Jenny Lewis

how self-discipline and gratification can play a huge role in success growing up. “Later they found that 100% of the kids who did not eat the marshmallow were more successful” This data shows how having patience at such a young age can help you move forward in a person's career. You don’t always have to obtain characteristics to make you successful, even though it’s very important, anyone can gain success by just being somewhere at the right time. For example, in Michael Lewis's speech he gave to college graduates, “Don’t Eat Fortune’s Cookie” he shares his life story on how luck changed his life forever. “People really don't like to hear success always explained as luck-especially successful people” this is true to a certain extent, for Lewis he knows where his inspiration for writing came from was just dumb luck. He explains how one night he was sitting at dinner next to a wife whose husband was starting a Giant Wall Street bank. The wife later then got him a job there and in about a year or so he was making hundreds of dollars even though he didn't know nothing about handling money. He only got paid because he was a graduate from Princeton and pretending he knew what he was doing to buyers. His success didn't come from a banking job instead, he got the creativity to write his own book on his experience at the Salmon Brothers. Luck for students can happen anywhere because something may help you to become inspired to do something in you love in life. In order for…

All I hear is birds singing their usual songs in the morning and being able to feel the cold air surrounding my body. It’s winter and it’s the most outrages winter I’ve experienced in my life. I was strolling to my bus stop and as I begin to slow down I see the school bus was already coming up the hill following behind my tail to make a complete stop. There was about 5 other students with me anxiously waiting the bus to stop and then they all got on the bus one by one. All I could do is think…

Throughout the novel The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, Kitty Baldry experiences trauma that is constantly controlled by characters who perpetrate patriarchal ideas. Since the death of her son Oliver, Kitty continues to return to his nursery, the symbolic space of this tragedy, in order to repress her trauma and attempt to find new purposes for the room since her husband Chris will not let her change it permanently. Chris’ cousin Jenny also functions as the narrator of the novel and she…

Barnum’s economical way of looking at life caused him to make even more money off of Lind. He advertised auctions for first tickets to her shows, an ostentatious way of showing wealth. The wealthy would buy tickets to the auction just to buy an actual ticket to the opera. They profited off of the auctions more than expected, and were a spectacle event all in itself, saying “the excitement was considerable and the bidding spirited, as was generally the case,” (335). The atmosphere around the…

The author, Lenny Bernstein, writes about how a mother of seven children was against vaccinating her children until all of them got the whooping cough disease. Bernstein currently writes for the Washington Post and typically covers medicine and health. He attended Trinity College where he studied American Studies, and he also graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from University of Michigan where he studied American Culture. In this post Bernstein seems like he is against the anti-vaccination…

marriage, and so on. Throughout each episode, Gossip Girl exposes various secrets one by one. The cast is mostly young privileged teens and their families living in deluxe neighborhoods. Serena Van der Woodsen is the fresh, model-like girl who is in the “popular” group at school, but does not care about her status. She is independent and free spirited. On the other hand, Blaire Waldorf also known as Queen B is all about status. Blaire is an alpha female. She is the head of her clique, always…

being so prevalent in everyone’s daily lives, there is also the feeling of needing to contribute to the war effort, or at least keep up appearances, however unwelcome it may be. A transition exists, from characters believing that the war will run its course to the realization that there may be no future outside of the war in its effects for many of these characters. The majority of the time, the intrusion of war into daily life is callous and unwelcome, but must be acknowledged. Jenny in “The…

airborne. He rolled onto the car’s hood, smashing into the windshield. He crashed headfirst on the asphalt shattering onto the ground into an unnatural position. He was unconscious. A crowd gathered and cell phones clicked to life from those calling emergency services. Individuals started coordinating to direct traffic from the horrific scene. Strangers ran to assist Chuck. The EMTs arrived within seconds, as did the fire department, and police. The commotion and blocking of a major highway…

For most of human history, people have spent their lives changing. Our ancestors lived very different lives from us, and our descendents are likely to also live different lives. However, sometimes change happens over a very long time, and one lifetime may not be enough experimenting with the world. There are many different ways to live today, but humans have settled into a single life without first seeing what else there is to do, and the pain of not knowing what the world has to offer can cause…

for who you are. All those memories share together, to realize that you found the one who you’re willing to spend the rest of your life with. Is that special person that can make your face light up, your palms sweat, and experience a flutter of electricity racing through your body. You’re in love. Until he or she decides that relationship is not the same and break your heart by letting you go. In the album “Spirit”, Leona Lewis demonstrates how painful it is to go through a breakup and moving…