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Summary Of Attitude By Margaret Atwood

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Reality can be improved; the person only needs to be willing to try. Margaret Atwood delves deeper into this concept in a speech she made titled, "Attitude", in 1983 for graduates at the University of Toronto during their commencement ceremony. Atwood discusses that people have the ability to make choices regarding their reactions to unfavourable circumstances that will undoubtedly occur in life. Atwood additionally reminds students that each individual has the strength to decide to notice the positives and they also have the charge to change the world in which they live. It was an unconventional composition that unquestionably impacted the graduates because of her writing abilities, and because their minds are accustomed to creativity
During her speech, Atwood delivers advice to the graduates of liberal art school who would shortly be propelled into the world unsuspecting of what was to come. She mentions an array of matters in the speech, such as the errors in the education system, and the issue of willpower— specifically, concerning how society recognizes the world is being destroyed by mistakes made, yet no efforts to develop are transpiring. The speech was intended to provide pupils with genuine encouragement from someone who experienced life following university and to have one final takeaway for the next chapter they would face— the central takeaway being the greatest change that can be done to ameliorate a situation is a change in attitude and perception.
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