My Favorite Mistake

highly talented individuals know that in order to sustain their talent, they must practice consistently even when it seems they know it all. some people make the mistake of thinking that they do not require practice. no one is born with mastery of any skill or ability. Their mastery was gained through constant practice. there would be moments when it would be difficult to practice. when you get into such situations…

everything I do. Everything always must be a certain way and I must always perform to my unrealistically high standards. Ever since I was a child, I was told that failing was not an option and that giving up was not even a feasible suggestion. I have been working my entire life to not give up and to keep doing my best. Unfortunately, perfection is not attainable and it has been something I have struggled with my entire life in my classes and in work. In school, no grade less than an A was…

Emotions, they are what seem to connect us to our past. They helps us to learn from our mistakes and to love what we can change for the better. Without our emotions, life would be meaningless and our past forgotten. In The Stranger, by Albert Camus, we see into the life of a man who doesn’t seem to have any emotion. Because of this, Meursault, the main character, is not able to connect to anything in his life and does not seem to care much about it. If only Meursault was able to tap into…

Latice Castro In the article “Japanese Ghosts Don’t Have Feet” by Liza Dalby, an anthropologist’s experienced several mistakes while staying with her host family. The cultural values that where linked to her mistakes were collectivism vs. individualism, power distance, and nurturing vs. achievement. In this paper I will discuss the different ways she could have avoided her mistakes applying communication competence skills such as involvement, empathy, and cognitive complexity. Collectivism…

This is the story of X, who took the responsibility of her mistake and found a way out. She was a very lazy girl, and therefore, she never did her work on time. On one fine day, all the students of her class were asked to do a research and then write a report on it. They were given a weeks’ time to do that. X thought that 1 week was more than enough and took the assignment for granted. Though she never did her work on time, but she never failed to submit her assignments on the given time, and…

People always make mistakes because of what they fascinate and desire. After going creating these mistakes, these people are responsible to face the aftermath. In John Updike’s short story A&P, a young male teenager Sammy who is inexperience and immature is possessed by his desires and imagination to do what he wants and as a result, he ends up dealing with the consequences. When I was in elementary school and in my primary years, I played soccer against grade sevens. At that time, I was an…

Mistakes are an inevitable fact of life. As humans, everyone is expected to make some questionable decisions, but sometimes mistakes are viewed as better or worse in different circumstances. Due to the highly religious setting in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many of the mistakes made by the characters were categorized as sins. In seventeenth century Boston, the Puritans viewed any misconduct as severe sins. Therefore, Hester Prynne’s act of adultery spoiled her reputation, with no…

During my time in Dr. Kennedy 's ENG 111 class, I have been pushed way beyond my limits of capabilities. Before in high school, I had no idea what a rhetorical analysis was. But here it turns out to the normality. Normally, we would just read a book and then answer questions based on said book. We also had only used citation once if lucky prior to the senior project. But there wasn 't much need for detail. But nevertheless, without my experience here at RCC, I would have never known the amount…

Often times, mistakes are a combination of numerous occurrence that combine to make the perfect storm. I believe that Lewis Blackman’s Story is one such occurrence. However, it was not just the actual mistakes that made this case noteworthy. Mistakes are a human manifestation. As Alexander Pope wrote in “an Essay on Criticism”, to err is human, to forgive is divine. In Lewis’s story, I think an apology, in the great sense, would have gone a long way. Medical errors are now the third leading…

amount of mistakes a human can make is innumerable and I am no exception. Never have I had a perfect paper; they’ve always had issues with the type of language, the portrayal, the grammar/mechanics of the writing, and the overall elaboration of the sentences. These aren’t difficult problems to fix, just careless mistakes. Most of these problems can be fixed with more editing, which comes to the most common mistake of my writing, revising. Although I do revise, I always miss small details that…