Optimism In Candide

But I ignored their counsel, though that course would have avoided many griefs for us” (Homer 176) . Odysseus's leadership skills improve through the challenges he faces in the book, especially after the Cyclops incident. He thought it would be a good idea to wait so he could finally face and see the cyclops instead of to escape while they could, like his men wanted to. Due to Odysseus's curiosity his men weren't able to escape when they had the chance to and had to suffer being held hostage because of Odysseus's poor leadership skills. Another way Odysseus showed horrible leadership in the beginning was when he put himself before his crewman stating, “I asked my comrades to cast lots to see which men would dare to lift that stake with me and grind it into the Cyclops’ eye when sweet sleep overtook him” (Homer 179).

Imagine that everyone was doing hard tasks that prove to be risky and dangerous, and challenges soon rose around these difficult tasks. These tasks would be devastating and generate life decisions, such as the question: who would you save, who are you going to save, Do I have to save this person or can I run away from reality? What are the costs of these questions and what would everyone’s challenges be? Challenges are everywhere-they are significantly the hardest element everyone must go through.

Haden assumes the audience believes in the underdog who can overcome anything, Haden has this powerful mentality and will never put himself in a position where he feels inferior or prone to overcome hard

Even more so, he states that life is meaningless so there is no point in striving towards anything. No one is genuinely happy, so that desire and constant search that we are on for happiness is just a strive for an illusion (Enns 2018). When taking a step back, the two philosophers, Simone de Beauvoir and Schopenhauer share a similar concept. Beauvoir talks about tragic ambiguity – where we are free, but not free due to external factors – and Schopenhauer talks about how life is full of punishment. Both authors seem to strongly consider that negative things can happen in the outside world.

Although history had hard times we are sure not to ever repeat our mistakes because repeating mistakes lead to the same disaster. You have to figure out what you did wrong and then fix that wrong to make it right. Japanese-Americans and Americans had hard times but everyone got through it because they had a life for a reason and were determined they would make it out alive. Repeating history is easy but not repeating it is harder and in order to feel like we are alive we need to know what pain is but never the same thing. Easy things aren’t worth doing, but hard things are because you did something that you thought you could never

That is why we should, “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself” (Harvey Fierstein). Sometimes, turning our cheek the other way is not always the correct answer because we never know what someone else is going through in their personal life. Standing up for someone who is bullied can be hard

Finally, it is important to realize that not everybody understands what is needed to be a true hero to people. What would our world be like if everyone knew what it took to be a true

I realized that we have to appreciate what we have because we never know when we are going to lose it, that a person can do everything to survive, especially when he love someone and that we are always in war because the persons are bad, greed and egoist, but we never have to lose our hope and we have to keep fighting no matter what obstacles we

Some people are given the toughest of circumstances to deal with, they are given the worst of breaks. Rather than fold and crumble, they have endured and risen to great heights in their life. Others catch a cold and its the end of the world! No matter what happens, it 's always a drama and they spend all their time telling the world about it and not making the

I have the whole world at the palm of my hands, and it is up to me to figure what I am trying to accomplish. Everybody has a lot of potential, and people make that one mistake, that change their life forever. Me personally, I feel like I am not going to make that mistake because I have been taught what is right from wrong. I prefer to live the clean, take no risk, because I see from

Lennie finds, obstacles with Curly so he feels like that may provide some conflict with achieving his goal, as shown by this quote. "I might jus ' as well go away. George ain 't gonna let me tend no rabbits now" (Steinbeck 107). Lennie know that his goal really is almost unachievable now, so he breaks down and realizes that giving up is the easy way out.

However, no one has the right to end a person 's life, no matter what the reasons for it. A person 's life is individual and

This theme of always being acted upon by the circle of life affected Douglas and his actions greatly with many instances showing how Douglas wanted to turn away from death and change and look only to the positives of life. However, from this, the quotation can be seen as central in the novel as Douglas has come to see how life can never escape its cycle and that although the truth may be difficult to comprehend and to survive with, life will always have its struggles that people are to continue on

Fear of failure is the second greatest barrier that Santiago has confronted while trying to fulfill his personal legend. “My heart is afraid that it will have suffer,” (134). In different parts of the novel, Santiago is confronted with his own fear, He was concern that things will not go according to how he had intended them to happen. In the first place, there is no indecision when it comes to pursuing a personal legend, instead the one must be bravery enough to overcome all the difficulties they might have to deal with along the path. “If a person is living out his personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know.

I believe that I should be awarded this scholarship for many reasons. The main reason why I should be awarded this scholarship is because I have learned to have courage. Developing courage has enabled me to take risks, be a decision-maker, and a responsibility-taker. By having courage, I have learned that the fear will never go away as you continue to grow. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.