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Learned The Importance Of Optimism Importance Of Optimism Hiking
762 wordsI began to grow up one summer afternoon, alone, in the middle of the woods. I had signed up for a week-long hiking trip on the Northern Superior Hiking Trails in Minnesota; my hiking team consisted of three girls, four boys and two experienced hikers. The trip was designed "to build character" and although I wasn't sure what that meant, I thought it might be fun and adventuresome. I imagined myself as Indiana Jones from The Temple of Doom, thrashing through the forest, looking heroic. My friends...
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Achieve Happiness True Love
1,072 wordsVoltaire's Candide: "All is Not for the Best" Voltaire's Candide is the story of an innocent man's experiences in a mad and evil world, his struggle to survive in that world, and his need to ultimately come to terms with it. All people experience the turmoil of life and must overcome obstacles, both natural and man-made, in order to eventually achieve happiness. In life, "man must find a medium between what Martin (scholar and companion to Candide) calls the "convulsions of anxiety" and the "let...
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Education In The Year 2005
404 wordsImage a teenager going to sleep today and waking up in July of 2005. What kind of world would he or she find? Would it be a world of the future or a world of utter chaos? Some in society believe that the world will come to a disastrous end or be forever changed and sent into a dark ages of sorts. Others believe that past the year 2000 will begin an age of enlightenment. So, a question posed to society is what will In a post apocalyptic world education would be the farthest from most minds. Howev...
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People Reliance Society
419 wordsSelf-reliance according to World English Dictionary is the ability to make your own decisions confidently and independently. For Emerson, the religion of each person lay in the individuality that might be wanted in a free society. In the work Self Reliance, Emerson wanted people to value their freedom; he wanted them to be independent in their individual lives. He expressed his optimistic faith in the power of individual achievement and originality. He also considered the overelaborate need to d...
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Kind Hearted Scene 1
432 wordsTheseus, a very noble man of high power had many different qualities about him. Though his qualities were not specifically stated in " A Midsummer's Night's Dream, " it was obvious what kind of person he was. In Act 1, Scene 1, when Theseus is talking to his Hyppolyta, it appears that he is very deeply in love. He is very excited about the wedding and asks for preparations. He specifically states this when he says, .".. Stir up the Athenian youth to merriment's, awake the pert and nimble spirit ...
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Depressive Episodes Stop Taking
1,019 words... not just stop taking the pills cold turkey. The patient must take lower doses gradually over time until he or she is down to the lowest dosage possible. This can take up to one month just to get off antidepressants. Then he or she can stop with the pills. Now, is a pill really worth all of the struggle? Many people think the only way to conquer depression is by popping a pill. In some cases though, antidepressants are beneficial to those with chemical disorder, but there are certainly altern...
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Annabel Lee And The Raven Comparison
399 wordster> Sorrow for the Lost Annabel Lee With insistent meter and captivating rhyme schemes, Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee and The Raven are both very similar. However, in their views of love, namely the loss and mourning of beautiful women, they differ greatly. Through analysis of the two poems, the reader observes that whom Poe had chosen for a speaker, the tone and the sound effects are all factors in both poems that make two poems with a similar theme contrast. Both poems mean the same...
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Ends On An Optimistic Note Ends On An Optimistic Japanese
545 wordsThe Divine Wind describes an Australia that is tarnished by racism, hatred and distrust, and yet the novel ends on an optimistic note. Do you agree? The novel is set during a World War. The tension and separation of races during a war seemed evident in Australia. As a multicultural country including Japanese and Aborigine population, conflicting attitudes towards these races had to be imminent. I entirely agree with the above statement due to the unequal treatment of the aborigines, tension betw...
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Interest Rates Increased Demand
815 wordsWhen using the term investment it refers directly to the acquisition of new capital such as buildings, machines or offices. Firms will usually make the decision to invest on the expectation to make a gain. Investments made by businesses or firms usually involve millions of dollars, making investment a very big important decision with many different factors to take into account. There are four main factors, which would most likely influence a decision regarding investment, they include the curren...
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Use Of Contrast In Act I The Tempest
676 wordsWilliam Shakespeare used many different writing devices when he wrote his plays. In Act I of The Tempest, the use of contrasts between characters, setting, and ideas were often used to develop the story, and more importantly, the messages that Shakespeare wished to portray by the play. One good example was how some characters in the first act had their counterparts. Ariel had Caliban, and Gonzalo had Ferdinand. The relationship between Ariel and Caliban could clearly be seen throughout Act I, sc...
