Perfect Life Essays

  • My Perfect Life

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    A Perfect Life My daily morning routine leads me to realize one thing - my life is perfect. Every day when I wake up, I curse my alarm, stumble to the bathroom, and brush my teeth while I stare out the window. Sometimes I stand there too long, or at least longer than my sleepy body allows. Regardless, I enjoy this. Here I can meditate about everything that I do: breaking my pitching wedge in half in frustration after a poor round of golf or completing a plethora of schoolwork. However, only do

  • Why My Life is Less then Perfect

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    Why My Life is Less then Perfect How can I described the feelings that are welling up inside? How do I control the temper tantrum that is, my little brother? How do I show my parents that I really do care about their feelings? My name is Rosalind Marie Claire. I have two brothers, one older and one younger, and two sisters, also one older and one younger. Which makes me stuck smack-dab in the middle, and let me tell you what if you were a middle child growing up in a house with only two bathrooms

  • The Perfection Of The Perfect Life

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    All humans yearn for some sort of perfection; whether it be the “perfect” job or the “perfect” family, the idea that something is perfect only if there is nothing more to be added and nothing more to be taken away has always been sought after by society. People are constantly pushed to believe by society that those who are famous, have the most money and live the most lavish lives are the people who have a perfect life; completely disregarding their state of happiness. Many are blinded by this unrealistic

  • Personal Narrative: A Perfect Life

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    Have you ever felt that you were a horrible person, or your life was just not going well. I have many times in my short fifteen years on this Earth. When I think what I would want to have a somewhat perfect life I would want to be attractive, have money, and get straight A's. That sounds like a typical teenagers dreams and I really wish it could happen. Maybe one day I might be perfect but I am pretty sure being perfect is different for everyone. I think I look okay, I mean I have boys that look

  • A Perfect Life In Ann Beattie's 'Janus'

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    Many people strive to live a perfect life. They try balancing the unexpected obstacles and the unwanted problems it gives. Although perfection clearly cannot be achieved, hopeful people constantly thrive to live without pain, worry, and discontent. In Ann Beattie's short story “Janus,” the main character, Andrea, reflects on the time spent with her past lover‒ time where she achieves her idea of a perfect, stable life. Now that he is gone, she is left with her husband who fulfills Andrea’s financial

  • John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Rose of Sharon’s Transformation

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    During the journey Rose of Sharon and Connie pass the time by dreaming of the idyllic life they will lead when they reach California. Connie says he will open a repair shop and buy a white house with a fence and an icebox and a car and a crib, all before the baby is born; all hopelessly idealistic and almost completely detached from reality. Every intention, though, is for the baby so that it may have a perfect life from the very moment it is born. In the face of hardships, Rose of Sharon comforts herself

  • Hope Floats

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    about life. Do you think you can fix your life and get it back on the right track all on your own? All you have to do is just have to give hope a chance and believe that everything will get better someday. There is always a time in everyone’s life when something horrible happens. Sometimes it something that changes your very course of life in an instant. Then life becomes difficult and it seems all you can do is give up on everything. But it does not have to be like that at all. Your life is not

  • The Difficult Lesson of The Enormous Radio

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    seem to have a perfect life, but underneath this is not the case. In the course of the story, Irene’s imperfections are revealed by a hideous radio. The radio was bought to give the Westcott’s listening pleasure, but then they discover it can hear all the neighbors’ conversations. Irene becomes so obsessed with eavesdropping on her neighbors’ conversations, that it blinds her from her own problems. It seems as though Irene’s life is innocent, and she does a good job of keeping her life looking as

  • Comparing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Pleasantville

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    river is the tool used to help Huck and Jim escape from their life. The river helps to take Huck and Jim away from civilization and reunite them with nature. The river also helps to free them from "slavery", Huck being a "slave" to the Widow Douglas and Jim actually being Miss Watson's slave. In Pleasantville a life in colour is how the townspeople are allowed to "go west". When they are in black and white they have the perfect life, meaning that nothing can ever go wrong, therefore they can

  • The Benefits of Attending College and Receiving an Education`

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    that is what is expected of them, and others go because they have nothing else better to do. However, I am interested in going to college and obtaining a good education because it will benefit my family, my country, and me. My parents have this perfect life for me pictured in their heads, and the first thing they see me doing is going to college. They expect the best of me, and so by going to college, I will not only have fulfilled their goals for me, but I will have accomplished one of the goals

