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Breaking Through Uncertainty-Welcoming Adversity By Jim Mccormick: Character Analysis

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Breaking through uncertainty-welcoming adversity by Jim McCormick teaches us not to gave up. He takes dangerous risks with life-threatening situations. He renewed his confidence when and accident occurred on his 2123rd jump. His this jump signifies, he is well experienced in skydiving. On his this jump lines of parachute got twisted and his life was in danger. But he didn’t gave up. Instead of getting confused which handle to pull first to get rid from twisted lined parachute and secure his life with saved parachute to land on earth. "fortunately, ingrained training again took over and I pulled them in the right order"(para 15), reminded him about his training. So he pulled right side handle to get rid from twisted lined parachute. In view

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