Overcoming Adversity Essay

“Easy-out!” I hear snickers from the opposing team, while my own team holds their breath. The pitcher rolls the ball towards my eight-year-old self, pity in their eyes. It skids towards me, and I kick it away, pathetically slowly. Just as they predicted, I am out. For the rest of the summer camp, I avoided all the kickball games in shame. For years afterward, I tried to avoid competition and conflict of any sort. I stayed away from card and board games, and when my classmates shrieked with…

Bill Clinton once said “It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.” Every person will eventually face adversity in their life. The person who chooses to face their adversity head on and overcome it, will be the most successful. When I was nine years old I was diagnosed with Anxiety and Depression, but I have chosen to face my adversity in order to overcome it. For many people mental illness is hard to understand if you haven’t…

“You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.” - Michelle Obama. The quote connects to the novel Purple Hibiscus by the main character, Kambili, who uses adversity to elicit talents. In the novel Purple Hibiscus, Chimimanda Ngozie Adichie writes about a young girl named Kambili who lives with a religious and strict family and starts to find herself by visiting her…

fearing the years I had left with her. However, I overcame this adversity by remembering the greater adversity that a high school basketball team in New Orleans, Louisiana faced and overcame. Overtime, Kayla always had something to say whether it was about my looks or skills. For example, on January 16, 2015 Kayla sat out the game due to an injury, but she still sat on the bench cheering…

Overcoming Adversity and Personal Growth in Holler If You Hear Me and Lord of the Flies Overcoming problems, obstacles, struggles in life isn’t easy but it does have a positive result in one’s personal growth and life. “Holler if You Hear Me” by Michael Eric Dyson is a biography of Tupac mainly focused on events, people in his life, behind his career and the unseen mental physical struggles he faced. William Golding has designed a character in “Lord of the Flies” “Ralph” who is one of the boys…

conclude that I have made it through the toughest times anyone could ever experience, but I know that’s far from true. I feel fortunate enough to say that I have not been through the worst, yet the experiences I have encountered over time with overcoming adversity has immensely impacted who I am and how I view the world. Just this fall of my junior year, I made a verbal commitment to play hockey for the Colgate University Raiders. To me, this is one of my greatest achievements in life, not just…

Overcoming Personal Adversities Ralph Blum once said, “The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings”. In reality, obstacles can be too harsh for one to handle, potentially resulting in loss and tragedy, though sometimes in life harsh obstacles can in fact result in positivity. The oppressive societies in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale put forth the idea of overcoming adversity. The authors recognize that some…

books he created. I would have to say one of the most appealing aspects about Tolkien is that he has overcame adversity in his life and he has taken those significant moments in his life and turned them into great stories.…

Adversity comes in many forms. For some, it may be physical. For others, it may be mental. One sees adversity around themselves and within themselves every day. It has been shown through historical, literary texts, within our peers and even within our own family. No matter if it is physical, mental or both, the personal qualities of being ambitious, progressive, and optimistic are needed to overcome adversity. Ambition is one of the strongest qualities to hold when overcoming adversity.…

The things Miss Leefolt says to Aibileen show how strong Aibileen is to begin with. She endures so much resentment and hatred by holding onto her hope. Another significant moment in Aibileen's life directly relates to her overcoming adversity with regards to having hope. Although Aibileen is struggling with writing a book dedicated to her strenuous life, she is always sure to remind the ones she loves that, "kindness don't have no boundaries" (312). Aibileen is indirectly characterized…