When life hits you with a brick‚ it is how you respond that reveals your true character. No matter how hard we try to be perfect‚ adversity in our lives is unavoidable. The truth is‚ we usually discover the depth of our strength and learn the most valuable lessons after facing these hard times. Up until my eighth grade year‚ I had the seemingly-perfect life. Most of my worries revolved around the completion of my homework and which outfit I would wear to school the next day. However‚ these matters
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There have been many times in my life where I had to overcome adversity‚ but my best example was way back in elementary school from the grades kindergarten through 5th grade. I used to not care about my academic standpoint or ego on how people looked at me. I had the potential to be a very smart and excellent student and excelled in school but I didn’t take advantage and did everything possible to not do the work. In many circumstances‚ I would have lied or cheated so I wouldn’t have to do the work
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Odysseus was fated to go through the many trials and struggles that he has indured. Odysseus got the scar on his leg while on a trip to his grandfather’s estate where they went on a hunt. On the hunt‚ they came across "a great boar"(495) that charged at Odyssey‚ "gouging a deep strip of flesh"(510). Ultimitly‚ Odysseus "thrust and struck‚ stabbing the beast’s right shoulder"(513) and killing it. The story of his scar is also his coming of age story. Odysseus comes as a boy getting hugged by his grandmother
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anyone you know and you don’t even have your own family to lean back on! How long do you think you would last in that society? I intend to prove that each character in the story Of Mice and Men face adversity and loneliness. The first character that is a prime example of the loneliness and adversity in the story Of Mice and Men is Crooks. Crooks is the only black worker on the ranch and in the 1930’s there was a lot of segregation and separation between whites and blacks. No one would offer Crooks
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The Iliad and the Odyssey The character I have chosen from The Iliad‚ "Book VI‚" is Hektor‚ leader of the Trojan army as being heroic. I read "Book VI" several times because I could sympathize with Hektor ’s choices and dilemma. Hektor will stop at nothing to help the Trojans fight the war against the Greeks and Achilleus‚ as the Greeks attempt to overtake Troy. Zeus promises Hektor divine help with a victory for the Trojans‚ but Hektor makes mistakes when he misjudges his own power and refuses
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prevent or fix a problem. A journey is pointless if a person doesn’t learn anything new or doesn’t get affected by the experience. Journeys matter more than the destination when the journey transform the traveler more than the destination. In the odyssey‚ by homer‚ Odysseus leaves his home on Ithaca to go on a voyage to win the battle against troy. After 10 years of fighting Odysseus finally wins but now he has to get home which proves to be a challenge because Odysseus finds more hardships on the
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The Odysseus we know from the epic poem The Odyssey is very different emotionally than the same character described by Alfred Lord Tennyson (under a different name) in his poem Ulysses. Tennyson’s Ulysses is melancholy about the state of his home and wishes to return to the open sea‚ while Homer’s Odysseus is happy to return home after twenty long years on the seas. Tennyson’s Ulysses describes "how dull it is to pause‚ to make an end" and how he wishes for excitement‚ adventure‚ and "new things
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James Eriksson: OK. Chris the boy in the ML short story--faced adversity‚ the no money for school -depression years that just got worse...this combined with the love of learning and ambition to be an engineer...drove him to study and work...first when he was away at HS. ...then when somehow he couldn’t afford? to go to Univ in Winnipeg...it drove him to rebel against going home to the farm(north of Wakanaka)...He cashed in his ticket and ran away to Winnipeg. James Eriksson: He tried to
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Homer points this out specifically in his epic‚ the Odyssey. The story follows Odysseus’s ten-year return journey home after the fall of Troy. The fall of Troy‚ which is chronicled by Homer’s other epic poem‚ the Iliad‚ is the ultimate way of gaining kleos. His son‚ Telemachus‚ is worried that his father died
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knowledge to the people. It is doubtful that a secluded nomad from the jungles of the Amazon will know who Carnegie Hall is named after‚ who David O. McKay was‚ or better yet how Dante Alighieri helped to save the Italian Language. In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ the hero Odysseus seemed to understand that immortality was not all it was made out to be. When given the opportunity to live forever among the gods with the minor goddess Calypso‚ Odysseus chooses instead to live out the rest of his life as a mortal
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