I identify most with the view on grit by Angela Lee Duckworth. Duckworth emphasizes that for one to achieve excellence or solve high-level challenging problems‚ much effort and time needs to be put into this. This agrees with my belief that there is no overnight mastership in any field; persistent dedication and hard work have to be put into it. The position by Duckworth that "there are no shortcuts to excellence" underlines clearly that it has to be an activity carried on and sustained over some
Premium
something is important‚ serious‚ etc.‚ and should be treated in an appropriate way". Angela Chavez a mother of four defined respect as: " Being compliant with what another person that is older or higher qualified wants." Mr. Gregory Rapp a professor at Eastern New Mexico defined respect as: "Doing what you are asked by a person of authority‚ even if you do not agree with their request." The definitions given by Angela and Gregory show that even well educated
Premium Respect Virtue English-language films
Analyze Fitzgerald’s presentation of the Valley of Ashes at the start of chapter 2. Halfway between West Egg and New York lies the ‘valley of ashes’ and this is the ‘desolate’ wasteland‚ which is also home to the Wilson family. The term ‘desolate’ is used to describe a place that is depressingly empty and solitary. Fitzgerald includes this ‘fantastic farm’ to emphasize to the readers‚ the sharp contrast between luxury and health with poverty and struggle. The valley serves to represent the damage
Premium Life English-language films Debut albums
The Power of Native Humor in “Green Grass‚ Running Water” Native American authors have a tendency to incorporate subtle humor into their literature in order to more easily address the cultural divide between Indians and people of the Western world. As previously discussed‚ in Sherman Alexie’s Flight‚ humor is used as a tool to comfortably navigate through controversial topics‚ such as ethnicity and cultural stereotypes. Now‚ in Thomas King’s Green Grass‚ Running Water‚ humor is used as a tool for
Free Native Americans in the United States Indigenous peoples of the Americas Indigenous peoples
Arthur Ashe Tennis Paper I wrote this paper on Arthur Ashe because I wanted to learn something about the history of tennis and how it has evolved over the years. I looked up tennis history online and found the best way to do this was by writing a paper concerning the life‚ career‚ and impact that one man‚ Arthur Ashe‚ has had on tennis. Ashe was a skinny African American kid who loved reading books and listening to music. He grew up in Richmond‚ Virginia with his parents. As a young boy
Premium Management United States Supreme Court of the United States
How does Carter present the experience of the girl in The Bloody Chamber? Carter has directed the narrative mostly‚ although not completely‚ from the older woman in the text‚ speaking back on the past (therefore past tense) as a first person narrative. There is interjections of dialogue throughout the text‚ although it is mostly constructed as a written text‚ as if the older women is writing in a diary‚ but has interjections of dialogue‚ possibly showing her memory traveling back and replaying
Premium Woman The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In this set of interviews‚ Angela Davis simultaneously addresses the issue of why we are stuck in this carceral state while also providing her solution‚ a solution that many would see as too radical. After first reading this interview‚ I thought immediately of the conversation we had with the two activists from Hands Up United. Society views her as an “enemy of the state”‚ as a communist and terrorist because of her use of violence as means to affect change‚ something very similar to what is happening
Premium United States Communism Human rights
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare is a romantic comedy set in Illyria during the Christmas season. The article analysis is a critique on the elements of folly and foolery in Shakespeare’s twelfth night. As defined in the critique‚ a fool can be “a silly or foolish person” or “one who professionally counterfeits folly for the entertainment of others‚ a jester‚ a clown”. In the analysis of the subject in twelfth night‚ the writer highlights that although Feste is the only professional fool in the
Premium Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Jester
While reading Angela Davis’s Women‚ Race‚ and Class; The Approach Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class perception‚ it came to my knowledge that the term "housewives" came after everything started to become industrialized. After everything got industrialized and shifted the economic production from home to factories which impacted the women a lot‚ like women‚ were not able to make furniture‚ operated slaughterhouses‚ ran tobacco shops‚ and etc. Because of this women were left with nothing to
Premium Woman Gender Gender role
Egg and New York City sprawls a desolate plain‚ a gray valley where New York’s ashes are dumped. The men who live here work at shoveling up the ashes. Overhead‚ two huge‚ blue‚ spectacle-rimmed eyes—the last vestige of an advertising gimmick by a long-vanished eye doctor—stare down from an enormous sign. These unblinking eyes‚ the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg‚ watch over everything that happens in the valley of ashes. The commuter train that runs between West Egg and New York passes through
Premium New York City