Oh The Places You Will Go Analysis

If one chooses to take on a liberal arts college for their post-secondary education, one will be able to get a well-rounded and successful learning experience to achieve great excellence in their future. Liberal arts core allows the student to learn about religion, sciences, math, and most importantly, English. Along with learning different subjects, one can achieve great excellence, respect, identity, and empowerment with a liberal arts education, such as what Marywood offers. Throughout the semester, we have read different works of literature that show these core values, such as Oh! The Places You Will Go! and A Good Man, which have informed the reader the values of excellence, empowerment, and respect, which will help these young adults throughout their lifetime. In A Good Man, the reader learned through Sargent Shriver that everyone should be respected and loved, through stories of his sons. He shows us that rather than disciplining loved ones through violence and malice to set them straight, love and respect were the better, more affective option. We see this example when his one son had been arrested for illegal drug use, and Sarge accepted him and expressed his love for him so he would learn from his mistakes (Shriver 101). Seeing this core value allows us to use this same strategy of

The Places You Will Go! by Dr. Seuss, which showed the core values of empowerment and excellence. With plenty of encouraging phrases in this kid’s book, Seuss exclaims in part of the book, “You’ll be on your way up! / You’ll be seeing great sights! / You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.” (Seuss). Seuss uses empowering language and powerful sentence structure to make the reader feel important and capable of taking on anything that comes their way. Seuss also covers the core value of excellence, stating that the reader will overcome the highs and the lows and find great places where “Boom Bands are playing”