Simply Mortified

Google will yield hundreds of thousands search results for motivational speakers. And in my opinion one thing that unites them all is the idea that disciple will provide the opportunity to choose greatness. As a younger adult I always was deathly mortified of driving big cars, but life had a different plan for me. At around age of 23-24 I was employed by a valet company and part of the duties were to drive big cars. For several months I would ask my coworkers to perform my duties of driving all the

it was unfinished and full of mistakes. In the poem, she treats the book as a child and uses a satirical tone. Her choice of words and tone are very important to the theme of the poem. Some readers, mainly logical, would think that the author is simply talking about a child. The truth is that she is talking about her recently finished book. Bradstreet shows a mixture of emotions toward what just happened. The poem starts by speaking of a child. An "ill-formed" (1) child is mentioned. This indicates

“Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter,” an epistolary novel by J. Nozipo Maraire, discusses social and political African history in the letters sent from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter. The mother relates lessons she has learned throughout her years living in colonial Rhodesia. Violence, culture, and racism are prominent themes in the letters sent to Zenzele.  "Rhodesia", named after a so called "Cecil Rhodes", was under a predominantly white government. Native Africans were banned from all

Many women have experienced discrimination due to their gender. Society views women as inferior beings that cannot achieve greatness. Furthermore, women have acquired a set of rules and expectations to meet within their role in society. In the 1850 romance novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the beauty and strength of women. Despite society’s strict views of gender roles, women can convert society’s oppression into freedom due to the qualities they possess, which surpass society’s

she attempted to be humorous, calling her dull and stupid, Mr. Knightley reprimanded Emma for being so callous and cruel. “She was Vexed beyond what could have been expressed- almost beyond what she could conceal. Never had she felt so agitated, mortified, grieved, at any circumstance in her life. She was most forcibly struck. The truth of his representation there was no denying. She felt it at his heart. How could she have been so brutal, so cruel to Miss Bates (chapter 43)!” Finally, for one of

The web is similar to a battle area, you may endure alive, or you may fall and break into pieces. Children and youthful grown-ups that have entry to the web make them helpless against practically anything and anybody. Obviously nobody is great. Our general public characterizes "immaculate" as having a considerable measure of companions, being really, wearing pleasant dress, and so on. The web and online networking makes pathways that lead the harassers to the exploited people. Kids that regularly

clarify his inner thoughts by replying to his wife, “This slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection” (Mays 340). Although Georgiana is initially mortified and even goes as far to question the existence of the marriage between them, the narration later sheds light and explains that the precise reason why Aylmer is excessively bothered with the birthmark is because he regards Georgiana as virtually the

School dress codes shouldn’t exist School dress codes have become a very large issue,though it always has been, but now that students have been protesting against their school's dress code there have been many more problems that are surfacing between the school district and the students. School dress codes are taking away the purpose of school, students come to learn, and to be educated, but instead are forced to change their clothing because it doesn’t fit the school dress code. The dress code

Howard Zinn says it best when he writes that “from 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny peasant country – and failed” (Zinn, 460). Zinn does not mince words when expressing his thoughts about the Vietnam War, because as Zinn says, Vietnam was basically a modern portrayal of David vs. Goliath. One could even go as far as to say

there can be many different aspects of love and how it is perceived. The first poem, “Sonnet 129,” shows how one way that love can be portrayed is through lust. It describes how one is controlled by the impulses, experiences the joy, and is then mortified by the deed. Lust is irresistible and overwhelming and can cause emotions such as longing, blissful fulfillment, and unavoidable guilt, as described by Shakespeare in “Sonnet 129” (Fleischmann 115). Allowing physical desire to overpower reason is