This paragraph talks about how this woman achieves her goals regardless her age. She took her first class at Kansas’ Fort Hays State University in 1930—and wound up receiving her diploma 77 years later at age 95. Even then Ochs, who has said she “just like[s] to study and learn,” wasn’t done. In 2010, the 98-year-old passed her final exams, turned in a 50-page research paper, and qualified for a master’s degree as well.
Jacob Atem: A refugee orphan opens a clinic
This paragraph talks about how Jacob Atem opened the first medical clinic in Maar, South Sudan. He suffered a lot for many reasons. One of these reasons was that when he was 8, after his parents were killed in the Sudanese Civil War, he had walked thousands of miles from Sudan to Ethiopia as the beginning of a harrowing nine-year odyssey through East African refugee camps. That´s why he decided to opened someday a clinic. It is specially for orphans.
Martha Mason: A polio victim enjoys boundless curiosity
This is another story about a awesome person who tries to overcome her obstacles. She Martha Mason graduated valedictorian of her high school and earned two college degrees at the top of the class—all while living her life in an iron lung. By the time she died in 2009, Mason had been in the iron lung for a record-setting 60 years. “Something happens to all of us," she said in a documentary about her, Martha in Lattimore.
Gag Filipaj: A janitor graduates with honors.
This paragraph talks about how this man achieves his goals. Also mentions the obstacles that he has when he taught in the University. In May 2012, at age 52, he graduated with honors. As he told ABC News: “I have fulfilled half of my dream. Going to graduate school would complete it.” Filipaj plans to begin hitting the books again soon.
Brian Kolfage: A wounded soldier pursues a dream
It talks about how Brian Kolfage had been stationed at the Balad Air Base in Iraq for two weeks