The Alchemist Essay

"Well, usually I learn more from my sheep than from books" Santiago stated (pg.5) Santiago is the main character of the book called "the Alchemist". The boy was a shepherd who lived in Andalusia. He has been trying to understand and communicate with his sheep, which he founded later was called "The Language of the World". He had a dream about a treasure that was hidden in a place which he doesn't know, because every time the person that was going to tell him where his treasure was, he always wakes up before the person tells where it is. Later, he found out that, that dream was his destiny from a dream interpreter and the king of Salem, Melchizedek that he talked to in the plaza. After the boy talked to them he was told that the treasure that he was looking for was in The Pyramid of Giza, Egypt. Santiago had to face serious challenges, to achieve his destiny. Throughout his journey to his destiny, Santiago learns from his mistakes, courage and he took many risks and challenges.

Santiago met many new people in his journey, and he learnt various type of knowledge, for example, be brave to handle everything under control to accomplish his journey and also learn from mistakes, like what Santiago had done in the beginning of his journey – when he lost his money to a boy and Santiago said "I'm like everyone else – I see things the way I wanted to happen not what actually does happen." From that tragedy he knows that he shouldn't do that anymore which is why is should learn from mistakes. Meanwhile Santiago doesn't know how to speak other language so he uses the sign language which he learns that it was called "The Language of The World" from The Alchemist. He was a type of person that would like to know several knowledge from things around him. I think that Santiago was very glad that Melchizedek told him many facts or tipsProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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or his journey for example, "The Principle of Favorability", so then he would be more courage to try new things like turning himself into the wind for the soldiers, he tried to perform an action that he thought was impossible to do for the first time in his entire life. Santiago had also learnt about "The Soul of the world" (which he also found out that it is that, that makes you want to achieve your individual destiny) from the Englishman that he met on his way to the oasis where he met Fatima, the English man let him borrow a book to gain his knowledge and also help Englishman to make him understand it more. Santiago had learn from his mistake throughout his destiny, and he had a willing to study things, but he doesn't always study thing around him, but he mostly studied from people like the alchemist.

Santiago made a decision that many people doesn't agree with it, but Santiago listened to them and he thinks that they are right, because the person who told him was a very trustful people and also the one that he loved, so he did listen for the good for his life. when Santiago had a decision to stay with Fatima in the oasis, she and the alchemist said that he shouldn't because Fatima said that she is not going to stop a man in a journey to his destiny, so she wanted Santiago to achieve his destiny first then come back to her, and what the Alchemist said was that if he stayed, Santiago would only live there with a rich life for only a couple of months because he can't get money anymore, and when he stays the alchemist also said that his willingness to achieve his destiny will disappear, and once it disappeared he didn't have any mission in his life, he could get bored of it, and some other things like that might happen. Santiago had taken information from other people thought that he trust and use it for his life to make it successful and enjoyable, for example he gained many knowledge and tips from Melchizedek and The Alchemist.


After going on a journey for years and years, he finally and successfully found his treasure which was the place where he started and lived in, which is Andalusia, Rome, under the Sycamore tree. Santiago has accomplished his destiny by being courage, he tries things that he had never done and never gave up on problems, he took major risks, but he took it for the good for himself to achieve his destiny, like leaving Fatima and continue his journey to for his destiny. Now he knows that some things are not always directly to the point, the main thing was the way we get to it, in this case was his journey, if Santiago didn't start his journey, he wouldn't learn anything but get all the money he got, but just for a couple of years. At the end he knows more knowledge than he did back then when he haven't start the journey, he mostly gain knowledge from the alchemist, and he had also found his true love, Fatima.

JC Essay

“We make holiday to see Caesar, and rejoice in his triumph”, the Cobbler replied Brutus. The cobble explains why they weren’t working and not having all their working tools to work. The commoners were to see Caesar after he return to Rome after their battle with Pompeii. These people will make Caesar feel more powerful and granted, and thinks he could be the leader of Rome from what he sees how the commoners were treating him. And some of his friends are being nice to him, which they are faking it.

As commoners have overrated his leadership just by winning the battle against Pompei, by this Caesar feels more powerful and he seems to be more power hungry, but some of his friends thinks that he doesn’t deserve that much of respect from the commoners, and Caesar keeps on wanting more power, so that he gets respected and he gets his leadership. He will try to make the commoners to love him more. As he tries this he does it in a slow process. He acts with the commoners, he follows what the commoners wants, so that they will think that Caesar will is a good man. This will make him behave calmly in front of the crowds but mad in the inside. Some of his government friends were on his side and some were not, so then sometimes his motivation change and that makes him seem to be gullible comparing his behavior from many angles such as his private self, he is pretty gullible when he talked to Calpurnia about her dream, them he suddenly changed his mind and go with Decius’ thought.

