Knowledge plays such a pivotal role in our society. For long, people who achieve a huge amount of knowledge have been greatly extoled and considered magnates. However, they are famous not only for their perception but also for their contribution to societies. So the well-educated people should always keep in their minds a question: "In what way can I implement my knowledge?"
An educated person does not need to obtain a lot of knowledge but needs to know how to exploit his ability. "The last leaf" by O' Henry successfully glorifies an unknown artist exploiting his ability in order to save one's life. The story was about two young female artists named Sue and Johnsy and their predecessor, Behrman. Though they were all impoverished, they still kept in their heart indomitable passion for art. However, Johnsy was totally ill and renounced her belief because of a harsh life of an artist. It was autumn and leaves were falling off the trees. Johnsy said when the last leaf fell it would be the time she left this world. The morning when Johnsy woke up, she immediately looked at the tree to see whether the last leaf fell off or not. It was still there though it did severely rain the night before! The last leaf inspired Johnsy a lot; it gave her incentive to live. When Jonhsy became better, Behrman's health day by day became worse. When he died, Jonhsy found out that the last leave she saw was just a picture, which was painted by Behrman. That night when the last leaf fell off the tree, Behrman tried to paint a real leaf in order to encourage Johnsy to live a better life. Although being considered as "a failure in art", not painting any famous masterpieces of art, Behrman was such the educated person. He might not contribute any big achievements to art like Leonardo De Vinci, Van Goths but he knew the best way to implement his knowledge to make better lives for other.
The character Behrman of "The last leaf" does not only exist in the literature world; there are many versions of Behrman always wondering how they can use their knowledge soon find out the most suitable way. There are many unknown artist of humanity devoting their time, their mind to helping the poor, the sick, and the orphaned. For instances, Mother Teresa was one of the most extoled Christians. She devoted all time of her life-over 45 years- to ministering many people in India. She did it not for fame, not for money, not for praise but for her predilection for voluntary work. She found out the way in which she could implement her knowledge, her ability of deeply sympathizing with other and followed it at any costs. Yet there are many well-educated people who do not help other in a direct way like Mother Teresa but they do make a huge positive change in our society. Galileo was one of them. Being considered as the founder of modern science and physics, Galileo was the first to suppose the theory that the Earth is not the center of universe, which was considered heresy of his day. Although the Church criticized his theory greatly and kept Galileo under surveillance, Galileo did try to expand the theory through teaching his students and writing books, which might risk his life. For him, implementing his knowledge to help other realize the truth was the most important thing.
Behrman, Mother Teresa, Galileo are all well-educated people. They knew the best way to implement their knowledge and contributed greatly to their societies. Although we can not be astute as Galileo or have such great passion for humane work like Mother Teresa we still can use our knowledge to help other. A student who spends two or three hours per week ministering patient at local hospital can be considered very well - educated one. An unknown artist who paints pictures not only for his passion for art but also for donation to help orphaned children is really well-educated person. We are all well - educated people if we know which way can we apply our knowledge to make a better life. Just do what we can and then see how big the result will be.
Note: Please have a look at my essay and point out my grammar errors because I am trying to improve it. Also please advice me for better ideas and structures. Thank you a lot and have a nice day ^^!
An educated person does not need to obtain a lot of knowledge but needs to know how to exploit his ability. "The last leaf" by O' Henry successfully glorifies an unknown artist exploiting his ability in order to save one's life. The story was about two young female artists named Sue and Johnsy and their predecessor, Behrman. Though they were all impoverished, they still kept in their heart indomitable passion for art. However, Johnsy was totally ill and renounced her belief because of a harsh life of an artist. It was autumn and leaves were falling off the trees. Johnsy said when the last leaf fell it would be the time she left this world. The morning when Johnsy woke up, she immediately looked at the tree to see whether the last leaf fell off or not. It was still there though it did severely rain the night before! The last leaf inspired Johnsy a lot; it gave her incentive to live. When Jonhsy became better, Behrman's health day by day became worse. When he died, Jonhsy found out that the last leave she saw was just a picture, which was painted by Behrman. That night when the last leaf fell off the tree, Behrman tried to paint a real leaf in order to encourage Johnsy to live a better life. Although being considered as "a failure in art", not painting any famous masterpieces of art, Behrman was such the educated person. He might not contribute any big achievements to art like Leonardo De Vinci, Van Goths but he knew the best way to implement his knowledge to make better lives for other.
The character Behrman of "The last leaf" does not only exist in the literature world; there are many versions of Behrman always wondering how they can use their knowledge soon find out the most suitable way. There are many unknown artist of humanity devoting their time, their mind to helping the poor, the sick, and the orphaned. For instances, Mother Teresa was one of the most extoled Christians. She devoted all time of her life-over 45 years- to ministering many people in India. She did it not for fame, not for money, not for praise but for her predilection for voluntary work. She found out the way in which she could implement her knowledge, her ability of deeply sympathizing with other and followed it at any costs. Yet there are many well-educated people who do not help other in a direct way like Mother Teresa but they do make a huge positive change in our society. Galileo was one of them. Being considered as the founder of modern science and physics, Galileo was the first to suppose the theory that the Earth is not the center of universe, which was considered heresy of his day. Although the Church criticized his theory greatly and kept Galileo under surveillance, Galileo did try to expand the theory through teaching his students and writing books, which might risk his life. For him, implementing his knowledge to help other realize the truth was the most important thing.
Behrman, Mother Teresa, Galileo are all well-educated people. They knew the best way to implement their knowledge and contributed greatly to their societies. Although we can not be astute as Galileo or have such great passion for humane work like Mother Teresa we still can use our knowledge to help other. A student who spends two or three hours per week ministering patient at local hospital can be considered very well - educated one. An unknown artist who paints pictures not only for his passion for art but also for donation to help orphaned children is really well-educated person. We are all well - educated people if we know which way can we apply our knowledge to make a better life. Just do what we can and then see how big the result will be.
Note: Please have a look at my essay and point out my grammar errors because I am trying to improve it. Also please advice me for better ideas and structures. Thank you a lot and have a nice day ^^!