Writing 2 (Discussion Text)

Is An Ambition Positive? Or Negative?

Ambition is a psychological boost a person or group of people trying to achieve a better position to enhance, increase wealth, or add honor. Is an ambition positive or negative characteristic? Is it necessary for success or not? In many situations and conditions, an ambition is highly regarded. An ambition can show right path, help to work hard and achieve the dream. Although ambition has a dark side, I believe, within the limit, ambition is a driving force towards success.

However, there are so many benefits of having a prompt ambition. An ambition is good in every aspects of human’s being live. Firstly, being ambitious means understanding that we have abilities and we can become better. Proper plans help us to make out paths for success in our personal, family, or professional lives. For instance, an ambition of becoming a doctor, make people to realize the skills need for it and work hard to fulfill it. Secondly, it teaches resilience. When problems arise, ambitious people find a way to overcome it. Thirdly, being ambitious makes us be adaptable and be tolerant. To brake a record, one should word hard even in the bad climate. Lastly, a goal in good sense does not have to mean a solidarity end. It can be a vision for a city, the elemination of a disease, or the improvement of a community.

 An ambition can courage us to be more confident. An honest man cannot leave a blind eye on corruption, which otherwise provide him a huge sum of money as bribe. Additionally, it can block out human feelings such as friendship, compassion, respect for other, and may leave them soliraty. For instance, people who want power and money at any cost; neglect the needs of their friends, the reward will be often loneliness.

Ambition is antisocial and outmoded, belonging to an age when individualism was more valued and useful than it is today. The person strongly imbued with ambition ignores the collectivity; socially detached, he is on his own and out for his own. Individuality and ambition are firmly linked. The ambitious individual, far from identifying himself and his fortunes with the group, wishes to rise above it. Ambition causes rivalrousness. The ambitious man or woman sees the world as a battle; rivalrousness is his or her pricipal emotion.

. The outcome of ambition is unpredictable. Some ambitions begin in selflessness end in rancor; others begun in selfishness end in large-heartedness. Ambition is sometimes uncontrollable. Some people cannot handle ambition; it may bring grief to others. Ambition is jesuitical. To be the winners in a battle-like world, the ambitious people may clamber up by fair means or foul. Ambitious people may achieve their goals of money, fame, and power through corruption.

To begin with anything, which is in an excess is good for nothing. It is applicable to ambition also. Ambition is often associated with negative characteristics such as greed, intolerance, power and so on. People that have over ambitious can make their life break. Sometimes, they can not think well or positive, can be arrogant, and it will be dangerous for themselves. For becoming a wealthy man within a short time, force people to resort unfair means to heap wealth. It is also linked with ruthlessness.

In short, ambition is often potrayed negatively. I think without ambition our life become mechanical, and meaningless. I believe, ambition is a driving force towards success. We need to create ambitions, and enjoy the better present and future. At the same time, we should not be over ambitious.

Sources:

http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatAdvantagesDisadvantagesAmbition/gqbw/post.htm

http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic70694.html

My Hopes

Welcome to this semester especially writing 2. I am so happy because I had finished to study in last semester. I have many hopes for myself and my lecturers in this semester, now. I hope by studying writing 2, the lecturer can give much lessons than last semester. I want to be an active and creative student. I know my writings are not always good, because I often asked someone’s help for it. I did not know how to start a sentence or end it. This had been a big impact on me. It made me did not to write, because I thought I was not good at it. I hope I can learn more about how to make a good writing in order , I can be able on it. I hope I can communicate with my lecturers about anything that I do not understand.

Sometimes I am afraid to write an essay, because I still found some difficulties to write an essay. I think write an essay need many words and must be long sentences. I know that to learn something we must be patient and we should search more outside the class; information on the internet, in the library and also we can ask the lecturers about the topic that we do not understand. I believe that my lecturers will give the best of me. I hope I can get more motivation than the last semester.

In the next semester, I hope I can learn writing 3 well. One day, I can teach my students about how to make a paragraph and essay well and I can give much motivation, too. I hope in this semester I can get an A and make my parents be happy because it is my goal in my life. In the future, I hope I can be able to write essays, paragraphs, research papers, documents, and stories. I can be a very good person and change my life be better. I will do my best for my family, because I love them so much.

My Experience

My Experience

Well, I want to introduce myself. My name is Aulia Fransischa, please call me Sischa. After I graduated from my senior high school, I continued my study as an english student in Universitas Negeri Padang. Before I ask you about my goal to write this essay, I want to tell you that I think is the most important to us. You know, to write a paragraph and essay is not easier. If we want to write some paragraphs and an essay must be pay attention about the grammar, punctuation and we must be pay attention to the spelling, because it is the most important things when we wrote it. From this things,  I had an experienced that I never to forgot it.

After I finished to study in semester 1, I continued to study in semester 2. I learned much lessons especially writing 1. When I studied writing 1, I felt happy because I studied with two lecturers; they are Mr. Saunir and Mr. Hafiz. They move into teached about the same topics at the different time. I studied with Mr. Saunir on Tuesday and with Mr. Hafiz on Monday. They gave us much motivation, especially for myself. I thought Mr. Hafiz explained the lessons seriously, but I never felt boring studied with him. He always gave his students an assignment after he gave a topic. I felt happy because it made me understand. On the other hand, studied with Mr. Saunir gave me  different feeling. He never allowed his students enter to the class if they came late, but I never came late. Both of them, Mr. Saunir and Mr. Hafiz explained the same topic, it is about how to make a description paragraph, paragraph and essay, cause and effect, report and others. At first, I thought it was ok, but I had a problem when I wrote an essay. I did not understand about it because I used to learn the basics of writing like putting together sentences, forming paragraphs with sentences, and things like that in senior high school. I always studied at home, my boarding house, to improve my skills on it. I always remember that his said,”in this class, you must be on time, you want to “Kuliah or Takziah”. I laughed whenever I heared that, but it is a gold lesson to me.

It was my experience in the last semester, which can make me more understand in writing until now. I get much gold lessons after I studied writing 1 and thanks to Mr. Saunir and Mr. Hafiz. I believe, one day I can write essay and others well. I can be a good and favorite teacher like Mr. Saunir, because I want to make my parents happy. I do not want to make them feel dissapointed. Thanks to God who had because gave me many lessons in my life.