Altruism Creative Writings Samples For Students

The Night In Question

Tobias Wolff
‘The Night in Question’ is one of a collection of fifteen short stories by Tobias Wolff published in 1996 by the same name. The story gives us an insight into human desires and its varied exhibitions in different situations. Wolff is an American fiction writer, who hated cruelty and violent behavior. This attitude was due to the violent behavior of his alcoholic stepfather who infused extreme physical and emotional strain in Wolff’s life. This aspect may be seen in ‘The Night in Question’ in which the author attempts to stress on family ties, loyalty, love, affection ...

The grade point average (GPA) can be considered a negative force in the American educational system. It is based on the assumption that human beings are fundamentally thinking creatures (Brooks). This means that learners must be enrolled in teaching programs to train them to become self-disciplined. This is the initial integral step towards the acquisition of knowledge by school-going individuals. Even though this is partly true, the fact that human beings are driven by their individual desires is inevitable. People have the need to satisfy their particular needs in the manner they want. This is the basis of human ...

“Therefore, since each of these characteristics belongs to the good man in relation to himself, and he is related to his friend as to himself (for his friend is another self), friendship too is thought to be one of these attributes, and those who have these attributes to be friends. Whether there is or is not friendship between a man and himself is a question we may dismiss for the present; there would seem to be friendship in so far as he is two or more, to judge from the afore-mentioned attributes of friendship, and from the fact that the extreme ...

The plot of the 2011 Chinese wuxia film Shaolin, in which a disgraced Chinese general (Andy Lau) learns humility and honor with the help of the art of Shaolin (and an eccentric mentor played by Jackie Chan), follows the 12-stage Joseph Campbell hero's journey fairly closely. Starting out with an arrogant, selfish and power-hungry general, after a series of unfortunate events he starts to find himself and learn to care for others, ultimately making the biggest sacrifice of all to atone for his sins. The journey of Hao Jie is less of a rags-to-riches stories than a riches-to-rags tale, as a life in rags ...