Personal Narrative: Failure Is Not An Option By Gene Kranz

Take-Home Exam I Diamond Agyare History 204: Global U.S. Since 1877 Dr. Whisenhunt March 8, 2024. What were the social, economic, and political conditions that led to the rise of Big Business? Explain: The rise of Big Business in the United States was driven by numerous social, economic, and political conditions. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, these factors allowed for the emergence of massive industrial companies and the rise of economic power.

As I discussed earlier in my writtings, I think that failure cannot be avoided and we are presented with failures to gain an opportunity to learn. Failures will be an aspect at some point professionally and or personally so that we can grow and develop as

don't try to blame yourself for a situation that's out of your hands. It's unhealthy and you'll never heal. You always have to

Learning from your mistakes is hard. It is also hard to admit. I had the privilege of meeting someone who has not only learned and admitted it but also believes he has changed for the better. Here is a story about Cameron Evans.

So, I sucked it up and I wrote the letter and that is the end of it for me. I am moving on and I will never do it again because you have to learn from your mistakes and I realize I am a better person than that. Moving on is the last step in making a mistake better.

In 2008 the United States economy faced it most serious economic downturn since the great depression. This crisis began in 2006 when the subprime mortgage market showed an increase in mortgage defaults. This would lead to the decline of the U.S. housing market after a decade of high growth. The problems in the mortgage market where able to spread to other sectors of the economy especially in financial markets because of Collateralized Mortgage Obligations or CMOs. CMOs where mortgage backed securities that where given out by investment banks and where not regulated by the government. These securities fell as did mortgages due to increasing default rates. Because of CMOs companies bought Credit Default swaps or CDSs. These CDSs where nominally

As a young child I learned what the good group of kids looked like and what the bad group of kids looked like. In movies, the bad group of people are portrayed in high school as boys who wear really big clothing and girls that wear too dark of makeup. However after my junior year, I now know that you never really can tell between who the good and the bad people really are. Starting from when I was very young, my brother began changing my entire life for the better because I grew up with him in and out of jails and prisons for theft, drug use, and underage consumption. During his time in jails and prisons, it killed my mother and father. However for me, I never really knew the person labeled as my brother. He was a shadow with a name for me.

Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die. I have heard that saying a million times and now I get it. The past couple of years of my brothers and my relationship has been pretty rough. He went to boarding school when I was in fifth grade and since he left, our relationship gradually deteriorated to virtually nothing because I did not want anything to do with him. It got to the point where I did not talk to him unless I absolutely had to and I chose to ignore the fact that he even existed. In the past year, all of that disfunction started to bother me. I was angry at him and did not even care about having a relationship so I ignored that feeling of guilt for a long time.

Well this year was a hell of a year. I mean, i didn't pass any of the semesters but i did observe a ton of stuff that went on in the class. The class in general was pretty lit. Every day went by and i honestly did some work. The class was ready to learn as mrs g was ready to teach. I mean yea we had some days were we didn't want to learn anything and there were also days when mrs g didn't want to teach. But ima be honest, doing the work we did wasn't in my best interest. Most of the projects we did in class i worked on, but at the end i didn't end up liking how i did it so i wouldn't even bother turning anything in. like the obituary we had to write about ourselves. I liked the meaning behind this but honestly i didn't want to work on that because it just brought back memories of my friends that were killed.

Have you ever had something you were “super passionate” about be stripped away from you? Roughly one and a half years ago I started my sophomore year of lacrosse. The lineup of students on the lacrosse team this year promised us a spot in the championship. Throughout fall practices, the majority of the sophomore class played amongst the varsity team. As the season ramped up in the spring, we waited for our first game against Saint John Paul’s Christian Academy. First game of the year, we enveloped ourselves into the game and became one as a team. Running downfield with a clear, open shot on the goal “whoosh” I shot the ball bottom right, a bare miss. Suddenly “crash” I was hit from both sides and struggled to stay standing. As I came to my

I grew up in California where both of my parents were involved with gangs and drugs by the time they were in middle school. They grew up like this, getting involved with the wrong people, getting into fights for dumb reasons, even getting in trouble with the authorities. Of course, that was normal for them because they were surrounded by it through friends and family. They continued to live that life style even when they met each other at the ages of 18 and 23. They didn't like each other at first, but they eventually started dating. My mom ended up getting pregnant later that year and tried to take a break from all of it, but my dad didn't stop and that caused some tension and arguing between them.

It took me a while to admit it to him, but eventually I did tell him that he was forgiven. I didn’t want him to be miserable for the rest of his life. In the end, I never did end up moving back in with my grandmother. I ended up staying in my home town, with my mom and dad, partly because they needed me after my sister’s death, and partly because I wanted to be near

Mistakes something that we all do. People are not perfect therefore we will all make mistakes many times in our life. But there are two types of people in the world's ones that will live up to their mistakes and accept that they did it so they can move on. And there are those that will never live up to the mistakes they made and they will never be able to move on. The only way to truly learn from a mistake is to accept that you made one. There have been many times in my life that I have messed up and made mistakes. Some very terrible some not so bad. But none of them never were as bad as this one but, what i learned from the mistake made it all worthwhile.

The desire to rule can rule over people. In The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare the desire for political power alters the character of Macbeth. After battle, Macbeth shows his loyalty to King Duncan by saying, “...our duties/ Are to your throne and state children and servants,” (1.4.24-25). Macbeth’s personality leads him to be respectful and faithful to the throne. Macbeth’s loyal personality shifts as he gains a desire for political power. Macbeth’s change in personality starts with his murder of Macbeth, but we see that his original personality still causes him to have guilt. His subconscious punishes him when Macbeth hears whispers that “Glamis has murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor/ Shall sleep no more.” (2.2.40-41). Macbeth’s

My Brother - Personal Narrative My brother is the most influential person in my life. His name is