The Mistake

Marissa Robles ENGL 3000 February 2, 2017 Richard II Assignment Evidence Richard’s Mistakes In speaking of the Duke of Gloucester’s death, Mowbray says, “I slew him not; but to my own disgrace / Neglected my sworn duty in that case”. (1.1.136-37). Richard banishes Bolingbroke: Therefore, we banish you our territories: You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of life, Till twice five summers have enrich'd our fields. (1.3.436-38). John of Gaunt speaks about Richard while on his death bed:…

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…

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…

Mistakes Are Made Philosophers say, that in order to accept responsibility, you have to accept the fact that a mistake was made. Have you ever been loved so poorly, that you think that it is the best kind of love that there is? Well, that is where I was at and that was my first mistake. Throughout life, there are many times that people know that they made a mistake, but they still choose to not accept what they have done. There have been many accounts in my life that I did not take…

Have you ever made a mistake before? Of course you have! Everyone makes mistakes, but sometimes those errors can be big. Mistakes have caused the ancient city of Troy to be destroyed, and they tend to cause more damage than they do progress, additionally even when there is a big discovery made by mistake, the very same people who made the discovery have to keep working for years for it to actually be of any use to anybody. Troy. The grand city spoken of by the great poet Homer. Once complete,…

for others. However, throughout their journey amongst the many islands of Greece, they learn to be more humble and they realize that life isn’t always about winning. Odysseus and his men learn to be humble by making mistakes, having bad consequences, and feeling pain. The mistakes made by Odysseus teach us that everybody is destined to blunder at some point in their life. The reader may think that Odysseus is a flawless warrior; however, his actions show how even the strongest of warriors…

In the book, Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson are able to showcase true life accounts of people that have made wrong decisions that were either unacceptable or completely terrible, who justified their actions as if they did nothing wrong. People do this because as humans, it is too complicated for us to admit that we have done something wrong, so instead we like to cover ourselves up with justifications. This then causes for the person to make the assumption…

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…

I had no idea about. I got yelled at and I felt awful for not being able to show what I could do my first day; the amount of times I made mistakes that night traumatized me. After this, I called the next day and was told to come back in. I did not want to but I needed the money so I did. Since then, I have become much better at my job and when I make mistakes now I do not beat myself up for it as…

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…