Rediscovered Ambitions Despite the fact I am a literature enthusiast, coffee drinker extraordinaire, and somebody who would likely fit right into a university environment, continuing my education at a post-secondary institution never seemed to be a possibility for me. I graduated high school and became a mother simultaneously. Due to this drastic lifestyle adjustment, obtaining the English degree that I had once planned for, unfortunately, was pushed to the bottom of my priority list. Since then
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The actions of many juveniles has been said to stem from the childhood and their morals growing up. Similarly, in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor and the creature's actions can be attributed to their parental teachings. The novel begins with Robert Walton in the 1700s, an explorer looking for a passage leading from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic ocean. During his trip he discovers and saves fellow European Victor Frankenstein after finding him on the brink of death floating on
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In the tragic play script ‘Macbeth’ written by William Shakespeare, we follow Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as their ambition turns from good ambition like respecting their country and fighting for their King, to evil ambition, as they develop an evil flaw by performing evil acts like murder and deceitfulness. At the beginning of the play script, Macbeth is determined to do good works so that he will be well known and remembered. Then Lady Macbeth’s longing for the crown causes her to be very manipulative
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As an explanatory variable for predicting human behaviors, career ambition has been widely studies in legislative studies (Black, 1972; Brace, 1984; Fowler & McClure, 1990; Hibbing, 1986; Lawless, 2012; Micozzi, 2014; Rohde, 1979; Schlesinger, 1966). The main proposition is that diverse types of career ambitions are the factors associated with decisions on whether local politicians run for the Congress, and what legislative behaviors members of Congress would perform. And also, some scholars, regarding
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Most people will always have the dream or wish to go anywhere they desire even if some are impossible. If I had a ticket to go anywhere or to do anything, I would take the opportunity to play in the WNBA. First of all, I would want to play in the WNBA because my passion is to play basketball. Ever since I began the first grade, my parents would take me to basketball camps to train as a child, so I can develop ball handling skills and shooting techniques. As I grew older, I became better; I soon
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Characteristic of human is negative and positive. One of the human characteristic is ambition. Everybody must have an ambition to change his life. By an ambition, they can be encouraging themselves to do anything with good result. There are positive and negative from ambition. While there are opinion ambition is a negative thing, there is also a good reason why it might benefit for ambition. An ambition can be negative when someone wants to have very deep pretension but it is not comparable with
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Ambition, it's the food of the wise man, but the liquor of the fool. Great ambition is the passion of a great character, yet those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. A man once said, "It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?", this man went through the ultimate struggle, homeless, poor, dyslexia, anything that would deteriorate a regular man to give up his dream and that
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AMBITION vs. ASPIRATION BY:- SIRISHA A It is said that human values do not change. But, if mutability were to be the law of life, when human thinking is at variance, values which are at cognitive level could transform. It is to be understood that in this eternal creation, uni-polarity is non-existent. Thus, ‘variance’ is in consonance with this universal law. Hence, Ambition & Aspiration, even if were to be seen as ‘diametrically opposite manifestations’, are part of us. Ambivalent thought
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Growth Through Ambition Ambition is often viewed as a key to success a driving force as to which the human experience becomes lackluster without this idea is exemplified by the way that we act throughout life, from the lessons that we teach our children to our lifelong journey for excellence the idea of setting a goal and striving for it is central to the human experience because no matter what we want to succeed and this is where ambition is key the precognition to pursue what we want is an idea
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Ambition is often thought of as a form of greed, which can be defined as the excessive desire for something that is not needed or deserved. Selfish interests, that is not for the greater good, leads to bad ambition. William Shakespeare wrote the play, Macbeth, using character traits, like ambition, to depict how they can affect a person. At the time that Shakespeare wrote this play, political murder and revenge were not unusual ways to gain power. In the play, Macbeth, one of the main characters
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