Paulo Coelho

“Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption” (Paulo Coelho, author). According to the dictionary, redemption is an act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake. It is a way to bury agony and sorrow while accepting, forgiving and moving forward from catastrophe. Novelist, Khaled Hosseini, delved into this idea of redemption in his debut novel, The Kite Runner with much success. Protagonist Amir, his father, Baba, and Saunaubar,…

They say that the sweetest victory is the one that’s most difficult. I didn’t believe defeat was necessary to succeed in life. I thought that if we failed, we failed. We can’t do anything more to overcome our failures. Over the years I’ve learned that failure is just a stepping stone towards success. I learned that we must drive, dig deeper, and have a lot of determination to reach our goals in life. We will have those people in our lives telling us, “It’s impossible.” or “You might fail, and…

Introduction: Sleeve gastrectomy(SG) as a bariatric procedure was introduced by Marceau, where-in he modified Scopinaro’s bilio-pancreatic division by adding a longitudinal gastric resection. [1] Although initially introduced as a first-stage procedure, Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy(LSG) has gained popularity as a primary restrictive bariatric procedure. The ASMBS,in it’s updated position statement on sleeve gastrectomy (SG) as a bariatric procedure, recognises SG as an acceptable primary…

The concept of perfection is something that cannot be reached or can be achieved because if you have nothing to redeem then you have nothing to gain. Just as a caterpillar is to a butterfly, redemption is to success. Although they may seem like opposites, they actually are very much alike because you need one to have the other. One must recognize a fault that they have suffered and learn from it to better one’s self and eventually teach it to others. The idea of redemption through failure…

Listen to Your Heart and Follow Your Dreams Have you ever wanted something so desperately but were too afraid to go after it? In life, we are often too afraid to take chances for fear of failure and rejection. Being unsure of the unknown makes us uncomfortable, and we do not like to put ourselves out there not knowing what the outcome will be. However, with that said, what if we never took the chance, and we miss something amazingly beautiful? While The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and The…

Henry David Thoreau was a man of intelligence, brilliance, and success. He was a Harvard graduate and an educator. He was an activist against the Mexican war and slavery. People never really understood Thoreau. He was a man that seem to have difficulty getting along with others, yet he has “great qualities of intellect and character,” as his close friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne described. Thoreau was an adventurous man who wanted to find out what life is. He tries to figure this out by living a…

The play Othello was created by William Shakespeare. It is a tale all about jealousy and manipulations made by one of the main characters, Iago. Paulo Coelho, a novelist, once said, “No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they 're doing, even if one of them complains later on that they were used,” meaning that people are aware of every action and every consequence. How humans deal with the manipulations is what will make or break a person. In Othello Iago…

The coworkers help me with my writing and they challenge me, one of the lady’s from my job gave me a book call “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho. During the summer I took a class of cultural diversities and the readings were really interesting that they change the point of view that I had when it comes to social problems in our society it really impact my life to make a change. The professor…

Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho once indicated that “A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” Unfortunately, Coelho’s statement proves to be true as concerns regarding today’s society reflect similar predicaments that presented themselves since the introduction of slavery to America. However, although current topics regarding social wrongs have been recognized through the development of social media and targeted for improvement, the problems, nevertheless, continue to manifest within…

Jack as my teacher. I had heard he was a harsh grader, but overall a good teacher. I was afraid I was going to do poorly. Our first paper was on the novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. Mr. Jack gave us only a limited amount of instruction for this paper because he said he wanted to see what we already knew about writing. I was furious. I knew nothing about how to write a paper on a high school level. I barely even knew how to…