My Greatest Ambition‚ Lurie. Story written in 1st person in voice of young(?) narrator. Tone shows a wry humour – adult reflecting on youth seems more likely. Language is straightforward and relies on variety rather than image creating. Sentences vary in length and create a sense of conversation. Humour of opening sentence implies adult looking back with affection. Memory as narrative tool: memory is always unreliable. Narrator counters this unreliability by frequent corrections and apologies
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Ambition is usually seen as the primary tool to promote achievement. In the novel Frankenstein‚ there are three outstanding examples of people with ambitions‚ and each person achieves their goal in a different way. Mary Shelley uses the journeys of Robert Walton‚ Frankenstein‚ and the creature to warn against ambition for the purposes of self-gratification‚ as they ultimately lead to the detriment of the lives of others. In his letters to his sister‚ Walton is clearly aware that his ambition travel
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Everybody has an aim in life. Aim or ambition is the inner desire of man. No man can do anything in the world if his aim is not fixed. So‚ all of us should be very clear about our aim in life. We may face many difficulties in reaching our desired target‚ but we have to go ahead at any cost. Ambitiousness is a dynamic make. Desire is your psychical susceptibleness to apply your knowledge‚ surround‚ relationships‚ and personality to accomplish happiness. What is felicity? Compartment that can only
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The Boy’s Ambition In the sleepy town of Hannibal‚ Missouri things are simple and easy. In the mornings things are quite and people are dozing off‚ but when the steamboats arrive at the wharf things become very hectic. Mornings in Hannibal are quite and sleepy‚ the streets are empty; people are still sleeping or are in their homes. Store clerks are napping against their store fronts. Wooden flats against the edge of the wharf‚ the water from the Mississippi softly crashing upon the town’s edge
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There is no man without an ambition in life. Some aspire to be rich‚ many hanker after name and fame and still others crave for power‚ position and social status in life. Honour and position do not last long. Fortune turns like a wheel. I have a strong desire to become a doctor and serve humanity. I do not want to become a teacher like my elder brother. A teacher’s lot is very hard. He is overworked but underpaid. He commands no respect in society. The so-called nation-builder cannot make both
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Ambition In the centuries preceding the twenty first‚ the world underwent a revolution of personal freedoms giving even the most underprivileged dreamers a sensation of desiring to be successful in life achieving great things and the possibility of turning their previously unimaginable dreams into reality. This earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction can be measured by that person’s willingness to strive for and attain those dreams (Dictionary.com). Ambition is the first building
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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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autobiographies of all great men reveal‚ that each of them very early in childhood had a dream‚ a vision of what they intended to do or become. This is distinctively apart from daydreaming‚ for in the words of William Shakespeare “Ambition should be made of sterner stuff’. Thus it is not suffice to only dream‚ but one must relentlessly strive to achieve and realise this dream. I too have a dream‚ an ambition of becoming a doctor. This is so because it is a noble profession‚ that also commands a lot
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In Othello‚ written by Shakespeare‚ tells tale of how dreams and goals will affect an individual in their live. The influence of dream and goals are important to everyone‚ not just one person. It how far ones willing to go in order to met their goals or have their dreams comes true. Unlike dreams goals are what people aim for. That implies doing so out coming thing or putting someone’s life at risk. Due to jealously‚ when Cassico had the same goal as Iago and he ended up achieving his goal‚ iago
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November 2010 Theme of Hope Hope in the face of adversity‚ hope in spite of the depression and mere survival they must endure‚ hope in the face of death and fear. One of the major themes that Cormac McCarthy emphasizes in The Road is hope: hope for a better world‚ hope that there are still good people out there. McCarthy uses the son as a symbol of hope throughout the novel to engage and grasp the attention of his readers. Hope is what progresses the novel‚ therefore without hope there is nothing.
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