Ambition has often been viewed as a highly admirable characteristic, especially when it is associated with the drive to succeed and the hard work required. It is possible to be too ambitious. The result of too much ambitiousness can be a destructive and obsessive need to achieve your goal through any means necessary, sometimes crossing …
Gabriel Syme’s Transformation Gabriel Syme underwent a transformation as he read Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday. His entire being (his attitude, actions, and thoughts) changed between the start of his strange adventure to its end. Syme’s arrogance, his self-centeredness, and his attitude towards life change from the beginning of this strange sequence to the …
In nature, the law of equivalent exchange states that in order to get something with equal value, one must first give something up. This logic states that sacrifice is an absolute necessity of life. It is also a gray-area with no clear boundaries for good and bad. Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi illustrates that …
“Salome” comes from Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife. The poems all share one common trait: the narrator is historically marginalized, and they tell the story through their personal experience. Salome was first introduced in the New Testament. Since then, a number of novels and paintings have been devoted to Salome. Her legend has become …
This essay is intended to provide a detailed analysis of “Oedipus the Rex”. A plot for a play has a rising, falling, expositional, determinant, and peak activity. The rising action follows the exposition to lead up to the play’s greatest part. The falling is the activity that follows the peak. It leads the audience to …
Stephen Covey gives advice to teens on how to be more productive. The first habit is “proactive”. Reactive is not proactive. Reactiveness is a common reaction of lazy people. Many people are lazy and become reactive. Proactive individuals know they can take control of their lives. It is common for proactive people to have set …
Even today, the impact that literature has on society is still striking. The Fountainhead was a novel written by Ayn rand that had themes that were so resonant with its readers, they became the catalyst for a political revolution and aided in the formation of Libertarians. The Fountainhead, often called “a novel with ideas,” makes …
Pride and Envy Shakespeare’s play “Othello”, a tragedy, is based on multiple themes. The Othello oral report focused on dishonesty & miscommunication, guilt & regret, gender & pride, as a well as other less significant themes. Performance Session: The main focus of the Performance Session were gender differences and envy, along with dishonesty. My personal …
Our world has undergone a radical transformation in recent years. To survive today, you need to believe in yourself. To me, believing in myself means to know yourself and your strengths, to fight for your passions, and to be vocal whenever appropriate. As I read Alexie’s Indian Education and Carvers’ What We Say When We …
Inequality has been a constant throughout history for women. In some places, notably the West, women made huge strides towards equality and gaining respect. Even though the west has made these changes, women still face sexism in many places. Khaled Hosseini examines in A Thousand Splendid Suns the treatment women receive, specifically Laila Mariam. Hosseini …