Jumping Over Hurdles In life, everyone will face hardships, or obstacles, these hardships are also known as adversity; however those such as Uchida, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Jim Carrey, have all tackled adversity in different ways. No matter whom one is they will face adversity at least once in their life. A person has two choices, to tackle adversity, or let it overcome their life. There are obstacles in life that a person cannot avoid, they must overcome it. For instance, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a great deal with adversity. On December 8th, 1941, he gave a speech regarding the attack on Pearl Harbor the previous night. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had the hardship of deciding what to do with what was happening