you could change? I strive to make my answer to that absolutely nothing because there isn’t anything I would regret more than living a life full of regrets‚ full of wishing I had done something differently. We should never regret our decisions‚ no matter how terrible life seems at the moment. Everything that happens in life makes us the exact person we are meant to be. “You can’t change who people are without destroying who they were.” This is a quote from one of my favorite movies‚ The Butterfly Effect
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pars. 5). They became more independent in their lives without the need of men to support. But the question is that was this change good for women or not? The American author Kate Chopin gave an example of those independent women in her short story "Regret". In the story‚ a woman called Mamzelle Aurelie lived alone in her farm. She has never got married and never had children. But one day the silence in Aurelie’s life was broken as she carried the burden of looking after her neighbor’s four children
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Maybe the root of my motivation to keep moving forward wasn’t in my dreams‚ but in my fears that kept me awake at night. One would think it would be the other way around‚ but what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger‚ right? They seemed to haunt my thoughts wherever life seemed to take me‚ and they still do. Stopping me from doing even some of the little things in life. They say that the only thing to fear is fear itself‚ but overcoming your fears is one of the biggest obstacles anyone will ever
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Living a Life with No Regrets‚ Just Lessons We all have secrets‚things we regret‚dreams we can’t reach‚and a love that we can never forget.In our entire life‚how often do we utter the questions “what if”.What if i did that?‚What if that was my decision‚ or what if I did’nt do that.Any questions that starts with what if’s‚ A normal scenario‚ for we are still a student.What if questions that affects our behavior in a particular time of our life. This what if questions that construct a secrets and
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Diego Rosas 10/26/11 Roger Chillingworth: The Worst Sinner? Who would it be to consider the worst sinner. Going through each of the puritans‚ it seems that three of them would be the worst sinner. Out of Author Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne; Roger Chillingworth would be consider the worst sinner‚ because he never manage to confess his sin to others and remains with it for the rest of his life. Although Author Dimmesdale may seem to be the worst sinner‚ he actually manages to confess his sin to
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Clytaemnestra’s Composure and Orestes’ Regrets The justification scenes in Agamemnon and the Libation Bearers show that both Clytaemnestra and Orestes are able admit their decision of committing murder‚ but‚ while Clytaemnestra is able to maintain her composure‚ Orestes worries himself to the point of insanity‚ and he ends up regretting the whole thing. Clytaemnestra plans to kill Agamemnon from the moment he returns home. When he arrives‚ she treats him like a king‚ but‚ when he is not on his
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will mean what you make them.”—Regret to Inform “The terrible price of that nobility is one that nobody should have to pay”—Barbara Sonneborn In 1968‚ the director Barbara Sonneborn was informed that her husband‚ Jeff Gurvitz‚ had been killed in a mortar attack in Vietnam. The words “We regret to inform you” appeared on the telegram‚ and the message arrived on her 24th birthday. Sonneborn is the director‚ writer‚ and producer of the notable documentary film Regret to Inform. Although she remarried
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The Kite Runner is a book that was written by Khaled Hosseini from a young boy’s perspective named Amir who lived with his father‚ Baba‚ and two Hazaras named Ali and Hassan in Kabul‚ Afghanistan. They lived here during the Russian War and had escaped to America to find peace and happiness. We learn about Amir’s childhood struggles and his efforts to be what his father wanted him to be and to be a good friend like Hassan is to him. Amir knows that Hassan is better than what he deserves; he knows
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Jennifer Tressler Regret by Kate Chopin In the short story "Regret" by Kate Chopin‚ a woman named Mamzelle Aurelie has to watch a neighbor’s four children for two weeks. Mamzelle is an old and lonely woman who never believed in love or marriage. She has never had a man‚ nor been married‚ and lives alone on her farm with some animals. She also has African Americans‚ or "negroes"‚ who work around her house for maintenance. Because of a dangerous illness that her mother acquired‚ the younger neighbor
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Kate Chopin’s short story “Regret” depicts one instance in the life of an elderly‚ unmarried woman. A spinster by choice‚ Mamzelle Aurelie lives on her farm with her animals‚ her dog Ponto‚ and “the negroes who lived in her cabins and worked her crops”. Aurelie is accustomed to life on her own and able to run her farm because of the many masculine characteristics that she possesses‚ but the unexpected arrival of her neighbor’s children changes her. She is forced to confront her feminine‚ nurturing
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