...the Declaration of Independence. Washington supporters doubted their generals abilities once mistakes were encountered, leading to a deprivation in confidence. However, Washington prevented himself from acknowledging the crippling doubt permeating his people by facing the practically impossible odds he was meant to handle. McCullough illustrates a man imbued with experience, perseverance, and a realistic mindset as the general who turned average Americans into a threatening power that would defeat the greatest military in human history. Washington commanded the Virginia Regiment and the militia at the ill-fated Battle of Fort Necessity, yet...
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...How can somebody persevere through racism, poverty, and death? What if they're only fourteen years old? Is the struggle even worth it? In the semi-autobiographical novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the main character, Junior, learns that through perseverance, hope, and the gain of new knowledge, life can get better for anybody (white or otherwise). He overcomes a major school change, abandonment of friends, and the death of family members, but in the bittersweet end, things have started to look up for him. There is evidence of this occurring throughout the book, starting with Junior's (former) pet dog Oscar. On page 15, the quote "After Oscar died, I was so depressed that I thought about crawling into a hole and disappearing forever" tells us that Junior maybe doesn't deal with grief in the healthiest way. However, by page 215, Junior writes "We Indians know how to celebrate our with our dead. And I felt okay" showing that at this point, he's learned how to get through the struggle of the death of his grandmother. Through time, and with the new lessons he's learned, he gained the gift of acceptance....
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...hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.” –Nelson Mandela Perseverance, the determination a person has to not let anything or anyone stop them from obtaining their goals. Perseverance is a very important quality to have because without it you could not strive in life. It gives you ethics and makes you a stronger, more respectable person. It pushes you further in life, allowing you to reach you goals. Through life everyone will need at least a smidge of perseverance. Whether it is to help you achieve some short term goals, or even long term goals. It will be what does not allow you to give up even when things seem nearly impossible. Perseverance will be that needle in the haystack; the one positive thing of a hardship you may be going through; the lesson learned from the loss in a game. It will always be that one thing that keeps you going. That just doesn’t allow you to give up. That tells you to “keep going, it’ll all be worth it at the end.” Everyone will eventually encounter a ‘bump in the road,’ in his or her journey of life. But just like when we drive a car, we have to slow down when we reach these bumps, but not completely stop. Take things step by step; see where the best place to go through is. And when were ready, go for it. But never stop, because if you stop you risk getting stuck. Being stuck somewhere or in a situation you don’t want to be in. Even I have already encountered many rough situations at this age. I’ve had to surpass some...
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...people did. For example in the autobiography I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson, the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, and the article “The Father Of Chinese Aviation”, by Rebecca Maksel all had a major turning point in their lives. Their turning points made history what it is now. In the autobiography I Never Had It Made, is a story about Jackie Robinson, the first black person to play in the Major League Baseball. At the time most of the country was segregated based on skin color. Many white people were racist toward black people. Some obstacles he faced are racial slurs, disrespect from white fans and players, hate mail, and threats to him and his family. Robinson even said,” bigoted fans screaming ‘n----’ ” In his life he learned to use perseverance despite difficulties. He kept moving forward. Robinson said that a white kid said,” Attaboy Jackie”. This shows that white people finally changed their mind about black people playing in the Major League Baseball....
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...BECOMING A WRITER January of 2011 was the beginning of a special adventure in my life as a student. I took an English class 0890, at Utah Valley University. Now, in the last days of this class, almost four months later, I can look back and see myself with a lot of problems in my writing that needed to be fixed. These four months in this class have helped me solve many writing challenges. I am far from perfect in becoming a good writer but I have learned that hard work and perseverance can produce wonderful results. Even though I learned many things, the three man points that I want to talk about are the following: quote analysis scaffold, grammar, and research online. The first month of the English 0890 class was intense, the students had to do a special analysis writing exercise called “Quote analysis scaffold”. It is the developing of many skills in one exercise. It helps develop reading and vocabulary comprehension. After the quote analysis scaffold is made, it can be used in the essay as a hook or concluding thought. We ended up doing around ten of these exercises. After writing the quote, provided from the teacher, this analysis was made from the following steps: The first thing was to do a research online about the author and make two to three sentences, on average, about who he was and what were his major contributions to society. Second, the students had to look for unknown words and their definition in the dictionary. After this, the third part was for the students...
