...Bria Bass 2 February 2016 Crystal Eaddy Ap Lang (4th) Adversity “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” What the Roman poet Horace was saying was that when there is an obstacle in our way, our true colors will radiate. I could not agree more. When we as human beings feel passionate about achieving a goal, we may learn something new of ourselves, maybe a new trait that we did not know we possessed, when we reach new heights we did not know we could push ourselves towards. To rise after failing a thousand times and then winning, that is truly overcoming adversity and achieving greatness. Everyone faces some sort of adversity throughout their lifetime. Adversities or obstacles agreeably involve weighing one’s options and then deciding what to do. The decisions we make shape who we are. So consequently adversity plays a crucial role in developing a person’s character. In Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory, Rodriguez is left feeling socially disadvantaged from his inability to speak English. He also had Mexican immigrants as a child which coupled with all his other “disadvantages” led him to be studious. He became distant from his family and chose to become a student, looking towards teachers for role models. Without this disadvantage adversity, he wouldn’t have realized his true potential as a student and writer. Those who truly experience pain and misfortune and are willing to work to improve their life...
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...Adversity is everywhere and occurs in everyday life. Adversity can be defined in many ways obstacles, barriers, challenges, disasters, and troubles that we have faced in our lives. And they definitely make people stronger take for example Brooke Ellison or an everyday situation such as the collapse of a relationship. Brooke Ellison was just an average girl then at the age of eleven she was hit by a car. The accident left her paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a ventilator. This adversity did not stop her from continuing her life. She was destined for greatness and graduated from Harvard Law School. Would these talents and achievements have arisen were it not for the accident? Possibly, but Horace makes a good point when he states that adversity “has the effect of eliciting talents.” In other words, challenges bring forth talents and skills you may not have known you had. I have seen many instances where the collapse of a relationship is the beginning of something new in a person. For example, my friend had been in a relationship with this girl for almost 2 years and all of a sudden she ended it. After the relationship he picked himself up, dusted himself off, and found talents he never knew he had; went back to school and graduated with a master degree in public policy. So even thou he was in a “prosperous” situation with his girlfriend it was “dormant.” The relationship didn’t take him anywhere and the breakup helped him in the long run. It’s during these hard...
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...John Smith Mrs. Schlehner English 10CP, Period 2 26 November 2012 Adversity Essay Trials often test the measurement of a person’s strength of character. In the story, My Left Foot, Christy Brown’s disability is overwhelming; however, he perseveres with his limitations until he is able to write with the one limb that he has control of – his foot. Jonathan, in the story “Civil Peace,” learns that in order to live a life of contentment after losses that occur to his family during war, he must learn to accept the fate God allows. Jeannette Walls, in The Glass Castle, also learns that her salvation in life comes from acceptance of both her parents and her past. Resilience is a quality that can be modeled, but most people gain this trait from enduring and overcoming the hardships that they face in order to survive and ultimately, thrive. (OR): Christy Brown from My Left Foot, Jonathan Iwegbu from “Civil Peace” and Jeannette Walls from The Glass Castle are resilient in their ability to overcome hardship. In the autobiography, My Left Foot Christy Brown… In the short story, “Civil Peace,” …….. In Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette depicts her journey through a chaotic childhood to adulthood; in this tale she learns to transcend poverty with forgiveness and grace. For example, when her father terrifies her by throwing her in the Hot Pot springs, he says to her, “If you don’t want to sink, you better figure out how to swim” (Walls 66). Struggling...
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...Describe a goal or challenge in your past that required perseverance and determination to accomplish. Several years ago, I was challenged by a situation in my job as a National Accounts Manager. The company I worked for had a high profile client that we represented. We were under bid on a new proposal and our company lost the account which represented about sixty percent of our business. The owner of the company approached me to discuss ways to overcome this loss and asked for input on a way to cut costs and prevent losing employees. My challenge was to come up with an answer that would not only prevent people from losing their jobs, but also cut costs and build profits for the company. I took several days to thoroughly evaluate every possible scenario. The solution I proposed would be one of the biggest challenges I had ever faced. I suggested that my salary be cut from the budget, and that I go on a straight commission compensation package and work from a home office to cut expenses. The owner was shocked by my suggestion, but agreed that this could work and would prevent other people from losing their jobs. I developed a list of goals and strategies to accomplish the transition from the office to home, and I accepted the fact that I must work harder than the other employees to make this possible. Determination pushed me though the transition, and I was able to achieve the goals that I listed. I was able to work daily on the strategies to develop the current customers...
