Revenge Essay
When I was younger I had the desire to win, I couldn’t stand losing;
it was the worst feeling a young, immature 11 yr old could ever feel.
So when St Mary’s Primary School won the Armando cup my friends and I
were going through a period of torment. The only way to resolve this
was by getting revenge on St Mary’s.
Robert Owen Memorial Primary School versus St Mary’s Primary School
was the clash that had earned a spot in the Armando cup final.
Everybody in Lanark knew that this was the biggest rivalry in the
district. My school, Robert Owen Memorial Primary, was the best team
in the district; we were always winning something. As 11 yr olds do we
got ahead of ourselves and thought that we were the best team, we
thought St Mary’s had no chance well we were in for a big shock.
Before the game I was feeling really confident, and I wasn’t the only
one. At half time the scoreboard read R.O.M.P 0-1 St Mary’s this was
the biggest cup in the district and to add to the pressure we were
down one-nil. I was devastated. With ten minutes to go I had already
bagged a double we had a penalty I felt confident I step up, OH NO I
missed it! I at this point I felt as if I had just lost us the game
but in reality I hadn’t as we were winning but that was the way I
thought of it. My friend said to me its all right. We’re still one up,
not for long. Goal kick to St Mary’s the goalie kicks it straight to
their striker, he takes one touch then hits it into the top of the
net. I was so angry I kicked one of their players and got yellow
carded. I just felt my anger taking over and I lashed out I got an
earful off of my manager but he kept ...
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...d stupid. But not as stupid as we all felt. We had just
beat up our friends because they beat us at football oh well you can’t
win them all. But after I took a second look at them I notice they
were looking really groggy and that took all the pain from the inside
away. Shame it didn’t help my fists.
Beating up St Mary’s taught me a lesson. The lesson was to avoid this
next year we needed to practise our penalties. In the end learning
that a good old fashioned beating did the trick wasn’t very good
steeping stones for the future. After this experience I knew that I
needed to tame the lion roaring inside of me.
And if you were to ask the St Mary’s captain I think he would agree.
My dad found out about this and gave me an earful the lesson I learned
from that was …ehhh …
Jonathan Paterson
Arguably William Shakespeare’s great tragedy, and perhaps his greatest work overall, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a gripping tale of betrayal, insanity, and grim horror that captures the imagination of the reader. This tragic play centers around the titular character, Hamlet, and his quest to kill his Uncle, Claudius. Although it sounds to the common ear to be merely a story of revenge, the play contains vivid characters that bring the play to shocking light for the reader or the viewer. Controversy is common in discussion of Hamlet due to the choices of the main character to reject his love, spare his traitorous uncle for a brief moment in the pursuit of a ruthless revenge, and the accidental killing of an innocent man, having mistaken him for the aforementioned uncle. These actions can be seen as mere plot devices, or sloppy writing on behalf of Shakespeare. They can also be seen as the literary genius that enriches Hamlet, depending on the point-of-view of the reader or the viewer. This essay will be an examination of the idea that, while these actions may not be genius, and they are in-fact simple plot devices, the actions taken by Hamlet in this play are deliberate, as the author intended them. Hamlet’s actions during this play, sparing his uncle and banishing his love, and also killing an innocent man, are a masterful portrayal of justified retribution turning into hate-driven revenge and its consequences.
It was only a fly ball, but I missed it. I missed a fly ball in the final
the ball away from me as I didn’t expect him to be there as I dint use
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In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it is the desire for revenge that lies behind the motives of young Hamlet. His moral struggle towards revenge becomes an obsession leading to a change in character. His actions strongly imply that madness has overcome him. However, there are hints present in the text that implies his madness was feigned in order to achieve his revenge.
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The horn blew and the game started, Dedham won the face off and is running down the field at a faster pace than I was used to. They shot the ball! I couldn’t move my stick quick enough to save it, so I threw my body in front of it and got hit right in the shoulder. It hurt a lot, but what I hadn’t realized was that it hit my shoulder and reflected ten feet away from the net where my player caught it and ran down the field and scored. The other team didn’t know what hit them. It was the half now and the score was three to nothing in our favor. Our couch told us that we needed to keep up the good work.
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We ran over one of our inbound plays we ran over the play fist in the locker room and he told us good second half keep up the good work. So we ran out of the locker room and we were ready for the 3rd quarter. Later in the 3rd quarter there were 3 minutes left in the game it was getting close it was 30 to 25 it wasn’t even the 4th
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