The Seventh Most Important Thing Essay

Arthur is very ungrateful, and impossible to please. He thrives off of driving his daughter and son-in-law crazy, and it always seems to work. Arthur always has an ailment, and he believes the world revolves around him. Every once and a while Arthur gets what he deserves, and people unleash their wrath on him. Of course, Arthur acts as if he doesn't understand why people get so angry at

In The seventh most important thing by Shelley Pearsall, Arthur T.Owens throws a brick at a local man that collects rubbish. Arthur and his sister always call him junk man, although they would later find out that his name is actually James hampton. After getting out of juvie, arthur has a long nerve wracking time in court to decide his punishment for throwing a brick at junk man. Instead of being sentenced to more time in juvie, junk man offers an alternative, he is sentenced to one hundred twenty hours of community service… working for him. He would pay off those hours every Saturday. “ One kid. One crime. One chance to make things right.”

In the book The Seventh Most Important Thing it tells that Arther is a compashnit and lier. First he is vary loving to his mom and his little sister. On page 84 " His first panicked thought was that something bad happened to. His mom and Barbara." He loves them so much that he would happily, put his family first not him. He is also a liar on page 50 " Yet another lie." What this tells me is that he has lied again. Also on page 63 "It wasn't a complete lie." What this quote tells me is that he lied agen but its not complete lie. In conclusion even tow he is a lier he is still compashint for

Throughout the book Arthur gives off the vibe that he just has no idea what is going on ever, he is oblivious to pretty much everything around him. We see this alot when Slartibartfast is explaining how earth is a computer run by mice, Arthur kept making jokes about it not believing how serious the situation is. "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" (). Arthur's character doesn't change throughout the book, he stays as the goofy

In the book the seventh most important things by Shelly Pearsall the character Arthur demonstrate that Arthur are these words that I think about him its, Hardworking, heroic, angry.

For the words to describe Arthur in the book The Seven Most Important Thing was Adventurous, Dedicated, Moody, and Lazy. Starting with the first things, I have said Adventurous for two reasons, one being I thought Arthur was adventurous because he would have never went on and looked for help when looking for Mr Hampton's place. I also thought this because he wouldn't had ventured into Mr Hampton's garage when it was opened slightly. Which leads me to him being Dedicated, I thought he was dedicated because he felt as though he was going to be pressured to stop school, but went on anyways. This now leads me to where he is moody, Arthur was moody in my mind because he felt furious and sad in the beginning of the story when he had thrown the brick.

The hardships that Arthur goes through changes his rank to Lord Godalming because of the deaths of three important people including his father lord Godalming. It also gets him to realize that no matter what must be done shall and will have to be done even if it is hard to do because if it is not done the worst thing will come forth like Lucy transforming into a vampire and victimizing two children but before the children transformed Arthur killed her. Finally, Though he loved Lucy he did not cry or think about her as much as he did when she first passes away and learns to move on because as the time went by and they were coming closer to finding Dracula there was no time to think about or cry about Lucy. When Dracula is finally killed, Arthur

I. Throughout the film we see Arthur rebel against cultural norms, bored with people’s quaint lives and attempt to escape from those pitfalls of a boring life by acting out. One of these actions comes back to bite him in the end and this makes a stark turning point for Arthurs life and maturity as an adult. One of the women he has been seeing, Brenda, happens to be married.

I had many mixed views after finishing my most recent read of The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters, by Thomas Hurka. I agreed with his ideas that pain is greater than pleasure. I also opposed the views that not all pains are bad and not all pleasures are good.

Throughout the book, Arthur reflects the characteristics of being grateful, forgiving, and being a little frightening. To start with, page 91 mentions how Arthur reacts to his sister giving him a baseball for Christmas, "It's a baseball! Did you guess? Did you guess?," said Barbara. "

Page 1 Child Growth and Development: "Life's Greatest Miracle" Paragraph In the video Life's Greatest Miracle, I was informed about how children are conceived, how they develop in the mothers body, and how amazing child birth can be. In the beginning it takes you through the steps of how sperm travels as for looking for an egg to fertilize. Although, in just one teaspoon of sperm there can be over 300 million sperm cells, only around 40% of them are usable. The other 60% can be deformed such as having two tales. The sperm can reach the Fallopian tube within 30 minutes, but it can be a 2 day swim just for sperm to reach an accepting egg. After the sperm that was strong enough to make it through the rough travel have met up with an egg, they

Before someone caught her staring at the little ones, she slid behind a blooming oak tree, one alive with tender green leaves. She knew the rules, and to be caught meant she could never do this again, and that was unthinkable. But rather than waste her time lamenting, she instead focused on Arthur, now age seven, lively and adorable, a huge grin on his face. He and his little friend, Guinevere, pretended to ride their stick horses into battle, and, of course, Arthur led the charge.

The family was actually Catholic; Arthur and his siblings had been raised in this religion. While Arthur excelled at school, he found the classes dry and uninspiring. He loved history but in a more romantic and descriptive fashion, the type of history found in his favorite book, Ivanhoe. He believed that the teachers, who were Fathers, of the school undervalued his talent and that the teachers did not like or respect him. The belief was erroneous; the teachers at his school, Stonyhurst, knew how intelligent and talented Arthur was but also how stubborn he could be. This is exemplified by his constant and intentional rule breaking that lead to severe punishments he endured to simply prove that he was strong and unbreakable. Even with his troublemaking approach, Arthur made it through the school with top marks. After his time at Stonyhurst the Ma’am insisted he continue on into medical school, which he did. Alfred Adler, developed a theory to describe an individual’s personality, through the theory Arthur’s life can be illustrated.

The Self Every situation that an individual is exposed to throughout life, helps mold our “self.” As humans we have the ability to see ourselves from the outside, and all through life we try to see what others see and our “self” revolves around the generalized other. We observe how others perceive us and we make conclusions depending on our observations. How we act around others depends on the image we feel they have towards us.

Have you ever wondered where your life could be right now? What circumstances might have changed the path your life took? What different people might have been in your life because of the different path? These are questions that strike me occasionally. The main reason for this is because my life could have turned out quite differently. I am Chinese and was left at an orphanage when I was just a few days old, but was adopted when I was 14 months old. The life I have now is excellent, but sometimes I do wonder what my life would be like now if I had not been adopted. Now that I am nearly at adult age, what responsibilities would I have been expected to take care of? Where would I be living and could I even find any acceptable work? How