Adversity Research Paper

B-5
Mrs. Simonton
AICE English Language
9 November 2015
Adversity Essay Throughout time, many people have faced adversity, with varying outcomes in their lives. Some believe that this adversity has the effect of uncovering abilities that would not otherwise show themselves. This is a view that holds abundant of truth, but is far too large of an idea to make a black and white analysis of. Overall, while it is indubitable that adversity has the ability to break people as well as uncover their worst attributes and character flaws, predominantly, adversity helps any given man to unveil their most remarkable attributes and abilities that would have otherwise remained latent.
Examples of adversity shaping those exposed to it are seen to arise throughout
Standing opposed to many other fields of work, the fields housing current popular culture personas tend to have a higher concentration of peoples that originated from a lower socioeconomic class. Often these people have grown up facing adversities, including, but without doubt not limited to, severe poverty, abuse, and a lack of education. These sufferings, however horrible, have made some great where, in normal circumstances, they would have simply survived, living life in anonymity. Oprah Winfrey is an example of someone who came from brutal roots to shine in her choice line of work. Winfrey, born to a teenage mother, grew up through her early life with acutely lacking education, and was sexually abused multiple times before she was even a teenager. She suffered through these horrendous experiences, committing to overcome them and not allow them to define her. Winfrey, through a struggle she was forced to become accustomed to, eventually became the host of her own show that won multiple Emmy awards, as well as the author of multiple hit books. She worked her way up through her life to prove that she was more than the things she had endured, and in the end it was that adversity that forced her to push aside what had covered her true
It is competition to its highest degree and has been ever since the first sports emerged. But with competition comes stress and doubt and most of all a need to be the best. When factors such as these align with the strong adversity felt in something such as world champion level sports, sometimes it can become too much. Sometimes it can break someone down to their basest self, leaving only the worst of what they once were. Although that does not always happen, it is not uncommon in the world of professional sports. One such famous person is Lance Armstrong, a man who was an outstanding cyclist, possibly one of the best of his time; however, he is no longer viewed as such because he was broken by his adversities. When he stood to be tested he collapsed under the pressure. Due to his need, not to be one of the best but, to be the best, he employed deceit and dishonesty, in the form of blood doping as well as steroids. A great cyclist before these doings, he will most likely never be viewed that way again. This is because he, as some do, did not persevere under the pressure and adversity, but instead let it encompass them, even turning meaningless the talent for his sport that he once