ENGL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, A Million Little Pieces, Malala Yousafzai

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1000
• Professor: Enos Christen

Document Summary

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did i wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. The first time that i was touched by war i was twelve. Junior, my older brother, and our friend talloi, both a year older than i, to go to the town of mattru. Jong, to participate in our friends" talent show. Mohamed, my best friend, couldn"t come because he and his father were renovating their thatched-roof kitchen that day. I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.