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...demonstrates traits that every individual should want to do. Things such as perseverance and compassion come natural to her. She has taught me that you have to give in order to receive. When it comes to others she will giver her last. My Grandmother is currently "bed bound" which means that she has to have 24hour care. From this experience, I have learned that it takes a strong woman to never give up on her family and still provide for them like things never happened. My Mother pushes my younger brother and I to do the best that we can in high school. Honor roll and perfect attendance is what is expected out of us. We know that we have to make our mother proud which is a way of thanking her for all the things she has done for us. No one can compare to the person that my mom has made me become. She has raised an influential young lady who wants to make a difference in society. I want to prove others wrong through my studies. Letting them know that no matter what high school you graduate from or what you have done in the past you still can become successful. The influence that Morehouse College will have on my life is the ability to succeed through any major that I please with a positive attitude and the determination of never giving up. Leaders have traits such as integrity, cooperation, devotion patience, and perseverance. The trait that best fit me would be perseverance because I put my all into everything that I do in life. The word character is the individual qualities of a person...
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...Themes, Themes, Themes So what is it with all these themes coming and going throughout the story, or what is the most important theme of The Odyssey? The title of the book is The Odyssey. The book is translated by Robert Fitzgerald. The book itself is bunched up into a book with fifteen sub-stories, books, or chapters; whatever you want to call them. This essay will be about; what is the main theme of this story? The lesson that should be learned with reading this essay is, “Stay true to your dreams, stay true to yourself (Persevere yourself).” The first example shown in the text when it shows symptoms of perseverance is somewhere towards the end. It is when Odysseus finally arrives home after being at least gone for twenty years from a ten year war, and also a ten year journey to getting back home. For instance, in book 23, page 573, lines 97-103, Telemachus states, “Mother, cruel mother, do you feel nothing, drawing yourself apart this way from Father? Will you not sit with him and talk and question him? What other woman could remain so cold? Who shuns her lord, and he come back to her from wars and...
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...What is one to do when one’s dream is deferred? How does one cope and move on with the several emotions that have been built because of this delay? In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, many characters’ dreams are deferred. From Beneatha’s dream of becoming a doctor to Walter’s dream of opening his own liquor store, dreams in the Younger family are genuinely abundant. A Raisin in the Sun portrays the life of the Younger’s, an African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the setting of sometime between WWII to the 1950s. As the play opens, Mama is expecting an insurance check of $10,000 that comes from the deceased Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. Each of the adult members of the family has their own ideas as to how to what he or she would like to do with this money; Mama wants to buy a house to fulfill a dream she shared with Walter Sr. while Walter, Mama’s son, would rather use the money to invest in a liquor store. And, Ruth, Walter’s wife, agrees with Mama and hopes that she and Walter will be able to provide a better lifestyle for their son Travis. Finally, Beneatha, Mama’s daughter thus Walter’s sister, wants to use the money for her academics. As the play progresses, the Younger’s clash over their competing dreams. Ruth soon discovers that she is pregnant and considers abortion as an option to keep their lifestyle from getting “harder” than it already is. When Walter finds out about Ruth’s pregnancy and abortion option, but...
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...business or anything that will help your family those lesson will help in tough times. All you have is what you learned from your parents; for example, hard work, dedication, and perseverance. The story “The wisdom of the last Farmer” by David Mas Masumoto goes over hard work and dedication after his father got a stroke, Masumoto had to stand up and take care of the farm. He looks at the farm with new eyes which he and generation of family have labored for decades. It was really hard for Masumoto to do it by him self but he got by with what he learned from his father with a few objects and hard work and keeping a positive attitude to always stay up. Masumoto had no choice but to put into practice what his father had teach him Determination, Hard work, and perseverance are the three things he has to use now that his dad had the stroke. Which it will help him to deal with the farm and his family struggle. Determination is one of the many things Masumoto learn from his father. After the accident with his father Masumoto has a lot of working to do. He main focus is to make those perfect peaches better than his child hood. Masumoto wants to succeed and make perfect peaches. “My main story is about trying to grow the perfect peach. I want peaches that are even better than the ones from my child hood.”(37). He is so determine to make the perfect peaches and to him it would not matter what it would take. Even though his father had the stroke and his family struggles. Masumoto stood up...
