Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

“Don’t let life change your goals because achieving your goals can change your life. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” (Anonymous). Society should not be allowed to change one’s life. Individuals have the ability to change their own life by setting their own goals and dreams, while accomplishing them at their own pace. A person’s age should not affect their willingness to change. In American Literature, society tries to control the characters choices and…

made as youngsters can totally backfire once they start getting older. Apted’s documentaries are suggesting that decisions should be taken seriously because it can have severe consequences in the future. I think that when we are young, we mostly have dreams of becoming successful, but the mind hasn’t fully matured enough to think about the obstacles that have to happen. I do think education is important and if you start to comprehend the fact that you need it, and then you are on the right path.…

humble little apartment for these few years while my father ran a business similar to the one he had in Iraq. I was still just a toddler so this wasn’t a part of my life that I remember, although it was probably one of the most peaceful parts of my childhood. My parents had some friends that also immigrated to Jordan years before who mentioned the greatness and opportunity North America had to offer and my father became obsessed. For the next several months all my father did was teach himself…

There are many people in this world that aspire for riches and power, but very few ever attain this sweet dream. This dream happened to be achieved by two men who got to that level of success by doing what they love, and making sure they were the best at it. Considering how both Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates are derived from different beginnings. They both embraced life’s challenges and made the decisions necessary to, one, become the wealthy men they desired to be, and two, not forget about…

beliefs of Fauset. She says that black pride is much bigger than the individual or what the individual might want and that sacrifices must be made to keep the pride in one’s race. She also talks about the self-respect that comes along with being proud of your identity. Virginia then becomes an example of Fauset’s idea of what black people should do, they should accept who they are and get on with building their life, just as a white American would do. Fauset continues the theme of racial pride…

to breathe without thinking about college applications and their chances at their dream school. After All,have we not seen any student graduate from COS and go to a UC after? The research reasons as well,“Adolescence today, Robbins argues, is a highly professionalized experience in which one’s resume, transcript, and scores are everything, and where both the innocence and leisure traditionally associated with childhood are nowhere to be found. Noting that the competition to get into top-ranked…

confession about his own imperfections. I learned that it is very important to acknowledge and learn from your mistakes and faults. He also presents a list of 13 virtues ensuring moral perfection and self-command. The order of the list is very important and conveys an essential message. I personally feel that he arranges the virtue according to its importance and necessity. I think he really works hard to achieve his goal of moral betterment and satisfaction. He referred it as a “bold and…

claiming how cognitive skills are far more important than what you know academically or in this case, a high IQ. In Rowson’s book, The Seven Deadly Chess Sins, he writes, “If you want to become a great chess player, or even a good one, your ability to recognize and utilize your emotions is every bit as important as the way you think” (Tough, 2013, pg. 113). Although this statement comes from another source, it blends nicely with what Tough is trying to get through to his readers as well.…

father established a good image for himself, but when Biff found out the truth, he knew that his father has betrayed the family and has lied to him. Since Biff and Willy are always getting into confrontations, Biff expresses to his mother what he really thinks of his father. “Because I know he’s a fake and he doesn’t like anybody around who knows!”(42). At the time Linda had no idea about the affair, that taken place years earlier. But to digress back to the topic, Willy cheated on his wife,…

Most of these individuals don’t realize how severe their conditions really are. The main character, Lia, in Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson has a hard time realising the severity of her anorexia as she shows in this quote, “ I change into the yellow rode in my bedroom and make sure the quarters I sewed into the pockets…