Sacagawea

Sakakawea or Sacajawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman, who is well-famed for Leading Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition to find the Pacific Ocean through the Western United States, acting as an interpreter and guide. She traveled thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean between 1804 and 1806, while bearing child in her womb. The National American Woman Suffrage Association of the early twentieth century adopted her as the symbol of women’s worth and independence, erecting several statues, and plaques in her memory, and doing much to spread the story of her accomplishments.

“Journeys allow travelers to reflect on their own experiences because of new knowledge gained and greater insight into themselves and the world around them.”

One of the biggest misconception is “life is about the journey, not the destination.” This quote is basically saying the outcome of what you do is less important than the experiences you face along the way. What would your ride to school matter if you didn’t get to school? What would you purchasing ingredients for a recipe mean, if you didn’t make the recipe? What would reading a book matter if it didn’t have an ending? Everything would be aimless if it didn’t have an ending. Both The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost explore the central idea of journey versus destination. The Alchemist is a book about a shepherd boy named Santiago who goes on a journey to achieve his personal legend. “The Road Not Taken” is a poem about a man who comes at a crossroads; he must decide what

Sacagawea was part of an American Indian tribe called “Shoshone”. When she was only 12 years old, she was kidnapped by the Hidatsa tribe and brought to their camp. The Hidatsa Indians sold her as a slave to a fur trader by the name of Toussaint Charbonneau. They got married to each other and gave birth to her son, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau. Just when she gave birth to him, Lewis and Clark arrived to their area. Lewis and Clark saw how Sacagawea and her husband would be valuable to the expedition so they were added to the crew. She provided the crew with a steady food supply, medicine, and horses. Sacagawea was also a translator if they ever came across other tribes. When the ship crashed, she helped recover some other valuable items

What happens when you complete your journey? In the texts “Back Roads” by Vinnie Rotondaro and “A Winter’s Drive” by ReadWorks the authors explain that when you take life slow and pursue the journey you reward will be waiting. Both stories have characters who go on a journey, whether it's to canada or just a trip, go slowly and pursue their trip to find their prize at the end. The characters in “Back Roads” decide to take the back roads instead of the highway and end up finding a small town with beautiful discoveries. The character in “A Winter’s Drive” wants to go back to his old house in Canada but is worried what he is looking for won't be there. He goes forth with the journey and finds what he is looking for is right where it was. In both

T.S. Elliot once said that it is “the journey not the destination that matters.” A journey is not only moving from one point to another but is the process of getting to the destination. Journeys are in no way easy. Sacrifices are often made for the potential of a desirable outcome. Cleófilas in Sandra Cisneros’ “Woman Hollering Creek” and Rosa from Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl both have emotionally and physically stressful journeys. Both protagonists transfer from their homelands to the United States in hope to escape their journeys, but they realize that they must face their woes in order to overcome their past and reach towards their ultimate destination of peace. Even though their journeys may be difficult,

At one point Drake said, “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination”. Most of the times your experience helps you learn a valuable lesson, which would utilize throughout your entire life. In The Odyssey, by Homer, Odysseus goes to a trip, where he learns that he needs to rescue his throne and wife, Penelope. Also, when the Cyclops had captured Odysseus and his members, Odysseus made the correct choice and saved everyone. In The Cruelest Journey, the main character or the author, Kira Salk, go to Niger River, where she uses her own knowledge to terminate obstacles and learn the following task. In The Journey, by Mary Oliver, the character learns that she needs to leave all the negativity back and start a new journey. As a result, for every character or real people to set up on a journey they need the mental state because mental state is like a boss that helps connect with the concept, which can help them learn new lessons.

One way to look at how the important the journey is in comparison to the importance of the destination, is through the Odyssey. The whole epic is about the journey and how it changes the importance of the destination to Odysseus. He was gone for twenty years and all that time he was dealing with gods, monsters, the ocean, even his own men. While in the process of all

What is More Important; The End or The Journey? The end is absolutely worthless in contrast to the means required to reach it. Ernest Hemingway once said “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end”. Antithetical to this, it is human nature to focus on the result; modern life is based on results.

Memory literally means “something that is remembered”. In Diana Taylor’s article, Villa Grimaldi, Santiago de Chile is the memory place where brings trauma to the survivors and tourists. As Diana Taylor said “memory, we know, is linked to place…”, I totally agree with her idea that when I go to where I have been, I can certainly remember or link to what was happened last time. For Pedro Matta, one of the survivor from torturing and detention, the memory of Villa Grimaldi only brings him pain and trauma. “The difference here is that what we see in the model is no longer there. Even though we are present, we will not experience it ‘in person’.” (p37) However, he still comes back to this place to give a tour to people from outside. I admire and

Every human being that has ever lived has gone through that life changing event that immediately changes the way of living. The loss of a family member, a break up, or even the loss of a close friendship. Whatever the situation, atonement can be made. Even though the goal gets the character to the desired place, the journey itself is more important because it teaches the character more about life, and the state of living more than the goal does. After reading The Odyssey by Homer, the same question of whether the journey or the goal was more important continually came to mind, and the story helped to conclude the answer.

We have all heard at some point of our lives that “the journey is more important than the destination.” This idea was featured in Paulo Coelho’s novel, The Alchemist which offered many life lessons that apply today even after being published 25+ years ago. Although some would argue that the journey is irrelevant because it can lead to no results, I would counter that if you don’t take the steps to reach that result, you will be unable to improve upon your process, to reach your true destination. With this in mind, the journey is more important than the decision because: it offers preparation for the destination, allows the person or character to grow, and gives you the opportunity to improve upon the steps taken to reach your

This indicates that although modern culture sees the journey as more important

During this journey they meet many different people. When they meet these people the narrator asks many different

differently, the first step in an important journey is deciding where you want to end up.