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...To persevere is to maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement and continue consistently. Hosseini demonstrates through the perseverance of Mariam and Laila, how the inner strength of Afghan women allows them to endure difficult situations including forced marriages, lack of educational opportunities and and Taliban restrictions. A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini is a story of two young afghan women, Laila and Mariam, who face and overcome many tragedies and live in a country ruined by political oppression and war. Both Mariam and Laila have endured so much heartache partially because they are women, but yet have managed to have pulled together the strength to persevere. To persevere is to maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement and continue consistently. Even though Mariam and Laila are years apart by age, and come from two different life styles, they are both forced to marry Rasheed, an older man who they don’t... A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini is a story of two young afghan women, Laila and Mariam, who face and overcome many tragedies and live in a country ruined by political oppression and war. Both Mariam and Laila have endured so much heartache partially because they are women, but yet have managed to have pulled together the strength to persevere. Even though Mariam and Laila are years apart by age, and come from two different life styles, they are both forced to marry...
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...PSYC 41.1 MIDTERM OUTPUT PSYCHOLOGY STATISTICS Adversity Quotient Of First Year To Fourth Year Students From The BS Psychology, BS Education, and BS Business Administration Students Submitted by: Patrisha Marie O. Fernandez Gabrielle G. Hernandez Ena Therese A. Labradores Camille Joy R. Magnanao Judy Ann E. Ugay BS PSYCHOLOGY – 2 YE Submitted to: Ma’am Jhoanna Mocorro STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 1. What is the profile of the respondents with regards to the following variables: 2.1 Age 2.2 Gender 2.3 Course 2.4 Year Level 2.5 Weekly Allowance 2. What is the average level of Adversity Quotient of the respondents? 3. What is the average weekly allowance of the respondents? 4. Is there a significant difference in the Adversity Quotient of the respondents according to: 5.6 Age 5.7 Gender 5.8 Course 5.9 Weekly Allowance 5. Is there a significant relationship between the Adversity Quotient of the respondents and: 6.10 Age 6.11 Year Level 6.12 Weekly Allowance DATA CLEANING I. Missing Values Based on the results variables table shown above, there are no missing values present in our data as well as no missing values are replaced and had a complete data ( N = 90 ). II. Outliers An outlier is an observation that lies an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample of population. To identify the outliers of our data, the box plot was used...
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...The Roman poet, Horace, once said, “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. For Horace, adversity can reveal and expose a talent or skill that a person has without that individual even knowing about. The individual could be unaware of these talents because of prosperity and an easy going, sheltered life. However, Horace states that through adversity and the hardships of life, people find that they have many skills and can do many different things. I support his view in adversity bringing out a “talent” that may lay dormant and only brought out by the necessity that this adversity brings. An example of this statement is displayed through Manny Pacquiao,one of the best boxers...
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...Adversity Essay Carla G. Guzman Penn State University OLEAD 409 Leadership Development Adversity Essay Successful business leaders — or people in general — don’t give up when adversity strikes. They find the ways and means to carry on. Sometimes, it takes a trip to hell and back to really open your eyes. And sometimes, really opening your eyes can change your whole life. (Pirouz, 2015). This essay will focus to explain how past life experiences shape leaders’ character and skills in order to leverage on adversity. Only leaders that take risks and make mistakes have the experience acumen to face hardship, overcome it or learn from it. According to Bennis, “Experiences aren’t truly yours until you think about them, analyze them, examine them, question them, reflect on them, and finally understand them. The point, once again, is to use your experiences rather than being used by them, to be the designer, not the design, so the experiences empower rather than imprison. (Bennis, 2009) His fundamental tenet is that leaders are made, not born. The worst problem they can face, says Bennis, is “early success. There's no opportunity to learn from adversity and problems”. (Bennis, 2008) As humans, we define our strengths and weakness in terms of experiences. We describe ourselves by how able we are handling certain situations or learning from them. Only exploring in depth these situations and dissecting the outcome, we will be able to understand our behavior and attitudes toward...
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...Obstacles in life shouldn't break you, they should make you. Sometimes adversity will grasp your life in a way you couldn't even fathom. Leaving the weak in shambles and the fragile without any sense of hope. But in actuality this is when leaders are born, heroes rise up, and people come together to overcome the overwhelming adversity. I say this because I've faced that same adversity and I faced it head on. Until about i was in second grade i was raised by two wonderful parents. My father being a man of great honor and with a humble heart always guided me in the direction that would build me in the long run. My mother was also was a humble women. She was previously part of an abusive relationship and was still recovering from that while in...
