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    Nam Ly Professor Simmons ESL 186 Topic 2 Draft 1 February 13‚ 2014 Adversity & Solution in life If a rabbit is always in secure cart‚ it will never know how to overcome its adversity when it is outside. Comparing to all obstacles in reality human beings have to face‚ the issue is more diverse and harder to get through. However‚ when people see it like perspective personal challenges‚ overcoming is only and easy. Persuasively‚ " Akeelah and the Bee "‚Doug Atchison a story of 11 year-old black

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    Overcoming Adversity The film “Places in the Heart“ is set in the 1930‘s at a time when sexism and racism were very much present in the American society. The film tells the story of a widow who is trying to keep her farm with the help of Moze‚ an African-American man and Mr. Will‚ a blind man‚ during the Great Depression. Throughout the film‚ the director stresses the importance of solidarity in facing down disaster. Each character has to overcome their own adversities to help

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    My voice is no longer silent‚ it is heard through the strokes of a paintbrush. My story is revealed piece by piece. My adversity is now creative growth. Expressing who I am has been a challenge for a long time. The people who I surround myself around see glimpses‚ never the full picture. I am an abstract individual‚ why you wonder‚ because it’s how I grew up. As well as having an amazing support system. Also because I experienced so much in a short amount of time. Furthermore‚ I kept trusting in

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    How to Bounce Back from Adversity Renee’ Baker PSS301: Work Life & Career 1. Give an example of how you turned a negative experience into a positive one. In order to turn a negative experience into a positive one is to counter adversity with resilience; that is taking charge of how we think about adversity. The first step is to have a plan of action‚ then respond to that plan otherwise called response oriented thinking. I was employed with my previous company for

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    Adversity‚ we all have it in our lives at some points. It may result in some very tough times for an individual or group‚ but it can also cause some significant growth that is normally for the better. Sometimes the person(s) may have even caused the issues in the first place‚ and that’s exactly what this is focused around. People and societies with a higher power than the majority can get tendencies to think that they can do whatever they want. This happens a lot like with Creon from Antigone Doing

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    Adversity to me is what challenges and obstacles stand in our way. The fear and voices in our mind that we must overcome. Overcoming and having power over adversity is very important. We need to realize we can not hide the truth. We need to take a step and realize what is important. What you have to do. The book “Miracle in the Andes” is a great example of overcoming adversity. In the book‚ a plane filled with mostly rugby players crashed in the middle of the Andes. There was no help for them. Many

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    anyone learning‚ or working through a troublesome moment. The phrase exposes the debilitating moment of adversity and how much harder it is to overcome after some words of advice that seem so simple. This simply complicated saying can sometimes get the best of us. Whether it’s a new small change away from habit‚ or something someone tells us that seems so simple‚ the task of getting through adversity is easier said than done‚ or just simply complicated. All of us experience a hard time and we need to

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    emphasis on the brutality of the situation. Amir had visited the stadium this scene took place in before the Taliban took over. When he revisited the stadium as a tourist in Afghanistan it was completely different. It was no longer a place of happiness to watch sports it was a place of evil for the Taliban to kill innocent people. The evilness of the Taliban was hidden in the mix of the evil in Afghanistan. The people in Afghanistan now only know evil‚ but with Amir revisiting and blind to how bad it has

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    Adversity is the motivator of our society. Without adversity‚ a question then arises as to whether or not we‚ as people‚ would gain a better appreciation for the "better" days we have. The difficulties and misfortunes that we face in our day to day lives is what helps us appreciate life altogether. Adversity is different for every individual‚ and essentially what makes us unique; we all face trials but it differs depending on the person. The word adversity tends to be viewed negatively‚ but how does

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    Harriet Jacobs overcoming adversity Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is Harriet Jacobs’ story of everything she faced as a woman born into slavery. Using the alias Linda Brent she wrote of the situations she had to overcome. Jacobs not only had to handle being a female slave but she was subjected to sexual harassment by an owner‚ physiological abuse‚ having to be confined in her grandmother’s attic causing physical problems‚ and continuously trying to run to avoid slavery. Harriet was a woman

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