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Essay About Challenges In Life

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In life, everyone faces adversity or obstacles to some degree, Some sort of challenge that they must overcome in order to not only move on in life, but also in order to learn a valuable lesson and develop as a person. My life is no different, the only exception being that my life has more hardship than most. In fact, it has become an integral part of my existence and everyday life. I would not be the man I am today without my past struggles and conquered obstacles. Like a Joshua tree harsh winds may tear at my bark, contort and twist my branches yet I will never cease to grow and never cease to take the negatives of my life and make something positive of it in order to develop and hold my head high as I walk the arduous path of life. As I already …show more content…

Homeless shelters couldn’t even house us for longer than a week because our family was too big. We had to sleep in 24 hour Walmart parking lots because the police would get suspicious and bother us if we tried to sleep somewhere closed or abandoned. We would stay up until midnight passing the football around in the parking lot, our only source of entertainment or joy. No one would ask why three kids were out so late they would just get back to their lives while we struggled to keep ours. Eventually I took to my legal instincts, as an aspiring attorney and former mock trial participant I knew that there had to be something out there, some organization, some federal law that could help people like us at least to go to school. So I did research everyday when I was done looking for houses, I would start to see people from school in the libraries. I eventually stumbled across the federal law called the Mckinney-vento act that would allow any homeless student to immediately enroll in the school of their choice. Once we enrolled school and community took care of everything else. School supplies, finding the right house, everything and I will be eternally

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