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    Someone once said that “Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure” In our society this would mean that people become wiser and more experienced through failure. Some people believe otherwise‚ bad experiences may make people believe that they should be bad because they don’t want to learn what’s wrong from right. Two literatures that relate to this quote are To Kill A Mocking Bird by: Harper Lee and Of Mice And Men by: John Steinbeck . In the novel To Kill A Mocking

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    03/02/11 Essay According to the critical lens by William Saroyan‚ “Good people… are good because they’re come to wisdom through failure.” In other words that a person can learn from mistakes and become a better person. Two literary works that agree with this statement are The Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. The novel by William Golding‚ The Lord of the Flies reveals with a person can learn from mistakes and

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    William Saroyan

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    William Saroyan is an Armenian-American author whose family immigrated America before Saroyan was born from Bitlis‚ Ottoman Empire. He was born in Fresno‚ California and at the age of three‚ his father died. But there’s a strict thing that you can notice in his writings‚ Saroyan is influenced by his father too much. Because of the fact that he decided to become a writer after his mother showed him some of his father’s writings. Saroyan usually writes stories‚ stories of ordinary people

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    "Good people...are good because they come to wisdom through failure." According to William Saroyan‚ this means that a person can learn from mistakes and become a better person. This statement is confirmed in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies. J.D. Salinger’s Holden is constantly trying to preserve the innocence in children throughout the novel. In addition Holden also attempts to keep his brother Allie‚ alive in his thoughts and actions. William Golding’s

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    Gaston By William Saroyan

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    In the short story Gaston by William Saroyan uses the bug‚ Gaston‚ and the peach to symbolize the girl’s father. In the story there is a girl whose parents are divorced and during the story she is with her dad. Her mom is also so rich and her dad is poor. The girl’s dad buys a kilo of peaches and within the peaches‚ there is a bad peach with a a bug. They continue to have a conversation about Gaston and the girl soon wants a peach with a bug inside of it. The father leaves to go get more peaches

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    With Age Comes Wisdom

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    With Age Comes Wisdom Date: February 2‚ 2013 Course: PSY\220 When people think of wisdom the immediately think of it as someone who has scholarly knowledge or received a lot of learning‚ but it could also be defined as having the knowledge of what is true or right. When asked what is wisdom the common answer is the gift of knowing everything but it is more of a person possessing an open mind to further increase their knowledge. People gain most of their wisdom not from a classroom

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    The text I’m going to analyze is “Shepherd’s Daughter” by William Saroyan. As an immigrant he lived and died in America being noted several times for his great work seasoned with gentle humor.. He even got awarded(but didn’t accept) the Pulitzer Prize. Features of American and much older Armenian cultures and their interaction have effected his works. The story starts like a piece of autobiography‚ told on behalf of a 1st person singular‚ as the author introduces his grandmother as a women‚ who thinks

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    Wisdom: Virtue and People

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    Reflecting on Wisdom Reflecting on Wisdom Arlene Acevedo PSY/220 December 11‚ 2013 Nekeyla Oliver My friend Lili is probably the only person who I could really turn to for advice and her wisdom and knowledge has always helped me through the rough times and the good times. I remember meeting Lili one day at school and asked if I could borrow a pencil from her during math class. When I returned it back she said I could have it but to try not to lose it since it is

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    Gaining Wisdom Through Suffering Wisdom is a difficult thing to define and understand. It’s easily recognized when people have experienced it. Wisdom is a tricky thing to obtain. Wisdom is the quality of having experience‚ knowledge‚ and good judgment. King Lear was foolish in the beginning of the play‚ but in the end he gained wisdom from his mistakes. Morrie from Tuesdays with Morrie was wise in the beginning of the book and became wiser in the end. Through suffering King Lear and

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    Finding Wisdom through Literature Wisdom can be found through many sources. In literature‚ wisdom can be seen‚ interpreted‚ and used in every day society. Wisdom literature explains situations in the lives of ancient and even modern society. Through wisdom literature‚ people can learn a lot about how to handle situations and apply the wisdom to their lives. It can affect everyone. Wisdom is present in almost every type of literature. Wisdom is most often present in the Bible and ancient writings

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