Essay

This essay will focus on some of the main aspects of life which most of seem to either ignore or take too seriously. The first point is the “Importance of success and failure”. A Famous quote “Failure is a bigger teacher then success”. Failures are not random things. We make them we cause them. This means we can learn ways to avoid them in the future and become more aware of our mistakes. In addition, it is like a detour, just like taking a new path that lead to a place different from your initial destination. But along the way, you acquire more useful hints to help you find your path. Success is not something that just comes to you. It is not something that you can pick up or find. You have to earn success. To me success means setting a goal, reaching it, and then attaining it. If you can do all that then you are truly successful. The dictionary describes success as a noun, stating a favourable outcome of an attempt. To me success is a verb it shows action, it shows that you sought out to gain a victory that was favourable to yourself and masterfully attained your success.

People in general from all around the world have all experienced failures at some point of their lives, but the worst thing that they possibly could have done is to have let these obstacles stop them. They need to apprehend the fact that learning from their mistakes can only help them improve and become better at the task at hand. For example, a simple task like riding a bike shows how one can learn from his or her mistakes. When the first time a person rides a bike, he usually falls down which might leave him in a pessimistic state, but with a little encouragement, he will get back on and learn from his previous mistakes and eventually master the art of riding a bike. From personal experiences, one can only learn that nobody is perfect and success takes time, determination, and the ability to learn from one's past failures.

Moving on the second focus of my essay “Personal ambitions vs. Traditional values”. In our post-industrial society there has become a greater importance for personal authenticity and ambition, but to understand this struggle for personal authenticity and ambition we must look at the current cultural climate we live in. Today’s society is way too diverse to just follow traditional values and not have any ambitions. A normal child is sure to have a high ambition in life but their family values and culture is holding them back. This point can be illustrated by an example of a girl. A Muslim girl decided to be a model and has always dreamt of being famous. In Pakistan this was nearly impossible in the late 1900, so there was no fight. Now in the 21^st century when the society is taking a step toward the western side, the same girl has to face her family and go against the traditional values. The question is shall we sacrifice our dreams for traditional values. We could do that but of course everything comes with a price. There are few families that will not care about the tradition, but about 91% of families with in Pakistan will care. This brings us at a point in life where we have to face the harsh reality of modern world.

The third focus of this essay will be “Ambiguous status of females in Pakistani society”. Pakistan has changed a lot in the last few decades like the rest of the world. Pakistan is an Islamic country. Lately women have been influenced by the media too much which lead to a social change. Women’s status has changed and so are their attributes towards certain thing. Some people would argue saying women’s are still the same in some part of Pakistan. This is very big confusion. Women’s in Pakistan are still as venerable without their family but this could easily be contradicted by the women who have now stepped outside of family life and started a new trend. Women’s now work and decide when they get marriage or even the fact that if what they want to do with life. This revelation only took place due to the feminist approach. 

Friends and enemies are one of the main aspects of life, and this part of the essay will focus on them and the relationship. Friendship is a form of interpersonal relationship generally considered to be closer than association. In the sequence of the emotional development of the individual, friendships come after parental bonding and before the pair bonding engaged in at the approach of maturity. Friends In life one may come across many people. Some will hate and while others will adore. The ones who hate can be referred to as enemies and the ones who show adoration will be called friends. People may say the word friend is too broad. In the opinions of many, there are three types of friends. They are the acquaintances he/she makes in school, the friends he/she looses as one grows, and best friends who may stray, but never too far away. An enemy or foe is a being that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening. The term is usually used within the greater context of war, to denote an opposing group as a threat. The big difference is how you treat each one. Friends in some cases can be backstabbing enemies, so if you become too close it could lead to trouble. Your friends tend to know about your enemies and that’s how you can tell if someone is a true friend or not. you will give up the world to talk and see you friends or to help them in any sort, but when it comes to enemies you will do anything in you power to hurt them and never see them again.

Things Fall Apart

The novel "Things Fall Apart" has been written by a famous writer Nigeria , Chinua Achebe. the novel is describing a huge difference between son  and his father .They are totaly different from each other. Habits, looks and likes have no comparison.
I have just read the first three chapters of the novel and I felt it a intresting novel describing two different life style. Unoka Okonkwo’s father, of whom Okonkwo has been ashamed since childhood. By the standards of the clan, Unoka was a coward and a spendthrift. He never took a title in his life, he borrowed money from his clansmen, and he rarely repaid his debts. He never became a warrior because he feared the sight of blood. Moreover, he died of an abominable illness. On the positive side, Unoka appears to have been a talented musician and gentle, if idle. He may well have been a dreamer, ill-suited to the entrenchant culture into which he was born.
Whereas Okonkwo’s embarrassment about his lazy, squandering, and effeminate father, Unoka, has driven him to succeed. Okonkwo’s hard work and prowess in war have earned him a position of high status in his clan, and he attains wealth sufficient to support three wives and their eight children. Okonkwo’s tragic flaw is that he is terrified of being weak or "womanly" like his father. As a result, he behaves rashly, bringing a great deal of trouble and sorrow upon himself and his family. He is a tragic character who not only brings suffering to himself but also to those around him. Towards the end of the novel one can view Okonkwo as a tragic hero because like other tragic heroes he has one major flaw. His main flaw stems from the fear of being like his father, who is a soft-spoken, cheerful layabout who plays his flute and does not repay his debts. Okonkwo represses his emotions because he doesn't want to seem weak or effeminate, and when he does show any emotion, it is an uncontrollable rage.
One day someone from the other tribal areas killed the daughter of Okonkwo's village. Elders of their village proposed a condition on the other village that either they could fight a war or give them a young boy. Other village frighten of Okonkowo's strength and knowing that he is  a good warior choose the second option and gave them a young boy name Ikemefuna.Ikemefuna lives in the hut of Okonkwo’s first wife and quickly becomes popular with Okonkwo’s children. He develops an especially close relationship with Nwoye, Okonkwo’s oldest son, who looks up to him. Okonkwo too becomes very fond of Ikemefuna, who calls him “father” and is a perfect clansman, but Okonkwo does not demonstrate his affection because he fears that doing so would make him look weak..

pulitzer 1994 Kevin Carter

This photo won 1994 Pulitzer Prize during Sudan Famine.This Picture is depicting a famine stricken child crawling towards United Nations Food camp.This camp is located a couple of kilometres away.The vulture is waiting for the child to die.No one knows what happened to the child as the photographer "Kevin Carter" left the place after taking his "Pulitzer Prize" shot.But you should know "Kevin Carter" has committed suicide within few months of taking this picture.
Here is the suicide note of Carter.Its a choke hold attempt to let the world know as he was... "depressed . . . without phone . . . money for rent . . . money for child support . . . money for debts . . . money!!! . . . I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain . . . of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners . . . " And then this: "I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky."