I agree with the author, many times when I feel sad, it is like my body cannot function. I remember one day, my mom left to go to Dominican Republic. I and my sisters were very sad. Often times, I would wonder if I will ever see her again. I had no hope and that took a toile on my life.
Trying to decide between my friends or the truth. Sometimes I have to pick the truth, and sometimes I have to choose my friends to protect them and their safety. In this story, trusting was a big concern. Tom has to make a HUGE decision, both to tell the truth and save his own life, or keep the truth and live in his guilt the rest of his life. The other main theme throughout the story was that you should always pick the right people to be friends with.
I learned humility through life struggles that have shown me that people who are arrogant and boastful aren’t really liked. I am a caring person I care for everyone and want to see the best out of everyone. If there is anything I can do to help someone be a better person than they already are I will do so. Caring for other people just seems to come natural to me. I learned to stay strong and never allow my fear to limit me.
Patrick Henry: Eh, I would say I am quite a bit of a leader. I'm very proud of my country and I wouldn't want anything but the freedom of living in it. “Give me Liberty, or give me death!” As I always say. “I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.” That's why I believe we should always make sure that we have a good, clean, and proud, present and past. For the certainty of the same in the
It seemed as if I was experiencing hell at one place and time in my life, I needed someone or something to become a safety net, a resting place, a sign of hope. I found God through all the craziness in my past and I found him to be everything I need. It seems as if I can count on him more than anyone in my life from him restoring me mind body and soul. He is the most important person in my life, he rescued me when I couldn’t hang on he told me to hold on. I believe that if he didn’t come when he did, I would literally be lost and because of him showing and making me feel that I am somebody, through compassion and overwhelming love I wouldn’t have achieved and conquered the things that I have
Like in the quote; because the trees couldn’t stand up for themselves, the Lorax took full responsibility in telling the Onceler what the trees couldn’t. That is courage. Being able to stand up for ourselves and our beliefs will show our world our courge. Confidence is necessary, because it gives us the
I think this is the most important character you can have because it will push you through life and help you become a more reliable and better person. This belief has come from a lot of adult figures in my life but mostly my dad. My dad is always telling me that even if the situation is as bad as it can get you should still always
The Great Depression of 1930 took on many different faces. To many Americans, it proved to be an intense time of uncertainty, which reeked emotional and physical havoc in many lives. The unbearable circumstances these families faced were like none other in our nation’s history. Desperation, fear and, even death, became an ever present trouble in many American lives. Millions of people lost their jobs during these tragic times, and left their homes in pursuit of securing work, but most fell short.
In a way Amir is born with guilt, his mother dies during childbirth and Amir is stricken with the guilt of his birth. “I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn’t I?” This example shows that even as a young child Amir felt guilt and allowed the past to significantly affect his life. Amir felt the reason Baba was always distant and seemed cut off, was because he was torn inside after the death of his beloved wife, which Amir had killed at delivery.
Lao Tzu and Machiavelli disagree on some other beliefs. In Article 67, Lao Tzu states that he believes in three traits of leaderships; simplicity, compassion, and patience. Machiavelli however writes a prince “…needs to appear to be merciful, faithful, humane, forthright, religious…” (49), but to actually practice all the above traits at all times would be harmful to a prince’s power. Reading both views of such a highly discussed topic tugs your own view. While I understand the views of both men, I believe that Machiavelli’s perspective is more prevalent and useful in the world today.