What Makes James Joyce Mindful

Billy 's great great great uncle Bob was a mobster. Bob killed many people and made lots of money. He was shot and killed. That 's how Billy became rich and also he sold guns.

The Irish tycoons were also know as “the house” after they threatend him thats when he hired The Kid and some

Tobian Wolff’s, “The Rich Brother” is a short story about two brothers, Pete and Donald, are complete opposites of each other. Pete is the more established brother he is married with two daughters, owns a century 21 franchise, a sailboat, a house, and some friends. Donald, on the other hand is portrayed throughout the story as more of a disappointment when being compared to his brother. Donald was still single, lived alone, painted houses whenever he could find a job, and financially dependent on his older brother Pete. In short, as the book put it, “Pete prospered and Donald did not prosper”(654).

When one is described as “rich,” he or she is assumed to exhibit many distinctive qualities: a plethora of wealth, a beautiful home, a luxurious car, and in most cases a tendency to spend his or her wealth on personal possessions. Tobias Wolff’s short story, “The Rich Brother,” boldly presents the aforementioned word in the title of the poem, displaying it to readers before they even begin to read the story. The story recounts the experiences of two brothers, and readers could at first conclude that either brother is the “rich” brother; however, this word can undertake either a positive connotation or a negative connotation, depending on the perspective. While readers might at first describe Donald as "rich" due to his wealth in generosity,

I belive that Both Charles Dickens and James Joyce incorporate dialogue into their passages is that Both the short stories are trying to say that both of them have a strong dialoge between In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I believe the dialogue used by the character Stephen shows that the boy is not eager for conversation with his peers. His brief answers to the questions asked by Fleming in 4-7 show that either he is nervous about saying the wrong thing or is just not in the mood to talk and that he would rather that the other boys leave him alone and not try to engage him in conversation. Whenever someone is eager to avoid conversation they tend to make responces short and terse as apposed to long and expressive. Another clue that reveals that Stephen is not eager to talk is that he responds "I don 't know," to the first question that was asked by Fleming.

Much like in the story, this was his actual reality. “His mother, a soft-spoken and hardworking woman, remarried a man named David Baldwin. David was an angry man who sometimes abused the children, including James. The boy would grow up to become almost as hot-tempered as his stepfather.” (McGill 2)

Many people believe that to be rich one has to have money, but there are many different ways to be wealthy. Humans can be considered to be rich when they have money and objects that other people would also like to have. However, some people are rich with experiences, knowledge, or religion and do not have cars or homes of monetary value. This is the case with one of two brothers who are both rich but in different ways in the writing “The Rich Brother” by Tobias Wolff.

In Tobias Wolff’s story, “The Rich Brother,” the author depicts the relationship of two opposite brothers. While one brother, Pete, is seemingly content with his financial prosperity and wealthy lifestyle, the other, Donald, finds no comfort in such things. As Pete struggles to tolerate Donald’s outlook on life, Donald struggles to find his place in the world spiritually while avoiding concerning himself with the financial aspect of it. For some this spiritual sense of completion Donald seeks is more valuable to them than any financial one, while others, like Pete, find comfort in the life they live through material wealth. Although Pete’s lifestyle lacks a spiritual aspect, he is the “richer” brother since he has obtained the way of life he desired to have the most, not due to the fact that this desired lifestyle stems from much physical wealth.

While Sir Percy Blakeney is the wealthiest man in all of Europe he is seen as an imbecile just like his mother who died during childbirth. He lived most of his childhood abroad because his father married a young woman. So during his childhood, his parents were absent for most of his life. Since he lived abroad, and was wealthy he was “educated and [he] grew up” (43). Because his mother was an imbecile and his father was distracted he never got a real childhood experience with his parents.

However, many of them didn’t have near as big of a family as I did or as many family friends. Most of my profits came from either my family or family friends. Most of the things I was selling weren’t expensive, which made it a little harder for me to get very much money. I believe the

The short story, “The Rich Brother” accounts the journey of two brothers with great different personalities. After Donald, the younger naive religious brother, is kicked out of a communal farm, Pete, the older wealthier brother, goes to pick him up. Pete feels that Donald is too carefree, and that he always has to help him out of his mistakes. The tensions between these siblings are evident--they both feel that they need to prove themselves to each other; they need to provide evidence of their “prosperity” (Wolff 324). Pete more than Donald tends to always try to impress others, such as buying expressive items.

Ernest E. Larkin uses his article “Christian Mindfulness” to show how mindfulness, when used correctly, is able to address spiritual hunger and will lead Christians to become intimate with God. However, I have found that many Christians today reject the idea of mindfulness because of its development in Buddhism. Buddhist will teach mindfulness in a way that eternal enlightenment can be found through self-awareness alone and not through God. While I agree that Christians should stay away from the type of mindfulness practiced in eastern cultures, I fully support Ernest E. Larkin’s idea of tweaking mindfulness so that one can become closer to God and the Holy Spirit.

Take the example of Mrs. Breedlove 's employers house compared to her own home. Mrs. Breedlove 's employer 's home is described asx "the large white house with the wheelbarrow full of flowers… We circled the proud house and went to the back"(Morrison 105,106). Based on this description of the house the reader can assume that Mrs. Breedlove 's employer is wealthy. However, the Breedloves ' living

Over the course of this winter quarter, I have learned in my class of Psychology of Wellness how to incorporate mindfulness into my daily life. The definition of mindfulness is considered an art. In the book of the Fully Present, the authors Susan Smalley and Diana Winston transmitted their wisdom on how to learn, practice and cultivate this art. According to the mentioned authors, they defined mindfulness as “the art of observing your physical, emotional, and mental experiences with deliberate, open, and curious attention” (2010, p.78). This definition shared by the authors is simple, but it communicates what are the characteristics that an individual needs to consider when it comes to being mindful.

The 19th century began the period of modernist literature, resulting in a literary shift in response to the changes happening in society. This was a time, with the rise of Darwinism, when science started overpowering religion, and the literature reflected a sort of mourning over the figurative death of god, resulting in a style of compensatory writing. The years after World War I spurred works that exposed the traditional world and the assumptions thereof. Features such as less socially prominent characters, more emphasis on experienced and subjective time, and a change in symbolic setting, characterized some of modernist literature. In James Joyce’s short story “The Dead”, themes of death, rebirth, the past and future are explored.