one define ambition? Ambition is a tenacious desire to do or achieve something‚ typically requiring determination and hard work. Whether it is negative or positive‚ many people have been affected by ambition. Ambition is a key quality‚ the best quality a person can have‚ until it is taken too far and the line is crossed. There is a difference between chasing a dream and being obsessed‚ and if somebody doesn’t know the difference it can cause a major downfall. Nobody is born with ambition that makes
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Ambition is not so much the desire to achieve‚ but the action or method of getting to that desire‚ without the action it is merely a dream. When an individual speaks about ambition there is a straight idea of positivity embedded into it. Carol Anne Duffy’s education for leisure and Shakespeare’s Macbeth both have a very strong link to ambition and power‚ but they are by no means positive ambitions. In this essay I am going to analyse and compare the two piece of text. The poem ’Education for Leisure’
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Ambition is the strong desire to achieve something in life. A person without future ambition is like a relationship without trust. Having ambition requires continuous effort towards achieving it. One cannot achieve anything if one just day dreams and does nothing. My greatest ambition is to attend medical school‚ and become a doctor. I was inspired by my grandmother‚ as well as‚ the great passion I have in helping others. Seeing the person that one loves in agony is hard‚ but not being able
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Krause English 3 Stelling/Lauri Period 1 Ambition means a strong desire to attain success for one’s life. All of us have certain ambition. Some have good ambition such as to be a famous singer or an actor etc. Some others have bad ambition. Some want to be rich like Oprah Winfrey. Some want to be this person and that person‚ while some others want to be very rich. If one’s ambition is noble then he will surely succeed. On the other hand‚ if one’s ambition is selfish and narrow‚ he will surely fall
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Ambition is something that everyone has no matter their background or age. It can be a driving force to success‚ or maybe a road to failure. But ambition is a passion one has that should never fail you. Everyone has dreams or goals in life they look to achieve. We might question others on why they chase dreams that are so surreal and nearly impossible to achieve. If one is driven by ambition‚ goals are a high order in which need to be accomplished. Ambition happens to be one of the best abilities
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AMBITION Ambition and its pre-dominant theme of acquisition‚ is being touted as the new ideal of an increasingly materialistic world. Prescribed as an indispensible prerequisite for ‘success’ it has long erased the virtue of aspiration from the minds of our youth. Characterised by a subtle yet firm will to achieve or become‚ aspiration advocates the pursuit of excellence as opposed to mere success. Can ambition and aspiration be seen as diametrically opposite manifestations of the souls needed
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Ambition Before I could really start to write about ambition‚ I had to ask myself what ambition really was. What causes people to be ambitious‚ and what are the advantages and disadvantages of being an ambitious person? At first‚ I must admit it was fairly difficult to comprehend. But I found it to all come together when I relates it to another kind of person or group of people dreamers. When I think of ambitious people I think of dreamers. These are the people with hopes of one day
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Ambition Par Chanel Pfahl Présenté à Mme Bertrand EAE3U École secondaire publique Louis-Riel Le mercredi 6 janvier 2010 The determination to achieve and ambition are keys to a successful life. However‚ one of Shakespeare’s major themes in his play Macbeth is too much ambition ultimately brings ruin. When ambition goes unchecked‚ there is corruption of natural order. This theme of ambition can best be explained by analyzing the motives of Lady Macbeth‚ the witches‚ as well as Macbeth.
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“[can all the] water in the ocean wash this blood from my hands“ for the deeds he has done are unforgivable. He’s led on by influences from the three weird witches who tell him predictions‚ his own wife full of greed for more‚ and simply his own ambitions which drive him into a world full of corruption and pain. Macbeth after experiencing the witch’s prophecies has begun to change and advance through to see the prophecies. Macbeth is told prophecies from the witches explaining how Macbeth will be
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The theme of Shakespeare’s play Macbeth is that if we let our ambition go unchecked by morale constraints we may make decisions that we regret. From Macbeth we learn the human tendency to seek for things that we should not. This matters today because people want more than they have. The play of Macbeth is the story of a general in the king’s army. After returning from a major battle he lets his ambitions go unchecked and murders the king. After his murder of the king Macbeth finds himself
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