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pepgirly14
Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:49:30 +0000

Assignment: Can success be disastrous? Plan and write an essay in which you develop you rpoint of view on this isseu. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, expereince, or observations.

My Essay:
Success if a funny word, it gives the sense of prosperity and security. In the long run success can mean neither of these. Most people have aspirations where their dream will be complete once they or their work becomes a “success.” Of course what the future may behold is not always going to be clear. Success can turn into a multitude of things. What first seemed like a dream come true can become your worst nightmare. I completely agree that success can become disastrous. Fame and fortune may not always be the best for any individual.
Out of the millions of aspiring actors only a select few make it in the business. IN a day a nobody can become a somebody, People on the outside look at what to be perfect people with perfect lives and idolize them for it. Of course things are not always what they seem. Constantly, celebrities are hounded with paparazzi. They have no privacy and when they do something remotely human they show up in the Inquirer the next day. Celebrities cannot even go out in public and do “normal” activities that the general public takes for granted. When these celebrities were aspiring actors they did not know that their success would come at a higher price than they bargained for.
If it is not fame that people seeks it is fortune they desire. In the play, Ragtime, a man has everything he could ever want: the trophy wife, a child, a beautiful home, and a successful career. Of course awe we have all come to know life is not a neat little package. Through a numerous amount of events his life falls apart. The next thing he knows he sees a man he had just spoken to get shot and his whole family leaving him. Isn’t success just dandy? I could also name an endless amount of novels where there are rich families and they get destroyed when someone walks in on the husband with the maid or the wife with the gardener, but I don’t want to be trite.
The majority of us have desires in life. Some want fame, others fortune, many both. Sometimes when these are obtained we become disappointed with the disastrous outcomes. Perfection cannot be obtained, at least not in the long run.