“The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.” Life can be very challenging, when you’re in a uncomfortable situation, in which people tend to to do what they believed was un-accomplishable. With every three hundred sixty-five days comes an opportunity, for you to either say ‘I wish” or “ did”. Doing the unthinkable has so much more power, when filled with adrenalin. In the television series Gossip Girl, Dan Humphrey, one of the main characters exhibited this to be true. Dan liked Serena, another character on the show, but knew his chances of dating her would be slim considering their backgrounds. Feeling an ample amount of affection towards Serena, dan made an anonymous blog, on which he displays all of Serena's personal information, along
In the prologue of Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger, football team, Panther, has players who have fears/problems to overcome before a important game with their biggest rival the Midland Lee. The main characters include Boobie Miles who had dealt with a tragic accident on his knee the last game he played causing him to get surgery leading him to not play as well as he did before, Jerrod McDougal who knows he can’t make a collage team because of his height, Mike Winchell who lives in poverty with his mother, Ivory Christian who has a love/hate relationship with football, and Brian Chavez who is a gifted football player and student being on top in every class.
Maddie Brown of Sister Wives is already engaged, but this hasn't all aired on the show yet. Us Magazine shared a preview of the upcoming season of Sister Wives where Maddie Brown will tell the family all about her big engagement. In this preview, the family is all at Janelle's house so they can hear this great news from Maddie. Kody explains that Madison has been visiting Caleb and just got back.
In the short story, “Until Gwen” by Dennis Lehane, it starts off with the main character named Bobby who is getting picked up by his father from prison with a stolen Dodge Neon. His father wasn’t alone, he brought himself a company and it was a hooker named Mandy. We got a sense of who his father was, a “professional thief, a consummate con man” (647). We don’t know why he was in prison until the rest of the story slowly reveals the flashbacks he has with his girlfriend Gwen and the incident prior of going to jail. Bobby has no sense of who he is or where he is from because there no proof of record of him such as a birth certificate. After meeting Gwen, his life has changed and felt the sense of belonging into the world he is living in. Bobby’s
For many comic book fans and sci-fi addicts, "Castle" star Nathan Fillion could very well be a superhero himself. Even before he portrayed the charismatic author Rick Castle in the long-running ABC detective series, he already made his mark playing Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the space western science fiction drama "Firefly" and its film continuation "Serenity."
Frank is a middle aged white male who is straight, Fiona is a white female who is in her mid twenties she is also straight. Carl is a 12 year old boy and there is no indication if he straight or gay but with the way things seem I would say straight, Veronica is also in her mid twinties she is a straight African American woman. Debbie is a young white girl who is interested in males. Lip is about 19 he is a white male interested in women and Ian is about 18 and he is gay and nobody knows but his older brother Lip.
The most vital part that has developed mankind is risk taking. Indeed, taking risks means that losses are almost inevitable. Yet, the very possibility of gaining from the result of risk taking means that risks are necessary. In fact, while taking risks may cause significant losses, it is the very possibility of gain that has made risk taking so essential to the development of humanity.
Working together, puzzle pieces create a unique and complete image. Own their own, however, they are nothing more than just a small part of a bigger picture. Old Dan and Little Ann, two dogs from the book Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, are similar to puzzle pieces. They work very well as part of team, but when they are separated, they do not do much. They are also like puzzle pieces in that each is different, yet similar. The two dogs are alike and different in both the way they look and the way they deal with conflict.
Everyone makes mistakes, yet even the smallest of mistakes can change the entire course of history given a time machine and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Learn to cherish the life on this Earth, and don’t let poor choices dictate the future ahead. Making the right decision is key to success, and only we can choose what successes we want to
Life is unpredictable with all of its twists and turns; it can turn the best situation into the worst. There are people are always prepared for the worst, and those who aren’t. While it may seem though that all the odds are against the people who are poor planners, they still make it work; same can go for the people who are prepared for everything, things can get ugly if they are caught off guard. Like Jack London had once said, “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well”. Meaning that it doesn't matter if someone has everything or nothing, life can still have obstacles that can mean life or death, it's what they do in those situations that make all the differences. In those situations, it would
Can we start off by asking ourselves “How would you handle the situation of knowing you could be in danger no matter what decision you make?’’Leaving a non safe environment and going out in the dark while something bad can also happen to you while your out under those conditions in the dark all alone.
Throughout the first season of The Wire every episode seems to be moving the series closer to an exciting finish. One that will result in a winner, either the cops or the gangsters. Avon will either be arrested, or the cops will lose out in court. A resolved ending seems inevitable until the last episode is over and no one has won. Neither the cops nor gangsters emerge victorious. Despite everything the cops did to try and imprison Avon and Stringer, the wire taps, the camera in the office, even giving one of Avon's girls (Shardene) a wire to wear, the pawns are the ones within the ranks that take the fall. Avon does
From high school girls desperately trying to be one of cool kids in school to corporate warriors rubbing elbows for that next promotion, nearly everyone has fantasized about being a part of the “in crowd”. What is it that makes the bonds and barriers of “in crowd” so unbreakable? Through sharing stories and reaching conclusions through discussion of those stories, members of small groups develop a common bond that shapes their social reality. An example of this bond is prominent in the CW’s hit show, Gossip Girl, which focuses on the world of high society elite at a private high school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York. Circumstances in Gossip Girl show how concepts in symbolic convergence describe the formation of group bonds and their effect on the group’s and individual group member’s interaction with the outside world. Before analyzing this, one must be knowledgeable about the basic components of symbolic convergence and have a general understanding of the show’s premise and plot line.
We are taught not to back down, and to stand up for what we believe in, even if that's not what everyone else thinks. We are shown that we can't back down form the things that are important to us, while we shouldn’t sacrifice our lives for the majority of things, we should still stand up for them. And while we may not always agree with the consequences, or if we believed that our actions, don’t deserve consequences, there are times when you need to accept them, whether you like it or not.
...xpressing moral courage for doing the right thing without fear of personal risk (LaSala & Bjarnason, 2010).
To take a chance, one is accepting the possibilities of what could happen from the choice they have made.