Essay about Rationalism of Failure

Unsuccessful, the fox in the story tries again and again with the same result; neither his cleverness nor his high leaps is successful.

Another example of Boxer’s strong personality in times of hardship is the night in which the executions of the animals that admitted to having been deceitful to their fellow comrades by taking Snowball’s side took place and Boxer stated that to overcome the faults amongst the farm’s animals, he was going to work harder.

Clayton Christensen’s book, “How Will You Measure Your Life?” gives an example of Clayton building a Treehouse with his kids. Every piece was put together with his children. They meticulously and slowly hammered each nail. After it was finished, he noticed his children didn’t use it much. They did show their friends what they built and how they built it, and the story of them building it together. He learned that the journey and the accomplishment of building it together was worth more than the outcome. I remember a time when my manager told me to slow down and enjoy the journey. I felt she was missing the bigger picture. I could not fathom slowing down. I didn’t understand what that meant since my goals were to achieve a certain level of income and an accumulation of things by specific ages. These goals were my measure of success that I made it in life. I was a glory seeker with a need for approval and validation. I was single, and extremely motivated to create my destiny. I lacked the grounding of an integrated life. I didn’t make much time for friends and my community. I was the one who always arrived to work early and stayed late. Enmeshed in a struggle on behalf of some ideal. One night at 7pm, a leader asked if I had too much to do or nowhere to go. I answered, “Both.” My priorities were in the wrong place. My values needed to change. Failure and loss would help me to re-center and re-balance my approach and methods. Failure creates radical self-understanding and is

He demonstrates this by telling “Let me go! I’ll kill him! I’ll kill him!” after another juror tried to go against his thoughts and prove him wrong. Moreover, this excerpt alse exposes the he is a profoundly bitter, stubborn, and furious man.

In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, the author uses the characterization of the narrator to show that by making a situation not disappointing anymore, too much pride can result when success is near, which can lead to huge regret should it all tumble down.

In this excerpt from Reginald Rose’s play Twelve Angry Men three character traits shown by Juror Three are prideful, aggressive, and stubborn. Juror Tree is aggressive by wanting the punishment to be death. He is being prideful because he believes that he’s right about everything that he is saying. He’s stubborn because he won’t silence until he’s made his point.

For instance, when Juror 4 said to everyone regarding about a baffling conflict, “I don't see any need for arguing like this. I think we ought to be able to behave like gentlemen." (16) This shows how Juror 4 is confident and determined to resolve the case and not play around. He tries very hard to calm many jurors down instead of letting it go and think of other things, this shows that he cares about the case. Moreover, Juror 8 also shows us that he cares about the case because he thinks and tries very hard to back up his claim so that is seems believable. To illustrate, when Juror 8 tries to retort back to a claim he thinks is false, “Nobody has to prove otherwise. The burden of proof is on the prosecution. The defendant doesn't have to open his mouth. That's in the Constitution. The Fifth Amendment. You've heard of it." (18) This quote reveals how he is confident with his knowledge and tries very hard to think of a rebuttal against Juror 2 argument. He thinks that a rebuttal against a false statement is very important, because he doesn’t want Juror 2 to convince other people with his statement. In another example, Juror 8 exhibits how he takes the trial seriously by investigating the case in his own time, “I’m just saying it’s possible ... I got it last night in a little junk shop around the corner from the boy's house. It cost two dollars." (24). In his own time, Juror 8 tries to find a similar knife that has been used in the murder, and successful bought one. This shows how he is willing to sacrifice his own time to find evidence for the case, it shows that he cares about the case and take the trial seriously. By taking the trial seriously, it reveals how both of the jurors is a fair person and wanted to give a fair trial and justice to the

Jessica Statsky wrote an essay where she expressed her thoughts on young kids competitive in sports. Statsky made it very clear in her essay that she was completely against kids participating in competitive sports. Personally, I disagree with Starsky's statement, I believe that being in a competitive sport has many more advantages rather than disadvantages. Being on a sports team since a young age can teach kids how to cope with failure as well as the empowering feeling of winning. Teams teach kids to be able to work with others despite the differences that might exist between teammates, it teaches them teamwork and how to grow up and get better in working in teams because teams are everywhere; work, school, church, meeting and in many other places.

Have you ever had someone that has done that to you like Rat did to Cat. One story we read was “Cat and Rat: Legend of the Chinese Zodiac” about how Rat cheated his friend Cat. The other we read was “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” about how the cat got made at his friend mouse for eating their pumpkin boat. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the story Cat and Rat Legend of the Zodiac and How Cat and Rat Became Enemies.

In Animal Farm Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer all use Fear propaganda to convince the animals to do what they want or to believe what they want them to believe. One example of this is when Squealer is talking about the milk and apples. His reasons are that many of the pigs actually dislike milk and apples. He also says that milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig, and he says, “Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?”. He is saying jones will come for a reason. Squealer is trying to use fear propaganda to make the animals do what he says. When he says

The Nighlock berries are an interest symbol of rebellion; during the 74th hunger games there was another act of rebellion represented by the berries that not many readers take into consideration. As I previously discussed with another classmate, during the tribute training in the Capitol, District 5’s tribute, Foxface study the plants she might encounter in the arena; she was an intelligent young woman in she outlasted most the games by observing from afar and cleverly figure out a path through the booby traps to get the Career’s food. It is in my opinion that she knew that the berries were poisonous; however, if Foxface was to blatantly commit suicide, it would look like defiance to the Capitol and her family would be killed. She decided to

The wise mind of Mahatma Gandhi once said; “an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” By getting or attempting to get revenge every time someone upsets you, the issue is never fully resolved meaning it could resurface and bite back harder the second time. In ”A Cask of Amontillado”, by Edward Poe, the author uses irony to show how Fortunato’s death was due to Montresor’s hatred. Similarly, in the poem “A Poison Tree”, by William Blake, the author uses figurative language to show how the enemy was killed because of the narrator’s anger. In both texts, the two characters were once friends and the enemies are being deceived. Poe and Blake use figurative language and irony to show how hatred and anger can lead to deception.

I’ve learned that failure is a common part of life, but how you perceive failure is what matters the most. There are a lot of uncontrollable variables that can dictate a situation. However, the one aspect we are able to control is our state of mind and it is imperative to have a positive mental attitude. As described by Shawn Achor, in Before Happiness, if you allow a pessimistic mind set to control your outlook on a situation. Then, one will only focus on all the aspects of the failure instead of looking on how to improve the situation. Perfectly stated by Winston S. Churchill “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; and optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

Through the brief argument between Boxer and Squealer, I found that each viewed “victory” in a different light. Squealer hails the battle as a victory due to the fact that they kept the farm at the end of the day. On the other hand, Boxer thinks that their victory was not much of one at all. To him, it did not justify the loss of the windmill and his fellow animals. I think Boxer understands how great of a loss the battle turned out to be because he’s worked day and night on the windmill. He’s endured the harsh winters with the others; the pigs have not. There’s a clear disconnect between both sides here. (115 words)

Failure often times leads a person to feel helpless, disappointed and depressed. However,one should not allow this to set them back in trying to achieve the ultimate aim one has set out to do. Failure in the beginning can often be a powerful incentive to reassess one’s position in wanting to achieve the particular aims; to analyse whether the purpose is worth the trouble the person has to undergo and the whether the obstacles are surmountable.