Dr. Cleamon Moorer Guides Me Through An Intimate Journey

Vonder Bruegge taped his shiny $100 poster to the brick walls of his dorm room, he spent a summer working at a childhood summer camp. It was during this time that Dr. Vonder Bruegge met a few intelligent counselors who began to shift his worldview. These talented young men had decided to attend college, not to make oodles of money, but to become agents of redemption. Dr. Vonder Bruegge’s experience with these people over the summer forced him to question if his motivations came from the right place. Dr. Vonder Bruegge entered into college with a question reverberating in the back of his mind: “Maybe, I am not the one doing this right”. Dr. Vonder Bruegge could not ignore the lessons he had learned over the summer, and he decided that the world of business was not where he was being

The motivation I was effected with from reading this book caused me to change my behavior especially, academically. Rudy devoted his time having twelve hour study sessions, worked with others that’s outside his crowd, and didn’t let his kolohe past ruin what he has approaching his way. “He explained that my application was excellent, my MCAT score was solid, and I wouldn’t have a problem getting into “somewhere”.” In the beginning of college, Rudy would have not expected to be anywhere, let alone out of Hawaii. He got a full scholarship at Creighton, and was headed to Nebraska. Although Rudy didn’t have any faith in himself, this book helps motivate me to start believing in myself.

The Mission Statement of the Studer Group bears a striking resemblance to the leader who is sought after by so many. The calling (Studer Group, 2017)at hand is to create a better environment for employees, physicians, and patients. The Studer Group measure of success is based on customer evaluations of the Studer Group. The Vision is also synonymous with Studer and simply stated it is : “To be the intellectual resource for healthcare professionals, combining passion with prescriptive actions and tools, to drive outcomes and maximize the human potential within each organization and healthcare as a whole.” Throughout Studer’s leadership he writes of evidence based leadership. This could easily be his brand and his calling card. He is not a leader who feels the need to state his position as the boss, but who offers to serve. He moves forward in decisive action when others are fearful as noted by (Du Pre', 2005), he is not afraid to shed the truth on humankind not even himself. As he candidly describes life’s challenges (Outzen, 2017), feeling like a reject as a child, being an Army reject, alcohol became a life concern, Studer says“I was 31 and had two failed marriages and was way in debt. Something had to change." Something did change within Studer and with the

“And it hits me, not then, but today, thirty years later. Thirty years too late”(91). Those are the words of Jessamyn Hope when speaking about her experience with regret regarding her life’s decisions, the major theme for her essay. Her essay tells the story about how she failed to overcome two life challenges, one having a direct physical impact and the other having a delayed impact. The essay “The Reverse Dive” by Jessamyn Hope is a narrative essay looking to persuade its reader through the use of analogy, empirical evidence, and appeal to emotion that one should face their challenges while they can to avoid regrets.

I closed my eyes in disbelief. I refreshed the page. I thought Ms. Platt had attached another student’s rubric to my essay. I wanted the nightmare to end. Not only did I not receive an “A” or a “B,” but a “C-.” I earned a seventy percent. My eyes watered, and I began to feel nauseous. I felt as if I failed myself and my family. This grade was not supposed to be possible. In the words of Grendel, it was an accident. But unfortunately, it was not. At that moment, I had to accept, even if I did not want to, that I, for once, did not reach my high goals or had to surrender my unrealistic view of myself. I had erred, like all humans do, and learned that I was not perfect and that I could fail to reach my standards. At that moment, I realized that I wasn’t superhuman but human, and this was something challenging for me to cope with at the time. However, in discovering my ability to fail, my perception of myself had been revolutionized.

She recalls the struggles, the fun, her failures and even her success in the end (Harding, 2011). The personal story shows the real road it takes with decisions we make “when entering college, Harding wrote that she began college because she felt it was expected of her”(Harding, 2011). College students often make choices based on what they perceive as pressure to do so by others like councilors, parents and even society. They enter college thinking this is what my plan should look like and not making choices that are the best for them. Harding said that in the end “ we all become graduates of one of the finest universities in the world- and already, nobody much cared how we got there”(Harding,2011). To me this shows that even if you pass by the skin of your teeth, you can still fail in the end. A diploma is not the end result that maters the most. Students need to choose colleges that appeal to their needs and goals and not just go to get a diploma. If students spend no time studying weather boarded or not liking their studies, then what difference does the diploma make in the end. Students would just have a degree that often goes unused in life but the costs is ever mounting to these students. The financial cost, the cost of failure, loss of energy and time, causes many students to never finish their education or even to avoid going in the

