Success: Kewauna's Bargain

Success Essay Many people ask what is success, or what does it mean to be successful? Success is defined in multiple ways but always have a key element. Success is having a chance to achieve to one's full ability, through challenging themselves, and using hard work, while respecting the ones who paved the path. The background to one's life to a certain extent contributes to one's success, and is demonstrated through “The Secret to Raising a smart kids,” “Kewauna’s Ambition,” and “Marita’s Bargain.” In the text “The Secret to Raising a smart kids” it demonstrates how people affect one’s ability to achieve, like their parents, and how people affect how successful you can and will be. When a parent promotes talent, but don't promote room to challenge one’s self it leaves the child vulnerable. This causes major trouble when a challenge is introduced. In the text they visited schools to further their investigation. Instead of children in schools seeing challenge as an opportunity, they give up and fold. They have a lack of interest because they are not good at the new material introduced. They have a lack of effort, because the work is no longer easy, so they fail. “The Secret to Raising a smart kids” explains success as challenging one’s full ability, and having an open mind for criticism. If parents praised, but also challenged children, …show more content…
Kewauna is an African American who comes from a struggling family. When entering college, she was determined to receive the best education she possible could. When having difficulties in her Biology class, she asked many questions and moved to the front of her classes, but she quickly noticed whites were in the front and African Americans in the back. What she noticed was people conforming to the social norm. I order for her to be successful, she had to be willing to work. Her ethnic background was not to hinder her, but to promote her to be