The Paper Chase

Throughout the play, Thornton Wilder seems to suggest that everyday events make up a special and beautiful life. The author includes multiple different scenes to represent the simplicity of life. As the Stage Manager describes the death of Joe Crowell, the bright student headed to be engineer, he implies the idea that one should acknowledge the small yet great things in life before it’s too late. The author also includes the death of Emily which questions how much humans understand of life. This event lets readers take in the beautiful moments in their lives and recognize the small things that make them happy.

I failed to reach the top of the rock climbing wall on the playground, and as a result, I have strived even harder to reach the peak of success in everything I do. Instead of becoming discouraged and disappointed in myself, I found a way to improve myself for my next challenge. Learning from my mistakes has molded me into an improved person while giving me the motivation to keep pushing forward. Failure has taught me the importance of learning from your errors and trying again, no matter how difficult it may be. Without lessons like these, I would not be the motivated, independent person that I am today. I will continue to fail and try again until I achieve my goal of reaching the

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.

In What’s the Worst that Could Happen by Bruce Coville, Murphy proves that if you fail you have to learn something from it and try again.

Failure can be a very difficult thing to cope with. It can be something that makes you or breaks you. I have learned that failure is what defines a person; it shows your motivation to bounce back when things get rough. I have learned from my failure instead of dwelling on it and making myself weaker.

Learning from failure is important to having a successful life. You have to figure out what works and what does not which requires some trial and error. Many famous entrepreneurs who have a successful career have experienced many failures in their lifetime. An example of

The playwright was trying to get quite a few messages when he created this play. First of all, I believe he was trying to show social change and the power and potential that an individual has inside of them, despite their circumstances. I think that this play/movie reveals the true messiness of life and how with the right mindset, you can make it through anything you

He knows that in the end that everything happens for a reason and manages to stay positive. He has courage to stick with the trials and that realize that everything happens for a

Failure is really just a part of life. From god, to love, to our own academic studies, we have all failed at something before, and it sure made us feel upset, or some other negative feelings, but along comes Angel Perez and Mandy Oaklander to help save the day from the sheer destruction of our guilt to tell us to “bounce back”, and that it is okay to fail. Something quite often unheard of would be positive responses to failure, making it look like it is no big deal, but a rather out of proportion. Given both articles it is not hard to see that Perez does not expect perfection, not the brightest light in the dark sky, but rather a lesson learned from failure, rather than punishment. Oaklander on the other hand talks of building up resilience

The film shows how love controls people's lives, thoughts, and acts. A case in point is where we see Jimmy's daughter's love for Brendan makes her want to elope with him. Jimmy's love for his daughter makes him hate Brendan and also eventually makes him kill his childhood friend. Sean's love for Jimmy makes him protect Jimmy even after discovering he killed Dave. Brendan's little brother kills Jimmy's daughter because he believes she is taking Brendan away from him, and many other scenes that are brought forth in the

2. When Hart was at Susan’s residence, he described three kinds of Harvard students, the students that give up, the students that volunteer and the students that sit in fear. The category of student I think I fit in is the students that volunteer. This is because I don’t sit in fear in class, if called upon I know the answers; I also do not give up on my course work. I will volunteer answers or questions dependent on the aura of the course. I see myself as the student that volunteers, because like the students in the film I am up to date on all the coursework and have nothing to fear in class.

For example, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard, one of the most highly acclaimed colleges in the nation. Most people, at the time, would have considered him a failure. Yet, he went on to create Microsoft, one of the top multinational computer corporations in the world. This proves how sometimes being a failure can be the gateway to becoming a success.

As I discussed earlier in my writtings, I think that failure cannot be avoided and we are presented with failures to gain an opportunity to learn. Failures will be an aspect at some point professionally and or personally so that we can grow and develop as

Traditionally, failure is seen as a negative concept and is defined as lacking success. I, on the other hand, try to put a positive spin on everything in life. I see failure as an obstacle that is experienced by all, but it does not define an individual. Failure in essence will force an individual to be more receptive to their surroundings and actions and also will force an individual to mature. Looking back on my childhood years I can now pinpoint the areas where I failed and I can confidently say that I have grown and prospered due to those failures. The three major failures I have experienced were my attention deficit issues which affected my ability to succeed in school, my anti-social habit that I let consume my early years, and my

In the beginning of Davies speech he explains that he is an author and how being an author is more of a state of mind rather than a job. He goes on to say that he will be quitting his job as an author and pursue a new job. Failure is something that Davies believes will come with finding a new career but he tells the university students that failure is something that is easy to live through and that the only failure that breaks the spirit and that failure is the failure in life itself. The thing about that type of failure is that it does not just come suddenly, it creeps up on you and grabs a hold on you with you knowing. Davies begins to talk to about how this failure is considered one of the seven deadly sins and this one in