Discovery
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Discovery Essay 2
The text “
The Motorcycle Diaries”
, as recorded by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and a TED Talk by Julian
Baggini both highlights the concept of discovery how it is experienced by the individual. Discovery is
defined as finding something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been lost or forgotten.
Both Ernesto and Baggini express the concept of selfdiscovery and what it means to the individual as a
key aspect of Discovery. Ernesto highlights the especially through his development from a bourgeois
medical student to a Revolutionary Marxist humanist within his trek through Latin America, challenging
his spiritual connection with the continent. Baggini however emphasises his point during a TED talk titled
"Is There A Real You"
that you must create your "true self", it is not something you go looking for, as
well as highlighting that people have limits to what they can achieve. These two arguments both
emphasise the meaning of Discovering aspects of your own life that you had never known were there.
Within the text “
The Motorcycle Diaries”
, Ernesto discovers spiritual change
throughout his journey
throughout Latin America as he develops from a bourgeois medical student to a revolutionary social
reformist. These Spiritual connections discovered is emphasised as Ernesto states
"All this wandering
around ‘Our America with a Capital A’ has changed me more than I thought"
, his use of the possessive
pronoun in the word emphasises his growing personal connection with the people during his
"Our"
journey. His use of
personification
as he also states
“the revolution...is a liberator of human being’s
individual's capacity”
connotes
that to reconstruct Latin America, it must reveal its capacity for the
reconstruction of the individual. Although his bourgeois perspective has blinded him from his ideology of ...
The text “
The Motorcycle Diaries”
, as recorded by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and a TED Talk by Julian
Baggini both highlights the concept of discovery how it is experienced by the individual. Discovery is
defined as finding something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been lost or forgotten.
Both Ernesto and Baggini express the concept of selfdiscovery and what it means to the individual as a
key aspect of Discovery. Ernesto highlights the especially through his development from a bourgeois
medical student to a Revolutionary Marxist humanist within his trek through Latin America, challenging
his spiritual connection with the continent. Baggini however emphasises his point during a TED talk titled
"Is There A Real You"
that you must create your "true self", it is not something you go looking for, as
well as highlighting that people have limits to what they can achieve. These two arguments both
emphasise the meaning of Discovering aspects of your own life that you had never known were there.
Within the text “
The Motorcycle Diaries”
, Ernesto discovers spiritual change
throughout his journey
throughout Latin America as he develops from a bourgeois medical student to a revolutionary social
reformist. These Spiritual connections discovered is emphasised as Ernesto states
"All this wandering
around ‘Our America with a Capital A’ has changed me more than I thought"
, his use of the possessive
pronoun in the word emphasises his growing personal connection with the people during his
"Our"
journey. His use of
personification
as he also states
“the revolution...is a liberator of human being’s
individual's capacity”
connotes
that to reconstruct Latin America, it must reveal its capacity for the
reconstruction of the individual. Although his bourgeois perspective has blinded him from his ideology of ...