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Passion Will Be My Paycheck I could sense all 32 of their hearts beating. They were nervous, very nervous. They gathered their flags and headed to warm-up. They were awful quiet for a group of teenage girls, but rightly so, they were about to perform their first winter guard show. Myself and the other co-directors, gave instructions that they listened to very carefully. “Smile, chin up, and have fun.” The girls responded with multiple anxious questions. My words gave them short term comfort as…

Benjamin Carson had to deal with many obstacles throughout his life. In the end, however, he managed to work his way around them and get his dream job as a neurosurgeon at John Hopkins Medical Center. Ben was widely known throughout the world for the miraculous surgeries he performed, such as when he separated conjoined twins without having either of them pass away during the operation for the first time in history. He also performed hemispherectomy on a girl of four years and, despite several…

Surgical innovations have evolved over the years as medicine has advanced. Dr. Denton Cooley, Dr. Frank Jobe, and Dr. Ben Carson have all contributed in great capacity to change the surgical field and to save lives. Though controversial and sometimes outspoken, Dr. Denton Cooley, Dr. Frank Jobe, and Dr. Ben Carson have all developed innovative surgical procedures that help change the lives of many people. Dr. Denton Cooley innovated a procedure that bought time for his patients awaiting a second…

The Oscar winning film, Good Will Hunting, released in 1997, follows the journey a 20 year old genius boy, Will, who suffered abuse growing up. According to Stephan Labossiere, “Many times we are our worst enemy. If we could learn to conquer ourselves, then we will have a much easier time overcoming the obstacles that are in front of us.” This saying is evident in the life of Will, as his life is observed to begin changing after he finds guidance from the people around him. The abuse Will…

In the film Good Will Hunting, Will is a tough character with an incredible ability to solve extremely complex math theorems and equations. He ends up getting arrested for assault but, one of the professors that noticed his intelligence in math persuades the judge to release him from jail as long as he has weekly therapy sessions. Many psychologists turn him down and only see him as a waste of time but, Sean Maguire accepted the challenge. Sean finds an interest in Will because of his past and…

The Delights Of Hope Everyone has experienced at least a tragedy sometimes in their lives, in which that moment they feel either hopeless or helpless. Although this moment might feel like an eternity, there is always fortunate events that will follow that tragedy. In other words, there will always be hope after tragedy. In Silas Marner by George Eliot, Eliot creates the main protagonist, Silas Marner, to experience full satisfaction, connect back to society, and show how much pain and stress he…

John Donne and Lady Mary Wroth are two popular and controversial poets from the early seventeenth century. Donne often wrote sensuous and spiritual poetry, while Wroth had written Petrarchan (in nature) sonnets concerning love from a woman’s (practically unheard of for that time) perspective. In both Donne’s “A Valediction: forbidding Mourning” and Wroth’s “Sonnet 22” (in the sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus) the issue of separation between lovers is explored by means of nature,…

"The humble doctor has never let his success go to his head. Instead, this devoted family man and devout Christian is quick to credit the Lord for his bounty of blessings”( Williams, K. (2009, September 3). The Sly Fox Film Reviews: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story DVD. Retrieved October 8, 2015.).Carson struggled during his adolescent years of school and years before but, was constantly harassed by his dominant races(whites)-, for having the lowest grade in the class, the most number of…

Dogberry’s Revelation of the Truth The characters in Much Ado About Nothing, a comedy by William Shakespeare, are victims of miscommunication, deceit, and social injustices. Hero, the main victim in the story, had the chance to have her dignity and social status saved when Dogberry and his watchmen forced the truth about Don John’s destructive plan through Borachio. Instead, Dogberry found the chance to reveal the truth after Hero has already been humiliated by Claudio and Don Pedro. The order…

In Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing, the two most famous scenes are probably the two gulling scenes. Gulling, means to deceive, the two gulling scenes in Shakespeare play, therefore, are the two deception scenes. Now why are these scenes famous, because each deception is different, the only thing they have in common are that both involve deception. In the first gulling scene (Act 2 Scene 3) Don Pedro has created a scheme to have the characters Benedick and Beatrice…