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The Realist movement was a literary movement in direct response to the glorified and hyper-optimistic Romantic movement. This movement arose around the time of events such as the civil war, and focused on what was happening right in front of people, rather than exaggerated or mystified stories that came before it. People like George Eliot highlighted the values of a realist in her direct attitude, and rational thinking. Rather than seeing the good in people and leaders, she emphasized that people are not born leaders nor are they born perfect, and that should not be a factor that clouds judgement on whether or not the leader is good for their position. Examples of people that are nowhere near perfect, but are beneficial for their roles are people such as high school students everywhere, and specifically CNH Key Club District and Division leaders. The California-Nevada-Hawaii Key Club District is the largest district in Key Club International, and is heavily run by young studen...

          In a world where speaking of death, natural disaster, or tragedy has become normal, humorous even, some may wonder whether or not these thoughts are natural, inherited even. In my experience, dark tendencies and thoughts must be formulated over time and from experience, especially in the world that we were raised in. From youth, death or any dark thoughts has been inarguably a major taboo. With that in mind, people have tried to block out ideas of death, which added some sort of mystery to it. Personally, that in a way attracted me to this topic. Though it scared me, it was still something that I couldn’t help thinking about because it was simply something I’d never seen first-hand. In that, finally experiencing that has made it more acceptable to me, in a sense. That pre-existing fear had eventually faded away, and this thing that I was taught was a taboo became, less of one.           ...

Transcendental writer Ralph Waldo Emerson formulated his belief that people should, "speak what [they] think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything [they] say today". This idea highlights the transcendental ideal that everyone is good, and in that, everyone’s ideas are good as well. Stating those ideas with confidence also perpetuates finding the good within yourself. These actions could ultimately leads to success, and can be seen in the world we live in today. Within politics, people have climbed the steps to success by simply speaking their mind and “telling it like it is.” One strong example of that being the current Cheeto Puff of a President, Donald Trump. In doing so, his election platform stood out more compared to his opponents, and his controversial attitude and words gave him much more media popularity, and therefore led him to his current position. With that s...