Martin Luther King's Experience As A Positive Role Model

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Everything that is accomplished in our lives did not just happen with a simple poof. Every time a person achieves success there are obstacles in the way we might not see these obstacles, but they are there. People were not made to breeze through life with no stress. God put all people in this world to acquire and accomplish things through Him; however, no one has ever accomplished anything through His name without struggle. Jesus for instance took nails at the cross to be apart of God’s plan, most of the disciples died or got sent to jail just for spreading His word, but if we look at the great things they accomplished through God’s name, every struggle and obstacle was worth it. If every person did not have to worry about his or her consequences, …show more content…
Experience is an important part of teaching, parenting, and being a positive role model. The more a person experience in his or her own life the more he or she can share with others to help them. If you think about all of the strong powerful leaders in our community, they have all struggled with terrible things in their life. Take Martin Luther King Jr for example, he is the most common example because he suffered racial differences to the extreme point, but he still made his extremely popular point. He could have never helped and changed our whole world if he had not suffered all the pain and obstacles in his way. Without that one little thing that spoke to him to speak to others we would all be living in a racist world. With that one little obstacle he had to push through he ended up changing the world! Just because nothing is perfect right now it does not mean that an imperfect person cannot change the …show more content…
Of course any change can show to be difficult; however, the difficulties have to be looked pass to ever affect anything. Change is the greatness in the world because without change everything stays the same. Without change in the world people would get bored and angry because everything would be the same every day no matter what. When the world is moving forward this means it is changing, but a stand still means no one has changed anything. It means that people have not experienced enough tragedy and have not struggled. So when we think we have been a victim in a tragic movie, we need to remember that change is

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