Da Vinci The True Renaissance Man

Da Vinci was the true renaissance man because he pushed what he knew to become better. This how the renaissance came to being because people started to push what they knew to the limit and started to question what they were being told. Da Vinci did this to the extreme because he really tried hard to find the answers to life long questions. Also because he didn't just believe in what other people told him he had to prove it for himself. He was also the true renaissance man because he studied the world around him and would completely zone out of everyday life just to look at the trees and the world around him. This was what it meant to be a renaissance man. Leonardo was a amazing man who could achieve amazing things without even knowing it.

Look inside to look outside

I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place

By Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror is showing the reflectiveness and perspective that we as humans need. The point of this song is to make you think about what you could do for the world not what the world could do for you. Michael is saying that you need to do what you can the help other people and the world. This is r

eflective because you have to look at yourself and question if its right thing to do or if you should push yourself to do better. This song transcends time because there will always be things that need to be improved also because people will always need to look in the mirror and see if they like what they see. Transcends culture because every culture no matter who they are will always strive to be better. Like in Coehlo's The Alchemist the alchemist tells Santiago that everything strives to be better than what they are. This is like what Michael is saying because he wants you to look at your self and realizes that you need to help make the world a better place and in doing that you change yourself. Change thats the message that we all have to embrace because everything is changing.

Destiny gives you the strength to keep fighting

Destiny roams the world,

Cloaked in fear,

Hiding the treasure within.

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In Coehlo's The Alchemist he reveals the secrets of destiny and why it is important. Every culture looks at destiny in a different way. Throughout time people have broken away from what they were to fulfill their destiny. When Coehlo wrote this book he knew that his work would effect all cultures and all time periods. This is because everyone has been in the position that Santiago is in when they are faced with a life changing decision and they have to look within to look outwards. Many people don't feel that they deserve a destiny or that fulfilling your destiny is impossible. Coehlo shows that everyone has a destiny because instead of choosing a very rich and important person he chooses a regular guy. He is trying to show that you no matter who you are has a destiny. Yes your destiny is very hard to fulfill because it puts you through test that test your different traits to the extreme. Santiago had to look within to find the strength to keep going. Coehlo's point is that you have to be strong hearted to fulfill your destiny you can't expect it to be easy. Lots of people don't think that treasure exists outside of fairy tales. But treasure doesn't mean just gold and money like in Santiago's case the journey is more of a treasure to him than finding the riches. Pushing your self is crucial to fulfilling you destiny because you have to try get past obstacles that you thought were impossible.

Leadership's always helpful

Like Santiago in Coehlo's The Alchemist I also posses traits that help me participate in my destiny the main trait is leadership. Leadership helps me because I am able to get other people to follow me and help me. I show this on many different occasions like when I'm playing sports it comes out a lot also when I am in group projects I like to take charge and get things done. Having leadership helps me help other people it also makes people trust me a lot more because to be a good leader you have to have peoples trust. This trust comes out during sport games because people elected me to be their captain or just let me tell them things with out getting mad at me. It also shows in groups because people let me take charge and don't question everything I say. Leadership lets me know other people and what kind of people they are because as a leader you have to ask for everyones opinion. So when you know everyone you know there strengths and weaknesses so you can help them and help yourself and this is very important to me. Directing people is very helpful in a quest for you destiny because people help you and you know who you need to help you get the job done. When I go on my quest I know that its not just about the ending prize it is also about the journey. My leadership will help me through my journey because people will follow and help because they know that I'm looking out for them.

My Essay

“When I have been truly searching for my treasure, I’ve discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that’s seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve” (Coelho, page 125). In The Alchemist Santiago is telling his heart not to be fearful of things to come, but to embrace them. The quote shows that Santiago realizes that he had to take risks to become successful. Santiago a traveling shepherd boy whose life is turned upside down when a gypsy tells him that he must fulfill his destiny. Having never left Spain, he is being told to travel across the Sahara Desert to get to the Great Pyramids of Giza. As he does so, he meets the love of his life in a small oasis in the middle of Egypt. The only way for Santiago to achieve his destiny is to combine his bravery, determination and intelligence.

