“Where Should I Go to College?” and “300” both deal with the theme ambition. Mark Edmundson is a professor and the author for the article “Where Should I Go to College?” Doing well in school, extracurricular activities, and clubs won’t set you up for life. He believes that the best way to become successful in life is to find an ambitious goal. King Leonidas was the King that led the 300 spartan soldiers against the Persians. He believed that battles could be won not by number but by ambition. If you have the ambition to win, you will win. These works present a common lesson. If you work hard for something you love, you will achieve it. These two works share similarities and differences. Both of these works have to do with struggles. Whether
it is war or deciding where to go to school, they are both struggles in life. The war in 300 and deciding where to go to college are similar struggles. They both eventually decide your life. Edmundson and Leonidas both tackle these struggles with finding ambition in what they are doing. Then again these two works have differences. Edmundson states that to be successful you have to do what you love. You have to find something you love even if it takes years to be successful. King Leonidas believes that one must be trained since birth to become a successful warrior. You are either a warrior or a dead man. Both of these works tell us one thing: ambition is key. Society is shaped by our ambitions because ambitions produce competition and innovation. Competition will allow society to grow and learn. As people grow and learn while doing what they have ambitions for, they will create and innovate. Ambition is never unhealthy to society. It is what allows cities like New York to exist. In order to have success in life, one must have ambitions to achieve their goals.
One of the more apparent themes seen in both texts is that of discrimination against marginalised groups. Both texts send a clear message, that regardless of the circumstances,
between the two authors, they share similarities towards the message they try to send out.
Everyone knows that person from high school that just wasn’t cut out for college. It’s not a bad thing by any means, but if you’re thinking about heading off to college like many American teenagers often do, think about this: going to college can be a waste of both your time and your money. I’m not the first to say it, and I sure as hell won’t be the last. In Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill’s essay, Should Everyone Go to College?, the two authors take a strong economic approach to justify going to college. Owen, an ex- senior research assistant at Brookings’ Center on Children and Families and current research associate at the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan center for research on the problems of urban communities, and Sawhill, the co-director of the Center on Children and Families and a senior fellow in economic studies at Brookings, claim that the return on investment (ROI) of a college education is overwhelmingly positive on average; However, they also bring light
...ce, although both writings are interesting in their own ways, the most interesting aspect of both writings together is that they both have a similar plot and theme. It is rare that two
The central figures in these three works are all undoubtedly flawed, each one in a very different way. They may have responded to their positions in life, or the circumstances in which they find themselves may have brought out traits that already existed. Whichever applies to each individual, or the peculiar combination of the two that is specific to them, it effects the outcome of their lives. Their reaction to these defects, and the control or lack of it that they apply to these qualities, is also central to the narrative that drives these texts. The exploration of the characters of these men and their particular idiosyncrasies is the thread that runs throughout all of the works.
Both narratives compare as timeless tales of reputable heroes. They both include similar plots of long journeys back home. The main characters’ flaws are arrogance which is the source of many of their troubles.
These stories could be counted as having both similarities and differences, not just completely similar or different. The similarity between the two interviews are...
This essay has compared the differences between the societies in these two novels. There is one great similarity however that both make me thankful for having been born into a freethinking society where a person can be truly free. Our present society may not be truly perfect, but as these two novels show, it could be worse.
The poetry by these two poets creates several different images, both overall, each with a different goal, have achieved their purposes. Though from slightly different times, they can both be recognized and appreciated as poets who did not fear the outside, and were willing to put themselves out there to create both truth and beauty.
I chose to write about these pieces of literature because apart from having impacted me they have a similar topic which makes the term paper more appealing.
In the beginning of both of the pieces of literature, the main character(s) have not had the experience that will shape their values yet. Rather, as time moves forward in the stories, the
“Compare the ways in which the authors of the two texts convey ideas about art through their central characters?
The struggles both characters face demonstrate character development and contribute to the themes of the stories. Both short stories prove to be literally effective in that they disclose the main themes at the outset of each story. Although the themes may alter over the course of the stories, they are clearly defined in their respective introductions.
Both poems inspire their reader to look at their own life. In addition, they treat the reader to a full serving of historic literature that not only entertains, but also teaches valuable lesson in the form of morals and principles.
Aside from the conditions, which lead to the creation of these works, they share a number of other common threads. Symbolism aside these works are very similar on the surface. Both are a collection of seemingly disjointed images, which when put together by the reader or observer serve up a strong social message. That messages being that the wars and conflicts of the times have twisted the world. This is reinforced by the contorted and misshapen images in both works.