Carl Bernstein

Upon taking the Myers-Briggs personality assessment, I identified with the ISTJ group. ISTJ personality group is also known as “THE INSPECTOR”. You may be asking, what does ISTJ mean? Well ISTJ personality category stands for Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging. People like me that relate to ISTJ’s category are known to be stubborn, insensitive, strong willed, honest, and responsible. My “ISTJ” communication style is very simple. I am very direct and straightforward. I like for things…

A Jungian Psychoanalytic Approach to Zeus’s Defeat of Cronus Since the Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung founded a series of analytical psychology theories first introducing the concept of “personal unconscious”, “collective unconscious” and “archetype” in 1953, an advanced Jungian psychoanalytic approach has been extensively applied to the interpretation of Art, literature and Greek myth. This essay will argue that Zeus’s behavior of defeating his father Cronus was…

The Beach Boys are an all-male and all American rock band that consists of five of them. They got together in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The original Beach Boys were three brothers; Brian who was born in 1942, Carl who was born in 1946 and Dennis Wilson who was born in 1944; later, one of their cousins Mike Love who was born in1941 and their schoolmate Alan Jardine who was born in 1942 (was replaced by David Marks before they got back together) grouped with them. Brian was actually the…

Every single person on Earth has a different life story. Many people have the choice of how they want to live their lives and some do not. Each person has a different secret to what makes their life lovable. In Paulo Coelho’s novel, The Alchemist, the main character’s secret to life is to always listen to the signs that the world gives you. Santiago(the main character) listens to these signs and achieves his personal legend(life’s purpose). Santiago receives many signs throughout his journey of…

The story “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho, is about a young boy who has recurring dreams that trouble him. In his dreams he is a shepherd, and he is to find treasure and to discover his personal legend.A personal legend is a spiritual purpose, or an inner finding on one's life.. Finding this has great benefits on people's life. In the alchemist Santiago searches for his Personal legend and eventually finds it. Everyone should pursue and try and search for there Legend. My personal Legend is…

Most people are proud of their home town; However, few people are as proud as Carl Sandburg is when he writes “Chicago”. One is able to tell how he feels about his home city of Chicago through his use of tone. Sandburg is able to superbly manipulate his tone throughout the whole poem. One is able to realize the love Sandburg has for Chicago through this tone. He utilizes imagery and diction to develop this proud tone throughout his poem, “Chicago”. Sandburg’s imagery allows the the reader to…

Huffman 1 Mikayla Huffman Klass English 9 Honors 9 June 2015 Interpretation of the Symbolism of Alchemy in The Alchemist Everyone has the ability to become something more in life than what they start out as, much like the transition from lead to gold. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho contains an example of this, in how the protagonist, Santiago (a shepherd boy from a region of Spain called Andalusia) attempts to accomplish his personal legend. The leading symbol behind this book is alchemy, which…

The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho was quite intriguing, better than many novels that have better stories. A boy had a dream about treasure, so he went to the pyramids. Its a simple lack lustre story, compared to novels about time traveling or saving a kingdom from an evil tyrant. Even in precise detail the alchemist would have no complex story to grasp the audience with, so they will not be engaged enough to keep reading, but it is engaging. It is engaging because of how Coelho’s mysterious…

In “The Alchemist”, Santiago is shaped by conflict, choice, and change in a variety of ways. He encountered many of these while he was trying to fulfil his personal legend as his treasure. In the end, he finds out that the treasure is his personal legend. One factor of choice was influences on Santiago. The gyspy women influenced Santiago by interpreting his dream, telling him that he would find buried treasure at the pyramids in Egypt but he had to pay 1/10 of whatever he finds. She helps give…

Archetypal Spectrum Carl Jung created the concept of the collective unconscious, which is universal thoughts, beliefs and ideas that are shared amongst many people. For example, individuals from all over the world have the same vision that constructs the image of the ideal hero. A few traits that a hero identifies with would be, using their muscles and powers for the good and also for the better of the community. A similar picture is painted universally when thinking about this specific…