“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
with all of her friends. In the end Dan realized this was not the best way to get close to Serena, but if it wasn’t for this brave cowardly action he would not have gotten to say he dated the girl of his dreams. “Mistakes are just proof your trying.” Spencer, a character in the film Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, took the risk of doing his friends homework, to keep their friendship vital. This caused him to get caught and resulted with him receiving a week's worth of detention, along with three other member of the student body. While in detention Spencer and the other students discovered a game that they were later sucked into, and were forced to play in order to earn back their freedom. While in the game they went through several task that requires them to explore their interest. By the end of the game Spencer and the other students learned what made them who they are, and how to contribute that to living their best life. Spencer took the gamble of doing his friends homework and ended up with the courage to go out of his comfort zone and discover his true self. A risk is a choice not everyone chooses to take, but can bring many unforgettable experiences. Whether you’re with someone or doing it alone, conquering a fortune can reveal a side of you that you were not knowledgeable about, or uncomfortable with.
A successful person will always promote the taking of risks because a lot of times the best things in life happen when we feel scared and vulnerable. When risks are involved there is a great probability of failure. Failure is not necessarily a bad thing. Failures serve as learning experiences. Experiences where you can dissect what worked and what didn't work. But Gawande explains how, "the only failure is the failure to rescue something." He explains how risks are essential, but at the same time risks must be taken with a careful eye. The careful eye being that one must be able to distinguish when something has gone array and being able to control the situation. If you take a risk and things do not go as planned, this doesn't mean it’s a failure just yet. You must be able to adjust and attempt to rescue it. I took the risk of cheating. This does not mean it’s a failure just yet. I've become aware that things have not gone as planned. I have acknowledge that there is a problem. My job now is to change my current situation and attempt to rescue it. My situation should only be considered a failure, if and only if, I am unable to rescue and change my cheating
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
“…people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want" (79). Both protagonist learned about the dangers of fear through the tribulations of their journey. Although life may constantly though curveballs our way, it is important to learn how to take risks. One must to have the audacity to continue on. Odysseus, a courageous Greek hero, would not have made it very far if he was apprehensive of taking risks. Instead, he sought
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.
We all know that staying safe will keep us alive, but it is a boring way to live. The biggest regret a person can have is never trying what they always wanted. As mentioned before, time never stops, so it is crucial that they act now. We fight a battle before we are even born against millions of others to see who will get to the egg first and be fertilized and born. We did not come to this world to just be safe and to be afraid to do new things. We all have a reason to be here and the journey of life is to find our purpose in life. It is what makes life so great, but to get their we must take risks and overcome that fear. People are afraid of taking risks because of failure. They are afraid to fail and not get anywhere. However, that fear can be overcome is they keep pushing and keep trying and keep taking risks. Taking risks will get a person out of their “safe” comfort zones and the result of this can be something so
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.
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.
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."
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.
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
...xpressing moral courage for doing the right thing without fear of personal risk (LaSala & Bjarnason, 2010).
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
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.
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.