The Elephant In My Backyard Rajiv Quotes

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

In "Indian Horse" by Richard Wagamese, a quote displays the theme of identity through the lens of cultural connection and heritage. The quote was: "The Ojibway were not people of the horse. Our land exists as an untamed thing—lakes, rivers, bogs, and marshes—surrounded by citadels of bush and rock and the labyrinthine weave of country. We did not need maps to understand it. We are people of the manitous.

The theme of the book is “to never give up on your dream.” Even if you think your goal seems

Many people try and many people have failed. Everyone hopes to succeed in something, whether it be anything from sports to seminary, school, or just life. Every day there are people who invent things, they try over and over again until it works out. There are many successful people in this world and they didn’t get there easily. Success is something earned not given, and comes with trial and error.

Father Leboutilier’s arrival at St. Jerome’s residential school represents an important turning point in the life of the main character, Saul Indian Horse, in the novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese. Father Leboutilier signifies a parental figure for Saul which helps him forget the tragedies of his past. The Father’s presence is critical in helping Saul survive life in residential school. Above all, the most essential part of their relationship is the Father’s introduction of hockey to Saul; a game would change his life. Had the pair not been acquainted, it is presumable that Saul’s life would had gone down a much different, possibly lethal path which was common for so many residential school children.

Have you ever had something on your mind that you wouldn't be able to let go without facing it? This happens to Saul Indian Horse in the Richard Wagamese novel “Indian Horse”. Saul, an Indigenous Canadian boy, was taken from his home and brought to a residential school. At the school, Saul suffers recurring sexual abuse at the hands of a man named Father Leboutilier. Saul pushes the thought of the abuse out of his head and uses hockey to hide from it, but when hockey doesn’t work out, he decides to turn to alcohol, which destroys him even more than he already was.

In the book Unstoppable by Tim Green, the theme is to not give up on your dream no matter how many obstacles are in your way.

Success is a weird word. Sometimes you spend your whole life trying to find it and sometimes you’re just plain lucky enough to have it already. Success is never given, it’s earned by the ones who deserve it most. But what is it that helps strive people to the end? Does the end even matter? In life, people are sent on journeys to not only finish, but to experience every little thing along the path. In other words, life is about the journey and not the destination. In both Whale Talk and Stand by Me, characters find meaning for their lives by enduring the hard times, pouring themselves into relationships with other people and staying true to their own systems of belief.

In The Indian Horse, Saul revisits the center where all of his trauma and abuse first began to heal that eight-year-old boy who is still trapped in St.Jorme. Richard Wagamese wrote about Saul and all the terrors he faced and the brief joy with his family, but that all ended when Saul went to St. Jerome. When Saul revisits what happened in St.Jerome, realizing all of the abuse he faced as a child, when Saul steps into the room, remembers the things that were done to him all because he was an “Indian”. But Saul remembered the one thing he pushed in the deepest part of his mind, trying his absolute best to not remember it, by the man he thought was a father to him, was the man was sexually assaulting him and making him do things to him. But even when Saul remembers everything that he went through, he remembers this one quote that Father Lablibutor says to him in every encounter he has faced.

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor" (BrainyQuote.) The great deal of hardships in my life led me to be successful. I dealt with abandonment for much of my life. I failed at many thing in my life but writing was not one of them. I became famous after I failed many times. I am one of the most famous and controversial figures in contemporary American literature (DIScovering authors.) My non-fiction books, journals, and characters were greatly influenced by my lack of love as a child.

We have all failed several times, and sometimes we have given up. One of the most famous chocolate makers in history failed many times, but he never gave up on his dream.

Sir Winston Churchill, a British politician from 1800’s says “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” Throughout my few years of living, I have learned that everybody is going to fail at something at least once. It is up to you to take all of your failures and turn them into success. It’s not going to only take one day but everyone is destined to be successful.

In order to be a survivor, one must be able to cope well with obstacles and not give up when life starts to get difficult. By examining Richard Wagamese’s book, Indian Horse, it is obvious that Saul is a survivor. Saul Indian Horse, the main character in the novel Indian Horse, proves what it takes to be a true survivor based on his personality traits, how he deals with conflicts and his sense of resiliency. Firstly, in the novel Indian Horse, Saul’s smart nature shows he is a survivor when he chooses to reveal himself as a boy that is void of feeling while at the residential school.

In all honesty, Saul has suffered a great deal of pain. However, Saul changes dramatically into a new person by the end of the novel. From the beginning of Indian Horse, Saul has made some decisions that caused his life to tumble over. On the other hand, Saul looks back to his past, and he is able to invision all the mistakes he has made. By this, he finally realizes the choices he has made and wishes to fix them.

When I look at the word failure I didn’t see success. But that slowly changed as I read the book What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain Chapter four. Bain, for me and I’m sure many other, have changed our view point on failure being a bad thing. He instead expressed failure as an “opportunity to learn something.” (121) As infants we grow and develop, we learn to walk by falling down a couple hundred times, and we learn to speak by babbling. By trying to walk, and trying to talk, we may fail at first. As an infant, you cannot give up when you are face to face with failure. You must get up and try again to learn. In the book, What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain he uses people’s experiences and research to explain why failure is an opportunity to learn something new, rather than seeing failure as something bad. He asserts “people who become highly creative and productive learn to acknowledge failures, even to embrace them, and to explore and learn from them.” (100) Failure is important. If we did not get up and try again as infants, we would not be where we are today.