...Passion in a right place The late eighteenth century’s American author Christian Nevell Bovess quoted, “The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess” which says that passions are good enough to help people o achieve what the want; nevertheless, they can still bring harm or destruction when they are excessive. Successful people usually have had enough passion to make their dreams come true since they knew how to manage their ambitions. However, when people are not able to think of other things because they are overly into one particular thing, passion becomes evilly obsessive. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tries to convey that passion is blinding and perilous when people no longer control their desires over one thing in a reasonable way. A major character, Victor Frankenstein’s powerful passion towards science brings total ruin on his life, putting his beloved people in death of dangers through his creature. As he sees a complete creature, Victor runs away, shocked by its disgusting appearances even though he was filled with joy and delight when he creates it. Irresponsibly, Victor abandons his creature, and the creature starts to become drastically evil, causing deaths of Victor’s family and friend: Victor’s young brother William, dearest Justine, true friend Henry, his lover Elizabeth, and his father Alpfonse. Ironically, due to the final product of great passions, Victor almost lost all the beloved people...
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...the Flammable Skirt” Says About Passion Passion, a force, just like gravity, that cannot be seen but is there and has a huge impact on how we act. However, unlike gravity, it does not weigh us down. Actually, it does quit the opposite, metaphorically speaking. One can argue that passion and the overwhelming emotions that is provokes is what played a major role in the advancements humans have made throughout history. And if someone were to take a look at all of those who have become successful in their endeavors, they would find that what all of these people have in common is the driving force that is passion that somehow allows people to set out on a path to achieve their goals and face all the obstacles along the way. An instance of passion can be seen in Aimee Bender’s “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt,” a short story about a teenage girl’s strained relationship with her sick father. At quick glance the story is basically a collection of random, loosely connected events that also consists of ridiculous characters which might leave some to question its direction and the message it is trying to convey the readers. But if someone were to take a closer look at the story and take note of the symbolism Bender is using then they would be able to see how the story deals with passion and what it has to say about it. And despite the seemingly occurrences that take place in it, the story shows the effect of passion has on people and communicates that passion is a force that drives us and...
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...MY PASSIONS IN LIFE A passion is a strong and barely controllable emotion that will have an impact on you. It can be something that everybody loves, yet there is something about passion that takes great challenge, strength, and risk. My three passions are: reading, friends and family. These passions are very important to me, and I do not know what I would do if I did not have them. Reading stories is a very big passion of mine because I love the information it gives when I read it,especially when it is a lovestory or a forbidden lovestory.Reading is also my life. I read, , I eat, sleep breath , and read. I feel like this passion of mine has guided and helped me through bad habits that other teens my age go through such as doing badly in school, dropping out of school and doing drugs, it’s kept me on the right track in life. The second is my friends who guided me, helped me, and most importantly picked me up when I fall. They are always there for me when I need them to be, and I cannot thank them enough because they support me. All of my friends are role models to me and I look up to them. My friends push me when I cannot and help me to be a better version of myself. My friends have helped me more than they probable know, and because of that I will always be grateful towards them and will always have a passion for them. My most important passion of all is my family, especially my parents. They raised me and made me the way I am and for that I must also thank them. They...
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...Three passions, elementary yet overwhelmingly strong, govern my life: a love of video games, the advances of technology, and a quest for the knowledge that will help advance mankind. These passions, like a wave moves a boat, have moved me to live my life the way I have to this point. A love of video games brings a joy to any hollow hours that may arise in my day. It has already expended many hours of my life and none of those hours have been regretted. A love of video games can be the catalyst in bringing a group of people together--people who have nothing in common with one another can sit down and have fun while playing together in a game. I have spent time on this finally because even the people who can not see each other face to...
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...0722-382516 0733-382516 Chiquitakenya@gmail.com PASSION FRUIT Common Name: Passion Fruit Scientific Name: Passiflora edulis Sims Other Names: Granadilla, purple granadilla, yellow passion fruit INTRODUCTION Passion fruit belongs to the family Passifloraceae that contains 500 species of Passiflora. There are two distinct forms of this species the standard purple type (P. edulis Sims), and the yellow passion fruit P. edulis f. flavicarpa Deg. The purple passion fruit originated from southern Brazil and the yellow form is of unknown origin. Medicinal uses – the seed can be used as a sedative. Medicinal Uses: There is currently a revival of interest in the pharmaceutical industry, especially in Europe, in the use of the glycoside, passiflorine, especially from P. incarnata L., as a sedative or tranquilizer. Italian chemists have extracted passiflorine from the air-dried leaves of P. edulis. In Madeira, the juice of passionfruits is given as a digestive stimulant and treatment for gastric cancer. The purple passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) is the species most commonly grown for commercial purposes in Kenya. It is mainly grown for juice extraction and for the fresh market, including fresh export market to Europe, fruit salads or in beverages. Botanical description Passion fruit is a shallow-rooted, woody, perennial, with tendrils. It has alternate, evergreen leaves, 7.5-20 cm long. A single flower is 5-7.5 cm wide borne at each node...
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...When it comes to understanding what passion is, most individuals will shy away from themselves. There are quite a number of people who spend their lifetime trying to figure out what their passion is. There are some that find a passion for hairdressing or a passion for sewing. The goal is to know that whatever your passion is, you will not get tired of participating in it. My passion for the sake of argument is my current position. My current position is Traffic Device Maintainer. This position has me in all locations throughout Manhattan. It entails me to change various alternate side parking signs, intersection signs and the supports that go along with them. The job can be a bit overwhelming especially if you have to go out alone. But the...
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...later makes him say whatever comes to mind. This is the beginning of the change in Todd. “I close my eyes and this image floats beside me The sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brains His hands reach out and choke me And all the time he’s mumbling Truth, like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it, stretch it, it will never be enough Kick it beat it, it will never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying, to the moment we leave dying, it will just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream.” In this poem, Todd is saying that the madman is passion, but passion (the blanket) is not enough, it leaves you cold and exposed. Through your whole life, passion only is shown on your face when you wail and scream and cry. You need it to a certain extent because as Keating said, “the human race is filled with passion” and also that passion is the reason to stay alive, but just following your...
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...a book. Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions that follow it. Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have no understanding of them at all. Some people risk their lives to conquer a mountain peak. No-one, not even they themselves, can really explain why. Others ruin themselves to win the heart of a certain person who wants nothing to do with them. Still others are destroyed by their devotion to the pleasures of the table. Some are so bent on winning a game of chance that they lose everything they own, and some sacrifice everything for a dream that can never come true. Some think their only hope of happiness lies in being somewhere else, and so they spend their whole lives travelling from place to place. And some find no rest until they have become powerful. In short, there are as many different passions as there are people. Bastian Balthazar Bux’s passion was books. If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger - If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a torch, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early - If you have never wept tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must ...
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...swimming, long drive home, or church experiences, the positive emotions I felt were peace, humility, love, anticipatory, positivity and honor. These emotions are foundational to who I am as a person and shape who I am. These emotions I hold at different levels of who I am. Firstly, within the confines of my passions, I would say that at the base root is love. I love to love others and I love life. That’s the foundation of why I do what I do for anything. I also think that my other passion is peace. I seek peace with others and desire harmony and strength with others and through others. It’s foundational to me and also the reasons why I do what I do. I really desire both peace and love for myself and others because I believe that is why we are created for what we do. Similarly to in “Start With Why”, when it is discussed that people and companies can copy you and do what you do but they cannot emulate what you do exactly because they do not have the reasons why. This is the same in my life where people want to try to seek similar things as me but they aren’t going to do it exactly the way that I do it. For that reason I have been through different experiences and have a passion that is specific to me and who I am. That is not to say that I am better than anyone else, but to suggest that we all go through different experiences. Next are my values and these are humility and honor. The reasons that these are demonstrated so boldly through my story is because I held the spirit of humility...
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...English 102 Jiadai Wu 09/06/2015 Salary or Loan? Your choice If you've ever told anyone for career advice, you've probably heard some versions of "follow your passion." Young people, in specific, are often said that they should figure out what career to pursue by building their work about whatever they're passionate about. However, in my opinion, it actually leads most students the wrong way in college time. There are too many students choose their major without understanding what jobs it will qualify them for once they graduate. One thing like student loans, after college, if you enter the working world with plenty of school loans to pay off, which may help you realize the importance of having a well-paying job. Likewise, the reason of giving up passion may come from the pressure by surroundings, which is virtually not your obligation. Like this, people shouldn’t be trapped into others’ happiness and success, even the force given from family and friends. For instance, told by many parents to the children, “I couldn’t do this (referring to a specific activity) when I was young, so I want to see you do it.” Defensed these children when they grow up, also declared that they have their own thought of career, although they are not actually...
