Success is a choice Perseverance could be described as one's will to carry on towards success. People have to make the decision to persevere on their own. This idea can be seen in many pieces of text including the following poems.“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “Mother to son” by Langston Hughes both share the lesson that success is one's own decision. Through “Invictus,” William Ernest Henley portrays that success lies in one's own decisions. He does this through the use of diction the
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Many people underestimate themselves because they are intimidated by far more talented people but that's not an excuse to stop trying. Derek Jeter once said, “There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do- and I believe that. In other words hard work beats talent. Usain Bolt the Olympic legend and a hard working high school runner Wes Schoenthal also live by this quote. These athletes are great examples showing that hard work does
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Turning an obstacle or disadvantage into a positive outcome will all depend on what the person decides to do with those obstacles, and how the person decides to react towards certain disadvantages. A person with a positive mindset may have the ability to gain knowledge and humility from those obstacles and disadvantages. When I was a child, I had always been dependant on my parents. I did not acknowledge that one day they were not going to able to provide for me, and I would have to become independent
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Failure is a Good Thing When you fail you’ll usually want to give up or feel like you have not accomplished something the way you wanted . According to John Carroll in the writing Failure is a Good Thing he talks about how failure can be a teaching experience and how “Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do, or doing something correctly the first time, which often can be a problematical victory” (Carroll). The three main points are going to be the author's purpose
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I think that success can be defined in many different ways. In my eyes the definition of success is a family big or small. First, I think a family is always very successful no matter what life hands us. Second, one person that I believe to be successful is my fantastic father, Paul. Last, I also think my awesome mother, Lonetta, is successful. There for, we can define success in all kinds of different, crazy, and wonderful ways. As a matter of
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Everyone wants to be successful and lay strategic plans of reaching it (success). A narrow interpretation of success however makes many people to have limited chances of achieving success. This is because these people will continue to find themselves jeering towards the wrong direction, hence missing out the opportunities, and happy moments along their way. The term success therefore seems to be rooted in higher educational discourse; hence it logically leads to the following three questions. • What
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Some people have heard the saying “The only place success comes before work is the dictionary.” This is one of many lessons in the book Kon-Tiki, that you have to work hard in order to be successful. When Thor Heyerdahl first had the theory that the Polynesians had sailed across the ocean on balsa rafts, nobody believed him. There was to much research on all other ways that no one wanted to say that those could be wrong. He had to keep trying different people to see who would believe him, and eventually
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Failure is something we learn from, it is something that makes us grow as a person. I am a firm believer that in order to be successful you need to fail along the way. When I think about a time that I experience failure, I automatically think about the math class that I failed my sophomore year of high school. Sophomore year was a bad year for me. I was always rather unhappy and because of this my grades were affected. Prior to this class school had always come easy to me, especially math. My school
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In this introduction, I provide any overview of the concepts regarding shell scripts. Explaining what is a shell script is and describing several common shells. Later, a tutorial is made available for demonstration how to backup a file or folder using a tool to accomplish these tasks. The SNTbackup is a shell script backup tool that gives users the option to select to select a file or folder to be backed up. A detail demonstration with screenshots is provided as a visual aid to readers. I used a
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When it comes to the subject of success, and how to obtain it, it is almost impossible to find an agreement on how people feel like you can achieve such a thing. We see a prime example of this debate in Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller. In this play, the characters Happy, Willy and Biff all struggle with the challenge of obtaining success. Though the three share the belief that the approval of others control success, they contrast in their belief on how important others approval is in
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