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    happen whether it is a car accident, cancer, or a traumatic brain injury and they think, “ It won’t happen to me.” In Claudia’s case, it is an extremely frightening and frustrating situation. After suffering a traumatic brain injury, she suffered in many areas of daily life. As I read through the short period of Claudia’s life, many thoughts had gone through my head. My perception of success was questioned, even my feelings toward my future career as a

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    viewpoints of what success means. One person could read straight from the dictionary and tell you that’s what they view success to be. As for me, success is accomplishing something you put your all into. What better feeling than to see the results you were striving for come true in front of your eyes or even just the feeling inside. Success is not all about the money, simply put because money doesn’t buy happiness. The money that was earned could be the reward received from what your success in, or something

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    Success Definition Essay

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    Success Writing Assignment Essay Success means many things to many different people. The definition in the dictionary says it is the “performance or achievement that is marked by success, as by the attainment of honors” ( Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com. Web. 2 Sept. 2015.) therefore, it means that success mostly comes from hard work. To me, that is the exact definition. Having some kind of achievement can come from just about anything; work, sports, school and much more. No matter what, I do believe

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    the biggest house, and the most beautiful family. However, they fail to realize that those things lie in the eye of the beholder. If one thinks he or she needs the best things, the most money, then they will never be happy, for they fail at realizing what is truly important. And having a beautiful family is only seen through one’s own eyes. I, for one, lived a wonderful life filled with many joys, adventures, and memories. I had the privilege to see all the sights from Rome to Paris, from Zermatt

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    fascinated with success. Not just how you get it and what it means, but also the age old question can you have it all? Achieving success can be a complicated process or an easy one depending on what one chooses to pursue. We all have different definitions of success, for some of us it means academics, wealth, happiness, or health. This topic interests me in particular because it is something we can all get into common grounds with. No matter who you are or what you do the pursuit of success is the thing

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    has a different version of success. To be successful to me would mean, standing right with God, having no more worries and also seeing all my loved ones happy (God and family). Although throughout life there is pretty much a guarantee of obstacles to keep one from being successful. For example a job, having no money, negativity, getting off track, envying of others, no confidence or perseverance, this list could go on forever, however I have a few strategies to keep me successful and not stuck in

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    What is success? Is success something that you can eat? Is it a physical object you can touch or a psychological feeling in the mind? Success is characterized differently by various people. For some people it means wealth. Others it means happiness. To me, success means making sure my family is living a healthy happy life. It means making valuable life decisions and having a feeling of belonging. Success is not only about helping yourself reach full potential. It is about bringing others along and

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    have. If I was to define what America means to me I would say perseverance, success, equality, and freedom. All of those adjectives might just seem that they are nothing except for words, but they mean something much more. Two hundred and fifty years ago the revolution began. The war took perseverance, but it lead to great success. The revolutionary war took eight years, testing the nation’s and its

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    The American Dream means something different to everyone. The true definition of the American dream is, “The ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.” People have gone through and have suffered more than others. Freedom might mean more to someone than it might to their neighbor. Although each idea is different, everyone, in the end, wants success. To me, the American Dream means hard work. In my

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    to ask me what I wanted to do with my life in the sixth grade, I would’ve responded like any other child would. My response would have centered around making my family proud of me, an example being, “More than anything I would like to be a (enter extremely complicated profession here)”, but as any other confused teenager lost amidst the ever changing world we call ours; I have learned that my happiness and existence relies more on what I call success than what society calls theirs. Success to my grandmother

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