Argumentative Essay: Should People Ever Give Up?

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The world we live in likes to test our limits, it tries to make you get to your breaking point; but the real question is should you let win? We live in a world that is diverse in many ways, but with this bring many issues and controversial ideas. You can 't control a lot of things like what 's going to happen tomorrow. The only thing you can do is just hope that the test stops to give you enough time to get back on your feet. I believe that people should never give up even when it gets hard because there is going to be many times in life you are going to go through struggles and things can get tough, but many times people can’t see that situations can get better, and they give up. Well, I believe in taking on a struggle, and just hoping for …show more content…
It can become very overwhelming. But you just got to surround yourself with people who are going to motivate you and make sure you don 't give up and you keep on going with your dreams. Even if it is being the first in your family to graduate high school, or go to college, it can all be a lot of responsibility for a teenager to handle. There is also having to handle teachers, homework, essays, studying and making sure you get good grades so your GPA doesn 't go down. When you look at all theses things it can make you get to that “breaking point” I talked about in the beginning.
In the article It’s Never too Late to Never Give Up by Ivan Crump, he is the founder of the Never Give Up Club, this is a group of students who help each other stay on course, at Stratford University culinary school in Baltimore. Crump argues that we shouldn 't return to the past, we should look forward to the future, we need to do a better job looking out for each other, and we should be leaders to ourselves first and show people how to keep going and never give up. He believes you need to be persistent and show people that they can do whatever they set their mind

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