tells how friendship is the key to overcoming atrocity. The main characters and best friends, Lennie and George, travel from city to city in search of work. It…
Life is an epiphany! No matter what we achieve in life disaster or tragedy will strike and destroy it but this does not mean you have to throw the towel. Values such as; courage, bravery, strength, loyalty, and reputation allow individuals or communities to face such adversaries and survive in spite of them. Beowulf is an example of how individuals survive adversaries in life regardless of endless challenges that one face in life. The character of Beowulf in the poem Beowulf demonstrates courage…
Given the right mindset, everything that occurs to us in life is an opportunity. The temptation is usually to see things in terms of being positive or negative. We tend to focus on the favor and blessings that God gives us, and wish we could ignore all the obstacles and challenges. This is because the positive and the negative are creations of our brains, causing us to choose how we perceive and classify our situations. By default, we want to avoid obstacles, but what if they are challenging, in…
Bravery dares to fight something that is bigger than you. Bravery comes in many ways such as standing up to someone or something, having the courage to withstand certain obstacles in life, and never giving up without a fight. To begin with, standing up to someone takes a lot of courage especially if the person is stronger than that person. For example, Todd Beamer was a passenger on United Airlines flight 93 that was hijacked and headed for the U.S. Capitol. At a point of Flight 93…
Uncertainties abound in wrestling. Wrestling is the type of sport someone can be winning ten to zero and out of nowhere there on their backs getting pinned. In many ways life is just like wrestling you never know when you can be on your back getting pinned. Wrestling teaches people what to expect in life's tough situations and ways of overcoming these struggles. Furthermore, wrestling is like a book, you are the writer and everyday is a new chapter. Every practice or match might not go as you…
very real issue that occurs all around the world. There are one point two million children living here in Canada. (https://globalnews.ca/news/3739960/canadian-census-children-poverty/) The story falls into the challenge and teamwork category because Roger is faced with the challenge of overcoming poverty and Mrs. Jones is supporting Roger for a night by giving him food and enough money to buy the blue suede shoes that he…
perspective as if she is right there with someone obtaining obstacles. Andra also uses a tone of motivation during the song to get someone through the rough times. In the first stanza of the lyrics; she says, “You’re broken down and tired of living life on a merry-go-round…” (AZLyrics). Day gives a sense of imagery that describes someone who is tired and feels like giving up. She also throws in a metaphor to describe how…
Whitman has been documented to have a unique style that had never been approached before. Whitman is believed to be a very radical figure of his time period, by never writing the way that previously had been traditional. Whitman began early in his life as a journalist, however later on he decided his true calling had become poetry. Thus, this began his career of poetry, where he wrote many poems. Unfortunately, during Whitman’s time, his poetry never became popular, and it was not until years…
surprisingly comes out of his retirement to face one final opponent in a 10-round exhibition match. Since Rocky is retired, his opponent has specific advantages over him already, which in turn worries Rocky’s family for even accepting the challenge in the first place. In the first half of the movie, Rocky’s son struggles with this fact,…
one man to overcome and eventually leads to both protagonists’ journey towards their self-destruction. These two plays explore the two different lives of Willy Loman, a striving businessman, and Macbeth, a Scottish Nobleman, who struggles with the challenge of achieving their ambitions because of how they are blind to see the reality of things. Macbeth’s and Willy’s ambitions not…