How inspiration leads to overcoming obstacles. This essay is about how inspiration leads to overcoming obstacles. It discusses how obstacles affect our daily life‚ and how one should go about overcoming them without pulling their hair out. People cannot control the obstacles that come about‚ but as people can learn how to control and react to them. People should be able to view obstacles through the eyes of possibility‚ instead of the eyes of defeat. Despite the thought of people wanting to think
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If I were to give a survey asking people what the most difficult point in life was‚ the overall answer will definitely be high school. High school is a time of self-discovery and issues. Everyone has a problem with school‚ home‚ or an activity. Obstacles are set to motivate us of course‚ but in the case of affecting academic performance‚ it can be what breaks my career. The main problem for everyone changing from middle school to high school is adjusting. Countless orientations‚ changing the
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language barrier was the biggest challenge of my life. I was once left on the school bus because I did not understand bus stops in English. I was in a maze of frustration and confusion. I was living in a different world. However‚ I overcame these obstacles through practice‚ hard work‚ smiles‚ and friendship. I made friends who helped me assimilate and were willing to help me through tough social situations. Equipped with a more solid English background in middle school‚ I joined the choir. Through
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The movie Safe Harbor shows us how not to judge someone based on their past‚ how to overcome obstacles and how family doesn’t have to be blood. The movie starts out with the happily married couple Doug and Robbie Smith‚ who have just retired and are about to begin their journey sailing the globe on their sailboat. Two weeks before the Smith’s are about to embark‚ a good friend and Judge asks them if they have room to take care of two teenage boys‚ since juvenile hall is full and he does not want
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As an openly gay teenager‚ I’ve had many obstacles in my life. So many of those conflicts were in school. These conflicts began in the fourth grade‚ got worse throughout junior high‚ and continued to haunt me in high school. Those years in junior high were definitely the most difficult. I was the target of so much bullying and I was being called names that I didn’t even know the meaning of. In fact‚ I didn’t know what the word gay meant until around eighth grade. Every time someone would call me
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I had started to be that girl who sat at lunch by herself‚ or even went into a teacher’s classroom just to get away from all the hate. It all started when I lost my father. It put me in a deep depression. I started to wear baggy clothes and not talk to any of my friends. They still tried to talk to me but all I did was block them out. My dad was my idol. I wanted to be him. Every Sunday after church we would go to the basketball court for over two hours just working on my lay-ups and free throws
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Secondhand Lions In Secondhand Lions‚ I felt that there were many important life lessons. From the start of the movie I thought that there might not be any connection between the uncles and Walter. Throughout the movie I realized that I was very wrong and that this new family had a lot to learn from each other. By the end of the story I could truly see that the everything that happened between the characters would always be with them the rest of their life. Both Walter and his uncles learned a
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1. At the end of the first scene‚ Rocky was not capable of reaching his goal of becoming heavyweight champion because he wasn’t physically fit enough to fight. Throughout the majority of his jog/run‚ he was breathing heavily as if he was trying to catch his breath‚ which can be considered a sign of lack of physical fitness‚ it was especially apparent towards the end of the clip‚ when Rocky was going up and down the staircase with immense difficulty. In order for Rocky to be able to reach his goal
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Stephen (Steph) Wardell Curry is a pro basketball player who can be considered a champion‚ on and off the court. He took a part in society by supporting funds‚ and helped and inspired fans all across the nation. Stephen Curry is a famous NBA player who created the three-for-three challenge‚ a challenging and responsible task that supported the Nothing but Nets Campaign‚ a movement that saves the lives of others through fundraising and awareness. Curry achieved many goals in his 2012-13 season‚ including
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Jackie Robinson made history in 1947 when he broke the color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie won the national league rookie of the year award his first season‚ he also led the dodgers to the national league championship. That was the first of his six trips to the world series. Jackie Robinson influences me because‚ just because he was a different color he didn’t give up.he kept trying and eventually he broke the color barrier‚ and made it into the hall of fame in 1962. In 1949
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