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    friends with Kathy, and although my parents did not say anything, I sensed a scornful accusatory attitude from my mother. The serial stalking and abuse continued into the Fall and early Winter. Ironically, I think one of the reasons I became such a good runner was that from that first incident onward I ran everywhere. The terrorizing shadow of never knowing when I would be

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    her life. The speaker realizes that who she is expected to be is not necessarily who she wants to be and decides to be independent from her mother and society’s expectations. At first the speaker feels guilty for being tempted by the “backyard,” but continues to be drawn in by the rougher lifestyle, romanticizing it as a type of secret garden. The speaker aches to experience a rougher life in contrast to her neat and predictable world. She confesses, “I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life. / I

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    attained their good lives by only adhering to themselves, both demonstrate the destructive consequences of when one puts selfish intentions above all else. Creon’s downfall is contributed by his pride and unwillingness to listen to others. He realized his fault too late and ended up losing the ones closest to him. Henry Hobson was enveloped in his business and accumulating wealth, without acknowledging the hard work of his daughters or Willie Mossop. The result was having lost control of his life to Maggie

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    fetched inside Brian’s brain, and it was a yearning for life itself that had managed to gobble the whole entire of Suthies’ inner head. Two distinct motors and pedals for the various defined terms of “success”. What constitutes the differences between those who possess a meager and humbling sense of the self and those who are tangled up in the pursue for materialistic wealth and upper mobility? It appears that these two people defined the good life in two severely distinct ways, and for a hypothetical

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    smell an absolutely disgusting stench. It is a pig farm to the west of us. I roll my window up to avoid the bad smell. We are on our way to Arizona and I see a sign telling me that we are at the border of Nebraska. The sign says, “Nebraska … the good life,” and there is a picture of a mountain and a red sun behind it. I roll down my window, knowing that we are out of the smelly state of Iowa, and breath in fresh air again. I see a boring place, but it is night so that might be why it looks dead. When

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    Goethe uses the characters in Faust to show the destruction that insatiable greed causes. The characters of Faust, Gretchen, and Mephistopheles are each overcome by their own greed and inability to find satisfaction in life. Goethe’s warning of the inevitable downfall greed causes is still relevant the selfish society of today. Goethe ensures the audience members bear witness to multiple forms of greed within the title character. Faust sees no value in his impressive accomplishments, because they

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    of what distinguishes between good and bad action, and lives that are worth living ( pg. 84). Therefore, just as Dr. Kolondy is the expert on teeth a Philosopher is an Expert of what makes for a good life. Plato believes that because the knowledge that differentiates good and bad actions requires “extensive expertise” than only those who have spent years mastering this complicated subject should be able to advise ( pg 85). He believe that to accurately determine a life worth living it takes someone

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    it a new designated role. Prior to undergoing a reinvention, someone must experience enough pain in their current situation to aspire a need for it. An effective reinvention is when someone is able to create something completely different out of the life they previously lived. Characters from The Americans, Breaking Bad, and Gone Girl all reinvented themselves into new individuals with new values and beliefs. Although each of the characters experienced different forms of reinvention, they were all

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    His misconstrued view of what it takes to reach the American Dream leads him astray and sets him up for a life of failure. After everything he has put his family through, Willy believes he can correct matters by taking his own life and seeks to provide the American Dream for his family, after his death. In Miller’s stage play Death of a Salesman we the see the last day of Willy Loman’s life. He is in his sixties and is exhausted from a job that requires a lot out of him, with very little return.

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    brother and sister. They live in an awful, poverty stricken environment in the old town after everything changed when their mother died at the hands of Doctor Robert Knox. Robbie Blames Knox for his horrible life and suffering as he believes Knox has not suffered yet and he took away the good life Robbie nearly had before Knox operated on his mum and this leads to his deep obsession with Knox. Robbie’s obsession begins when he is outside the lecture theatre and inside his mum

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