Caesar acts sturdy in front of his friends who are betraying him, “…I’m fear him not: yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid so soon as that spare Cassius.” He is slightly insulting Cassius, and comparing to his friends that he thinks that they were really close to him, but I don’t think that Caesar mean it to say it like that, because some of his friends are. This really proves that he is very powerful in front of them to also convince them to Caesar’s side to make them respect Caesar more. As time pass along, Caesar get more and more respected and he knows that he was, then as he was respected his motivation changed, he become more arrogant than he was before, then as he became arrogant some of the
government people hated him such as Brutus, he said Caesar was ambitious and I think that this is how the people are starting to hate him more and get the feeling of murdering Caesar more.

I think that the main conflict of Caesar is that he was overrated as a leader by the citizens and that is the most effective motivator that Caesar started to act arrogant, ambitious, power hungry and all that adjectives that people hated Caesar said. From the citizens, his friends and his wife I think his behavior is different, but overall he acts arrogant and second he is gullible from everyone and by acting like this, I think that he partly achieved his goal, because he had quite a lot of people already in his side before he died, and including Antony which is probably the most important person for Caesar. I think that Caesar’s goal was worthy, but for himself, because probably many people wants to be the leader of Rome and have it’s power, but from the citizen’s side I think that it is not, because he seems to be very gullible and arrogant, and I think that if the citizen knows that he is gullible I’d think that they wouldn’t like him to be their leader.

Lost Boys of Sudan Collage Reflection

Think Creatively

I think that I thought creatively about my placement of the pictures of how it is in order. I think that this way people can understand more of how the story of their lives was like. And most of these pictures represents my six word memoir "Segregated from parents. We Survived. Together." Most of these pictures were a group of the lost boys of Sudan, and i think that it shows how they survive in the refugee camp, and most of the youths didn't have their parents with them.

Reason Critically

I've chosen these pictures because it represents my six word memoir. My six word memoir constructs empathy to people. And I want to present their life more of how they survived in this world differently from others. And I think that the words that I've mentioned in my six word memoir are all high lighted such as 'segregated' 'survived 'together'.

Communicate Effectively!

I've tried to make people empathize these Sudanese youths' life. I've made word that could make people help these boys to make them have a good life that we all human have the right to get a job and education in order to have a good life.

Live Ethically

I've tried to make empathy from my six word memoir. Like try to make them think about how would they feel, if their life was like these boys' life where they had many conflicts that they had faced. I've also said "Only YOU can help" in my collage, because I think that if we don’t do anything, these boys wouldn't be living peacefully without recourses, and without resources they might die and erase their identity and culture as a southern Sudanese.

The Lost Boys Adapting New Culture

The Lost Boys, Peter as one out of the four thousand other Sudanese youth that step migrated to America had a several problems that he had to face to assimilate the American culture, after they lived with their own traditional lifestyle for many years from their childhood. As these boys lives in America, they will be more educated as other people would, and would have a good future for themselves, and their families and down to many generations.

Peter in Houston, America had to learn the laws of the country and even laws that are not very much important, such as how people should act towards each other. In the beginning, peter and his friends talked about how brothers and friends hold each others' hand while walking is normal in Sudan, in which in America, they knew that they should only walk like that with a girl, or the Americans would think that they are homosexual is what they said. It is also hard for people like him to fit in, because they said that they were darker than other black people in this country and so some of the Americans thought that people that are darker means they are bad, but Peter tries to act nice and polite to fit into their society and prove that people like him aren't mean.

One of their instructor had also introduced him to the supermarkets where they buy food and also their friends where they bought him fast foods like burgers, and back then in their country, they make their foods instead of buying them, and that would be a big different that they mostly buy foods in America which they would probably will get use to it.

Peter then moved to Kansas where he became a new senior in school, and he was also working in wall mart as a trolley cart man, and so then he had a busy live, making money and attending school at the same time. In school, he also met a church group and one of his friend was in it, he then joined it, but the way that these American does their religious thing was different from peter's cultural way, in the party, he was the only one not singing which i think that it made him felt left out. Then he also joined the Basketball camp tryouts since he really like basketball and as he also played it in Sudan.

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y for 3-4 month and after he moved to Kansas, I think he had a better life, and he felt more confidence of making friends and fitting in with them by attending their side activities. I think that it was worthy for him to go to America and learn about their culture because American's culture is almost spread to every country in the world, like in the very beginning, Peter and his friends had no idea how to eat the foods in the airplane that they went with, and by now he would probably has an idea of the right way he should eat it, and the same as other things that he didn't do it right when he was just new to the culture.