Failure is an obstacle, everyone during their life must face and come to accept. But, what really is failure? I see failure as when you try to achieve at something, but do not succeed in doing so. A person who has faced many letdowns in his life is Denzel Washington; as he talks about failures in his 2011 University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address. During his speech, uses of rhetoric can be heard all throughout his words. Making the message he is trying to say to the graduating students that still have their lives in front of them, just so much more robust. Washington’s use of all three kinds of rhetoric throughout his speech about defeat and how to change your thoughts to overcome them.

Rather than one failure, this essay will involve a series of failures that changed me as a person.

Failure is perhaps one of the most influential things in people’s lives because it can alter the course of our actions, by teaching us persistence or leading us the opposite way. Through his book, Dr. Cleamon Moorer guides the readers through an intimate journey about his progression from failure to promise. In the small town of Detroit, Moorer was raised by Christian parents, who taught him love, obedience, and enforced discipline, but most importantly, they nurtured his faith in Jesus Christ. Cleamon Moorer flourished in academics during both elementary and middle school, however, his mischievousness throughout those years earned him many disciplinary sessions. In high school, misbehavior became history, yet, his GPA suffered in the low C’s. But with his father’s tough discipline and Moore’s own effort and faith in God, he later received candidacy for the National Honor’s Society. As his college experience began, Cleamon Moore was honored to attend GMI and work along many of his classmates at GM, but when the courses became more difficult after each semester, his grades fell below the required minimum, hence, he became a “flunk-out”. Yet, he did not abandon his education; he never gave in to failure, in fact, he leaned from it. Then, with years of tenacity, patience, and faith, he ultimately became a professor at the same university at which he had failed.

Edition English textbook talks about the right to fail and taking chances. Zinsser makes the point that sometimes one has to fail to succeed. He talks about how the word “dropout” is looked down upon, but to him, it is a chance to learn from people’s mistakes. Zinsser makes a point that advertisements and TV commercials try to push the idea of material success. Although, people should not fail just for the fun of it, he states “I only mean that failure isn’t bad in itself, or success automatically good.”

Throughout the years failing has been seen as a way to defeat or put down a child or a student's moral. In the article “In praise of the ‘F’ word” by Mary Sherry, the author exhibits the fact that failing students should be seen as a positive idea in order to push kids to expel. Although some readers may argue that failing has a negative effect on a child's psychological development, many can argue that in order to develop a competent workforce, a more literate America, and push kids to excel in school failing should be seen as an affirmative idea.

Pérez, Angel B. "Want to Get Into College? Learn to Fail." Education Week. N.p., 11 May 2016. Web. 16 Sept. 2016.

Many raised in urban less affluent areas can quickly become dissolution with the education system being offered to them. Ultimately, resulting in dropping out of High School and continuing in the vicious cycle of poverty. However, “Prosperoman” knew that escaping the harsh living conditions from the inner city would require him to worship and put all his faith and desires into education, books and knowledge as he knew that religion alone would not be sufficient. He was raised by an illiterate single parent but would not allow his circumstances to define his future. Therefore, “Prosperoman” dedicated himself to graduate high school and continue to higher education at a prestigious University where he majored

Paul Tough starts us off by throwing us right into Venessa Brewer’s shoes. A started from the bottom where Vanessa triumphs in high school and becomes able to be the first in her family to get a college degree. As bright as Venessa is, she struggled in her first semester at college. She thought that she was the only college student having trouble making that transition. Tough then goes more in depth with kids, especially the disadvantaged ones, who struggle with college. Tough goes to a couple of professors, David Laude and David Yeager, to find out why it’s a problem and how can they fix it? Both Laude and Yeager wanted to help lessen the failure gap between disadvantaged and advantaged students. They addressed this problem by setting up support

As J.K. Rowling once said, “it is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.” As we end our high school career and make our way into the future, we must keep in mind all of the lessons we were taught at Anderson that will help us to succeed, even when we fail the first time. These messages, which were taught through books, will help form us as the young adults we are becoming.