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    influence others in a certain way. What people notice is that the positive role models will have something that puts them ahead of everyone else. Role models show how people should be treated and how they should value themselves first, and then their success will come. Positive role models can be found all over the place; sometimes they are just hard to find. Key characteristics that put these people above everyone else are honesty, hard-work and dedication, and not having a fear of failure. When looking

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    A Salesman easily showcasing the elements of drama. I was easily able to follow the plot, identify with his characters, and picture the setting. The main theme of the plot seemed to be Willy reaching for the "American Dream". Financial success, business success, outwardly perfect family, revered by your peers, and in general respected by all. Early on in the play two things are evident to the reader; Willy's questionable mental status, and his tumultuous relationship with his sons. Willy is apparently

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    failure is not so bad. Failing can be frustrating but when you fail at whatever you are doing you can easily learn from that failure and correct yourself and next thing you know you're passing that class you were just failing. Now success is a different story. Success is probably one of the most rewarding feeling there is, especially when you pull an all nighter on that composition you forgot to do last week

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    Gladwell's purpose for writing "The Trouble with Geniuses," is to open our minds to a topic that a lot of us have a major misconception about. Gladwell presents his ideas with great examples throughout chapters 3 and 4 of the outliers. His topic is about success and how it is obtained. He talks about a scientist by the name of Turmin who did an experiment and selected a group of geniuses and watched their progress and downfalls throughout their lives. Turmin did not get the results he expected he thought

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    Everyone in the world needs a successful in their life in both work and family. We can see that some people have very success in their work, but not so great in their family, and some of them have separation spouse, living alone, having misbehavior children. In the article, ‘How Will You Measure Your Life?’ by Clayton Christensen from the Harvard Business Reading, explains and guides us how you can make your life happy and successful. The three topics in the article that I think they will be benefit

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    Isn’t it amazing how humans throughout the centuries have clung to their ambitions and accomplished amazing feats? Surely it must be. However, what happens when someone clings to their blind ambitions? This problematic characteristic has wedged its way into humanity for many, many years. Why, even in Macbeth it’s a common theme that somehow relates to our modern society. Three prime examples of people who have blind ambitions are: Christy Clark, a British Columbian politician, Hillary Clinton, and

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    (Hume). This study proved that ambitious individuals had more success and in the long run of it and had an overall more successful life than the people without ambition. Many may think that ambitious people are selfish and never satisfied because they always want more. Ambition can help you lose all of your consistent

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    I recite, “success doesn't come serene, success must be earned, success requires determination” (Anonymous Writer). Everyone has an endeavour to become extraordinary. Consequently, many people do not possess the obligatory attributes to accomplish an aim or motive in their lives. In the film “October Sky,” Homer Hickam the protagonist overcame a sequence of calamities along his journey to become a successful rocket fabricating engineer. He clawed his way out of an ‘unenlightened cave’ where coal

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    Ambitions are an integral aspect of human culture. They motivate us in a ceaseless pursuit of constant success. However, humans are truly not contempt with their successes, and perpetually dream for more success in a never-ending spiral of greed. Jay Gatsby’s character throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, is an ideal epitome of human greed, or as we can refer to it, the American dream. Fitzgerald is able to foster a culture within the novel where dreams seem unreachable

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    tendencies, to his unobtainable goals, to his characteristics to grasp his primitive. The implications provided by the narrator’s analysis gives the idea that McTeague doesn’t have the capacity to obtain success yet mentions the immense ambition and determination to strive for success with the narrator stating,” It was his ambition, his dream,...He would have it some day, on that he was resolved;but as such a thing was far beyond his means.” McTeague admires how successful his career is, yet

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