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...Perseverance. Perseverance is a word used by adults to get children to get over their I’m-to-lazy-and-don’t-think-I-can-do-it attitudes. Most don’t take the word seriously anymore, due to the overuse of the word. Others take it so seriously that they live by the word, use it to try and motivate others, and post it everywhere they can possibly think of. That was an exaggeration, but it gets the point across. Although perseverance is portrayed as an excellent thing to practice, there is the possibility of too much perseverance. Throughout my running career, I’ve had some run-ins with “too much perseverance”. There was a time when each and every run was a struggle due to the pain in my shins. As I began my run, the sun’s warmth creating a sticky feel on my skin, the dirty-socks-mixed-with-body-odor smell of my sweat was the last thing on my mind. Pain searing through my shins with each and every teeny-tiny step dominated all the thoughts in my brain. It felt as though my muscles were being torn off of my bone; my bone that was also breaking from the pressure. Tears welling up behind my eyes, I began to search for a distraction from my never-ending pain. I had to pull it together before my “running-buddies” noticed how much pain I was experiencing. I could hear the little giggles as...
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...of letting it hold me down I learn to get back up and try again that's why my greatest quality is, perseverance because even though something may become to difficult and to demanding I always stay determined in the long run because in the end I know that I'm destined for success. In Eighth grade, I remember sharing my excitement on what colleges I wish to attend, but what I remember most is the painful words of my teacher saying, "You're never going to make it to college. If I didn't make it to my college of choice, then what makes you think you will!" I felt as if I was imbecile and that even though with all my hard work and dedication it was going to end up being pointless because of who I was as a person . These words did have some affect on me,...
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...difficulties. Besides the interesting and vivid plot of the story, this inspiring book has taught me three things when facing difficulties in life: never give up, caring others, and do something meaningful in life. First of all, of the many things that I learned from this book, one of them is overcoming difficulties. Traveling around the world in eighty days is a daydream for many persons but Mr Fogg made it successfully because he insisted and did not give up. Even though this book is a fiction, from the author’s perspective, the tools that we need for success is perseverance. Throughout the whole book, I learned that there are many difficult problems we need to be confronted with in our real life. But if you try hard to conquer it and you may find a way to be success. Therefore by the end of the book I decided to study a very tough course that I never studied before. I was really interested in this course and I want to challenge myself. Many friends laughed at me about my impulsion. But I never regret this decision. Instead, I thought it was the best decision of my life because I learned a lot from that tough process. People in the world usually like to criticize and judge others. By learning from Mr Fogg, I realized that I...
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...persistence and stubbornly strong attitude taught me what true strength and perseverance was. He never gave up, on his friends, on the owls, but most of all, he never gave up on the hope that things will turn out alright. I believe that true perseverance is to fight for what you believe is right and never give up, no matter what obstacles stand in your way. Florida is one giant tourist attraction, full of crowds, people, and...
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...children because it helps them in school, to make friends, and teaches them life lessons on perseverance. The most important reason to let a child play competitive sports is that sports help a child in school, which will help them when they are in adult hood. In an article called "What Are the Benefits of Competitive Sports" by Sarah Davis. Sarah goes on to say, "According to the President's Council on Physical Fitness...
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...Roots of Endurance Have you ever had passion that moves you to make a change even when things are against you? The book Roots of Endurance talks about three men that concurred their obstacles and dreams to make change for their community. There are multiple stories from the book that have taught me lessons on how to be a great leader, I am going to share the three that mean the most to me. John Newtown is the first gentleman to discuss. He is known for his transformation from a slave boat owner to a devoted Christian and activist against the slave trade. Below is the story and lesson I learned from John. “A company of travelers fall into a pit: one of them gets a passengers to draw him out. Now we should not be angry with the rest for falling...
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