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    Krakauer talks about his journey up and down the tallest mountain in the world during the deadliest season in 1996. Jon Krakauer proves perseverance is the key to overcoming challenges because perseverance fuels your passion, helps you press through challenges, and how perseverance will always prevail. Perseverance is the key to overcoming challenges because it fuels someone's passion. As

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    Michael Jordan Obstacles

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    many obstacles he faced in order to succeed. He has “missed over and over again in [his] life and that is why [he] succeeds.” People trusted him over and over again and often times he failed. However, he didn’t give up. Michael Jordan’s continual trial and error connects to the poem, “Mother to Son” and the theme of never giving up no matter how hard the obstacles you face. The poem is about a mother telling her son how she is still going and how she persevered through the tough obstacles she

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    Son of Laertes and Anticleia to navigate a dangerous circumstance with both physical and mental resilience. Despite the adversity, Odysseus's ability to devise a cunning plan, seen when escaping Polyphemus’ cave, exemplifies his cleverness in overcoming obstacles which combines courage and strategic

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    surmount. Eventually upon arrival at the second stanza, Stallings shifts gears to present the reader with a motivation for overcoming life’s obstacles. She describes that only one’s self can overcome the obstacles that are present in everyday life through believing in themselves, for only one’s true self has the ability to face obstacles with the confidence of overcoming them. Fairy-tale Logic, thoughtfully constructed by A.E. Stallings, seeks to portray a message that life is not alway easy,

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    veterans have overcome and are still working to overcome is truly a blessing in disguise. The impacts that the “Wounded Warrior Project” has had on Keith and Chris helped them to overcome many hard obstacles that they have face, things such as impacting the physical aspects of their lives, overcoming the obstacles, and adaption to their new lives. Through this project the individuals life have been changed. Changing the physical aspects of the wounded veteran’s life is what “Wounded Warrior” does, but

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    The American Dream

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    the reality of what this country is really like. What was thought to be a gateway to a great life is now considered somewhat of a nightmare, but not completely because one will get somewhere in life most likely, but just have to go through many obstacles before reaching their goal. Perhaps the goal will not even be reached but one will still be put in a decent position. Four authors have taught and gave examples of what the dream is really like. Langston Hughes gave the piece “I, too, sing America”

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    the time our dreams are layered with obstacles that we must overcome to achieve what we want. While these obstacles prove to be difficult to deal with and rise above they teach us lessons that we need to learn in order to fulfill our potential. Obstacled teach us how to grow and adapt, the key to overcoming them is using them to your advantage and learning everything they have to offer you. A couple pieces of literature that show characters overcoming the obstacles in their lives and using them to achieve

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    Obstacle Writing Prompt—Huck Finn Throughout the story of Huckleberry Finn Huck goes through many Obstacles. There are obstacles such as his father not being the role model he should be, or how he becomes friends with Jim even though society tells him not too. Another Obstacle comes when the widow tries to help Huck out and bring him into her house. Huck’s Father was a drunk who would leave and wouldn’t come back from time to time. He always treated Huck bad; telling him he wasn’t good enough

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    “Imagination is the key ingredient to overcoming fear and doubt.” Throughout “The Scarlet Letter”, Nathaniel Hawthorne tends to emphasize the intensity of Pearl’s imagination by describing the way Pearl saw the world around her and by talking about the way the people who noticed her vivid imagination, referred to her as a “witch-child”. In “The Scarlet Letter”, Pearl grows up secluded from the rest of the children in the New World. She learns to entertain herself and keep herself company by using

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    few. After synthesizing various accounts and literature about trauma, it is possible to categorize the effect trauma has on the individual into two main categories: the positive and the negative reactions. In modern society, trauma is seen as an obstacle

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