Essays on Character Traits

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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

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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

139

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 / 1256 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

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Victor Frankenstein’s Selfishness as The Reason for His Downfall

2 pages / 1072 words

In literature, the protagonist commonly possesses a negative trait that ultimately becomes their biggest flaw. Of these many possible flaws, selfishness can potentially be the worst of them. Selfishness can be defined as lacking consideration for others and being concerned with only one’s self. In...

Frankenstein Protagonist Selfishness

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Understanding Laziness and Procrastinator Lifestyle

2 pages / 1044 words

Have you ever experienced this urge of delaying, postponing or even avoiding tasks that don’t require your urgent attention like studying for a test or working on an assignment even though you have a very tight schedule and these tasks will be a major hindrance...

Laziness Procrastination

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The Use of Deus Ex Machine in Tartuffe by Moliere

4 pages / 1817 words

Tartuffe, written in France in 1664 by Moliere, is ultimately about hypocrisy and deception. Tartuffe, a deceptive man aims to pry money from the wealthy people around him. He goes through the lengths of pretending to be Catholic to have a connection to the wealthy...

Deception Hypocrisy Tartuffe

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The Impact of Cultural Factors and The Perception of Time on Punctuality

3 pages / 1300 words

Introduction The research developed by Tusev (2017), is focused on explaining the reason why Ecuadorians are people characterized by unpunctuality. The topic begins with the initial explanation of what time is and why it is important. The people of Mesopotamia first developed the investigation reports...

Cultural Identity Punctuality Time

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The Theories of Humor and Laughter

3 pages / 1285 words

There are five different theories that categorize the different reasons why find things humorous. The Relief Theory claims the cause of laughter is the release of tension caused by one’s fears makes one laugh. The Superiority Theory states a sense of superiority causes one to...

Humor Laughter Theory