In life, people have made so many different choices, whether it is good or bad. If they wake up everyday with confidence and good thoughts, most of the time they will end the way happily. However, if they choose to wake up thinking about negative stuffs and being depressed, most likely they will not have a good day. Choices help people in all aspects of life especially with important decisions like
Horace states that “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. This brings up the question, is adversity good for a person? Horace is saying that adversity helps develop a person and their character. In a time of hardship, people need to find their inner strength to overcome a situation. Adversity happens to everyone in life; some worse than others.
But there are certain events that a majority of people go through; everyday children are born, family members are lost and addiction takes over lives. At first blush, the birth or adoption of a child is often met with overwhelming joy, excitement and fulfillment but for some it gives them the burden of anxiety and stress. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like sacrifices. Bringing something to life that you carry on your body for nine months makes your love become limitless. Having a baby comes with a lot of responsibility and dedication to devoting your time to nothing else.
It’s all about the look, the money and what you can accomplish, and with a handicap, that makes it hard to fit in. To be handicapped, are a lot of things. It can be because of a something that has happened to you in the past, or it can be something you get diagnosed with as a child or as grown up. But in the end, no matter what kind of handicap you have, some people will judge you, and some might even change their behaviour around you. As person with more knowledge about this specific topic then most people in my age, I know what some of the people with a handicap feel and what they think in some situations.
America has been through much discrimination throughout the years, and some of it still continues today. Having these problems occur is more likely to happen to a person because there is nothing that can stop it. There have been many situations where an individual has tried to get out of poverty but had failed on doing
Contemplating on a decision is hard, but, making the decision is even harder. This is not only evident in real life. Literature like The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and Glory Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place depict situations in which a decision was made that made outcomes of adversity. In
Giving up when the going gets tough is hard not to do. This is very common for people to go through hard times. It's understandable because of how hard some of the situations in life are. Three places this problem occurs are in school, home, and at work. Problems are part of life regardless how good a person seems to be in society.
For Winton, life involves constant exposure to happiness, death, change and the pain and loss associated with tragedy is seemingly inevitable, and life becomes a Challenge. In his stories the characters undergo challenges to cope with their lives at times, with both men and women included. With hurdles constantly thrown in their paths the majority of protagonists are clinging on the edge, holding onto sanity with some difficulty. Yet, regardless of their genders, some are still able to resolve the obstacles and sustain their
Internal conflict is when you ask yourself questions about what is right and is wrong, if it corresponds with ones moral and values or does it go against them, it is generally a result of what is occurring in a persons life. Conflict can also arise with others when two conflicts opinions and views meet, this brings a sense of inner conflict on whether to say what’s in ones mind or continue to uphold the beliefs one has. Only through conflict we can learn to adjust, transform and learn from it allowing ourselves to better ourselves. At some point in a persons life everybody experiences some sort of inner conflict that can be of higher complexity than just fighting a urge. Pressing issues can cause doubt and anxiety with in a person and which is proven through psychology can cause stress.
It is widely argued that nature affect one’s character more than nurture, and people have different views on what influences them the most; whether it’s their nature and background or the way they were raised. Firstly, many people believe that someone’s nature and disposition has a huge impact on his or her character as a whole. People with good backgrounds usually turn out to be the better out of everyone around them, their morals and ethics show what their personality is like and the only way that anything would change in their character is to relive those moments of maturing in a different environment than what they lived in before. The comparison between a human with a well supported temperament and an animal with the same qualitative nature draws an assertion and direct conclusion to what are the differences between nature and nurture. In addition, good habits as well as bad habits can be picked up from someone’s background and nature; for many persons have been victims of bad influences caused by those who are always around them.