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Essay title: Change Aphorism: Only when we come to the end, we decide whether the path is correct--- Paul Valery First grade: My family activities were usually outdoors, and our favorite was climbing mountains, you will feel satisfied when you reach the peak. Sometimes if you go to “linsang”, you will get free lunch provided by the temple as well, which people in the eastern Country traditionally will build a temple in mountain as the symbol of respect toward those gods who they believe. The taste of the noodles provided by the monks was one of the best lunches, huge, simple, vegan, but full with intentions. 6th grade: I was in a music school from 3rd to 6th grade, in our final year in the school, we will hold a big concert as part of graduation. …show more content…
For example, music wise, during the middle school audition for middle school all cities, which means all the middle schools in the Allen ISD area compete together and to rank each person based on judge's perception. I am really confident during the test, because I didn’t miss any beats and notes, in musical term, it is called technique. But in the U.S. system, they are looking for expressing your music in order to have some connection with the people that were listening to the performance, which is completely different from the technique. I was really disappointed in my result, because I didn’t know the standard of the U.S. was opposite from most of the eastern country. I was first chair of best band in the middle school I attend, however the second beats me by one chair in the city contest, and the rumor started spreading. Apparently a student telling others that I should give up my chair to the second, and I was selfish because I won’t accept my loss of the girl that was sitting next to me. Thing is that this student should already understand that the chair test wasn’t based on this chair order, instead, it was based on the excerpt that the director’s was given, and the context that counts is the regional competition. I’ve practiced really hard during the region contest, which all
Quote 9: “‘Things usually work out in the end.’ ‘What if they don’t?’ ‘That just means yo haven’t come to the end yet’” (Walls 259).
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
Tests and decisions are as numerous in any man's life as are the beats of his heart. The consequences follow him forever - he is judged by them and they affect his entire existence. However, judgement should not be passed on a man's single decisions individually, but only by observing how he has chosen to live his life.
On a final note, all of these ideas circle back to the title “Everything that Rises Must Converge.” No matter where we go in life or what we do, we will always have that moment of grace that brings us to realize who we are and that we all serve a purpose in life for a greater good.
The night was young, times were crazy and it was only the beginning of my senior year. It was still warm out and it still felt like summer; we didn’t know that we could have this much fun in one night, but we knew we were going to have fun no matter what. My first concert had to be one of the best nights of my life and one of my most favorite nights of my life during my senior year. It all began when my buddy Alex Kramper decided to give me a phone call and wanted to know if I wanted to go to an Imagine Dragons concert at the Verizon Wireless Amplifier Theater for only twenty bucks, I responded with a hell yeah, the concert was only in a weak.
high school feeling utterly nervous; now as a senior, I have been accepted into college! Oh my.
The Sage: “All we have to do, is decide what to do, with the time given to us.”
“Fate is nothing, but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence”, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
6th grade, and I was saying hello, and now 8th grade has come and it’s gone from introductions to goodbyes as my last days as a middle school student wind down. 8th grade, 8th grade from the opening day to the signing of the yearbooks. This is the year of memories, goodbyes, and regrets. 8th grade and I’m still realizing that there are people in the world that would die to go to a school like this.
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will” (Shakespeare). In life we all have a route that we are supposed to follow to achieve our goal. Our attitude towards the path to achieve that goal is what will shape our ends. Our reactions to our obstacles we face are what are going to set us through the path. Shakespeare was trying to have an overall theme throughout his tragedies, to get through obstacles to keep continuing on the path to our overall achievement in life.
Life is not about where it will cease, but how you made your way through, and what you experienced along your journey. Willa Cather’s quote “The end is nothing; the road is all” is every bit sincere. We go through life, focusing on the future and where it leads, yet when we look back the end isn’t what matters, it’s the journey of our lives that do. The day to day reminiscing of all the treasured moments we ponder over. We look back on our lives remembering friends and family, and the mischievous chatter that we had in school. The moments that seemed minuscule, the ones we thought we’d forget.
In the novel, “Things Fall Apart’, by Chinua Achebe, proverbs have an important impact on the storyline. All proverbs have some kind of deeper meaning behind them, and this is part of the Nigerian culture. Proverbs are used by people of all ages and statures to tell others about the importance of something. People in the Igbo Tribe use proverbs everyday as they are an important part of their culture and traditions, and the art of conversation is regarded very highly throughout the clan.
Proverbs 16:9: The mind of a man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.
‘’The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed’’
Looking toward the end should lead to right living in the present (2 Pet 3:11).