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...Humans have a natural affinity towards overcoming challenges and difficult adversity. Throughout life, we adapt to challenges and master the ability to surmount obstacles. Despite the difficulties we experience, the process of overcoming complications allows us to become more knowledgeable on the task at hand. However, it is not just the conquering of adversity that is beneficial, but the adversity itself has positive effects on the challenged. Adversity allows an individual to develop a sense of discipline, as well as encouraging individuals to exercise their mind to confront a problem or conflict. Specifically, students who encounter hardships are more inclined to try harder, which promotes competition within the school. Although adversity may be beneficial towards some students, challenges can be detrimental for students who lack confidence. For instance, some students develop a mentality of despair; they believe that if one has to work hard, then the person does not have the natural ability for the assignment. Based on the effects of adversity aforementioned, I believe that students can both benefit from the obstacles faced in school with the proper mentality or the effects could be hindering. Students face adversity every day, regardless of how transparent the obstacle may be; some problems may not be as evident as others. According to Carol S. Dweck, author of Brainology, all students face adversities throughout their high-school career, specifically, the challenge of overcoming...
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...The quote, “The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities,” by Sophocles, exemplifies the idea of people realizing that they are the blame for all of their problems and difficulties. Essentially, Sophocles wanted people to realize that the saddest thing that you can experience or discover is that you are the cause of all of your own problems. As young children, people would blame others for simple things, such as someone else lying about doing one thing or another. However, at that age or point in our lives, we aren’t yet able to realize that this is a bad thing. As we grow up, we realize and discover that what Sophocles said is true; the only person we can blame for our problems is ourselves. For example,...
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...How do I handle adversity? Handling adversity can be hard for all of us. Some can handle it extraordinarily well, and others crumble from the pressure. How I try to handle adversity can be described as being a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean after being put in boiling water. The carrot will become soft and therefore have humanity, the egg will become hard and be tough, and the coffee bean will use the water to make delicious coffee which it will benefit from. Let’s start off with how I relate with the carrot. Before being put in the pot, the carrot is hard and difficult to deal with. However, after being put into the boiling water, it becomes soft and almost mush. There are bad elements but also good elements to this as well. It is good in a sense easier to find humanity in something when it is soft. However the bad thing is that when being soft also comes with being vulnerable as well. This vulnerability can literally destroy any stability a person has in them. I think it is good to be a little soft in adversity, but still have some hardness to myself....
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...Battling Adversity is a collection of forty one essays on society and mental health. The first chapter, ‘The Risky Side of Beauty’ with the opening line ‘Defying aging and to look younger and better is an age old practice in all cultures’ to the final chapter ‘Merdeka 2015-A wish list for improved mental health services’ provide an excellent easy to read account of various traditional as well as contemporary mental health issues affecting society locally and globally. The author has given a good flavour to this concise book with contemporary topics like technology and pornography, ‘selfitis’, sex jihadists and Gigolo-What love got to do with him! Dr. Andrew has vast exposure in the international arena particularly so in tackling mental health issues post disasters especially with his immense involvement aftermath the Asian Tsunami of 2004. In addition, he has personal experience in handling refugee mental health. He added another feather to his cap in his academic portfolio by obtaining a Fellowship in Community Psychiatry from Melbourne. He has candidly covered significant mental health areas after disasters in the chapter ‘Diary of a Disaster Psychiatrist’. Refuge mental health is also rightly covered at this moment where refugee crisis has...
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...1. AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY Modern health research defines childhood adversity as a range of unfavorable experiences that a child may have experienced before attaining the age of 18 (Pais & Bissell, 2006). A more recent definition provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes Adverse Childhood Experience as a range of challenges, including abuse (emotional, physical and sexual), household challenges (violent treatment of the mother, household substance abuse, mental illness within household, parental separation or divorce and criminal household member) and neglect (emotional and physical) that affects a child before the age of 18 (CDC 2016). As such, the question on what defines an adverse...
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...In this world population grows more and more and the challenges in life suddenly take its toll are these things what we call adversity or is it more than that.It could simply be the lack of money, the lack of good education or the death of a loved a one? The truth is all of them are but in reality neither of these are the real problem they’re simply the cause of the problem. | The real problem is how people deal with these factors.Some people use excuses and live their life the way it started, live their life with that same state of mind, live their life with a burden till death.Some people choose a path that faces these problems and they work hard to change what already there, they become successful with what they’ve done and live the present. | Time and time again it has been proven that when two children are compared one with resilience and one without any in the end one will remain the same and the other will rise to the occasion.You can be poor, be an orphan, be abused but those odds those adversities can be overcome with the right state of mind. | A good example will be Oprah Winfrey she was born to poor family with her mom and dad divorced she had two sisters one whom died of cocaine addiction while the other was adopted until found again just recently during 2010 she also had a brother who died of AIDS related diseases. | Her uncle, cousin and a family friend, also molested Oprah when she was nine.Whilst at school she was bullied for having to wear potato sacks as...
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