Robin Williams Research Paper

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How many of you in this classroom can say that you have went through depression, where success will bring you to a euphoric state of mind, where endless opportunities can not make you smile, where $50 million can not and will not help yourself carry on with your day. My name’s Robin Mclaurin William but most of you may know me as just Robin Williams.
Starting off my life, I was born in the city of Chicago, Illinois. I was never a confident kid, I would like to describe myself sort of like a, how do you call it? A loser. I was an introvert and never got over my fear of people until I joined my high school drama department. Graduating highschool, I was voted as the “least likely to succeed” but at the same time “funniest”. I guess I think it is neither nor be favorable or atrocious.
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I decided to drop out and enroll in a drama class. Eventually I started gaining more fame as I started taking the opportunities around me and joined plays habituary. After gaining attention, I got accepted to Julliard, a school where you would think only the celebrities be accepted, a school for only the prestige and elites. Now here I am, a young nobody who just got accepted into a prominent college. It just proves the fact that, passion drives. What do you think I did next? Instead of graduating at one of the world’s most renowned performing arts school out there, I dropped out for the sake of being unable to educate myself more than I already

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