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...Passion is a strong and barely controllable emotion, towards something. Passion is an emotion that drives me or almost anybody in this world. Passion is something that helps you achieve your goals or to be someone in your life. My passion is football. Football passionate me to push myself harder, be who I am, and have encouraging people around me to hold my back whenever I fall or anything happens to me. Football is a way to blow my steam, and this may be the only sport where you can express yourself physically and mentally. Football to me is a way to break all the barriers. Football pushes me and challenges me to not only do better, but be a good athlete, and a good student, and to me, the good thing about football is, if you lack...
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...assist my fellow paralegals in the quest for excellence. I have spent countless days preparing myself for the qualifications to obtain my career of choice. I’ve had my share of mentors in life who have helped me discover my strengths, talents, passions, and often to find my path. There is one woman in particular whose name is Sharon Cassidy. She has been the most influential women in my life. What she provided for me was a standard- a high one. In doing so, I’ve stretched my capabilities, helping me to also stretch my boundaries and explore our world. I’m in a better path, with increased confidence and skills, which will surely qualify me for the position I’m looking to obtain. Paragraph 2 Dear Jane, It is with great pleasure that I’m recommending Greg Swanson Motor Company in San Antonio, Texas. I have been employed with this company for 8 years. They are currently seeking a reliable assistant for Mr. Swanson, and I’d think you’d be great. As a personal assistant you’ll be helping out with Mr. Swanson’s needs, organizing diaries, fielding calls, managing junior staff, as well as organizing travel arrangements. I feel you would be a great asset to the company. You are one of the brightest women I know, who has a great drive for passion in your work. Your drive has led you to great success. I believe that you will be an excellent fit for this position, you have been nothing short of an exemplary...
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...Biogeochemical. It's a word, I promise!” There are shrieks and shouts in protest and support. Unacceptable insults are thrown, degrees and qualifications are questioned, I think even a piece of my grandmother's famously flakey parantha whizzes past my ear. Everyone is too lazy to take out a dictionary (or even their phones) to look it up, so we just hash it out. And then, I am crowned the victor, a true success in the Merchant household. But it is fleeting, as the small, glossy, plastic tiles, perfectly connected to form my winning word, are snatched out from under me and thrown in a pile with all the disgraced, “unwinning” tiles as we mix for our next game of Bananagrams. It's a similar donnybrook, this time ending with my father arguing that it is okay to use “Rambo” as a word (it totally is not). Words and communicating have always been of tremendous importance in my life: from silly games like Bananagrams and our road-trip favorite “word game,” to stunted communication between opposing grandparents, each speaking a different Indian language; from trying to understand the cheesemonger behind the counter with a deep southern drawl (I just want some Camembert!), to shaping a script to make people laugh. Words are moving and changing; they have influence and substance. Words, as I like them, create powerful flavor combinations in a recipe or (hopefully) powerful guffaws from a stand-up joke. They make people laugh with unexpected storylines at an improv show and make people...
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...What is passion? Dictionary definitions include "a powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger; ardent love; strong sexual desire; lust; the object of such love or desire; boundless enthusiasm or the object of such enthusiasm; an abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger", and so on. Let's look at passion in the positive sense. Your passions are an excellent indicator of what you are here to do. Before coming into body, we agreed to separation from our eternal selves, so that part can only speak to us through our emotions, saying "yes, that one" or "no, not this way". The more passionate you are on a certain topic, the more likely it is to be part of your assignment. So ask yourself: 1. What do you LOVE? 2. What do you...
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...PASSION Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. ~Aldous Huxley What is passion? It’s a feeling of being hugged by a heavenly force, a feeling of love and affection, a sense of achieving some thing very special in life, craze to fulfill some goal, it’s a tender feeling of being loved, its like taking the first step to climb the stairs of success. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. We usually have this feeling of being passionate when we are in the state of curiosity, pleasure, sadness, wonder, excitement, pain, fulfillment, and achievement. Around 40 years ago, there was a boy who was very passionate about computers. As a young boy, he was admitted to Lakeside School in Seattle and there he got hooked to the computer. Within a week’s time he was able to surpass the knowledge of his teacher. At the age of thirteen, he was able to write his very first computer program. A few years passed by and this boy got in to Harvard University intending to get a pre-law degree. However, lacking a definite study plan, he eventually dropped out to pursue his passion for computers. Today, this man is the Chairman of Microsoft, one of the richest persons in the world, and his name is Bill Gates. His passion for the computer has allowed him to...
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