Goal! 2: Living the Dream...

Leaders work with people to achieve a goal, bosses order people around and do not contribute to the end goal. I believe in being a leader, working along side others to reach an ultimate goal. Not everyone was born into a situation that has easily set him or her up for success. I come from a culture of people that has had to work extremely hard to get ahead in life. For this reason, I value equality on the power distance cultural value spectrum. I put myself in the other person’s shoes to the…

just forget all about those plans and dreams and start living the moment. I choose to go with the flow and that has gotten me in some very nice places so far; emotionally and physically speaking. When I first started I used to have an unhealthy approach on how to travel. First of all I would travel heavy and I would plan every single step in that trip. But guess what? It only lasted for two getaways until I realized I was doing it wrong. After that, my only goal was to travel…

It’s strange being away from home. But 2 years ago, I was sitting at home on Christmas night wishing I was somewhere else. And by the summer of 2014, my wish came true. I decided that I needed to leave not only my home but my country to pursue my ambitions. I left friends, family, my home…

Lethal Love? Men who base their future purposes on past experiences, will end up destroying their own dreams. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s love for Daisy is by far one of the grandest illusions that are mistaken for reality. Throughout the novel, Gatsby chases the one aspect of his past he cannot imagine losing, Daisy; in reality this infinite hope of endless love for her is the thing that blinds him the most. Although Gatsby’s unshaken optimism guides him…

thousand more dollars than a social media representative in Dayton, Ohio. In cities that cost of living is higher, the pay will be higher. Places like Dayton, the cost of living is lower than San Francisco. The pay levels out the same,…

standard of living had decreased significantly. The extravagant lifestyle of the 1920’s was dead and the majority of Americans struggled to merely get by. The novel Of Mice and Men takes place in this time period and it is evident through the description of the characters and use of symbolism. The two novels, The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men both effectively illustrate the moods of their time periods. While the novels share a similar interpretation in the concept of the American Dream, they…

about making choices and taking action that helps you get the life you want. It's about making decisions based on what you feel is right and staying the course no matter what happens or what other people say. Having determination is important for living a life that you want to live. That's why quotes about determination are so important. They help you keep your resolve to stay determined and build a strategy that helps make it easier. Following are 9 important quotes about determination that you…

Pre-AP English 2 October 9, 2014 Of Mice and Men Character Analysis Things in life often don’t go as planned. Especially when times are hard and people start to lose hope for their future. Hope is a feeling that Curley’s Wife in the novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, never loses sight of. Set back during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl George and Lennie, two migrant workers who travel together, travel to a ranch in Soledad. On this ranch they learn about many dreams of the other…

Can you imagine yourself migrating to a different country, adapting to the change of climate, adjusting to the different culture and learning how to speak English is a way of survival? Throughout the history of Canada, immigration has become a part of our countries fabric, which began centuries ago. Canada is a country where we welcome anyone from any descent or displaced country to come and live in peace. Canada is both a multicultural and multiethnic country where individuals from diverse…

achieve the American Dream. “The American Dream is the ideal that the government should protect each person's opportunity to pursue their own idea of happiness” (Amadeo). The Declaration of Independence protects the American Dream by saying “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Amadeo). The American dream means something…