Exemplification Essay: Why We Should Take Edmund Dantes

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Life is not fair and it will never be. There are millions of people punished because the crime they didn’t commit. Thousands of people were suffering for being true and hundreds lives were lost for being honest. Life is not reasonable. Life isn’t just. We should learn to be prepared on what will happen tomorrow, because we do not know what will take place in the future.
Courage, faith and perseverance are some of the characteristics that we should possess if we what to survive. Courage to fight all the challenges and problems that defies our ability to continue, Faith that we are going to surpass all the things that stops us and perseverance to continuously fight and do our best even the odds were not in our side.
We should take Edmund Dantes

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