I believe one must struggle to stumble across their strength. In order to discover strength, one must fail, and overcome that failure to discover their strength. Strength is something that I have valued and built within my lifetime. I am extremely family orientated and I have parents that embolden my siblings and I to take on challenges on our own. Encouraging us to obtain jobs, paying for necessities, making our own mistakes and developing our own problem solving skills was essential in their parenting
My late grandma, Jan got me into writing when I was only ten years old. My writing methods in addition to my sentence structures have evolved throughout the years; however, I never really paid attention to my strengths and weakness as a writer until I first entered 16SP Composition I (ENGL-112-A). My first assigned essay was a reflection piece. Unfortunately, I lost my papa due to alcoholism; hence, why I wrote about how his death in impacted in my first project. While looking over the graded assignment
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”once said Frederick Douglass. Everyone goes through struggles, and it is up to them to excell forward using their strength. The struggles that Braverman and Hope go through show the requirement of finding inner strength. I myself, have also very recently gone through a struggle that has required me to reach inside and find the resilience in me. Within the novel, we see Braverman overcome a challenge that he has encountered. His challenge is that he
“I’m thankful for my struggles because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.” Through the eyes of Alex Elle you first must struggle in order to find your true strengths. An obstacle that most of us deal with throughout our lives. Some, more extreme than the other, regardless having the power to lift us as humans or tear us down. These crossroads are formed at different points and for different reasons in each person's life, nevertheless morphing them into the people they will soon
directions and follow the prompt. But when told to think about strengths and weaknesses of how they actually write those papers, it is a good eye opener to realize what needs to be improved and what is already superior quality. For my writing, being a perfectionist is in many ways a strength, but it can also be a weakness. My perfectionism affects all of my other strengths and weaknesses in my writing. I believe that one of my greatest strengths when I write is how well I can clearly comprehend a prompt
My biggest struggle in writing would be starting my introduction because I never really know what information to add in my stating my thesis statement. Although, one way I’m trying to improve this struggle is by either adding small quotes or definitions to hook the reader and to add some info about my topic. Furthermore, one essay that I feel reflects my writing the best would be the midterm essay. I picked the midterm essay because even though it was timed I still took my time and carefully picked
For my theory application assignment I chose to interview a young homosexual man from Raleigh, North Carolina. The reason I selected this particular individual is my desire to understand their population more. As a future social worker, I realize that I need to be able to help people from diverse backgrounds other than my own. Social work is a public trust, and the practice of social work in the public arena requires a clear distinction between one’s personal moral concerns and the social work values
In strengths quest there is about thirty four strengths.The top five I had were Consistency, Responsibility, Futuristic, Relator, and Harmony. These do describe me but, in very different ways. This gives you the revolutionary approach to achieving your goals. Some people may wonder how does taking a simple test describe my top strengths. Especially without testing them physically. I encourage many people to take the strengths quest test. This will show you your strengths and also help you with everyday
characters go through struggles and gain strength to overcome them. In our everyday lives we have struggles that we also have to overcome. In the novel Hope Was Here, one of the characters Braverman has to choose his family or education. The character Addie, faces the struggle of miscarrying three babies. In my life I have struggles and so do the people around me. For instance, my grandma went through the struggle of losing her husband. From this novel it is learned that if there's no struggle there's no strength
Looking back over my most recent English classes, I have learned many things about me and my writing. The most recent English class I had was English II with Coach Cates my sophomore year. I feel like this class did not help me as much as it could have. Even though I believe I did not get the most out of my most recent English class, I did learn a few things about my writing. My latest English class helped me discover some strengths, weaknesses, and difficulties I have yet to overcome in writing