Working Harder Research Paper

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I have gotten to a point in my life when I need to realize who I want to become and what goals I want to achieve. There was a point in my life in which I felt that I need to work twice as hard as my other classmates.
I felt that I needed to work twice as hard because I was in a wheelchair. I did not want my classmates to think that I was getting the grade just because I was in a wheelchair. I think that sometimes people think that teachers give me good grades because of sympathy.
For me the last thing that I want is for people to have sympathy for me. I feel that this has made me work harder because I did not want people to look at me differently. Working harder has helped me in many ways. One of the things that it has helped me is in learning

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