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garden and watched Grandpa mend fences and fix engines. I learned to
know that warm feeling of accomplishment that comes when hard work is
done. I found the friendship of nature as lambs nuzzled against my side, and
I saw the cruelty of life when I found a tiny bundle of wool frozen to death
on an early winter morning. I learned so many things at Grandpa's. But
most of all I remember that pervading air of satisfaction. Grandpa worked
hard and loved his labors. He taught me to work with a smile and a light
heart and to take life one day at a time.
One other memory stands out clearly as I think back. The setting was
a sad one. My great aunt had died, the second of the family to die within
two weeks. The relatives had all gathered to pay their respects. After the
funeral, everyone went back to my aunt's house to eat supper. Strangely
enough, of that evening I remember only laughter. Not that there was any
lack of respect or grief, but my aunt had lived out a full and useful life. That
night, my family paid homage to her courage and character. They remembered
the stories she had told and the predicaments she had gotten into. They re-
called all of the good times and went home comforted by having been together
once more. I learned that night to take life's disappointments and griefs and
go on enjoying life.
I have other memories from those days together. I have watched a
generation grow old and die, for my grandfather and his sisters are long
dead. If I mourn them, it can be only because my children can never know
their presence or share my memories of them. I can only hope that my
children learn as much from my parents, my brother, and me. For, you see,
I have more than memories of my mother's family. I have a very beautiful
and simple philosophy to live by.
rHE
The Good for Man-
Greek and Christian
Kathleen Galway
Rhetoric 101, Final Examination
REPUBLIC BY PLATO AND CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
by Dostoevsky are both expressions of their author's concepts of the
final good for man. Although the two authors agree that man is able to
attain the highest good only by a long, difficult struggle, their concepts of
man's final goal and his method of reaching it are different, reflecting the
ideals of each author's society.
In accord with the ideals of ancient Greek society, Plato constructs his
ideal state upon the principles of reason and order. Every citizen is classified