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In the movie Jurassic Park III, the parents travel to Isla Sorna to save their stranded son. The parents and the crew fail when the plane crashes. The son is found and most of the characters succeed in surviving long enough from the dinosaurs to be rescued
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In the movie Forrest Gump, Forrest is seen to be a failure by society because of his legs and low intelligence. As he grows older, Forrest is able to use his legs and succeeds in football, the army, and running across America. Forrest may have a low IQ, but he succeeds in the knowledge of how life works and is successful with many of his plans and goals.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Schindler's Success
Sometimes failures can seem unintentional at first and then eventually lead to success. This can be displayed in Schindler's List, a movie based off the true story of Oskar Schindler. During World War II when Poland became occupied by Germany, Schindler decided to open a factory in order to make money out of the war. Schindler was a member of the Nazi Party. His goal was to make a fortune by using the Jews to manufacture supplies for the war. Schindler fails at his role as a Nazi whenever he witness the liquidation of a ghetto and the mass murder of the Jewish people. Schindler experiences a change of heart and decides that he want to protect the Jews, going against the view of a Nazi. He fails at his party by lying to them why he should keep Jews in his factory and secretly protects them from being killed. Schindler also fails at owning his factory whenever he decides to abandon it so that he may protect his Jews. Schindler fails at making a fortune whenever he spends every last cent of it for briberies to save his Jews. One could say Schindler failed because he never achieved his intentional goal of creating a factory and making a fortune. His goal though was actually changed from his dream of a factory, to saving his Jewish workers. In order to achieve the goal of saving his workers, Schindler had to fail at his first dream to successfully save the Jews. Schindler died a penniless man, but he saved the 1200 Jews and had a memorial created in his honor. He is also known through history as successfully saving Jews from his failure of being a Nazi and owning a factory. Have you ever succeeded at a goal by failing another goal?
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Most people would say that it is a bad thing to fail. But your blog, and this post, proves that it all depends on the person's reaction to their failure. Schindler may have died a penniless man, but he made a huge impact on a large amount of people. Sometimes, being perfect isn't what will get you far in life.
ReplyDeleteIf I were Schindler, I wouldn't consider myself as failing one of my goals, because he knew what he was doing was wrong and his sympathy caused him to do something for the better. Even though he may have failed at being successful, he still died will pleasure in himself.
ReplyDeleteFailure really depends on perspective as Schindler's story proves. To some people there is no greater failure than to not follow orders. Schindler obviously wasn't one of those people and as a free thinker, he saved the lives many Jews. It's these kinds of stories that give me cause to not join the military. I never know what kind of orders I'd be given and it'd be a nightmare never knowing if I'm going to murder a family that day or not just because I was given orders.
ReplyDeleteI find it really cool that a man can go from planning to use Jews as slaves to saving the lives of thouusands of Jews, and it happened because of failure. So many people look at failure as such a horrible thing, and never open their eyes to see that there are a ton of examples where failure brings great things.
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