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Examples Of Overcoming Obstacles

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Obstacles are hard to overcome but the only thing really stopping people is fear. There are two people, Andrew and Katie, who had huge obstacles coming their way. One of them may have a bigger obstacle, but they both overcome it. Andrew had to deal with public speaking, and Katie had to deal with basketball. Either way, they both had to overcome it and succeeded. Introducing Andrew, he had a bigger problem that had to do with public speaking, he hated it. To start his day, Mr. Taylor, his teacher, chose him to read in front of the whole class, announcing that there will be a public speaking competition. He was absolutely scared and wished for rampaging elephants, road closing blizzards, or flying to South America, but that didn’t stop him from practicing a speech he made. The day of the competition, his speech was about how he hated public speaking. Everyone enjoyed his speech, but after, he accidentally walked into a custodian's closet. By the time he got out, everyone still cheered him on. …show more content…

Katie's on the basketball team, the only problem was that she would always be on the bench. Her team won most of their games, but she didn’t care because she never helped. A girl on her team named Julia Jones, would always tease her or make fun of her, for instance, one-time Julia said, "Good job, you're good at keeping the bench warm." During one of their games, some of her teammates got injured, and the day when Katie finally gets to play came. She got very close to winning, but she could choose if she wanted to pass the ball to Julie or to shoot the ball herself. That decision she made was to pass the ball and they won the game, Katie was then proud of herself for playing and

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