Everyone handles adversity differently. Some people are like the carrot and become weaker as difficulties get worse. Others are like the egg, who become hard and cold on the inside as challenges appear and increase. Most people are one way or the other, but a few are able to handle adversity like the coffee bean. They are able to take the difficulties they are challenged with and change them into something positive. Personally, I always try to handle adversity like the coffee bean. I believe…
Obstacles Essay. Fatima Solano 5th pd. Life's what you make it. Time after time we get caught up with disadvantages and struggles, but it is how we receive that makes the world of a difference. It is possible to turn to turn obstacles into building blocks to be successful both professionally and personally. Small obstacles, like the school test, can overtake our minds and cause stress. For example, my most difficult school year was the 5th grade. The school I was attending placed…
Shimano Calcutta 400 Review: The Pros and Cons If you are looking for a powerful reel that can withstand the harshest conditions, the Shimano Calcutta 400 may outperform other reels. It is built with heavy-duty materials that can certainly last a very long time. You can be sure it won’t break down on you while you’re in the middle of reeling in your big catch. In this article, we’ll give you a rundown on the pros and cons of the Shimano Calcutta 400 review. At the same time, we’ll list down…
firsthand overcoming obstacles in life when I joined the football program my high school offered. I joined my high school’s football team after the summer conditioning in 2013 had been completed so I was treated like an insignificant “no body”. I had experience in the sport however I was never given a chance to prove myself. Throughout the football season of 2013 I was given very petty task of little importance. I did not participate…
In the same first experience, she would see this as one of the greatest opportunities to have. She believed that you could be anything you wanted to be in America. Unlike Jing-Mei, her mother felt like this was the prodigy that Jing-Mei should live up to. She would have done anything to make sure Jing-Mei would become a piano genius. In the second experience, she expected her daughter to play astonishing, which was quite the opposite of what it really was. It was obvious that Jing-Mei’s mother…
see more and more people wanting to stay in the comfort of living near what is known. Not that there is anything wrong with living close to home, but personally I would rather go to a place completely unique to that of my own inner world. A place where the ideologies shared are rather unlike to that of what I’m accustomed to. But despite one’s drive or lack thereof to physically explore the world, cultures and personal experiences can and will always be held…
The Narrator’s blindness comes from inability to experience the world around him, a curtain he pulls down to shield himself from anything he doesn’t deem “important” enough for him to try and understand. This draws a contrast between the two character’s…
of the sky was a familiar experience that E.B. White experienced when he was a child. “Then the kettle drum, then the snare, then the bass drum and cymbals, then crackling light against the dark, and the gods grinning and licking their chops in the hills.” Is a metaphor that describes the sound the darkening sky is creating. Then it became calm and the rain was steadily rustling in the calm lake. “As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death.”, this quote is a…
shopping experiences. Most of these memories from these experiences fade over time. However, some of these experiences are so phenomenal or extraordinary they have a lasting impression on us. On the other hand some of them are so unpleasant or foul that they leave us with a bad image of a once favorite store. I can recall one shopping experience that was horrendous. It happened while I was shopping for a crib at Kmart. In the paragraphs to come I will explain what caused this shopping experience…
this, he describes the being orientation, in which a person values experiences and emotions, or human contact above materialism. Though he framed the being orientation in a more…