Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier suffered an injury during December 2017. He was rushed into the hospital because he was paralyzed and couldn’t feel his lower. The organization had released a public statement sending out their condolences to his family and his team. One week after the injury occurred he could feel his legs and is now in a wheelchair and back at practice, Dictionary.com defines adversity as an unfavorable fortune or fate; a condition marked by misfortune, calamity or distress. Ryan Shazier was once a full man making millions and is now a finite version of himself as he is in a wheelchair. He handled the adversity that came his way with courage and resolve; strength of character around the league and this could also be rephrased
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Poet, Elizabeth Bishop exemplifies this in one of her more revolutionary poems, “The Fish” “I looked into his eyes which were far larger than mine but shallower, and yellowed, the irises backed and packed with tarnished tinfoil seen through the lenses of old scratched isinglass. They shifted a little, but not to return my stare. It was more like the tipping of an object toward the light. I admired his sullen face,”(Bishop).
“The Fish” is the perfect example of how overcoming adversity determines your success. ith a description of the Fish, there is no physical struggle but there is hardship and adversity. The struggle is shown as Bishop goes more into detail when being concrete and descriptive about its physical appearance and …show more content…
Protagonist Morrie Schwartz faced adversity at a young age and promised himself from a young age to give his nuclear family the life he never had. “In the evenings he watched his father eat in silence, hoping for-but never getting- a show of affection, communication, warmth. At nine years old, he felt as if the weight of a mountain was on his shoulder.”(Albom). Morrie vowed to be more affectionate and this example of adversity that he faced, determined his success and developed him as a person because ones overcoming of adversity determines their success and develops them as a
Poet, Elizabeth Bishop exemplifies this in one of her more revolutionary poems, “The Fish” “I looked into his eyes which were far larger than mine but shallower, and yellowed, the irises backed and packed with tarnished tinfoil seen through the lenses of old scratched isinglass. They shifted a little, but not to return my stare. It was more like the tipping of an object toward the light. I admired his sullen face,”(Bishop).
“The Fish” is the perfect example of how overcoming adversity determines your success. ith a description of the Fish, there is no physical struggle but there is hardship and adversity. The struggle is shown as Bishop goes more into detail when being concrete and descriptive about its physical appearance and …show more content…
Protagonist Morrie Schwartz faced adversity at a young age and promised himself from a young age to give his nuclear family the life he never had. “In the evenings he watched his father eat in silence, hoping for-but never getting- a show of affection, communication, warmth. At nine years old, he felt as if the weight of a mountain was on his shoulder.”(Albom). Morrie vowed to be more affectionate and this example of adversity that he faced, determined his success and developed him as a person because ones overcoming of adversity determines their success and develops them as a