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    Narrative Story One time I had to overcome adversity is when I had an AP bio test. This was the third or fourth big test we had taken in the class and the last test before the second quarter began. The week before the test I procrastinated studying until the very last night. The night before the test I knew I had to buckle down and study for at least a couple of hours. I heard my phone ring and looked at the number: the number on the screen wasn’t a number I had in my contacts. Typically I wouldn’t

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    began in privilege. From magnificent dollhouses, professional family Christmas pictures, and white picket fences, it all seemed so simple. Five-year-old me did not understand for the longest time what adversity was and how it would ever affect me. Twelve years later, I’ve come to realize that the adversity in my life has created diversity within me. Although my stereotypical blonde-haired, blue-eyed appearance can make others assume that diversity is not a part of my life, I have worked to overcome

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    The Jewish community has had to overcome both physical and mental elements that tested their faith. They overcame adversity when their people where being killed multiple times in history. In the beginning when the Egyptians where killing the males babies to “reduce” their population because they felt the community was taking over. To the 1940’s when Germany or “HItler” was trying to kill off their whole community and or religion. These events helped lead up to how Judaism became its own belief system

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    My article i choose to write on is called record number of homeless students facing adversity in the classroom. In my unit 9 assignment I am imagining that I am a teacher and my audience is students that is homeless and i’m encouraging students is to dont give up even when life gets rough. Abandoned and left homeless by her drug abusing parents, Burns high school senior Dawn Loggins of Lawndale, North Carolina was forced to rely on her friends spare couches and empty floors for shelter (Graham,

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    Adversity are hardships or misfortunes that most everyone will face at one point in their life. Adversity can assist you in realizing one's capabilities, their values, and give a person a feeling of self worth. Many people use their resiliency to overcome adversity. Resilience can be defined as the ability to fully recover from a tough situation. Adversity can affect a person either negatively or positively due to a person's will power of being able to resist or not. Having the ability to be resilient

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    There are many ways to fight adversity. Even though Fighting using force is another way to solve the problem, the best way to overcome adversity is to give the problem time, and revisit it because All attached parties need a few minutes to cool off, but then the way works. The way doesn't create fights and it can save friendships, and this way to overcome adversity was used by the Japanese and the people of the stanford prison experiment. In the Stanford Prison Experiment, a group of college kids

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    personal adversity are curiosity, focus, and composure. First of all, curiosity helps me to easily gain a lot of knowledge because I always have a desire to know more about every information. For example, why question is my frequency question in class. This help me to understand the lessons and memorize them longer. Especially, I always ask myself what I should do to be better; therefore, I can forget difficulties and continue to work harder. The second trait that help me to overcome my adversity is focusing

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    they persevered in different ways they both were able to overcome a struggle and be successful. To persevere you must be able to overcome adversity, and Buck and my Dad both did that. Buck was forced to persevere often in Call Of The Wild. In the book Call Of The Wild, Buck is torn from society and his everyday life, but he still finds a way to overcome the adversity and

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    or the coffee bean? Throughout my life I have faced plenty of adversity. I’ve faced it at home, I have faced it through sports, and I’ve even faced adversity at places like church. It’s everywhere, all the time. I don’t always handle it to the best of my ability, though. In many situations I am the carrot. I go into a difficult situation strong and feeling almost unbreakable, but the adversity molds you into a different person. Adversity is strong and transforms you into a weak, mushy substance if

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    There are many ways to overcome adversity. In the Movie “ Soul Surfer” Bethany Hamilton loses her arm to a shark. She was still able to over come adverstiy. There are many was to overcome adversity. Some ways to overcome adversity is by having a support sysytem , using association , and by problem solving . Many people overcome adversity. In the movie “ Soul Surfer”, Bethany Hamilton was able to overcome adversity. On of the wass she overcame adversity was by having a support system . In the

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