“It’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” (Tony Robbins) The three texts characters all faced many hard decisions. In these moments they found the courage to do the right thing. After reading the texts “Doing the right thing”, “Thank You Ma'am” and “The Road Not Taken” it is evident that the characters found the courage to do the right thing from a role model, looking into the past, and they got their courage from a form of figurative language. Role models can be guides for making the right decision. In the three texts “Doing the Right Thing”, “The Road Not Taken” and “Thank You Ma’am” it is evident that they all had role models to look up to when making a hard decision. There were role models in “Doing the Right
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The three readings, “The Road Not Taken”, “Thank You Ma’am” and “Doing the Right Thing” all got courage from their pasts. Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”, the speaker stood before the two roads for a long time reflecting on their past and getting the courage to do choose the right road. This is shown in stanza 3, “And be one traveler, long I stood.” The traveler had a hard decision to make and while he was standing there for a long time he was reflecting himself and his past. He was looking back into his past so that in this decision he doesn’t make the same mistake from his past. In the short story by Langston Hughes “Thank you Ma’am”, Mrs.Jones gets her courage to do the right thing by looking back into the past because she identifies herself in Roger. This text says, “You thought I was going to say, but I didn’t snatch people's pocketbooks. Well, I wasn’t going to say that.” Mrs.Jones knows what Roger is going through because in her past she has made similar mistakes. She realizes the only way he will learn from his mistakes is she helps him, make the right decisions like not stealing her pocketbook. The article by Rick Reilly the four football players used their past to get the courage to do the right thing, when they could’ve taken. In the paragraph 24 it explicitly states, “I want to make him proud of me.” The football players during their time of decision whether to steal or to pay the amount, they looked into their past, to their parents. Their parents taught them right from wrong which gave them courage to choose the best choice, which was not to steal. These three texts characters got their courage from their pasts to make the right and best
The three readings, “The Road Not Taken”, “Thank You Ma’am” and “Doing the Right Thing” all got courage from their pasts. Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”, the speaker stood before the two roads for a long time reflecting on their past and getting the courage to do choose the right road. This is shown in stanza 3, “And be one traveler, long I stood.” The traveler had a hard decision to make and while he was standing there for a long time he was reflecting himself and his past. He was looking back into his past so that in this decision he doesn’t make the same mistake from his past. In the short story by Langston Hughes “Thank you Ma’am”, Mrs.Jones gets her courage to do the right thing by looking back into the past because she identifies herself in Roger. This text says, “You thought I was going to say, but I didn’t snatch people's pocketbooks. Well, I wasn’t going to say that.” Mrs.Jones knows what Roger is going through because in her past she has made similar mistakes. She realizes the only way he will learn from his mistakes is she helps him, make the right decisions like not stealing her pocketbook. The article by Rick Reilly the four football players used their past to get the courage to do the right thing, when they could’ve taken. In the paragraph 24 it explicitly states, “I want to make him proud of me.” The football players during their time of decision whether to steal or to pay the amount, they looked into their past, to their parents. Their parents taught them right from wrong which gave them courage to choose the best choice, which was not to steal. These three texts characters got their courage from their pasts to make the right and best