Hi, need to submit a 1000 words essay on the topic Art Paper 2.This was the same song that Whitney Houston had performed live in the 1989 Grammy Awards where she won the award for the “Best Female P

Hi, need to submit a 1000 words essay on the topic Art Paper 2.

This was the same song that Whitney Houston had performed live in the 1989 Grammy Awards where she won the award for the “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.” This song also topped charts in the US, UK, Australia, Germany and Switzerland for several consecutive weeks (NationMaster.com).

The song "One Moment in Time" had aroused in me some sort of vigor after hearing it.

I wondered, would everyone who had heard it so intently for the first time, had felt the same way as I did? Hearing it made me contemplate and thought about certain things about myself: have I reached my fullest potential yet? Am I already free--free from the notion of having been a victim of my fate? Can I say that I am a free person, a person who controls her own destiny? Then I thought, like every person in this world, I too should have that one moment in time when I am more than I thought I could be. I would have my one moment in time, and I should seize it.

The moment I listened to the opening lines of the song, I knew it was the starting point of those who would look toward their quest to greatness. As the persona in the song sang the lines "Each day I live I want to be/ a day to give the best of me," I thought, in order for a person to live so enthusiastically each day of her life, it must be rooted in a single, ultimate purpose which had both driven the will to live and the will to succeed. Knowing a persons ultimate purpose for living would propel her to give her best each day in pursuit of such goal, and then, I knew that single purpose would be the start of everything for a person.

Because of this singleness of purpose, the persona was driven to reach her ultimate goal, although the future seems uncertain. This was apparent in the lines "Im only one, but not alone/ My finest day is yet unknown." In reaching for ones goal, the persona knew that there would be obstacles to face, and that everything required trade off on her