My Family Is Like The Phenix Our Personalities Are Born From Travesties

Perseverance is crucial if you want to make to make something out of life. We all have difficulties that we need to overcome in our life and perseverance is the key to success with no regrets. My neighbour had a dream to start her own restaurant but she had no money, support or job. But instead of moping around she decided to put everything she had into opening a restaurant and eventually after all her hard work and persisting paid off and she made her dream into a reality. My neighbour didn’t just wait for someone to help her out but she made the tough call to take matters into her own hands and persist to achieve her dream. And as Sun Yat-sen, “The key to success is action, and the essential in action is

Perseverance is the only thing that will truly keep the world alive. If humans had given up instead of persevering America would not exist, tyranny would reign and slavery would still exist. Several characters throughout literary history, such as Odysseus from Homers’ Odyssey, and Louis Zamperini in Unbroken are the prime examples of perseverance, and they did it through personal strength and determination to not be broken. After all, it is better to persevere and live a hellish life than to relinquish that life in order to live more comfortably in the hands of those who seek to degrade the soul.

An older boy remembered his father, a hardworking blue collar man. He remembered how his father would walk into the home each evening with scraped hands and perspiration stained shirts. His father was a tough man. He was the kind of man that refused to go to the doctor and rarely hugged his children. Yet, he was a good man. The boy remembered how his father provided for the family and often times his smallest actions proved his paternal love for them. One particular memory stood out among the rest. His father had returned home from work late one evening. He had been out celebrating his pay raise with some of his co-workers down at the local pub. He waltzed through the door bursting with

The film Cinderella Man shows multiple examples of perseverance. Perseverance is when someone is determined to go through tough obstacles and difficulties, no matter how hard they seem to be. If someone were to face obstacles that seem impossible, they could go through them, or persevere, and try their best to overcome it instead of just giving up. If someone was to have perseverance, they would be persistent and continuously stay in the state they are, no matter how hard their problems are. Cinderella Man has multiple examples of this because the main character, James J. Braddock, perseveres through the difficult time that is the Great Depression. He took risks to fend for his family and never succumbed to his negative feelings when he faced problems that would feel almost impossible. James Braddock had shown examples of perseverance in the movie Cinderella Man.

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained”-Marie Curie. What does it mean to persevere?

“ I’m here for my husband I'm here for my father she called out. He started hitting Parvana too.” This shows perseverance because she knew she would get beat but she still went to look for her father. Even when she was getting beat she still stayed there and persevered.-caleb Parvana shows a lot of perseverance when Parvana takes home Homa in the dark with Taliban passing by.

He was only sixteen so he had to fake his birth certificate so he could enlist. While in the Navy, Jerry got a lot of education he never got when he lived with his parents, and got a lot of training. He went to military and contractor schools, which helped him learn a lot, but that was not enough for young Jerry. Jerry was a Petty Officer 2nd Class and an aircraft engine mechanic while in the Navy. Three months before his three year contract ended with the Navy, the Korean War began, so Jerry could not be discharged. This led to him reenlisting in the Navy for another six years. After the time he served in the Navy, someone suggested he go to the Air Force.His brother suggested he go to San Antonio, Texas. While in the Air force, Jerry was in the tech services for five years, and he also was very interested in airplanes. He served in the Air Force for eleven years, and then retired at the age of 36 as a Senior Master Sergeant.. Which is pretty impressive I think because he explained to us that a Senior Master Sergeant as being a higher rank than Master Sergeant, but not the highest rank one can receive. A Senior Master Sergeant is the fourth Non-Commissioned Officer rank in the Air

He had signed up for pre-law at University of Florida. He went through college without a focused, determined mind. He would go to school for one semester, then drop out and work, and then go back to school in style. By 1940, he became a national guard and was a field artillery unit in France, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. By 1946, he returned home as a completely new person who started using his time wisely.

The first 4 ½ years of his life was spent with family and distant relatives. His mom and dad would let him spent the weekend at his grandparents house. Were he would spend time there with them, and his aunt and uncle, and his three cousins. His father and his grandfather would often take him hunting and fishing. His mom and dad wanted more children, but for the first 5 years of his life he had no relatives. This is the case because their house in Fayetteville had black mold in it which caused his mom to have many miscarriages. After 4 ½ years in NC, the Air Force told his father he had to move to

The Canadian Dictionary defines perseverance as “Steady persistence in adhering to a course of action, a belief, or a purpose; steadfastness”. In the novel Eric Walters, Walking Home, his main protagonist, Muchoki restates perseverance by sticking to his goal and never giving up. Due to political disturbances between ethnic groups, his father dies in a fire caused by a mob, leaving Muchoki, his little sister Jata and his mom with no other option but to flee and find shelter in an overcrowded refugee camp. Things do not get any better because his mom dies from malaria. Leaving Muchoki and Jata all by themselves, the last thing she told them was an old Kamba story; the story talked about a boy and a girl who run away from their homes to stay together following a string that will guide them to their new home so that they could be together.

Francis Bernard Cullen had already tried to join the marines when he was 16 to fight in World War Two but his plan was figured out when his records showed he wasn’t 18 so he was sent back to his so far lackluster adolescent life. For work he would pursue real estate in the exciting city of Buffalo, New York he grew up in. After moving to Massachusetts and feeling he wasn’t reaching his full potential, the Vietnam war broke out. Accepting the call for action, he enlisted into the Vietnam War. Right when he thought it all figured out he met Jacklyn Moore the love of his life. They would have 2 kids before he was stationed. When he was called for action he did a total of 3 tours. While in Vietnam he was co-piloting a helicopter when he was shot

He dropped out of high school to go to the marine corps, he was 17 years old. Participating in the marine corps was extremely difficult. There was persistent, training for war, but he never had to go fight. This was boot camp and it was super scary because the sergeants screamed and, hit them. If he had had to go to war, he would have been a basic rifleman, they try to shoot and kill. That experience changed his life because it made him appreciate America and freedom.

When people persevere it can show them how strong they can be. Some people are forced into situations where they have the choice of life or death. Kim Phuc is an example of someone in a situation where they must persevere to live. Kim had burns so

What is perseverance? Perseverance is the ability to go on when things seem hopeless. It is also a measure of success, or at least how much sacrifice one is willing to make in the name of success. As students, it is impossible to achieve personal success without having a goal, or direction. The goal and direction that often propels us to achieve is perseverance. Perseverance is the ability to forge ahead despite setbacks that threaten to undermine all efforts to succeed.

Proudly, he finished high school at the age of sixteen, but could not follow the footsteps of his older brothers and join the military, because he was too young. Therefore, he decided to continue his studies. The completion of his degree in biology was bittersweet. He was the first and the only one in his family to have graduated from college, however, there were not a lot of opportunities for a young African-American male in 1957, in small town Alabama. After taking few odd jobs, he decided to enlist in the military.