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Are We Experiencing Another Stock Market Bubble
1,008 wordsAre We Experiencing Another Stock Market Bubble? The role of market stability is very important for the entire world economy. The citizens of America deserve stable and reliable economy. They have a castle complex. Americans love their country, their homes and their government. American nation deserves security and governmental protection. Yet, according to recent statistic data over the past five years alone, housing prices, adjusted for inflation, have jumped at a remarkable 6. 8 percent rate ...
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Moral Values World Today
1,052 wordsI am not an eternal optimist The optimist can see that there is good in this world, which balances out the tragedy. The world today has a great moral center. We employee eternal optimists to help heal the wounds man has created, such as the United Nations and the peace keepers. With the events of September eleventh we can see the good in the world through all the volunteers, and donations to the victims families. When we see starving children on television our optimistic side compels us to donat...
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David R Slavitt Hardy Convergence Of The Twain Titanic
1,005 wordsProfessor Titanic Differences Dusty Ross Professor Reinhard English 1102 - 102 4 / 19 / 00 Titanic Differences Many times in life events occur which stimulate many opinions. In a painting by Picasso, one way see beauty while another sees a squiggle of lines. Two people see a movie and one is moved to tears while the other is bored stiff. People are often moved in different ways by similar experiences. This would explain the tremendous difference in theme of two poets about the tragedy of the Tit...
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House Of The Spirits Women Of Color
1,117 wordsIsabel Isabel Allende Isabel Allende Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru. She moved to Chile when she was three years old. She received her education in England and went back to Chile to work as a journalist. She went into exile after the military coup in 1973. She has written many novels and short stories that have benefited the lives of many women of color. Isabel Allende is considered one of the best Latin American authors. Isabel Allende is the niece of the assassinated Chilean President. ...
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Wealth Of Nations Adam Smith
576 wordsAdam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo are classical economists whose discoveries in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century made a great impact on economics to this day. Adam Smith is considered by many to be the father of modern economics. He is best known for his groundbreaking book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Wealth of Nations, published in 1776. In this book he described the workings of a market economy, the division of labor in production, the nature of wealth...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Movement
1,533 wordsLangston Hughes: Voice of a Time and a People In 20 th century America, the oppression facing African-Americans is possibly the most controversial and historical ever. The constant battle they have fought is voiced clearly in the works produced by African-American authors, poets, artists and musicians during and prior to the Civil Rights Movement, particularly in a period known as the Harlem Renaissance. The voice that perhaps rang the truest among all people is that of Langston Hughes. His work...
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Poem Great Deal
1,222 wordsThe poems of Sir Walter Ralegh often deal with the issue of death and mortality. In some cases he directly deals with the issue, and others he uses vast metaphors in order to convey his message. For the most part, Ralegh takes a very bleak position on the issues of death and aging, but in some cases he takes a more optimistic view. Ralegh is said to have been a man who was a historian, soldier, courtier, philosopher, explorer, and of course a poet. The fact that he spent the last years of his li...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hope For The Future
720 wordsLook not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart. This is a saying Longfellow read in Germany where his wife died. The words gave him hope for the future. It inspired him to want to write a series of psalms. The first one, A Psalm of Life written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is an uplifting poem that compels us to feel hope for the future. After reading it the first tim...
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Witches Lady Macbeth Influence On Macbeth
908 wordsIn all genres of literature different character types might be found. Some bring humor or comic relief, while others bring both pity and fear to the audience. A tragic character is one who gives evidence to the audience concerning his or her tragic flaw that causes a change in fortune, from happiness to misery. In a tragedy the main character rises to greatness, then continues to fall down, until reaches his or her downfall. Macbeth is a tragic hero in the play Macbeth by Shakespeare. The proces...
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18 Th Century Natural Disasters
1,264 wordsThere is said to be no greater figure who has summed up the Enlightenment age than the French philosophy Francois Marie About who worked under the pen name Voltaire. Voltaire was not only a philosophy of the Enlightenment, but was a playwright, historian, poet, and writer as well. During his career which lasted about 60 years in 18 th century, his writings consisted of essays, poems, satires, and philosophical tales, all of which carried the same theme of Ecrasez l income, or crush infamy. This ...
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