  • Nietzsches Superman

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    Friedrich Nietzsche in the 1800s. The ubermensch (literally overman in German) never had extra-ordinary powers and wasn’t developed as the protector of man. Instead, the superman is a person who has overcome all the flaws of mankind and is essentially ‘perfect.’ This idea, though it was thought of as an ideal goal that all people should strive for, has almost completely been used for less-than-good agendas. The details of what Nietzsche’s superman is supposed to be and how that compares with how it was

  • A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pezler

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    freezing cold water for hours. Main characters: 1. David: -Before Abuse: David is the author of this auto-biography. He lived the perfect life up until his mother took up drinking at the age of four. Dave enjoyed school and had a wide imagination. He lived a perfect life and was blessed with perfect parents. Everyday was a new adventure filled with fun. He loved his life and his family. -After Abuse: David came to believe that there was no god because "No just God would leave me like this" Pg.131

  • A commentary on Bushed, a Poem by Earle Birney

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    survival skills. Taken on the metaphorical level it is all about a man who created a perfect life fore himself, a rainbow as Earle Birney put it. His perfect life was ruined by some unknown catastrophe, "But lightning struck it shattered it into the lake-lap." He refers to lake-lap as the calm life he was leading, always monotone and continuous that was disturbed by the incident that may have ruined his life. Yet this man faced this as a new beginning, as a survivor. Birney uses the roasting

  • Perceptions in Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach

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    implies that there is a life out there but it is smothered by darkness. And the cliff is sparkling in the moonlight. The speaker invite his companion to “come to the window” (line6) to see the night air. He says this as the unending wave come in and go out back out again. His emotion bring feeling of sorrow. The speaker says even Sophocles a great Greek philosopher of the past heard his eternal sadness. The sea is coming in and going out. He thought of its like the struggles with life constant demand. The

  • Response To Blood Brothers By Willy Russell

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    Though she can’t bear to do it, she gives up one of her babies to her employee who’s desperate for a baby. For three decades, she has to see one her children grow up in the hands of another woman. Mrs. Lyons has the perfect life. Perfect house, perfect husband and perfect looks except for one thing she really wants, a child. One day her employer says she wouldn’t know how to cope with another child and she had a great idea, she would take one of her twins and she did with the help of an

  • Death and Reality in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates

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    possibly ending her life. Connie is only concerned about her physical appearance. She can be described as being narcissistic because "she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirror or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was all right" (Oates 148). Connie wants her life to be different from everyone else's in her family. She thinks because she is prettier, she is entitled to much more. She wants to live the "perfect life" in which she finds

  • Depiction Of The American Dream in The Great Gatsby

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    As children, we have all dreamt of money, being rich; owning an extravagant mansion, magnificent cars, and being married to a prince or princess. Basically, we dream of the perfect life, with the perfect spouse. Generally, this dream is known as the American Dream, which is the belief that if one works hard, that person will succeed by becoming rich. The topic of the American Dream can be found throughout The Great Gatsby, the most prime example of this is the dream of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby’s dream

  • Biff And Happy In Death Of A Salesman Research Paper

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    The Characters of Biff and Happy in Death of a Salesman     No one has a perfect life; everyone has conflicts that they must face sooner or later. The ways in which people deal with these personal conflicts can differ as much as the people themselves. Some insist on ignoring the problem for as long as possible, while others face up to the problem immediately to get it out of the way.   Biff and Happy Loman are good examples of this, although both start from the same

  • Portrayal of Utopia in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

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    society, the good, and bad, so that they can understand the problems that the pursuit of a utopian environment may cause. The Tempest is a window into the dimensions of utopian societies. Shakespeare's play portrays the good and the evil sides of the perfect life. While his characters take on the role of the leaders of the utopian societies, Shakespeare portrays the social questions and beliefs of society of how a utopian environment should be. Essential to the discussion of this aspect of The Tempest

  • e Strife For a Straight Life: The Examination of Mortal and Divine Relations

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    The Strife For a Straight Life: The Examination of Mortal and Divine Relations "A straight and perfect life is not for man." - the Nurse in Hippolytus The idea that fate is rooted from the interconnection of divine beings whose will is played-out by mortals, is a highly enriched belief that is capitalized on by many Greek tragedians. Among those who suggest that there is an endless cycle of good will, revenge, uncertainty, and punishment is the Greek dramatist, Euripides. His work, Hippolytus