being an American is you have lots of freedom, opportunities, and most of all dreams. In America, we all have the equal amount of freedom, there are no slaves. We all have many opportunities in life that we would have to take to make our dreams come true. First of all, being an American is you have the power of freedom. The idea behind freedom is to be respectful and useful to our society. Freedom is important to everyone. Many people in other countries can’t do what they want because they are slaves
How do you Value life? We all live by different and many quotes, a quote that I live by is, “ It's better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life,” because in life you have to take risk, not everything is going to come to you easy. Sometimes you have to loose somethings in order to gain what you really want. In 2005 Steve Jobs gave a speech at Stanford University, he spoke about how he was close to death at a time, for him being close
doing your best and to have a healthy body to compete in the sport of softball. To have a healthy body in the sport of softball is to pick one of the types of conditioning to do together as a whole team. The types of conditioning are weight training, running, fielding, and team building. Weight training is to build up all of your upper body and lower body muscles and for you to use the strength you gain towards your games. Running is especially important to softball because it builds up your endurance
stood out the most and was mentioned often is the importance of following one’s dreams, and staying true to our hearts. In the beginning of the book, we meet Santiago, the protagonist. He sets off on a journey to follow his Personal Legend, a concept that is introduced to him by Melchizedek, the King of Salem. When Santiago asks what a Personal Legend is, Melchizedek explains, “It’s what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is” (Coelho
"dad why are we here? We had money, a house and family. Why did we leave all of that and come here?" My dad responded with, "we left all that behind so you and your brother can go to college. I do not want you to end up like me uneducated." He also said, "do not except me to give you my money, my house, or my business. What I will do is pay whatever it takes so you can go to college and be educated." Knowledge is something that nobody can take from you, it will die with you. So that’s why I am here
achievement toward which effort is directed. HOW TO SET GOALS. Whether you have small dreams or lofty expectations, setting goals allows you to plan how you want to move through life. Some achievement can take a life time to attain, while others can be completed in the course of a day. Getting started can seem daunting, but you can build up to even the loftiest dream. 1. Make sure the goal you are working for is something you really want, not just something that sounds good. Ask yourself some important
achieving their American Dream. The American Dream, according to James Truslow Adams in 1931, is “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement…” (Adams 214). It is the way your life has to be in order for you to be the happiest you could possibly be. This is different for every person. However, there are three elements that a lot of people share in common with their dream. One part to this is being
Imagining the American Dream was a way for people to escape from bad times in their lives. These people wanted to move on from living like everyone else and instead, have a unique and successful lifestyle. In the novel Of Mice and Men, the theme of reaching for the American Dream runs throughout the entire story. It is evident that all of the characters, especially George and Lennie, want to obtain some form of the American Dream. As they come in contact with other people at the ranch, their
Entrepreneur’s Time. You may be asking, how an entrepreneur’s time is different from all the other people’s time. It is not. But, how an entrepreneur sees the value of time is what makes the difference. Without any doubt, time is one of the most valuable benefits that is offered to all of us. As entrepreneurs, it is of utmost importance that you find time’s value as it will lever how much money goes into your traffic, how your business will run, how wisely it is spent and distributed among your colleagues
Goals and dreams motivate people to accomplish something or make you become a different person in life. In the novel ,” Of Mice And Men”, three people had their dreams set but really didn’t have goals that will help them achieve it. Lennie, George and Curley’s Wife all had big dreams that they wanted to come true. Lennie, one of the characters, dreams were to one day tend rabbits. For example, Lennie wanted to tend rabbits because every time his Aunt Clara gives him a mouse to pet Lennie will