In everyday media we hear about success all the time.Like how this person is so successful,how someone shouldn't be successful because they didnt do anything, and most importantly how to be successful.Laurence Shames wote a essay called “The Sweet Smell of Success Isn’t All That Sweet”.It is about there interpretation on how and what it means to be successful.They explain that to be successful is to challenge lifes ideas and to make great works of art.Laurence also says that its bad to think that success is having alot of money and fame.I disagree for the most part. I believe that success comes from how you see it.In the essay Laurence says savral times that todays success is more about the reword then the accomplishment.But to
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So Laurence makes it seem like once you are a artist you are happy about yourself and you will have the respect of everyone.Only in a perfect world that would happen.Many artists only get there fame after death.People like El Greco,Edgar Allan Poe and most famously Vincent Van Gogh.Vincent made the painting The Starry Night one of the most famous painting of all time.During his time almost no one knew about him even to the point where no one knew or cared that he died.He only got famous 28 years later after he died.Does that sound successful to
So Laurence makes it seem like once you are a artist you are happy about yourself and you will have the respect of everyone.Only in a perfect world that would happen.Many artists only get there fame after death.People like El Greco,Edgar Allan Poe and most famously Vincent Van Gogh.Vincent made the painting The Starry Night one of the most famous painting of all time.During his time almost no one knew about him even to the point where no one knew or cared that he died.He only got famous 28 years later after he died.Does that sound successful to