Essay On Hard Work

To be successful in America is an individual and government decision. Success can be accomplished by hard work, fighting racial and gender equality, and understanding of today's world. Hard work is something that makes you successful. No one ever got anywhere from sitting on their butts. Hardwork is key to anything, even getting up the stairs takes hard work. Looking at the text, The Great Migration, shows a good example of hard work. W.E.B Dubois is an example of hard work. In The Great Migration the African-Americans worked hard to get from the South to the North. If they didn’t they would still be have to sit and work for little to no money. W.E.B Dubois set a good example of hard work by convincing African-Americans to fight for their

A lot of problems come from there still being a lot of racism in America. African-American people are still stereotypically judged. This is still a problem because if her name is something like Laquita she’s automatically labeled as a hood rat or ratchet, but nobody ever thought that she was top of her high school class and graduated college with her bachelors. People stereotype others by their name and no one ever thinks to read pass that. This can add-on to the fact that it is more than likely that it’s a white male who will succeed. According to State High School Graduation Rates By Race, Ethnicity, Only 69 percent of African-Americans graduate highschool and 89 percent of whites graduate highschool. Back in the past African-Americans were never able to test their knowledge levels because we never got the chance. African-Americans were labeled dumb and slow without having the chance to get proper education. The past can definitely affect the future, since some people still feel that things should be the same, and let's be real if there was a two men selling the same thing and one’s name was John and the others name was Raquan who would have the most