Essays on Character Traits

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My Mother's Experience of Overcoming Adversity

2 pages / 794 words

I am writing to you about what I have reflected on and learnt about from my mother’s experience of adversity and discrimination. My mother’s experience was based on racism and sexism in the workforce. My mother had just completed University and was given a graduate...

Adversity Overcoming Obstacles

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Effective Way of Overcoming Adversity

3 pages / 1245 words

Helen Keller once said, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Even though the world has its problems, there are so many people that push aside those issues and change themselves or others to make the...

Adversity Overcoming Challenges Overcoming Obstacles

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Importance of Being Non-judgemental Person

4 pages / 1996 words

Every human is born with a natural instinct to judge. No matter the situation we are faced with or the individual we are engaging, there is a continuous prompting in the mind to analyze information and eventually draw conclusions based on how we perceive an...

Personal Qualities Personality

137

The Philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie and Its Influence on The Us

1 page / 534 words

Andrew Carnegie, an immigrant, entrepreneur, business leader, and last but certainly not the least, a philanthropist. Carnegie believed that money should be distributed back to society so that people could create something greater than themselves. That wealth should be given to create opportunities so that...

Andrew Carnegie Philanthropy

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The Theme of Greed in The Treasure Island and The Pearl

3 pages / 1591 words

In the books Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Pearl by John Steinbeck, the major theme presented contributing to the plot was greed. Greed is a theme that is displayed through the actions of characters in both of these books and plays a...

Greed Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island

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Themes of Adversity and Self-growth in Jasper Jones

2 pages / 1113 words

Adversity can be a stepping stone for building an individual’s identity. The attitude in which the individual approach these challenges allows them to mature and change. Adversity forces individuals to be brave and to discover themselves and explore the realities around them, thus enabling them...

Adversity Jasper Jones Novel

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Depiction of Maturity Through Adversity in Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

2 pages / 1043 words

Jasper Jones, a novel written by Craig Silvey, is set in a small Western Australian town in the mid-1960s and is a great example of what a Bildungsroman is. Although the novel is set almost 60 years ago, it still provides relevant information about how...

Adversity Jasper Jones Novel

141

The Factors to Attain Persistence in Achieving Goals

2 pages / 846 words

Persistence is an effort that is continuously carried out in a positive direction or justification, after making a mistake. People who succeed are not people who never fail, but people who succeed are people who always try without knowing the word surrender, and always take...

Persistence

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The Composition of Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory: Analysis

3 pages / 1479 words

I have always wanted to learn about the history of art and the connotations artists attempt to convey through their works. During my visit to the Museum of Modern Art, there were sculptures, artworks and architecture that would have made excellent selections to study and...

Persistence

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Things that Help Book Characters Survive Serious Situations: Persistence, Cleverness, and Doing The Right

2 pages / 756 words

A lot of characters in books survive serious situations. Ever wondered how they do it. Those characters that do survive are either persistent, clever, or they are doing the right thing. Persistent characters survive because they are so motivated that they will let nothing stop...

Persistence

144

The Importance of Courtesy and Manners

1 page / 500 words

How many times have you been walking behind someone and had a door slammed in your face? Annoying, right? Many of us do not realize how much small actions, such as holding the door open for others, affect our lives and what we think of...

Manners

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Manners Are Increasingly Becoming Scarce in The Modern World

1 page / 517 words

The world all over continues to witness rude public behavior exhibited in many places. The people talking behind one as he or she tries to concentrate. The stranger who shuts a door in our face. The driver, who steals our parking space. Loud public cell...

Manners

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Bedside Manners and Its Importance in Nursing

2 pages / 978 words

Being at a hospital is not a place most people want to be in, and even more being there for few days or few weeks. If you are unfortunate to get hospitalize and being there for days or weeks you would like for whoever is...

Manners

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Analysis of How Tartuffe Manipulates Orgon in Molière’s Play

1 page / 539 words

In Tartuffe by Molière, the hypocrisy of Tartuffe has completely confused Orgon. Although Orgon’s family has seen Tartuffe’s true face and try to hinder Orgon. But due to being so devout and obsessed, Orgon almost sabotaged his family. The first reason that Tartuffe can easily...

Comedy Hypocrisy Tartuffe

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Analysis of The Reasons of Orgon’s Trust in Tartuffe in Molière’s Play

2 pages / 1005 words

Tartuffe is a French play written by the French writer Molière. Moliere was an actor and playwright in France during the 17th century. He was born in Paris in 1622 and got his first perform for theatre when he studied at the College de Clermont....

Hypocrisy Tartuffe Trust

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Stevie Wonder as a Humanitarian and Philanthropist

3 pages / 1278 words

Stevland Hardaway Morris, soon to be known worldwide as Motown music icon Stevie Wonder, was born to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway on May 13th, 1950, in Saginaw, Michigan. Due to being six weeks premature, Wonder was placed in an incubator where he eventually...

Influential Person Philanthropy Stevie Wonder

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The Impact of Human Selfishness on Nature

2 pages / 977 words

Humans seem to love putting themselves first above all else. It already came to a point where selfishness has become one of the things we acquire because this is us and there’s really nothing we can do about it. We tend to always seek for...

Environmental Issues Human Nature Selfishness

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The Opposition of Love and Selfishness

1 page / 618 words

‘Love is expansion, selfishness is contraction’ these words are said by the great Indian saint Swami Vivekanand which means love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is...

Caring Humanity Selfishness

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The Theme of Selfishness in Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

5 pages / 2252 words

Trainspotting, written by Scottish author Irvine Welsh, is a captivating novel that takes place in Edinburgh Scotland that follows up the random events that occur during a critical time in a group of Scottish junkies’ lives. The novel is split into seven sections that follow...

Character Selfishness