Politeness

In her article, “Sense and Sensibility, or Growing Up Dichotomous,” Ruth ApRoberts claims Jane Austen’s work, Sense and Sensibility, is a reflection about relations “...between head and heart, thought and feeling, [and] judgment and emotion.” (ApRoberts 351). Through the beginning, the title already shows the readers it is a “test [to] the characters on its polarity” (ApRoberts 355), a metaphor to many of the characters in the novel. Each of them represents more with sensibleness or…

To Kill a Mockingbird Acceptance “ You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). Atticus is trying to teach Scout the importance of not judging people on their choices, but to try and understand the intentions behind their actions. “He wants Scout and Jem to be able to look past the color of people’s skin, their wealth, gender, and to understand the situations they're in, and the problems…

James The full moon casted an eerie, pale blue glow on the night-owl Montrealers. James sat on a park bench at the base of Mount Royal, the hill that overlooked the city. Watching, analyzing. He was sifting through the indifferent individuals in search of someone compassionate. Someone vulnerable. James awaited his next victim. He spotted her. She no more than 30 years old, and she appeared as wide-eyed and enthused as newborn baby. Perfect, he thought. This was the one. He jumped up and…

I have already experienced this type of things in America. I'm not sure my action is right but it is "better" than do nothing. When I was in Biology class in high school in Houston, nobody wanted to forming study groups with me. I might be a burden on them because I was not fluent in English and didn’t seem engaged in class. I was a normal teenager girl who wanted to make friends. I was very lonely since I came to U.S alone. So I tried everything thing. First thing was I gave a napkin to my…

It is a societal expectation to forgive others. Usually with the exception of truly heinous crimes, sincere compassion is expected. In Simon Wiesenthal’s book, The Sunflower, he displays the opposite of this norm. He describes his situation: him, a prisoner of the Nazi concentration camps, being asked pardon from a dying SS man as his dying wish in a makeshift hospital. After the SS man, much later revealed to be named Karl, has finished his gruesome account of his sins, Simon is left with…

These qualities and virtues are indicated by the shield of the noblest knights. Some of the important qualities include, “friendship and fraternity with fellow men, purity and politeness that impressed at all times, and pity” (652-54). The quality and virtue tested the most is Gawain’s loyalty and fraternity with fellow men. Even though Gawain agreed to fulfill the formal agreement, but he only fulfilled a small portion of it after…

Many people think of cultures and habits of their own country when they hear the words “Cross Cultural”. Communication can be one of the example for it. According to Wikipedia, Cross cultural communication is a field of study which looks at how people communicates who has different cultural backgrounds. Sure, this affects those people to have troubles for communicating with other people, and for that, there is a way to solve this problem called the “6 stumbling blocks”. First is the language…

Session 1: Getting to Know Each Other Objectives: Children will get to know each other, work together to form group norms and rules, and learn more about ADHD. Description: Ice-breaker: Getting to Know Each Other Group leader asks everyone to write three things about themselves which may not be known to the rest of the group. Two are facts and one is fiction. The group then takes turns to read out the three ‘facts’ about themselves and…

Sitting outside, waiting for my ride back to the hotel room after wasting 3 hours on the golf course during the Teen World Golf Championships. I was disqualified for something that I did not even understand. "How?" "Why?" Before my father could utter his response to my questions, I could not help but think about my family's gardener, Daniel. A couple months back, It was about 3 O'clock in the afternoon on Memorial Day. As my father is backing the car out of our driveway, taking our entire…

Elizabeth’s opinion of Darcy is change when she realized how much alike they both are. Both pride and prejudice. It all starts when Darcy proposed to Elizabeth for the first time and Elizabeth rejects him. Elizabeth gives Darcy detailed reasons as to why she rejected him. Darcy learns that Elizabeth thinks wrongfully of him. Elizabeth blames Darcy for his friend Mr. Bingley not marrying her sister Jane. She also accuses him of being cruel for disinheriting Wickham. Elizabeth goes on to tell…