Winning Isn’t The Most Important Thing Vince Lombardi’s famous saying "Winning isn’t the most important thing. It’s the only thing" is unfortunately the motto of too many athletes today. Although winning is important and sports are‚ and should be taken seriously‚ by far‚ winning isn’t the only thing. Putting everything you have and giving one hundred percent to the effort is also very important to competition. A team that puts everything they have into a game and comes out the losers‚ has
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The most important thing in life Probably the most significant question we can ask ourselves is what is the most important thing in life is? The question has far reaching implications in that the answers (or lack of them) that we arrive at; can determine the course of the rest of our lives. Many would consider money or financial success as the most important factor in life. The high rate of suicide amongst lottery winners would contradict this. Others would search for fame‚ yet the list of famous
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ESSAY 8/19/10 The one thing that is most important to me is family because family gives you a sense of belonging‚ where we learn all of life’s challenges‚ and where we learn how to except all the experiences what we have encountered and what we will encounter in life. Family is important to me because it makes me feel excepted in life. Having a sense of belonging in a family is vital because they will always care for you and support you in good times and in bad times.
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The standard of living is higher and all people can afford to buy things they couldn’t in the past. I truly believe that life today is better and many things make people happy. To begin with‚ unless people are healthy; a person’s life is unbearable and not worth living. When my father was seriously ill in hospital‚ I clearly remember how nothing else mattered to any of us‚ and we then learnt that the people we love are more important than money. Then there’s the question of your boyfriend or girlfriend
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relation to other people; the extended self – the self in relation to its past actions; the private self – the emotions and thoughts that are only yours; and the conceptual self – the roles that we‚ as people‚ play in society to others. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a story of Tim’s journey to self-knowledge. The story of one unified self would not for either Neisser or O’Brien. While reading‚ O’Brien tells stories about himself and the people close to him before‚ during‚ and after the
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The Things they Carried by Tim O’brien is a series of war stories that lean on the male perspective. If and when a woman appeared in the story‚ O’brien would idealize them as use for the soldiers when they came home with open arms and in hope for more. Women were used as a metaphor of innocents that the soldiers have to release to help for all the memories and horrors of the war. The innocents and fantasies of the book from the soldiers perspectives were used to either discriminate the women‚ or
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Money is certainly something which is often discussed in today’s world. Hardly a day goes by without the subject of money being raised in most people’s lives. However‚ it is highly debatable whether it is more important than other considerations‚ such as health and happiness‚ which some people consider to be of greater significance. To begin with‚ it is often argued that having money enables poeple to exert influence over others. Wealthy businessmen‚ for example‚ are often the most highly respected
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revealed through war. In the novel The Things They Carried‚ the characters of this series of stories embody traits of soldiers in the Vietnam War. Through writing‚ the author‚ Tim O¡¦Brien‚ portrays his feelings as a Vietnam soldier through this novel. He describes the loss of three fellow soldiers‚ Ted Lavender‚ Curt Lemon‚ and Kiowa and depicts the guilt and blame these deaths evoke. Ted Lavender¡¦s death increased the intangible guilt the platoon carried. No one was anticipating death because
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“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is more painful than staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” -Mandy Hale This quote is perfect for the novel because Stanley doesn’t know he’s changing‚ but when he finds out he is‚ he realizes that he belongs anywhere he wants to be. In Holes‚ Stanley has been impacted in many ways‚ from the other boys‚ Zero‚ and even a little bit of himself. Stanley wasn’t the same at the beginning. He was shy and didn’t want to talk‚ and he wasn’t always loyal
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Therefore (and the difficult thing was to not lose sight of all the reasonings that went into this “therefore”)‚ I had to accept the rejection of my appeal.”(Albert 114). This quote supports what I believe is one of the main ideas of the book which life is meaningless. Meursault says it himself that it doesn’t matter when or how we die we’re just going to
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