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…reading, collaboration with my peers to achieve a common goal, and understanding the connection between British history and literature. One very important skill that I learned during the class was critical reading, thinking, and writing. Before I started…

…, and thinks now, not of what is to come, but of what is now. The author explains how he grew passive toward his presumed goal: medicine. In the beginning, he would miss one lecture in a day. Then, the next day, he would miss all lectures. Eventually, because…

…Americans at the end of the novel, Nick recalls the former Dutch sailors and compare their sense of wonder with Gatsby's hope. The book investigates how Americans lost their spiritual purpose as material success took power over their goals. The lives…

…is to be self-reliant while still living in society. Emerson tends to lead his reader to think the only way to capture this goal is to desert society and start over alone. A life of solitude is not necessary to accomplish self-reliance, and it is obviously…

…that changed his life and at the same time helped him to conquer his goal of reaching his Nirvana. From adolescence to old age, he encountered many different people, each educating him in a different manner and bringing him one step closer to succeeding in his…

…to promote himself. Purposelessness is seen in the rich. What is an accumulation of wealth for? Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby represent the rich in the novel. None of them ever achieved any goal in their life. They were drifters. Tom and Daisy moved from place…

…century, who advised them to focus on modest economic goals and to accept temporary social discrimination. Another group of African Americans, led by the African-American intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois, wanted to challenge segregation through political action…

…of the effects that drugs have on a user include becoming antisocial, losing sight of goals, being content with less, transforming into a different person, and gambling with health. Withdrawing from loved ones, such as friends and family, a drug user usually…

…Perseverance to me is the determination in a person to not let anything or anyone stop you from obtaining a goal. It is very important that everyone have perseverance because most people would not make it in life without it. It gives you ethics…

…this. The main goal was to bring the United States to the negotiating table and get the US out of Vietnam. Instead, the Viet Cong and NVA suffered a major military defeat. They lost thousands of experienced fighters and key territory in the South. Unfortunately…