The Funny Thing About Adversity By David Desteno

In Larry Lankton’s text, “Beyond the Boundaries” we gradually enter an unknown world that is frightening yet filled with immense beauty for miles. Due to the copper mining industry, a gradual increase of working class men and their families start to migrate to the unknown world with unsteady emotion, yet hope for a prosperous new life. In “Beyond the Boundaries”, Lankton takes us on a journey on how the “world below” transformed the upper peninsula into a functional and accepted new part of the world.

Similar to a cactus’ bloom in the heat of the desert, through adversity humanity prospers and processes. Society, as a whole, has experienced, at least once, hardships in their lifetime, and through these trying situations people acquire compassion. Being familiar with challenges, people more readily accepts the distress of others and offer required assistance during times of difficulty. Although adversity is seen as the creator of contempt and hatred because of its negative effects on mentality, adversity fosters compassion through the creation of empathy, morality, and association in a person with others in a calamity.

In the poem “Fear and Fame by Philip Levine, readers gain insight into the struggles of a blue collar worker. The intimate description of the worker highlights the dangerous and monotonous work he performed but also accentuates the pride of the blue collar worker. Levine’s use of meter and rhythm, irony, figurative language, and tone provide an understanding of the difficulties faced by blue collar workers.

The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela is arguably the most important novel of the Mexican Revolution because of how it profoundly captures the atmosphere and intricacies of the occasion. Although the immediate subject of the novel is Demetrio Macias - a peasant supporter of the Mexican Revolution -, one of its extensive themes is the ambivalence surrounding the revolution in reality as seen from a broader perspective. Although often poetically revered as a ‘beautiful’ revolution, scenes throughout the novel paint the lack of overall benevolence even among the protagonist revolutionaries during the tumultuous days of the revolution. This paper will analyze certain brash characteristics of the venerated revolution as represented by Azuela’s

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once wrote that “the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” And that couldn’t be more prevalent in the book, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Every single character struggles with the internal conflicts of right versus wrong, forcing them to do things that will change their life indefinitely. Whether it’s through Werner’s choice to murder a one of his one Nazi officers to save Marie-Laure, Or through Etienne’s actions to stop being a bystander of the war and instead risk his life to help defeat the Germans.

“First of All, Treat Them with Hope” is a program directed towards the immigrant population in the state of Utah. According to the Center for Immigration Studies (2014), there is an estimated 41.3 million immigrants (documented and undocumented) living in the United States. In Utah alone, the estimate is approximately 236,954 immigrants (Center for Immigration Studies, 2014). These numbers, however, are approximated due to the fact that many immigrants who are undocumented are not involved in social systems which allow for them to be counted due to fear and discrimination. Thus the estimates provided are most likely lower than what is actual fact. With the assistance of Family Counseling Services of Northern Utah, an agency who works closely with the immigrant community in Ogden, Utah, we will be able to help immigrant families adapt to and deal with their everyday cultural challenges. By doing so, it will provide them with the tools and education needed to better succeed in life. One of the long term goals is to be able to expand this program from a local beginning to a national market. By expanding this program and creating educational conscience throughout our nation, we will create a more accepting and informed community that promotes equality and inclusion instead of fear and negativity.

In the poem “Facing It”, by the poet Yusef Komunyakaa, he himself is the one who is speaking, the poem is about his own life experience at the Vietnam Memorial. The way a person can tell if the own poet of the poem is the speaker is by the use of first person. In this case, the poet uses words like “I” and “I’m” that support the fact that he is the speaker. The Vietnam War was a Historical event taken place in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Which was one of the first War that African Americans were integrated with White people, and the majority of the soldiers were African Americans. Komunyakaa, being an African American soldier in the Vietnam War and surviving, is an honor, as not many African American’s survived. For Komunyakaa all his bad

' ' 'James Stephen Smith ' ' ' was a schizophrenic defense attorney and who thought women were the “the tools of his enemies” through a an old story in the Bible called the wife of Heber.

In the article “Champion of the Underdog”, the author explains to us Lucy Cooke, zoologist wants the people in the world to pay as more attention to unattractive animals in the underdog as cute animals. In order to gather more audiences, Cooke makes online contents instead of using conventional channel. She claims providing funny and humorous contents is the best way to deliver the significant messages to the people. When amphibians are just around the corner of extinction, scientists focus on the financial support of adorable animals. The gravest threat of the disappearance of amphibians stimulated Cooke to launch the blog for them. Endangered amphibians is the signal to reflect danger on the ecosystem. Cooke tells the people uncovered, but

"He thought only about each step when it came, and not the impossible task that lay before him. Higher and higher he climbed. His strength came from deep inside himself and also seemed to come from the outside as well."

In The editorial Can You Meet the Challenge? author Jane Emery challenges not only the students of Central High, but the America as a whole to mature and prove to themselves about who they really are. Through the editorial Jane Emery shows her aspirations of a more intact and improved society. And that she want the nation to come together as one.

In Disappointment is Impossible, Gene Kranz relates these exciting noteworthy occasions and offers new data about the acclaimed flights. What seemed, by all accounts, to be an almost immaculate mission to the moon were, indeed, a progression of hair-raising close misses. At the point when innovation flopped, as it once in a while did, the controllers' just plan of action was to depend on their abilities and those of their partners. Kranz uncovers little-known subtle elements to exhibit the initiative, pupil, trust, and collaboration that made the space program a win.

Steve Goodier once said “Those who overcome great challenges will be changed, and often in unexpected ways. For our struggles enter our lives as unwelcome guest, but they bring valuable gifts. And once the pain subsides, the gifts remain. These gifts are life’s true treasures, bought at great price, but cannot be acquired in any other way.” This quote is saying that when one person is going through great challenges, they are changed and earn treasures after that adventure. Challenges can bring one wisdom, learning life lessons and becoming braver.

​Just like any other character developed by a child, nature and nurture are significant factors in reading and writing habits.Research shows that attitude towards reading and writing cultivated early can largely affect the ability of children to express themselves through writing. In most cases, children’sfirst encounter with books is bedtime stories from their parents.My journey of reading and writing was a rollercoaster. A story of battles, some won others lost.

As people, we try to understand each others’ hardships, but the extent to which we do, depends on the type of hardship that occurs. Take these two scenarios. Suppose it’s your best friend’s surprise birthday. You walk out the office, hop in your car, but immediately after turning the ignition, your car dies. Luckily, a co-worker lets you borrow their bike, but the five mile ride to the party is harrowing--explosions of thunder startle you, pouring rain assaults your back, and bitter cold gnaws at your ungloved hands--delaying you enough that you miss the surprise party. Now suppose, you’re the same man with the same problem, but this time on your bike ride home, the weather is perfect. Your a mile from your destination