Leadership my Indomitable Spirit

Leo Tolstoy once asked the question, â€Å"What is the human spirit?   You can’t see it like an arm, you can’t feel it like the heart†¦but the human spirit will drive you further and longer than muscle in the human body.† When we speak of man, however, something else is meant within the world image of the Book of Changes, something other than the individual, which our more rational age understands. (Wilhelm, pg 52)   When I first studied for this task, I have found that the search for great thought and inspiration could not be generalized thru a series of steps. The perseverance to success stems from a steady tendency of periods of transitions and the spirit of the moment.   Ã‚  Ã¢â‚¬Å"In fact I have found that the human spirit often thrives on dangers and difficulties†¦difficulties are here, as ever,† (Routh, pg 37)     but the human spirit is not driven from it at all. Even more so, the act of leadership is valued as a part of the human spirit.   It recognized that â€Å"perseverance is the beginning of how building a team is the central approach at every level.† (Fairholm, pg. 42) In essence, this University and my team members have provided a home for this human spirit and a path that leads to different programs of education under a vast curriculum. â€Å"Significant education occurs in the process of planning and implementing programs, particularly through dialogue† (Burnaby, pg 123) therefore the kind of education that creates and replicates the human spirit.   Participatory education is based first and foremost on profound respect for the human spirit and its ability to conquer.   The spirit perseverance resides in every one. Reference(s) Wilhelm, Hellmut Heaven, Earth, and Man in the Book of Changes: Seven Eranos Lectures.   Publisher: University of Washington Press. Place of Publication: Seattle. Publication Year: 1977. Page Number: 52. Routh, H. V.   Towards the Twentieth Century: (Essays in the Spiritual History of the Nineteenth)   Book by; The Macmillan Company, 1937 Page Number: 37 W. Fairholm, Gilbert Capturing the Heart of Leadership: Spirituality and Community in the New American Workplace Praeger Publishers, 1997 Page Number: 42 Barbara Burnaby, Pat Campbell Participatory Practices in Adult Education. Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Place of Publication: Mahwah, NJ. Publication Year: 2001. Page Number: 123.

Of Mice And Men: Symbolism Essay

In the novel, of mice and men, theer was symbolizm throughout the story. In the beginning of the novel the stting was perfect, like â€Å"The Garden of Eden†. LIke in â€Å"The Garden of Eden† there was a snake, and in this novel it slipped across the water sggestin possible evil to come. The rabbits on the other hand symoloized Lenny’s joy and goodness, and formed the bases of his dreams. In the beginning Of Mice and Men, the story began looking like a perfect world. The author describes the setting as a wonderful place where â€Å"willows fresh and green with every spring: .(p.1) the perfect world resembles : The garden of Eden†, how everything was in place and the surroundin was in paradise.† ON the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie †¦.among them†.(p.1) It was a wonderful place to be, because the setting is peaceful and no evil or wrond doing is happening. The snimals do not live in fear because the setting is perfect and it sounds accomadating to everyone and everything. All thought the setting was perfect in the beginning, there must be evil to come. As the snake was in â€Å"The garden of Eden† as a form of evil, there should be a form of evil to come further in the story. Teh form of evin that appars in the setting is a snake. The snake also appeared in â€Å"The garden of Eden†, and if so tehre must be some sort of evil to come. When the snake slipped across the pool, it examined the scene like a submarine would when hunting down itz prey. The snake must of picked it’s target, like a submarine would. â€Å"a water snake alipped along on the pool, it’s head held up like a little periscope†.(p.7) And that someone that the snake targeted must have been Lenny, because he dies at the end of the story. As the snake slipped across the pool â€Å"the reeds jerked slightly in the current†. (p.7)When the snake moved across the pool and the reeds started to jerk, symbolizing the peaceful world being disrupted by an evil form. Moreover, the snake symbolizes evil and the negative energy in the story, but the dreams of rabbits and the farm, they symbolize good and bring positive energy to the story and Lenny’s mind. Teh rabbits in the story symbolize Lenny’s innocent side. They also are a positive enery in the story. When the setting was described in the  beginning, the rabbit appeared showing that they are a positive energy. â€Å"Rabbits comout of the brush to sit on the sand in the evening†.(p.1)Also the rabbits are a symbol of Lenny’s innocent side, because the rabbits do not mean to harm anyone but only are there to comfort Lenny’s caring side. The rabbits were also in Lenny’s dream of teh farm. All he wanted to do was to tend to the rabbits on the fam. â€Å"And I get to tend the rabbits†.(p.105)The dream of having a farm and rabbits was what drove Lenny in life. And when George would describe the farm again and again Lenny would become happy inside, and would picture the farm in his head. Nevertheless, Lenny’s dreams did not come true/was he dead at the end, of the story. In conclusion, symbolism is used throughout the whole story, And â€Å"The garden of Eden† was a perfect world and so was the setting until the snake appeared. The snake was a form of evil and he disrpted the setting with his presence. The dream of the farm and tending to the rabbits was a wonderful dream, where Lenny’s imagination would go to when George told him of the farm.