The Prodigy

situations include a wide range of difficulty. To some, the mere act of giving a speech may compare to surviving World War II. B: For Sakura in the film “Alice”, which was written by Higuchi Tachibana, surviving means overcoming the judgements of her prodigy classmates and growing into her talents. In more real-life situations, Aron Ralston in “Trapped” sacrifices his own arm to survive when he is trapped alone in the canyons; Hyeonseo Lee’s life at one point, as she tells in “My Escape from…

Montesquieu’s The Persian Letters: Culture. “I saw an insatiable lust for money suddenly springing up in every heart. I saw the instantaneous development of a hateful conspiracy to get rich, not by honourable work and unstinting behaviour, but by ruining the king, the state and other citizens.” ― Montesquieu, The Persian Letters (Letter 147) The Persian Letters is an epistolary novel about two men, Usbek and his friend Rica, traveling over the course of fourteen months from Isfahan (modern day…

statement is Bedřich Smetana. He, along with many other composers, have a way of speaking through their compositions. Bedřich Smetana was born on March 2, 1824 and died on May 12th, 1884. According to New World Encyclopedia, “Smetana was a child prodigy who grew up in a family that cultivated music and schooled him in violin and piano before he received formal musical training in Prague.” He got his first violin when he was one year old and his father, Frantisek Smetana, taught him how to play…

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Love in the Time of Global Warming is a modern rendition of The Odyssey filled with good-natured characters, an intriguing plot line brimming with foreshadowing details, and innumerable references to the classic Greek myth of Odysseus. This novel was written by Francesca Lia Block. It is set in a post-apocalyptic version of California and Nevada, caused by the Earth-Shaker, which is what the characters of the story refer to as the earthquake that killed off many of their families and friends.…

In his essay “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” author Sherman Alexie writes about the pleasures of reading. His thesis “My father loved books, and since I love my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well” best describes the author’s position on the topic. He conveys his thesis to the readers through rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos and logos and literary devices such as repetition as he describes his personal experiences. Sherman Alexie wrote…

There are many different beliefs towards what brings us to success. In The Sports Gene by David Epstein, it is explained that innate and physical talents are what allow people to succeed. In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell explains that effort and practice is what brings us to the top. Epstein and Gladwell both put forth arguments about how much in our lives we control, however, based on evidence Gladwell definitely shows that effort and practice is what we control to make us…

“Most of the time, our own cultures are invisible to us (Greenfield, Raeff, & Quiroz, 1996; Philips, 1983), yet they are the context within which we operate and make sense of the world” (Pachecho, Trumbull 10). In other words, one’s culture always strongly informs the way one views others and the world. Although others believe that one’s culture and personal decisions are two opposite things, one culminates all of the ideas, values, and beliefs he or she is taught through his or her culture to…

I really enjoyed some of the writing technique essays that we read in class. I usually spend several hours doing just my rough draft. For some reason, I had never considered just doing word throw up on my paper to help develop my ideas. The first draft shouldn’t be the final. My first draft was terrible, because I just wrote whatever came to my mind often not in complete sentences. The way that is sucked however, really help me figure out what I wanted to write about and helped me form a more…