Santiago demonstrates bravery in many different scenarios. Santiago is a very brave person because he gives up his life of a happy shepherd to chase an uncertain destiny. His bravery comes from within, as he makes his own decisions, even when he is afraid or in new places: “How strange Africa is, thought the boy.” Santiago has just left his life as a shepherd and has taken the first steps towards his destiny. Another example is that he is not afraid to say what he thinks, even when he tells Fatima that he loves her on the first day they met: “ ‘I came to tell you one thing,’ the boy said. ‘I want you to be my wife. I love you.’” He is also not scared to say what he thinks, and he asks questions if he doesn’t understand, even if this means that he appears stupid or dumb. Santiago also learns bravery from the alchemist when Alchemist tells Santiago to fulfill his destiny on his own, even though the alchemist knows that the boy is worried about what is to come and about leaving the alchemist. Santiago also learns bravery from the crystal merchant, because the crystal merchant teaches him that you have to take some risks in life to enjoy it and so to live life to the fullest. Santiago’s bravery helps him fulfill his destiny because Santiago is a very brave person, but bravery will only get him so far: he needs to be determined if he wants to fulfill his destiny and find love.

Santiago may be as brave as can be, but he must also master determination if he wants to be successful in his destiny. Santiago’s feelings for Fatima “ I love you. I’m going to wait here for you every day.” This is what Santiago says to Fatima, and this shows his determination, because he loves her and he is willing to wait for years until she feels the same way about him. He learns determination from the Englishman because the Englishman has traveled the world and spent lots of money in search of an alchemist to teach him alchemy. Santiago realizes this and embraces the fact that he too must have patience if he wants to succeed in his destiny. Santiago also learns determination from his heart because his heart is determined to keep him alive and to help him with his destiny. Also from Melchizedek the King of Salem who helps him make up his mind about going to Africa but also helps him in the form of Urim and Thummin which give the boy hope and determination to get the job done. This helps him Santiago with his destiny because he often felt like giving up but when he looked at Urim and Thummin he realized that the old king was still with him so he got up and kept going. Santiago is a very determined boy but he is also extremely intelligent when he makes decisions for himself.

Santiago is an extremely intelligent person because he learns from his mistakes and ask questions when he doesn’t understand. He gain intelligence from his schooling. He learns through this because they teach him about what he should do in life also about what god would do. The school also taught him to read and write as well as decision making this help him on his quest because he must make lots of difficult decisions. He also learns intelligences from Melchizedek the King of Salem because he teaches him about the Principle of Favorability also called beginners luck. This helps him achieve his destiny because he knows why things are happening and he knows that what ever happens is meant to be and that everything is trying to help him be successful. An example of everything linking together to help you is “ The boy knew what he was about to describe though: the mysterious chain that links one thing to another, the same chain that had caused that to become a shepherd, that caused his recurring dream that had brought him to a city near Africa to find a king and to be robbed in order to meet a crystal merchant”. This quote shows that the boy knows that everything is connected and that one thing leads to another. The boy also learns intelligences from Fatima because she teaches him about desert woman and about how if it is meant to be he will always come back “If I am really a part of your dream you’ll come back one day.” This helps Santiago throughout his search for destiny because he is now willing to leave Fatima because he knows that she will let him go on his journey without being sad. Santiago is a very intelligent person because he realizes things that most people wouldn’t get or wouldn’t notice this helps him throughout his destiny because he can make many decisions based on what he knows and sees.

Santiago has many traits that lots of people have that helped him to become an amazing person. Santiago is brave because he took his chances and continued even though things looked bleak. His bravery is crucial to Santiago’s survival as he continually faced danger. He is determined because he had to search for his treasure: it just didn’t pop up. His determination allowed him to adapt as he powered through different obstacles. He is intelligent because he’s self-aware and he realizes what he did and what he has become. His intelligence has helped him when he was lost or confused about what to do with his life and if he should continue. In the end, this combination of bravery, determination and intelligence has propelled him, a humble and simple shepherds boy, towards his destiny.