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Those who teach help others grow through knowledge and understanding.

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Death is not something to be afraid of but something to accept.

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Love has the power to bring people together, when struggling through adversity.

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In the award winning memoire "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom, he writes about the life and teachings from his former college professor Morrie Schwartz who is dying from ALS. Morrie uses his worsening health to teach others about what it's like to die and how to live your life to the fullest to die peacefully. Before he was diagnosed with this terminal illness he was a well respected and loved professor at Brandeis University. Even when he stopped being an official teacher and went into retirement he still became a teacher to Mitch, when they would meet every Tuesday to have lessons and discussions about topics in life. Learning from one another and teaching one another.

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"The tension of opposites:
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle."
- Morrie Schwartz

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This quote relates to the topic with claim because of how Morrie uses his words and his wisdom about life and death to teach others and help them gain knowledge to use in their lives to live to the fullest. Morrie teaches Mitch about tension of opposite to teach him about the difference between their lives while bringing it back to common difference between them and things that change but link each other together. Morrie uses his experience in a learning environment to help provide Mitch with some of his knowledge and help Mitch grow in life through his death.

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Teaching and Learning helps others to better understand how much they can comprehend. With the help of people like Morrie Schwartz who use their experiences and insight to help others grow in recognition of life, and help people like Mitch grasp the prospect of deep topics like affection.

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In the award winning memoire "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom, he writes about the life and teachings from his former college professor Morrie Schwartz who is dying from ALS. Morrie uses his worsening health to teach others about what its like to die and how to live your life to the fullest to die peacefully. Morrie was diagnosed with the illness when he was 78 years old, far along into his life already. The illness flipped his life upside down and changed his whole perspective on others. Morrie wanted to spread his teachings around the world and always strived to show everyone as much affection as he could, by becoming friends with everybody and always asking others to speak to him about their lives.

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"The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
-Morrie Schwartz

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In the award winning memoire "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom, he writes about the life and teachings from his former college professor Morrie Schwartz who is dying from ALS. Morrie uses his worsening health to teach and help other understand the importance of love, family, and community. In the book Morrie is extremely affectionate, to the point where it rubs off on other people causing them to become more open to love and affection too. An example of this is when Mitch begins kissing a Morrie on the cheek and a greeting and a Farwell because of how important physical touch is to his ex-professor. Morrie shows others his surrounding yourself with those you love will only positively affect your life and will also impact them.

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In the book Morrie speaks to Mitch about his perspective on death and how instead of fearing it one should recognize and grasp it because it is an destined part of life. He speaks about how most people don't live their lives how they wish to because they don't believe that they will die. Morrie wants to spread the message to the world to not fear death but "embrace it".

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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important." - Morrie Schwartz

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When we get to the near moment of death we consider it as something distressing, but it should be a moment that we embrace. Morrie says it himself that when we start to die, we realize how to live. When Morrie was diagnosed with his disease and realized that he didn't have much time left, he became more considerate of what his last few moments would be like. At first he was dreadful about the thought of death, but then soon realized that this was an opportunity to live his life out to the fullest before it was too late.

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The quote relates to our topic with claim because Morrie says how important love is in our lives and how without it it is so much harder to overcome struggles and "adversity". In the book Morrie knows how hard it would be to go through his illness without love and even though the feeling itself isn't enough to cure him it made it easier for him to be comfortable in his death and make those around him at peace with their loss.

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Everyone can have days of struggling and sorrow, just like Morrie and his family had felt themselves. A loving family and community that stands beside you can make a difference on how you perceive and view your own life. Morrie expresses this multiple times in memoire when he states that relationships and love in your life can have a huge affect and difference.

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Everyone should raise themselves to a higher standard because they deserve all the love they give.

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Nelson mandela was leader and advocate for social equality. mandela was born in 1918. In the 1950's, he was elected as the leader of the youth wing of the African National Congress(ANC) liberation movement. mandela was imprisoned from 1962-1990 for treason and conspiracy against the government. He laid down the foundation for democracy in South Africa. HE then became South Africa's first black president. As a reward to his efforts, Nelson won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

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"We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God."

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Morrie would partially agree with Nelson Mandela. In the award-winning book "Tuesdays with Morrie", Morrie said, "We must be able to forgive ourselves before we can forgive others." Similar to forgiveness, morrie would agree that you need to love yourself before you love others. However, Mandela says we are children of God and Morrie would disagree with this statement because when he was younger, he moved away from religion due to the death of his mother but found comfort in Judaism instead of Christianity.

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Love is not exclusive to just giving out to people, it's for ourselves too. When we learn to love ourselves just as much as we love others like Morrie Schwartz and Nelson Mandela we will truly live through valuable relationships and compassion.