Imagine if you had one of your limbs removed right when you were going to have your dream career. This is what Aimee Mullins and Bethany Hamilton had to go through. Even though Aimee Mullins and Bethany Hamilton handled their adversity in different ways, it is important to see that they also took things the same way but both were determined to pursue their goals in life.
Similarly, both Aimee Mullins and Bethany Hamilton were determined to pursue their dreams. Aimee Mullins worked with people to help design legs she can run with. If Aimee did not have someone to help her create legs she would not have been able to do what she loves which is running. Bethany Hamilton and her dad started training together. She trained with her disability and started adapting to
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Aimee was accepting who she was and took it for what it was. She was also persistent and did not let her adversity take control of her life. On the other hand, Bethany, in the beginning, was discouraged but then was inspired and determined to follow her dreams. After training, she realized that she can overcome her adversity and accept it for what it is. They handled how to face their life problems in with different attitudes.
Many things can be learned by Aimee and Bethany. One thing that definitely can be learned is persistence. Both used persistence because it could have been easy to just give up, but they did not. They knew what their goal in life was, and they did not want to leave their goal unbroken. They also wanted to make their dream turn into a reality and both accomplished it. Without persistence, they would not have completed their life goal of being an athlete.
Although Bethany Hamilton and Aimee Mullins faced a grand adversity they managed to pursue their goals with determination. Their persistence had to do with everything about facing adversity. perseverance let them be the people they are
Did you know twins are almost 12 times as likely as single-birth babies to develop cerebral palsy? Sportswriter, Rick Reilly, journals the experience of Ben Comen’s ultimate fight against both cerebral palsy and his ability to cross the finish line at the end of the cross country meet, in an article titled “Worth the Wait”. In the article, Reilly describes the tough obstacles Comen displays during the cross country meet, including him falling before the finish , being bandaged by the trainer and crossing the finish line finally. It is challenging to picture someone finishing a 3.1 mile trail, if you do not run, much less someone running with cerebral palsy. But Reilly drags the reader into the journey of Ben’s fight to finish the cross country
Sarah Childress was born near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on September 4 1803. She was born at a time when few girls went to school; But Sarah was given the rare gift of an education. That gift would pay off after she married James K Polk. Sarah and James had no children, so Sarah worked behind the scenes to help his husband achieve success.
Molly Ivins was born in Monterey, California in 1944. Her family moved a year after to Houston, Texas where she was raised (Reader 7). While she attends high school, she interns for the Houston Chronicles and is assigned to the Complaint Department (Reader 9). It is in this department that Ivins ' recognizes what customers are interested in reading—what attracts readers, what they expect from journalists’ and their articles (Reader 10). Eventually, Ivins gets a job as a police reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune.
Maria Mitchell was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts on August 1, 1818, and was one of nine brothers and sisters. Her family were Quakers and believed in equal education for men and women. Maria attended local schools and was tutored by her father. He taught her how to use a telescope when she was twelve, and she helped him calculate exactly when the annual solar eclipse would be. By the time she was fourteen, she was writing directions for sailors’ whaling trips.
Sally Louisa Tompkins was born November 9, 1833 in Poplar Grove in Tidewater region on Virginia’s Middle Peninsula. She was born to father Colonel Christopher Tompkins and mother Maria Patterson Tompkins. She had four sisters three of which died from a local epidemic that also took her father. Their names are Martha Tompkins Harriet Tompkins and Elizabeth Tompkins. Her only surviving family being her sister Maria Tompkins and her mother.
Esther Morris Esther Hobart McQuigg was born August 6, 1814 in the state of New York. Orphaned at the age of eleven, she earned her living doing housework for a neighbor. At an early age she started a millinery shop (Urbanek 5). Esther had been an antislavery worker, and, as a dressmaker, a successful businesswomen, and women’s rights advocate in her early twenties. Esther Morris helped build America through culture by redefining women’s rights.
Thus, although Tami Lloyd’s lack of a college education limited her many things in her life she is an unsung hero due to her attitude of self-confidence, responsibility and ambition along with her eagerness to learn, and her ability to be caring and understanding of individuals while keeping a modest thought process.
Katie Muck is 14 years old and going into 10th grade. She enjoys acting, public speaking, music, particularly band, and art. This is her first acting experience outside of school. She has been a 4-H member for 7 years. In the future, she would like to go to college to become a special education
Kerri demonstrated determination by fighting off excruciating pain to achieve a goal, while, Tracy showed determination by working hard everyday in the most depressing and physically challenging jobs. Kerri showed selflessness by sacrificing her health for the good of her team, while Tracy showed selflessness by putting her patient's health before her own and risking everything to save others. Kerri Strug, world known, has accomplished a lot during her career and has become a role model for many young individuals. However, she is still very similar to my everyday hero Tracy. Tracy did not achieve worldwide fame or role model status, but she still showed determination and selflessness, fitting my definition of a hero.
Mallory Pugh is an exceptional role model because she is smart, a hard worker, and an amazing athlete. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” This quote was said by Brian Tracey. I think that this quote is very important and that Mallory Pugh looked at her goals and her life in this way. Mal Pugh is an amazing student athlete.
Short Bio – Emily Bonilla Emily Bonilla is seeking election as Orange County Commissioner. Born in New York and raised in Massachusetts, Emily Bonilla is a proud Floridian of 18 years. She obtained an Associates Degree in Film from Valencia, a Bachelor's in English from UCF and Masters in Internet Marketing from Full Sail University. She has extensive private sector experience in film, photography, marketing and creative writing.
I had the opportunity to spend my service learning hours with an amazing young lady by the name of Paige. Paige is 25 years old and has a twin brother and a younger brother who she recently lost to suicide. It affected her deeply and she now battles depression. Paige was born premature, 3 months before her due date and weighed in at a whopping .??ounces. From the gate Paige had complications and had open heart surgery at ?
I did not attend church until I was seven, in fact it was not even until that point that I found my mom claimed to be Christian. When I was eight years old I was baptized, however I wasn’t truly saved until around the age of 10 or 11 when I first went to my mom’s now husbands home church, it was the first time I heard a sermon that was not all just good news. Brother Pete Ruble was preaching one of his notorious ‘fire and brimstone’ sermons and truthfully it was the first time I had been told that being baptized was not an automatic ‘get out of hell free’ card. At some point in these two years, while attempting to figure out what I wanted to do with my life so I could dress up for the life altering career day, all I could think about was God and what he would want from me. It was during this great internal debate that I first heard a missionary speak.
It is crucial to Jeanette’s development that she recognizes the need to be independent and to acknowledge the drive and determination required to succeed in life. Without the ability to persevere and push oneself past their fears, a person will inevitably fail, something Jeanette will not tolerate. In another example, while
One is that they both show that every problem has a solution and can sometimes be solved. Some of Randy’s lessons are that you should have a specific dream, have fun, be good at something, do the right thing, never give up, show gratitude, and find the best n someone not the worst. Some of Morrie’s lessons are to “accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. ”“Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.” “Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.”