Hard Work: Why Do Americans Become Successful And Strong?

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Why many Americans become so successful and strong? According to Datesman, Crandall, and Kearny, the values influence Americans a lot, including individual freedom, self-reliance, equality of opportunity, competition, hard work, inventiveness, and can-do spirit. (Ch2, Ch4) Because of undeveloped resources, hard work, one of values, is a way to let Americans success. Nowadays, it still deeply affect many famous people, such as Michael Jordan, Thomas Alva Edison, and John Forbes Nash, Jr. and so on.
Most people support the view that the basis of success is hard work. In America, the origin of hard work meaning came from the first settles used the only way, “Hard Work”, to let the natural resources that were undeveloped be converted into material
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However, Michael Jordan is one of hard work examples. Michael Jordan biography claims that when Jordan was in high school, he was not chosen to become basketball school team player because his height was not enough 5’11”. The height problem was fatal at that time, no matter how much talent you had or how you were good at basketball. To anyone’s surprised, instead of giving up, Michael Jordan practiced more harder than before. Since Jordan wanted to prove his ability, several times he got more than forty points in the basketball game. Because Jordan grew four inches and his effort, he succeeded and became one of the basketball players in his school. The author states that American used hard work to reach their goal (Datesman, Crandall, and Kearny 36). Hard Work of Michael Jordan let him succeed (“Biography-Michael …show more content…
(1928-2015). When Nash was young, his parents strongly provided him education. Nash biology shows that Nash was a hard working student. He was interested in math and in the last year of high school he started taking the advanced math lesson. In university, Nash was hard work to try to prove his Nash equilibrium. However, Nash was hard work too much and let him suffer from Schizophrenia. Nash still researched his assume. In the end, Nash succeeded to prove his Nash equilibrium and announced. He got the prize that many scientists want, Economic Sciences Nobel Memorial Prize. His Nash equilibrium caused a sensation in Economics. Many Economics theories were based on Nash equilibrium. The author states that hard work let Americans succeed (Datesman, Crandall, and Kearny 36). Nash had hard work attitude and successfully achieve his

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