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    When someone experiences great adversity they can obtain from it one of two things, resilience or pessimism . These outcomes depend on a person’s attitude. If has an optimistic view throughout this time, they will learn that they are stronger and more capable of accomplishing tasks they never dared to face before. I strongly believe that during a time of misfortune a person can learn more about themselves and have a better grasp of what life is like. Growing up with everything available to someone

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    story. The Roman poet Horace once wrote, “adversity has the effect on eliciting talents which prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. In Purple Hibiscus, Adichie utilizes the charter Kambili to prove this idea to be strong, but when her father around it's a different story. In the beginning of purple hibiscus ,Kambili adversities do elicit talents she never knew she had which proves horace argument that adversity leads to positive change. “Cramps reached

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    Horace Adversity Analysis

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    Hardships have the power to make a break a person, as Roman poet, Horace, once said, “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. Everyone has or will have to face adversity at some point in their lives, it is a universal truth. Although misfortunes usually have a negative connotation, depending on the struggle and how one deals with it, it is likely the person will come out of misfortune better prepared for the world. Contrastly, if a

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    experienced adversity and the effects that come from it. Adversity can have positive and negative impacts, many times when people struggle with adversity, it leads to chaos. We have seen this in the present, past and fiction. Adversity is shown in the present in form of a natural disaster, for example, the earthquake in Iran, adversity is seen in the past, explorers faced it, we also see adversity in the book Lord of The Flies by, William Golding. All of these examples show how adversity can have a

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    inevitable. No one said being human was an easy thing, and that nothing can ever go wrong. As human beings we are faced with obstacles in our lives, some individuals are harder than others. The path to success and fulfillment comes with a great deal of adversity; consider the characters from The Blind Side and also myself, some of the problems that each of us personally have been faced with was overcoming a lack of education, dealing with society’s stereotypes, and lastly learning the importance of determination

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    Lionel Serbousek, in Stotan! is affected and responds to adversity in a variety of ways throughout the book. He is very strong with his opinions and resilient when he doesn’t get his way. He isn’t spoiled or bratty, just is opinionated and has strong feelings about many things. With Lion’s parents being killed in a freak boating accident, he has to be the leader. He has nobody taking him through life, therefore making him the leader and man to look up to. These actions really show the reader how

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    cowardliness through faces of adversity. Adversity means a condition marked by misfortune, calamity, or distress. The two characters that are faced with adversity are John Proctor and Abigail Williams. Couragousness will be shown with John while Abigail shown with cowardliness. John and Abigail will be faced with adversity and then see who is courageous and who is cowardice about it. Miller created John Proctor to show how difficult it is to be courageous in times of adversity. Right now the teenage

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    Is adversity important in society? “Harrison Bergeron” is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. It is about a dystopian future that is overly exaggerated as a future for it’s ridiculous methods of equality, such as handicapping someone so they are like everyone else. In The Giver everyone is similar or transpires to be; competition isn’t infatuated for, so no one strives for it. Adversity really isn’t considered a pleasant quality; it more makes you an outcast than anything else; however, adversity

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    face adversity, they give up. They see it as a challenge that can’t be overcome and rather than finding a way around it they flee in fear of the consequences. Usually, this is because we lack experience and knowledge of how to overcome the issue. But as we age and as our condition in life worsens through adversity, we gain the necessary knowledge to not overcome it, but to find comfort and acceptance in it. Through the telling of Morrie Schwartz’s life and teachings, his acceptance of adversity leads

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    3) What question(s) do/does this story answer? Why does this question need an answer? A couple of questions that Believe this story answered are: Are parents really human? Will the family stand behind its members? How does the family handle adversity? First, Mr. Robison’s story about his dad is a primary example of parents begin human. No one is perfect, and having a father like Mr. Robison has shown this. His father didn’t have a simple idea that his son existed, but he was willing to be part

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