more money, he feels he has to spend it rather than save it. So, he adds another house to his land, and he uses the other house for the workers he employed to live in, and his new house is lined with limestone and other rocks, to decorate it more. Since he now has enough to afford more things, he buys more things, he buys more luxuries, such as limestone, when his old luxury was a simple cup of tea.
Eventually he begins to buy more and more, a concubine, slaves, and finally completing the transformation into being completely unsatisfied, he buys the fallen Great House of Hwang, and therefore Wang believes that he is now satisfied, when all in all, he has become exactly what he despises more than anything. He has the great house repaired, he adds decals, and he buys it all so that now he completely owns it, and now he is unsatisfied to the utmost extent. Then he finally realizes that he is unsatisfied upon his death bed, so he decides to go back to his first house, and he becomes partially satisfied once again, as he dies upon the bed of his past.
The novel, The Good Earth, By Pearl S. Buck, proves how as you believe that you’re getting more satisfied, in reality you’re just getting more unsatisfied. As you accomplish your greatest desires, you just become more unsatisfied, for a new desire has come. As you age and gain wealth, the only way to become satisfied with what you’ve done, is to go back to what you once were. As you live, you will accomplish many things to be unhappy about, and only when you’re dying do you gain full peace of heart, peace of mind, and finally be happy again. This novel proves that accomplishing desires only makes you more unhappy, and that you are happier while on the road to accomplishing your goal, than when you complete the challenge you set out for yourself.
Thanks.
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