Persuasive Essay On Survival

In 1983, Raymond Carver introduced his short story “Cathedral” to the public. The first-person narrative takes place within the narrator’s home, where his wife is waiting upon the arrival of her blind friend Robert. The narrator, however, becomes more concerned about how Robert’s visit will affect him rather than enjoy the situation. Once Robert arrives, the narrator tries to understand the blind man, but he is unaware of what tasks Robert is capable of performing due to the narrator’s inability to “see”. In time, Robert shows the narrator the difference between looking and seeing through illustrations of a cathedral, drawn by the narrator with his eyes closed. “Cathedral’s” narrator exposes readers to anti-heroic views

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands- one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” – Audrey Hepburn.

When adversity hits someone, they have a choice. A choice of weather to stay down, or get back up and overcome it. Perseverance is what gets you to overcome those obstacles and what gets you to where you want to be. The Merriam-Websters dictionary defines perseverance as, “a continued effort to do or achieve something difficulties, failure, or opposition.” Common synonyms of perseverance are “persistent,” “dedication,” “patient,” and “tenacious.” A antonym for the word would be “quitting.” Perseverance is what gets you to where you want to be in life. It separates you from being successful or falling short of your goals. In many ways, the way you persevere through adversity, shapes the overview of your life. You have to persevere almost every day to be the best person that you want to be. If it's in school and you're working on a difficult math problem, and you want to give up. You have to persevere through the thoughts in your head telling you to quit in order to achieve your goal. Or if you're on the football field, and the calls are not going your way, and the adversity is against you, you have to keep fighting and get the best out of every situation. Many amazing people have shown perseverance in their life. Perseverance is needed in our world, and Malala Yousafzai, Melba Pattillo Beals, and Ed Thomas are good examples of people you used perseverance in a positive way. Malala Yousafzai lived in a situation where a woman's education in Pakistan was scarce. She new the importance of school, and how far it could get her in life, so she persevered and fought against the rules of the Taliban for female education rights. Melba Pattillo Beals was fulfilling the act of integrating schools in the South. She had to persevere through all the name calling, bullying, and the fear she had, because she knew it would forever change our country. Ed Thomas was looked up to many in the town of Parkersburg, Iowa as a hero. He had to persevere and help his town get back to where they were after a terrible EF-5 tornado ripped their community apart. Through their stories these people have shown everybody how far persevering through adversity can get you. The Author influences the audience that adversity is

Over 7,500 animals are killed in zoos because they are deemed surplus, as stated by Liz Tyson an animals rights activist. This giraffe in particular sparked a huge controversy. HIs name was Marius, he was homed at the Copenhagen Zoo and was 2 years old when the staff killed him with a bolt gun. Marius was then dissected and fed to lions in front of ongoing zoo goers. What got people fuming is that he was a healthy, young giraffe. Therefore I believe the killing of Marius should not be justified.

The cost of college tuition is continually on the rise and has placed many burdens on high school students as well as their families. Some of the burdens that are placed are a result of parents putting pressure on their children to earn scholarships. Some of the burden is a result of students putting pressure on themselves to earn scholarships. Then, there is the burden of high college debt once the student graduates. Is this pressure really helping our students or is it hurting them? The bottom line is college tuition is skyrocketing out of control and something must be done before it destroys our families and our children.

The last time I saw Charlie outside prison walls we were on the run. Charlie was on the run, not I, I just went along for the ride because he was my husband. Charlie was on parole, but he loved to drink his booze. In our state it's a violation to drink while on parole.

People in Life or Death Situations should not be held accountable for their action. They are obviously going to want to be alive and happy, and not die or live in misery, so they would most likely do whatever it takes to survive. Whoever made the decisions weren’t fully thinking it through because we all develop mentally at a different age for childrens and adults. People who are in life or death situations don’t put themselves in that positions purposely to where they know they can die. In situations like these, everyone feels stress to the point where they have no other option until it is too late when they make their final choice. No matter the circumstances, most people would try to do what is right in a “Life or Death” situation for everyone.

A renowned Brisbane paediatrician whose work led to the fencing of backyard pools to prevent toddler drownings has received the Royal Life Saving Society's most prestigious award from the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

Being a first time parent can be rough,especially if you have no one there to help guide you through it. That is why classes should be recommended to first time parents and or guardians. They should learn cpr, first aid, and how to prevent fatal accidents, and what types of parent or guardians should take these classes.

Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Health, United States, 2002. Flegal et. al. JAMA. 2002;288:1723-7. NIH, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, 1998.

“I’m gonna die, guys,” I deadpanned to my camping group that the teacher assigned. Why did I ever take this class? I hate being outside. I really don’t want to be camping for a month, alone with my classmates, just to pass a survival-in-the-wilderness class; it sounds a bit like the premise of some low budget horror movie. “The last time I went camping, I kept getting hit with the tent poles when I was setting up the tent. I got lost on the way back to my campsite. It took me two hours to find it. Two hours!”

Overnight camping can be disenchanting if you are a novice. It just so happens that all the events that could spontaneously go wrong on a first-timer’s camping trip evidently go horribly erroneous within the first day of arriving at this odd newfound world called a camping site. Whether you hike in (carrying pounds and pounds of food and equipment on your back) or whether you drive (with all the monetary car trips are infamous for), you will probably be tired once you are ready to set up your camp. It is at this time—when you’re tired and groggy from such travels rather than joyous and excited for a new experience— that all the cynical mishaps reveal, seeming to appear one after the other. Even after strategically forming a list of camping

Why spend money that is really needed for other things? Why live uncomfortably? Why be trapped in this hole called a home that belongs to another person? Why not live free and peacefully? When a person rents he or she usually throws away money that could be used to purchase something that belongs to them. Money is not easy to come by so why pay out hundreds toward something that is not benefit to the person paying it out. There is no good explanation for making a decision like this. The best option in a situation like this is to buy a house. Buying a house is a better option than renting an apartment.

Having escaped rule from a tyrannical British government, the United States was founded on ideals of freedom and equality for all people. These fantasies of universal egalitarianism turned out to be merely that: fantasies. American history is full of stories of the oppressed struggling to get the rights they deserve and of the controversy over these issues that consequently ensues. “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery” by Frederick Douglass and “We Shall Overcome” by Lyndon B. Johnson are two speeches made confronting two of these issues. Douglass’s speech, delivered in 1852, condemns the institution of slavery and maintains that slaves are men and are therefore entitled to freedom. Johnson’s speech, on the other hand, was written in 1965 and discussed the civil rights movement. In it, he implored local governments to allow all American citizens, regardless of race, to vote. Despite the significant gap in time between these two addresses, both speakers use similar persuasive techniques, including ethos, pathos, and parallelism, to convince their audience that change needs to be implemented in America.

If one dreams it, one can achieve it. Sometimes it can be hard to picture doing something great that the normal person wouldn’t get to do, but that’s what is so great about dreaming big. With hard work, proper coaching, and proper equipment, it is completely possible to accomplish any goal one is dreaming of. This could even mean becoming a professional athlete. Nike created a campaign called “Risk Everything”, which emphasizes the idea of risking everything for the chance to succeed. It is symbolized with a skull and fire. Nike advertises this campaign with a commercial called, “Winner stays”, which creates a sense of motivation to young athletes to dream big and work hard while wearing Nike products to become the next big player that everyone is cheering for.