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    Pride either builds you up or tears you down. It’s a good thing when there’s not too much of it. When there is too much, it can turn horribly wrong, such as in brother’s case. He became too full of pride. Pride can be dangerous and bear the fruit of death, pain, and destroyed dreams. Pride can be dangerous and do harm both physically and emotionally. In Doodle’s case, his brother’s pride regarding teaching him to walk, brought him physical harm. Brother wanted to make everyone proud of him,…

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    was a man who had hope. King knew that once he started the battle for human rights, he would be loathed by many and hardships would follow him wherever he went. He once said, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” Dr. King’s message motivates me to believe that disappointments do not last forever, and that hope is what will help you to overcome it. This quote is a reminder for me to have hope just as Dr. King did, and to believe that situations will get better and…

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    these obstacles are so easy to overcome and sometimes we fail to overcome them and get disappointed at this failure. Well that is pretty much my life in a nutshell. I have been faced with so many obstacles in my life yet I am so young. These disappointments keep getting to me and make me loose my moral in life. However, the most disappointing situation I have been in was most recently. In my country, Kenya, Exams are everything especially the final exam you do in high school. This exam is what…

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    having low expectations can be viewed as pleasant and helpful, whereas having high expectations can cause disappointment. Even William Shakespeare once said that expectations are the root of heartache. Lowering expectations can positively impact happiness by changing one’s outlook on life, relieving one’s stress from pursuing goals, relieving stress towards school, and reducing anger or disappointment in people. First of all, by practicing having low or no expectations one’s outlook on life can…

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    Moreover, Leo is another epitome of youthful enthusiasm as a crazy side of a growing child. Firstly, he is portrayed as shiny and beautiful. Amanda drifts off; ‘She’d never met a child with beady eyes before. Beadiness arrives after long slow ekes of disappointment, usually in middle age (106).’ She gives stages of life comparison, admiring the youthfulness. In addition to that, Groff writes ‘But Leo was such an intense child, and so purposeful, that she watched him until she remembered hearing…

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    biggest disappointment out of them all was the fact that there are invisible walls that separate the strong from the weak within the Korean culture, and this wall was superiority and inferiority. This is not only prominent in formal situations. In fact, this was an ideology that stained the day to day life of the Korean people. Unable to comprehend the injustice happening within the Korean culture, I was filled with disappointment and unanswered frustrations. A long time passed, the…

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    Nat Faxton and Jim Rash, and The Boy in Striped Pyjamas directed by Mark Herman. I believe that all the texts I’ve studied comment on the idea of growing up being a struggle. The struggle is mad worse because the children haven’t been exposed to disappointment whilst thinking the world is perfect and has no faults. Blackberry-Picking is a poem written by Seamus Heaney. This poem is all about children succumbing to the harsh realities of the world. The children and are yet to lose their…

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    will ultimately vanish; the line “from kiss to kiss” alludes to love disappearing over time; second, the speaker specify “passionate women” to reveal that women are infatuated at first but will eventually become uninterested; third, the speaker’s disappointment is shown in “For everything that’s lovely is but a brief, dreamy, kind delight,” and it illuminates that love is temporary enjoyment; fourth, the speaker’s repetition of “never…

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    written by Henrik Ibsen who narrates Hedda Gabler as a scandalous, independent, coward, egotistical and a deceiving character who wants who experienced so many problems in life. Starting from having an unwanted marriage with George and pregnancy; disappointments of controlling Lovborg’s life; black mail from judge Brack about her scandal, after convincing Lovborg to commit suicide; Hedda’s insecurity to Mrs. Elvsted; and the feeling of no purpose in life. In Hedda Gabler, Hedda is a scandalous,…

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    Ignorance is bliss; I have thought so quite often in my race to be the perfect mom. There is so much science behind everything we do today. There is child development research, brain research, genetic research – all of which tell mothers what they should or should not be doing and how they should or should not be doing it! Raising children has become a science and mothers are trying to be scientists doing everything perfectly. This has created more stress for both mothers and children. And, the…

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