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A more than usual amount of sweat dripped from my hands as I held the fifth-grade science fair certificate. I was proud to stand, in my best white dress, as the only African-American female recipient at Monticello Elementary School. This early period in my academic life was marked by a growing interest in science, which…

While volunteering for food delivery at a soup kitchen four years ago, I encountered a diabetic old lady. She walked awkwardly towards me to receive the food and the pile of dusty books behind her caught my attention. As I conversed with her, she shared her love for reading and that her disease had prevented…

During the last eleven years I have been working as a professional driver for a national bus company. Although driving for the public can be a very testing career, it has given me the opportunity to engage with the public daily, to face the challenges of working various shift lengths and to become a more…

Almost every teenager wants a job, yet many individuals are against it. Summer was the golden time to gain the real work experience for teenagers like me. Nearly 2 years ago, when I started working for Walmart, this job was much easier in comparison of having worked previously at Dunkin Donut. At Walmart, as a…

Pride and Perseverance Essay African-American Literature consists of numerous themes or characteristics. Each story, poem, or slave narrative can be linked to an oppressive time, when the major character of each piece tried to overcome such hardships. Taking this into consideration, the two characteristics I chose to explore in our assignment are struggle and pride….

People wonder what Perseverance Essay is? According to The America Heritage Dictionary perseverance means: To persist in or remain constant to a purpose, idea, or task in spite of obstacles. In the book, The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, the main character Santiago shows many ways of perseverance. Perseverance was seen in…

The founding fathers constructed the Constitution with the notion that “all men were created equal. ” However, many minorities still struggle for the same rights and opportunities as others. “Mother to Son” and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” are poems written by Langston Hughes that use symbolism to exemplify the struggles of African Americans as…

A Life of Perseverance Perseverance can be defined as a “continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failures, or oppositions” (“Perseverance”). In their short stories “A Worn Path” and “Everyday Use,” Eudora Welty and Alice Walker show perseverance in their characters Phoenix and Mama. Both of these women narrate the passages and are…

Personal Perseverance in the Works of Maya Angelou       Internationally respected brilliant poet, historian, and author Maya Angelou says “in all my work I try to tell the human truth-what it is like to be human. what makes us stumble and fumbleand fall and somehow miraculously rise and go on from the darkness and…

Humans go through life fearing what struggles they may face, instead of taking control over their problems. In Mythology by Edith Hamilton, the Greek warriors took control over every struggle that came before them. Oedipus did his best to avoid his fate. Achilles knew the prophecy that was put in place for him. Odysseus’s biggest…