...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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...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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...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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...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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...While I was reading the article of John Hegel’s Pursuing Passions”. My thoughts regarding passion is much like his. I concur, that passion is discerned, and that passion comes and go. Passion is not just about how someone feelings, or happiness. In the Early Childhood profession or any other professions, passion, motivation, and wisdom is very crucial. Why? As a teacher, my passion for children is being able to teach the children in a pleasant, secure, loving, and innovative environment. Some of the feelings I had about passion over the past years have changed. Although, I thought that passion was mostly about how a person show their emotions, and feelings. To me, passion is about ethics, opinion, dedication, motivation, learning,...
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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...MINIPAPER #2: With the final legalization of Christianity the styles of Christian art continued to develop, and took on more monumental and iconic character. With more space more biblical scenes and paintings started to appear. Stations of the Cross are a series of paintings devoted to Passion of Christ or Christ’s crucifixion and His final hours (Wikipedia, 2012). Newman’s series is purely abstract; there are fourteen scenes that were painted over the course of eight years. The artist used a palette of only black, raw canvas, and white. He wanted to work in such a way that “the whole canvas would become color and have a sense of light.” It appears that Barnett Newman was improvising new composition for each painting instead of working systematically. As he said: “work grow out of work; a human scale for the human cry.” (Philadelphia Museum of Art, n.d.). Newman painted The Stations of the Cross in terms of his gesture, he was taking possession of the traditional theme on his own terms, but these terms included his tribute to the original content. His concern with religious and mythical concept never delivered an idol but a presence. The presence is one that the artist shared with any induced hero or God because it is in his work that the presence was constructed and revealed (Alloway, 1996). Fourteen painted panels from Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Avranches is a traditional form of The Stations of the Cross. They are portrayed in the following order: Jesus is condemned to death;...
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...CULTURAL EVENT REPORT As a result of the Norton Museum of Art being closed, I had no choice but to do this project on line. The Museum I chose to visit was the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I have always wanted to visit this particular museum and I hope that I will. On September 4th 2012 I visited the Online Museum of the Philadelphia Museum of Art After navigating through the site looking at different works of art and sculptures, I felt so lost in all that I saw it was as if I was transported back in time, I could visualize the painters at work, and it was as if I could feel their passion radiating from these canvases, the vibrant colors, the elaborate brush strokes and attention to minute details all brought across the message of these paintings I spent close to two hours looking at paintings dating from the Baroque period all the way into the modern age but the paintings that really caught my eyes were those from the 17th century. Of these the ones that made an impression on me were: 1. “Virgin and child with Angel” painted in 1642 by Simon Vouet in France. This portrays a virgin half sitting, half crouching with a cherubic infant on her hips while her focus was on the basket of fruits that she was eating from, oblivious of the angel to her right that was playing with the infant in her arms. The scenery is painted overshadowed by a large tree, possibly an Oak; in the distance a lake can be seen. The simplicity of the painting and its bright colors is pleasing...
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...speaker remembers his wife and the happiness she brought him and contrasts it with the emptiness and loneliness which he feels now in her absence: “Twenty lost years have stoln their hours away, Since, in this inn, ev’n in this room, I lay: How chang’d! what then was rapture, fire, and air, Seems now sad silence all, and blanc despair!” In the opening lines, Hill describes the distinction between what was happening in the room twenty years ago as opposed to what is happening now, where at one time there was “rapture, fire and air” and now all that exists is “silence” and “Blanc despair!”. The “rapture” and “fire” presumably has sexual connotations and is an insight into how the speaker remembers the intensity of the passion with which he and his wife...
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...Brittany S. Kelley Ms. Leshia Stolt English 105 Research Paper RD 28 April 2009 Death for Dishonour: Lie, Steal, Cheat. Ranjit was 16 when she discovered that her parents were planning to take her to India to marry a much older man. Terrified, she confided in her teacher who contacted a group that helps victims of forced marriages. Taking her courage in both hands, Ranjit (not her real name) went into hiding. Her Sikh family tracked her down and kidnapped her, forcing her to call the police when they got her home to say that it was all a mistake. (Langdon-Down) In the story above, the group against forced marriages informed the police that something might happen to Ranjit. The police then went to her house and saved her from being a victim of a possible honour killing. Although, Ranjit was saved from an honour killing, there are other women and girls that are being killed in the name of “honour”. This is a very important issue that should be addressed now because if we do not, ‘honour killings’ will be considered acceptable as the years go by. Although honour killings are considered a traditional or cultural practice, it is a crime and the perpetrator(s) should be punished. “An honour crime can be defined as any act of violence and abuse, actual or threatened, perpetrated against individuals, mainly women, by male members of the family and community in defense of their honour” (Welchman and Hossain 210). Families and communities commit honour killings...
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