Australian Dream

What is your greatest desire? Have you ever wanted something so bad? Sometimes you want something but it doesn’t always turn out the way you wanted it to. There’s always going to be a downside and an upside to a desire, whether it as simple as wanting a candy bar to wanting backstage passes to a concert of your favorite band or artist. Madame Loisel from “The Necklace”, Yonatan from “What wish of this Goldfish Would you wish” and the wife from “The Wife’s Story” all have different desires that…

What is your dream? In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, Winter Dreams, he introduces us to a man named Dexter who has the dream to become a golf champion. Early in the story on page 34, paragraph 3, the author says “He became a golf champion and defeated Mr. T. A. Hedrick in a marvelous match played a hundred times over the fairways of his imagination” But that was not his only dream, he always strived to be wealthier and have more power. Dexter’s dreams were not as achievable as has he…

a thousand meters a second, your heart drops and your senses slam you awake. Whew! It was just a dream! We all dream at some point, while some of us may dream less frequently or become unable to remember our dreams, we all do so. I will address the scientific term for dreaming, which is REM, or Rapid Eye Movement, the fifth and final phase of sleep (“What is REM Sleep?”). We as humans experience dreams during REM sleeping for several reasons, influenced by psychological and physiological…

Dreams are a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. “If you can Dream it you can do it.” By Walt Disney. This is what the poem mainly is about having dreams and remembering your childhood like never before, or wanting to change the dreams you had set in the past as a child. Edgar Allan poe had a difficult childhood that cannot be changed ever again. This is what Edgar wanted to do with his dreams change the past. The poem is mainly about dreams.…

purpose of a dream? Many people across time with diverse backgrounds have asked this very question. The excerpt from “Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and “Harlem” by Langston Hughes are very similar in the sense they are both about dreams, however, they differ when it comes to their approach to dreams. These two poems have many differences, such as, in the excerpt from “Life is a Dream” by Pedro Calderón de la Barca states, indubitably, that life is a dream. He says you dream…

Sometimes the dreams we find aren’t necessarily ones we had in mind before. In life can change in a small increment of time. In the novela Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, Crooks having a change in his dream because of things that were happening around him. With actions in this novela it is extremely noticeable that Crooks has a dream just like George and Lennie do. On this ranch Crooks is the only black worker which sets him back because this time period is a period of extreme racism and…

have unlimited power. Many people claim to not have dreams, simply because they cannot remember them, but everyone dreams. Some people have the ability to lucid dream which allows them to have control of the dream. Lucid dreaming opens up a part of yourself that you may not have known existed. There have been studies done, to show how lucid dreaming helps you bring out your creativity. In this paper I will argue that the ability to lucid dream can be beneficial to you, in your waking life,…

Do dreams define who you are? In the short story “Star Food,” written by Ethan Canin, Dade didn’t know what to dream about, didn’t identify himself and felt like he disappointed his parents for the first time. What disappointed one usually pleased the other, so while his mother believed that he was on the verge of discovering something, his father would dream of him knowing what he wanted to do with his life, and wanted for Dade to run the store, do stock work, and keep the family business. Dade…

achieve their dreams but what happens to those who don't? Most importantly what happens to the people around them? We often see the positive effects of dreams for example “we choose to go to the moon” written by John F. Kennedy helps us understand how dreams can help us “We choose to go to the moon, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills” In this speech J.F Kennedy explains to us how dreams…

Destinee Beltran “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world,” Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman not only gave great advice and words of wisdom, but she accomplished many amazing things as well. Harriet Tubman was born as Ross, in Dorchester County Maryland in the year 1822. Also called Minty Ross when she was young, at just five years of age, she was hired to do child…